Archive for April, 2007
Flipper Screen / Shelving
By admin | April 30, 2007
This home-décor accessory can be of double use to you. Designed by Christopher Douglas, this Flipper Screen / Shelving with flexible screen feature circular cut-outs with hinged locking mechanisms allowing them to easily turn into shelves easily.
Once you plan to shut them, it will become an opaque screen and the moment you open it, it provides an area transition with great-looking shelving.
Price: $1,800
47 vases in one
By admin | April 30, 2007
This handmade porcelain vase is composed of 47 small vases. There is a reason behind its unordinary structure and you will respect that structure as the idea is to set few flowers in random places to create a web-display.
It is this display only that makes it a stand-alone display in your living room. Well, you can import the vase from Netherlands and design it with the lovely petals the way you want.
Measurement: 13″ tall by 7″ square
Price: $350
Design your own watch at your home only
By admin | April 27, 2007
121 is not hip-hop beat that will run your feet but is a new source to get the watch of your choice and within your time limit.
True, there are various watch makers piled up (amazon.com, eBay) in the unforgiving competition of Internet domain offering the elite and perfect-match for your wrist.
But it is only smaller watchmakers that seem to be winning their customers heart and mind through its novel proposition for buyers–a custom-designed watch, built-to-order and delivered in 10 days.
Along with its retail outlets in a town on the outskirts of the Geneva (known for Swiss watches), 121TIME has also designed an online store — 121Time - Personalized swiss watches– offering customized and personalized certified Swiss watches.
You can also get your own watch at blancierl, owned by her Blancier, Netherlands watchmaker as the small but smart giant offers a choice of 7 different movements, an equal number of bezels and 9 dials.
Following the theme and trend, Shoemaker Nike Inc allows its buyers to order shoes and attire from nikeid.nike.com.
The reasonable price range of $300 to $1,000, the brand has earned a minuscule sale of about 10,000 watches since 2001 but co-founder Frederic Polli is confident to rule the market through the web platform.
Designers’ Meet equips their mind at Victoria and Albert Museum
By admin | April 22, 2007
Place like New York seems to have been created to give a breathing space to the budding designers. News is this-New York Fashion Now that was started on 17 April will make its presence till 23 September at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd., SW7, 011-44-207-942-2000, vam.ac.uk/.
The exhibition will bring forth 20 designers who launched labels between 1999 and 2004. To name some, we have Zac Posen, Behnaz Sarafpour, and Thom Browne.
Sonnet Stanfill, the curator of the V&A’s current show is wondering the number of designers who have dared to move a step ahead by starting something of their own.
Photo: Courtesy of V&A
Marc Jacobs Collection of Handbags
By admin | April 19, 2007
Do women need reason to spend lavishly to meet elite standards? And if it has an affirmative reply, then I would rather love to stay in a denial mode as designers’ collection is enticing them to clutch it. And when the talks are about bags, then excuse me but no second thought is entertained.
This Venetia Bag with a patchwork from Marc Jacobs Collection is a product that attracts eyeballs. Designed in luminous metallic leather with stitched patchwork pattern, this bag is brogue in polished golden brass hardware with an attached chain (detachable), made up of chunky brass link.
Sized at 15″ x 9.5″ x 4″, the bag retails at $1475
Zara’s SS07 collection
By admin | April 15, 2007
It is worthy of appreciation and must-pick collection.
Casual but yet Stylish
Just a sample of her silk tops and dresses: Generally less costly than what they seem
Cool and beautiful silk top to suit the burning summer heat
Gucci-inspired dress: Silhouette seems to match a perfect elite class
Koolhaas’s masterpiece: ‘Making minced meat of memory’
By admin | April 11, 2007
Pic: Central Chinese Television (CCTV) Headquarters, designed by Rem Koolhaas & Ole Scheeren; engineered by Ove Arup
According to Rem Koolhaas, history of architecture has 2 memorable events in its history: Samson tearing down the house of the Philistines in 1100 BC and the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001 AD. But his design in 2006 AD of the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing is a perfect candidate to be added in that countdown. This limited view is no manifesto.
The entry of this cookie carving the most monument in China is simple yet strange. Masses believe that great architecture is made on a napkin, the source of inspiration being anything except hard work. (According to Paul Goldberger, the design of Koolhaas’s Seattle Public Library can be traced to a single diagram.)
The very thought one of the world’s leading architects would exalt “making minced meat of memory” is beyond imagination.
Changing Identity: Designers think beyond fashion, eyes technology
By admin | April 6, 2007
Handbags, shoes, designer accessories, beauty products use to be dominate the mind set of designer luxury brands. But now these brands are determined to break their niche consumer segment and breathe in the open air, inviting consumers’ from all the industries.
On the move to delve into the unexplored but not prohibited territory, the brands aim at making collaborations outside their industry.
Companies such as Versace, Ferragamo, and Prada have high aims to make venture into different business sectors such as transportation and technology. Taking fashion industry as their back-bone, these cos are all geared up to generate sales and profits from all the segments and thereby bolstering the brand’s identity.
This fusion is illustrated in a deal Versace just inked with Italian group Agusta Westland to join forces on designing helicopters, an entry into the luxury transportation sector.
Ferragamo signed a lucrative two-year deal with revered automaker Maserati to design accessories inspired by the auto giant. This collaboration will create five unisex made-to-order leather pieces that include a suitcase, a weekend bag, a cosmetics case, a garment bag, and a shoe holder.
Prada, another designer brand would not like to a back seat when its competitors are breaking their boundaries. Prada is now dabbling in the world of technology. With the help of LG Electronics, Prada’s newest venture is a signature mobile phone, released in Europe early this year.