Becoming briefly the most stylish stuntmen ever, Noah Sakamoto and Patrick Rizzo don suits by Adam Kimmel and hurtle down an open road in Claremont, CA. The white-knuckle ride, promoting Kimmel’s Spring Summer ’09 collection, is directed by the Sonoma artist Ari Marcopoulos. Hang on to your lunch as you watch them dodge traffic in both directions and trade the camera between them. (via The Moment)
David Rainbird
Posted on Monday, 29th of September 2008 Permalink
Weare is a fascinating collision of clothing and technology with a simple philosophy - everyone should be able to participate in fashion.
Moving Brands launched Weare with a socially networked and user created scarf. The Moving Brands ecosystem of friends, colleagues and clients were invited to submit images to a window gallery at the Moving Brands studio. This sequence of images was then used to create the Weare scarf. The limited edition, collectible scarf is available to buy online from Moving Brands or in selected design-led shops in London throughout December and January 2008.
Aspiring designers and contributors can create images for the next Weare product – to be produced early in 2008 – by visiting weare.movingbrands.com.
These images will be shown at the Weare exhibition (online and Moving Brands window display) from December 2007 to March 2008. As well as creating images, contributors will also be able to vote for what the next Weare product should be.
In the interest of full disclosure I am the lucky owner of scarf 203 of 1000 and I used to work at Moving Brands. Not that that should stop you checking them out.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Friday, 14th of December 2007 Permalink
Facial hair is totally in season. The good folk here at 30gms salute a good beard when we see one. If your not up for the long arduous task of growing a beard or you’re a female this beard hat is definitely for you. Apparently they cost only $135 dollars and are available in a few colours with long and short beard variations.
It’s made by a design group called Vik Prjónsdóttir who work in Iceland and think of all sorts of ingenious ways of keeping people warm. The new designs - woolen blankets and caps - make subtle reference to Icelandic local myths, customs, and needs. Link via Kitsune Noir
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Friday, 23rd of November 2007 Permalink
Art director extraordinaire, guerrilla marketing go-to-guy and table tennis pro are just a few of the hats worn by Jethro Marshall. A long-standing friend of Fibre, JJMarshall Associates has just launched a comprehensive website that documents some great projects including a giant rugby ball made from thousands of balls for Adidas, an op art street vinyl project for Motorola and a taxidermic fashion shoot for Sky magazine. And as if that wasn’t enough, M. Marshall is also the wizard behind the curtain for fashion label Backhand and the Marshall&Vox line of T-shirts.
David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 7th of September 2007 Permalink
Whilst avoiding the snow during a summer holiday in Switzerland this year (yes it snowed in June) I came across this fantastic Freitag bag in a small town called Thun, it is made out of recycled truck tarpaulins, seat belts and inner tubes, cool already but the best bit about the bag is the packaging it came in, a box that turns into a TV! Check out Freitag here, they have also produced a limited edition range for the Tate London only available from the Tate shops in August, pitch up your tent early.
Liz Greening
Posted on Thursday, 19th of July 2007 Permalink
Finding the right glasses can be a terribly difficult process for the fashion conscious myopics amongst us. However, I recently discovered Cutler & Gross, the ubiquitous peddlers of optical fashion trends based in Knightsbridge, London. Divided into two shops – Cutler & Gross and Cutler & Gross Vintage – means that your choice of face furniture is incredibly diverse from Cazals, adored by the 80s hip-hop giants, original Porsche designs (above) to one-offs from the 40s and 50s. In fact the choice would be daunting but for the very knowledgeable people at C&G who are there to guide and advise you into choosing the correct frames.
Nathan Usmar Lauder
Posted on Monday, 2nd of July 2007 Permalink
Every person in this country uses on average 167 plastic bags a year, thats 10 billion in all, a whole lotta landfill and therefore a whole lotta nasty methane gas. This is why We Are What We Do approached top handbag designer Anya Hindmarch to create a re-usable shopping bag. Anya’s bags usually go for £500+ but this one will only set you back a fiver. The bags were launched last month at London fashion week and will be available to buy at Sainsburys from April. Looking at the picture above from their website, maybe bras are bad for the environment too!
Dave Brown
Posted on Sunday, 4th of March 2007 Permalink
About a year ago Illustrator Ben Hasler emigrated to a textile town in Brazil. He realised that he could complete commissions just as easily anywhere in the world, indeed two years ago he worked on a book project with Fibre and I met him in person only once.
Now he’s started Sler - his own T-Shirt brand, working with local producers to create hand-made shirts to his requirements, for instance the introduction of small loops for tags have been added so as not to risk any damage when the tags are removed. There’s a cheeky side to Ben’s illustrations and it’s evident in some of the double-entendre designs e.g. Hot Cock, but my favourite is the blackletter Sler logo.
There’s just a men’s range at the moment but a women’s range is in the works as well as a design-your-own service - although with Ben’s talent why would you?
David Rainbird
Posted on Wednesday, 10th of January 2007 Permalink
London graffiti artist Insa has a sexy new exhibition in town at BEST. Appropriately titled ‘Sneaker Fetish’ the exhibition shows off a collection of bare feet wearing wire frame Nike Air trainers and abstract Nike screen prints. I managed to get down to the opening night last Thursday that boasted limited edition prints and scarves for sale.
The best piece by far is the huge painted legs on the wall (a shame this can’t be purchased). The exhibition is on until Christmas at BEST and a must for people with a thing for feet.
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Wednesday, 13th of December 2006 Permalink
What will any self-respecting print designer be wearing on the slopes this season? Why, the Burton AK 2L Gore-Tex® Jacket in Half Life print of course. The pattern is a super enlarged version of the cyan, magenta, yellow and black dots used in four colour print. But what was the original image, any ideas? Link (Via Beinghunted)
David Rainbird
Posted on Tuesday, 28th of November 2006 Permalink
