Stylesightings

Look at how she has used her belt... I love it.



Some street fashion shots found over at stylesightings.com
See their trend consulting site at stylesight.com

superfuture

Triple Major Store in Beijin
Llove hotel, Japan
The logo of the team who created Llove hotel

l'suine in Ho Chi Minh City (LOVE the feel of this space, want to own it)

Lee, Paris

Filipa K, Oslo
choque cultural / daniel melim - diálogo [tenho fome. cale-se]

New favourite link: superfuture covers store design, fashion, graphic design, art and all things inspirational from all over the globe. Go have a look-see.

What would Martha Stuart think?

Image of goods from a bakery pop up in London's Shoreditch: "eat your heart out & the pretox potion" is open for a handful of days at the end of October, in the lead up to Halloween.

"experimental edible art comes courtesy of david a smith who creates ‘roadkill’ as cake decoration; ‘russian roulette’ cookies from miss cakehead where you’ll land turkish delight if you’re lucky, cat food if your not [*gag reflex*]; edible entrails by eleanor stuart, anatomical chocolate hearts by angela ellis, and blood-squirting buns."
via superfuture.com

Kelly Wearstler

The Carrie Bradshaw of interiors. Check out her costume changes for this 6 minute interview clip. Love all her outfits. Like her bold approach to fashion and furniture. She's the go to for the current Hollywood Glamour revival and she is labeled a 'tastemaker'. All this from a former Play Bunny!

JP Here I come!

I am gearing up for a visit to Japan next February, researching all the amazing retail, art, design spaces I am planning to visit. Websites like Shift are getting me super excited, with their Tokyo CIty Guide covering spaces like:


The Diesel Denim Gallery
B1&1F Cocoti, 1-23-16 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo







Utrecht / NOW IDeA
2F Palace Miyuki, 5-3-8 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo

"Utrecht, which cleverly introduced the Zine, Little Press and other such artist books to the public, has always been fond of showcasing many books from all over the world that focus on handmade products, simplistically earnest in their approach and embodying quirky novelty."

'When I decided to open the bookshop, I went with the theme of only displaying books by living authors. Obviously, I wanted to introduce not only books but also creators of the books. In that way, it felt like I could work together with the author to achieve something, and I wanted to help them, as much as possible, convey the different types of self-expression they have. We don’t just have books here, but also a cafe, and a gallery. Through introducing a variety of activities, I thought that I could further draw out the charm and enhance the appeal of books,' mentions the shop owner Eguchi.

Pass The Baton Omedsando
B2F Omotesando Hills, 4-12-10 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

"April 2010 saw Marunouchi’s popular store Pass The Baton, open their first branch in Omotesando. Building upon their concept of “New Recycling”, the store attempts to reinvent the traditional brick-and-mortar store with their smart and modern retail style. Pass The Baton is brimming with creative energy and excitement, with products limited to their new Omotesando store and NIGO®’s pop up shop “NIGOLDEN STORE” in their premises.

This new store also marks the start of Pass The Batons experiment in opening their Pass Counter to the public. While past contributors to the store were by referral only, this new system allows customers to pass their own ‘batons’ and put up items for consignment as long as they fulfill the store requirements of providing a photograph and profile of themselves."




Shop Samakatado
4-17-1 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo

"This store is managed by the Origata Design Institute and is dedicated to the art of origata, traditional packaging used in gift-giving gestures of courtesy since the samurai era... At the end of 2009, an exhibit at the Towada Arts Center showcased the research activities of the Origata Design Institute, uncovering the origins of ‘origata’ and exploring the reasons behind why people want to wrap or bind things in a careful consideration of presentation. The results of that research produced an illustrated book called ‘Neo・Packaging’. It’s a great place to go for anyone who wishes to deepen their knowledge of that specific activity."




Thanks Shift.jp.org, you are super fun helpful time and I will be hitting up your pages for more spots to add to the itinerary!

Missoni for Converse

From WWD a few months back. I can image that the beige colourway in a lo cut style would be great with denim shorts.

"Torches of Freedom" PR stunt, 1930's style

I've had my head in marketing books lately (Seth Godin's 'Purple Cow', check it out) and was delighted to find this clip about promoting cigarettes in the 1930's, with this particular campaign aiming to increase the percentage of women smokers. Very interesting. And wouldn't stand a chance as a marketing concept in todays world of taboo and restraints (oh and the fact that smoking is a killer).
In true 'Mad Men' style, the women featured are well made up, well coiffed and look so elegant puffing away. Fab.

America's Favourite

Sight Unseen has posted about the book"America's Favourites". The book contains pictures and info on iconic food stuffs that American's have been eating for decades and who us Aussies have come accostomed to through sit coms, movies and novels. It was Claudia Kishi in The Babysitters Club who introduced me to Baby Ruths.
My favourite part of the book are some of the advertising slogans used to promote the food...

"Wonder bread builds bodies 12 ways"

"The original marshmallow food"

"North America's hospitality dish"

"A delicious hot meal with meat"

"Young American's favourite"

"When you gotta have one, you gotta have one"

Balloon

Mt Keira
October 2010

Philippe Starck

Starck's first Italian Hotel 'Palazzina Grassi' Venice


"Free me from my inhibitions and I am in my real mental structure, which is of total diagonality. The structure of intelligence is an orthogonal and linear system. I haven't got any intelligence. That means if you ask me to play the simplist card game, I can't do it. I break out in a sweat. You can tell me 'I'll kill you if you don't do this division problem' but I won't know how to do it. It's a bit of a problem. However in exchange for this absolute lack of intelligence, I have diagonal chemical functions which mean it's not something qualitative, I'm simply talking about the function, I don't need to search, I find. Someone is going to ask me a question and before they can finish their sentence- whoosh- I'll have already gone diagonally directly from here to there, to a space in which the solution is already ready. And so I see it, already finished, perfect and at the moment I can draw it, print it out like a printer in a few seconds. So, people say, 'it's impossible. He can't work that quickly' But I can. I simply find myself in places where the work is already done. I'm analysing and thinking about things non-stop. I'm going to be continuously looking at the optical effects of the mirrors while I am talking to you. I am totally obsessed by the curve at the base of the hanging, which is not the same curve at the middle of the hanging, which is not the same as the top of the hanging. And these are the things that obssess me. Tomorrow when you ask me to draw a line, I'll already have 3 lines stored away, so I'll know how to draw it because I already know which line I liked. Working.. all the time, all the time, all the time. "


Philippe Starck interviewed by Catherine Martin
Vogue Living Australia, May/June 2009

Pony Rider

Was wondering home via Crown Street last week and stopped by The Collector Store, happy to find they stock wares from Sydney based textile duo Pony Rider
Pony Rider have a great aesthetic- that look that lies somewhere between rough and ready and twee and pretty.

Stair Porn

... yes, there is a website...

www.stairporn.org