The WWD accessories book came out – just the drug we needed to snap us out of our seasonally affected wardrobe stupor. And this one was AWESOME – a big bowl of I Want That (with convenient shopping details on every page). Below, the best of the best. We die.
Shoes
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Purses
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Pretty Things
Images via WWD
I was browsing through the Shop Class page of the WWD accessories book, the one featuring chic woodworking for the well dressed – hey, that could be me! (?) – when I saw a clutch by Nada Sawaya. Intrigued, I went to her website and found the following internet treasure.
Nada calls her clutches minaudieres (that’s [...]
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Amazing packaging by Lucy Hargrave for Soapworks.
“Designed in collaboration with Josh Tatarynowicz, these packages were for a handmade goats milk soap company. We created four intricate Mandala patterns based on the natural ingredients used in each soap flavour; like peppermint leaves, rose petals & lemon slices. The patterns are laser cut out of card and [...]
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
Recently, anti-smoking lobbyists have been pushing for any movie that features cigarettes/smoking to be slapped with an automatic R rating. This pains us. The royal We here at Badger & Partners love smoking. The Art Department in particular feels a strong and incessant urge to consume cigarettes.
More than the act of smoking, which is an [...]
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
When Hendrik Kerstens decided to dedicate himself entirely to photography in 1995, he turned to a model very near at hand – his daughter, Paula. He captured incidents throughout her development, such as her first day with braces or getting a bad sunburn, in an effort to immortalize those memories that make up life but [...]
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Questa is an artist based in Tokyo who conducts live performance paintings using fluorescent paint under blacklight. Excerpts from an interview with Questa earlier this year…
Q: Is there a reason you prefer fluorescent paints?
Energy is closely related to light, specifically the light that comes from the sun. I want people to get their feelings and [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
For the new prefall collection of Chanel: Paris-Shanghai, Karl Lagerfeld wrote & directed a short movie,”Paris-Shangai: A fantasy”, just as he did with last year’s Paris-Moscow collection. In the movie you can spot Freja Beha Erichsen, Heidi Mount & of course, Karl’s fave: Baptiste Giabiconi.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
It is rare to be able to follow the complete evolution of an artist’s ideas, but through the work of prolific sculptor Constantin Brancusi, it is possible to see the evolution of his thought in precise intervals, to follow his idea from its inception, through its intermediary phases into ultimate realization.
From the 1920s to [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Maison Hermès in Tokyo commissioned Tokujin Yoshioka to recreate his 2004 installation for their December windows – a video of a woman alternatively blowing air through two scarves. Aside from its inherent aesthetic value, it’s interesting how the product is encapsulated within the performance without being subsumed by it. Often with such large, essentially two-dimensional [...]
Artist Laurent Grasso and architect Pascal Grasso have created a temporary, transportable restaurant to sit atop the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France.
The 678 square foot venue is named Nomiya after a small restaurant in Japan. Made entirely of glass, with a perforated metal screen over the central cooking area, the 12 person dining room [...]