Saturday, May 30

I wonder if she's a robot.

Lady GaGa interview on SEX and MONEY:


The Lady's newest music video for Paparazzi... thoughts?

Friday, May 29

The Stone Towers by Zaha Hadid.

The Stone Towers by Zaha Hadid Architects for Rooya Group of Egypt is located in the Stone Park district of Cairo. Providing office and retail facilities to a rapidly expanding Cairo, the unique 525,000sqm Stone Towers development also includes a five-star business hotel with serviced apartments, retail with food and beverage facilities and sunken landscaped gardens and plaza called the 'Delta'.

Ancient Egyptian stonework incorporates a vast array of patterns and textures that, when illuminated by the intense sunlight of the region, creates animated displays of light and shadow. The effect is powerful, direct and inspiring. The facades on the North and South elevations of each building within Stone Towers adopts a rich vocabulary of alternating protrusions, recesses and voids to enhance the deep reveal shadow lines that accentuate the curvatures of each building within the development and animate the project throughout the day.
(official press release)

Visit Zaha Hadid Architects for more.

Thursday, May 28

Just had to do it.

Click here for a special Thursday morning treat...


Wednesday, May 27

My eyes hurt. But in a good way.

Tokyo’s famous Senzoku Kaguen College of Music’s latest addition, "Black Hole" was designed by Terada design & Architects, a Tokyo-based architecture firm.
The Black Hole has recording studios, multimedia studios, electronic organ classrooms, PC labs, and practice studios for jazz, jazz vocal, pop and rock. To spice things up a bit, the otherwise "boring" hallways are intense wall and ceiling colors that are almost headache inducing! The intense color scheme is of course the main design element, and the large-scale painted signage on the walls is the main artwork.




Tuesday, May 26

Lady Noire

Marion Cottilard has reunited with La Vie en Rose director Olivier Dahan for a Hitchcock-inspired short film, in which the star of the show is that lambskin ingénue known as the Lady Dior handbag.

Lady Noire is the first of four installments to be released over the next two years to coincide with Dior collections.


Chloé & Marc, what a lovely Tuesday.

On Gilt Groupe today, sale starts at Noon EDT.
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Marc Jacobs Collections

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Chloé

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See you there.

Never underestimate a stone walled salt barn!

The Istanbul, Turkey based Erginoglu & Calislar Architects designed a contemporary restoration and conversion of a historical stone walled salt barn, so it could be used as the offices of the advertising agency Medina Turgul DDB.





Inspiring use of stone, wood and steel!

the national + st. vincent


If this doesn't make you happy, not sure what will.

Thursday, May 21

coolest. jeans. ever.


The Aussie brother-and-sister duo Camilla and Marc Freeman make the bold move to denim, and speaking for the general public, we couldn't be happier!

The duo already known for their cutting edge swimwear and flirty dresses, have created a super fun Fall '09 cool denim collection.

Some glimpses from the collection:



Just cuz.

oh HAI, i need you.

So I've decided that I need this flower sequin crop (topshop.com) worn by Mizz Lohan.
Now, whether or not I will be able to actually wear it is yet to be determined.


Other spectacularly cute crop tops:

Can be found, and purchased, at topshop.com.
Amazingly flat midriff sold separately.

Tomas Maier on Gilt Groupe Today!

Sale starts 5/21 NOON EDT

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Featuring sexy bikinis and luxurious cashmere cover-ups, this collection from Bottega Veneta's creative director Tomas Maier embodies the jet-set lifestyle from South Beach to St. Tropez. Shop this sale and transition into the summer in impeccable style.

New bands added to P4K 2009!


Final Fantasy, the Thermals, Bowerbirds and Cymbals Eat Guitars have been added to the line up for Pitchfork Music Festival 2009, in Chicago this summer July 17-20!

Three day passes are sold out, but Sat & Sunday are still available!

Listen to Final Fantasy here
Listen to the Thermals here
Listen to Bowerbirds here
Listen to Cymbals Eat Guitars here

Kate Moss Topshop Summer Collection.

Kate Moss Topshop High Summer 2009 Collection



The collection launches online today, May 21st, and will be in the New York store on Monday, May 25th.

Go. See.

Dutch designers Bert van der Grift and Dennis van der Burch (bERT&dENNIS) are exhibiting three of their seating designs at the 2009 International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York. Visit the bERT&dENNIS website here!







Bigger is bigger.

The Italian lighting manufacturer Axo Light has introduced the Bell Lamp.


With its oversized design, the Bell Lamp was created to focus on the needs of interior designers of large spaces. Featuring a metal structure covered in ribbons of super-smooth, fireproof sponge fabric, the Bell Lamp is available in ten different colors.



gaaah this is so late, but better late than never.

ANNA SUI FOR TARGET!



WWDRetail has reported that the wonderful Anna Sui has signed on to be the new Target Designer Collaborator! The inspiration for the chic collection is none other than the main female characters on Gossip Girl (!!!!).

The collection will hit 250 select Target stores and Target.com from September 13 - October 17

Says Sui of the new collaboration:
“I have always been a fan of designer partnerships with mass retailers,” Sui told WWD. “I think it is a great way to bring fashion to everyone. I love Go International and was intrigued with Target’s new take on designer partnerships. It’s a fresh approach. I was able to select a muse or source of creative inspiration to focus the collection around. It is an exciting challenge to try and interpret my aesthetic into a mass-produced product with a specific inspirational source as the focus.”

ugh.


I'm a bad blogger person and haven't updated in a million years (you can thank my cold for that... who gets colds in May?!)

Anyway - I have so much to catch up on, where do I even begin? Let me sort out some thoughts, will be back to bloggin' in no time!

Friday, May 8

Glossy.

Samuel Accoceberry has designed the Suga Tables for the France based manufacturer Élitis.

Suga is a line of low tables handcrafted of polyester resin-coated fiberglass. The glossy lacquered finish is available in different colors, and the top can be either lacquered or stained glass.



a Rodarte kinda day.


Buy the mag here.

Don't you wish you were galavanting around NYC with the Rodarte girls?



Futurama.

The Ondelios, Renault environmentally friendly, high-end cross-over concept car, produced in collaboration with .MGX , was on display from April 22 to 27th in Milan at via Tortona 35, as part of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, complimented by a flock of .MGX design objects, including the new Tulip.MGX and Torus.MGX lights and the Wye.MGX table.The Ondelios, designed for lovers of long-haul travel who set store by comfort and refinement, was inspired by nature and the way it solves problems with elegance. The .MGX design team and cutting-edge technologies enabled Renault to understand these natural processes in relation to creating structures. This vision can be seen clearly in the car’s ethereal design, interior layout and original hybrid powertrain.





In addition to providing inspiration, .MGX techniques were used to produce a number of specific elements for the car, including the dashboard and roof, which emphasize the vehicle’s airy look and feel and in the case of the latter, bathes the interior in natural light.

Visit: .MGX Materialise , Renault