Just like every season, footwear brands Creative Recreation offers next to their regular in-line product a couple of styles, which are exclusive to Barneys New York.
This Fall 2008 season they present two Cesarios, one Cesario Lo and one Dicoco. I have to sayt that this seasons Barneys Exclusives 2fresh4yall as usual...lol. I really don't see any material of design upgrades compared to the in-line product but i love the design and colours. Price ranges between $140 and $210.
It's almost finished
The Burj Dubai (set to be the tallest tower in the world, while the tallest structure as of now), is almost finished. Located in Dubai, it´s the centerpise of a mixed-use development that will include 30,000 homes, 9 hotels, 3 ha of parks, 19 residential towers, a man and a 12ha artificial lake. 
This building is def. 2fresh4yall.....lol
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Wallace & Gromit have had a make-over and picked up a bit of modeling work to promote the soon-to-open Harvey Nicholas store in Bristol.
Wallace wears an Alexander McQueen navy cashmere and silk suit, Dolce & Gabbana fitted white shirt and a Giorgio Armani tie. Gromit sports a navy silk Paul Smith scarf. 
Wallace wears Paul Smith and Gromit's scarf is by Duchamp
Lady Campanula Tottington's dress by Alexander McQueen, shoes by Christian Louboutin and bag by Zagliani
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Taz Arnold is a fashion icon, designer, artist and producer.
Esquire: For the purposes of this portfolio, we're defining maximalism broadly. As an aesthetic, it tends to deal with large-scale creations--elaborate in design, ornate in detail, bright colors, and bold patterns. As a mind-set, it's even broader--it applies to individuals whose imaginations run away with them. How's our thinking? Takashi Murakami: There is a sci-fi television show that I recently discovered called Battlestar Galactica, and there's also a new Japanese animated show called Macross Frontier. The common thread between these two shows is that both of them are stories in which humanity has had no choice but to abandon Earth and fight for survival in outer space, battle with both non-Earth beings and robots, and question the meaning of life. I guess you could call them somewhat stereotypical. But the concept that is important to me is the one of outer space. I have never traveled to outer space, and have thus never felt the fearsome limitlessness of that pitch-black world--but I think that perhaps this is the true maximalism that we are discussing here.
ESQ:Who are some of the great maximalists of all time?
TM: George Lucas and Walt Disney. From them I learned the importance of completely submersing myself in a surrealist world.
ESQ:Have you always been drawn to that kind of world?
TM: My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.
ESQ:So much of Japan's postwar architecture was driven by minimalist impulses. With due respect to Richard Meier and co., what are some of the problems with minimalism?
TM: The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.
ESQ: In sci-fi films, futuristic design is often ultrastreamlined and bright white--giant iPods and such. Does that vision of the future bother you?
TM: Really? In the world of P-Funk, Parliament comes from outer space in a UFO. I think that the aesthetic you are describing is an observation of only a narrow part of the field that doesn't take into account all the directions. I'm sure that funky space clothes will become mainstream again in the future.
To learn more about Takashi Murakami's work, visit esquire.com/murakami-show for a slide show.
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This week, momentous events are taking place in Denver, Colorado, host city of the Democratic National Convention (check my resent post on it). Barack Obama, the Senator from Illinois, became the first African American to be nominated as Presidential candidate for a major political party and made once again history - he accept the nomination!!
To coincide with the occasion, Undrcrwn dropped its O-Face t-shirt early this week at Denver’s The 400 boutique. Now, the tee is on sale at UNDRCRWN’s online store. O-Face feature a caricature of Obama driving for a dunk. But, if you look closely, another caricature, with “McCain” name tag and white flag of surrender in hand, dodging to get out of the way. Printed in the background is Stars & Stripes O, the marking of the Obama campaign.
YES WE CAN!
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The Parisian boutique Colette re-opened its doors Monday, August 25th
Like i already metionend in one of my past posts a couple of weeks ago (click here to read) Colette in Paris, re-drawn by none other than architect Masamichi Katayama, re-opened on August 25th.
Here I can show you now an image of the Billionaire Boys Club corner at Colette. Goyard, the French high end leather goods company, created a custom trunk to display the collection. A work of art!Technorati Links • Subscribe to this feed • Digg This! • Stumble It! • Add to del.icio.us
By Artist Meryl Smith
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