Archive for March, 2010
Just a quick reminder that H&M’s new environmentally conscious line, The Garden Collection, launches today! Super excited about this collection, love the rosette pieces the most def will pick those up! Don’t miss out, the florals are perfect for spring. The romantic garden collection is made using organic and recycled materials. All the garments have been produced using sustainable materials or using recycled PET bottles or textile waste. Sustainable materials include: Organic cotton, cotton that has been grown without the use of hazardous chemicals; Organic linen, linen that has been grown without the use of hazardous chemicals; Recycled polyester, polyester made...
You’ve seen a few of the pieces but here are all of the jackets. The line will be available at selected shops and are part of this Fall/Winter releases for Moncler. Most of the line features fabric made out of Bionic Yarn (as you know – the textile company that uses recycled plastic bottles!) while the print is from Japanese artist Keita Sugiura. I don’t know about you guys but I HAVE to have atleast 1 piece! @bionicyarn...
Image via Hodinkee This is one of the first watches I’ve ever seen that made me almost want to wear a watch. Well, until I saw the price tag. Yet despite that, it has some great design principles we love, including using solar and perpetual motion to keep the battery charged as well as being crafted for quality and longevity. This is the kind of heirloom design we love to see. Wristwatch Review points us to Hodinkee, which writes of the Sol Invictus, “This timepiece has taken the now iconic chain and fusée, drums and vertical tourbillon from the WTV and combined...
This delightful Drops pouf is a chair made of an inner tube covered with recycled upholstery material. It was inspired by the process behind making tassels (bunching together lots of strips of leftover fabric) and introduces elements of color and fun into the user’s everyday life. The designer, Camilla Hounsell Halvorsen is a Masters student in Design at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and specializes in using recycled materials in furniture design and interior architecture to create unique pieces. HIT FROM: Inhabitat.com...
In honor of Earth Day, Kiehl’s collaborated with actress Julianne Moore, artist Jeff Koons, musician Pharrell Williams and pro-surfer Malia Jones to raise funds for the Rainforest Alliance. According to Stylist, the four limited edition labels were designed for Kiehl’s Açai Damage-Protecting Toning Mist, an antioxidant-rich refreshing spritzer that is certified 100% organic, and protects skin from environmental damage with acai berry, soothing aloe vera juice, lavender and essential oils of rosemary and orange fruit water. The limited edition products are currently available at www.kiehls.com and will be available starting April 1st at the stores. “It has always been our mission since 1851...
A little over year after making a big deal of taking their PINK Body skincare line in an organic direction, Victoria’s Secret has quietly discontinued the line. According to the new products on their site, and at least one source who works there, the new products now just say “natural” when discussing the ingredients. “This line was recently discontinued and a *new* line was introduced to replace it, no longer using the more strictly regulated label of “organic” but instead touting itself as “natural”, which has no regulation at all,” wrote a commenter. “Anything in the world can use natural in the label,...
For artist Lincoln Mayne shapes don’t get any better than geometric ones, a theory he recently put to the test with his debut t-shirt collection Geometry Lessons. His designs center around three ubiquitous shapes—the circle, the square and the diamond—but his treatment of them looks more urban-tribal than grade school. Mayne’s unconventional approach comes thanks to the Australian’s fine art background, which he quite literally applies by translating his watercolor paintings and sculpture onto fashion. Designing under the moniker LM.affair, his wearable-art tees’ unusual compositions and color choices stem from a rich well influences Inspired by a mix of objects spanning antique scarves...
Made from the remnants of Australian cricket balls, Bowling Arm leather bracelets are a colorful wrist accessory that nicely utilize an otherwise purposeless scrap of material. Each one-of-a-kind piece builds character with wear. The brainchild of Australian industrial designer and fine artist Simone LeAmon, as director of studio O.S. Initiative, LeAmon focuses on creating engaging and sustainably-minded products whose process has a story to tell. The bracelets come in red, yellow or white and sell online for AUD $44. HIT FROM: COOLHUNTING.COM...
The Good Vibrations Festival is a yearly week long festival, February 12th-21st, that takes place during Australia’s summer in the following cities: Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth. The artists for this years show were carefully handpicked and notably varied across the spectrum, ensuring a good time for a diverse crowd of all ages; where old school met its new school counterpart. This years festival was host to The Killers, Basement Jaxx, Armand Van Helden, Gossip, Salt-N-Pepa, Friendly Fries, Busta Rhymes, Z-Trip, Kid Cudi, Naughty By Nature, Plump DJs, Gym Class Heroes, Chase and Status, Craze, Dave Seaman, Chuckie, Art vs. Science, BlueJuice, Spinderella, Bass...
