Archive for the ‘Fashion’ Category
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Worst Christmas Sweaters Ever Roundup
With the Holiday season in full swing, we are heavily supressing the urge to throw an Ugly Christmas Sweater party – and yes, all the people in the above photos would receive VIP invites. Ugly Christmas sweaters are becoming surprisingly fashionable amongst the hipster community – but these gems are some of the ugly originals before fugally sweaters became “cool” (ridiculous Christmas-themed head gear optional). We ...
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Gold Minute Repeater Watch From Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton unveils the inner workings of its new 18-karat white gold timepiece, the Tambour Minute Repeater, a collaboration with Swiss master horologists La Fabrique du Temps. True to the brand’s renown for handcrafted luxury travel accessories, Louis Vuitton’s Tambour employs complex mechanics to display one time while being able, upon request, to chime an alternative ‘home’ time. Hamdi Chatti, Louis Vuitton’s Vice President of Watch ...
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Wicked Purse Made From Keyboard Keys
Portugese industrial design, Joao Sabino, has designed a line of hangbags made from recycled keyboard keys called KeyBags. Four different coloured bags are available, and each one is made from 393 computer keyboard keys. This geeky gear is perfect for computer-loving fashionistas who also have an appreciation for up-cycled goods. BUY NOW WANT MORE WICKED PURSES? CHECK OUT: THE DISGUSTING EXOTIC TOAD PURSE THE SOLAR POWERED ...
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Celebrities As Sunglasses
Image is everything, especially for celebrities, so it’s no surprise when one of our favourite mixed media artists, Hengry Hargreaves, came up with this fun photography project where he has paired a set of gold sunglasses with a celebrity name. The idea is that each celebrity’s sense of style (and dare we say swagger?) can be summed up in a single pair of sunglasses that the ...
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Ghetto-Fab High Heel Nikes
These fun high heel versions of Nike dunks made us say WHOA! While the shoes are likely just prototypes or works of art (not available for purchase) are extra cool. The combination of bright colours, patent leather and vinyl make these shoes funky fresh and totally fashionable – maybe with enough complaint from consumers, these babies could hit the shelves? Likely not, but it’s fun to ...
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Sticky Note Wrist Watch
Forget the old elastic band around the wrist to remind yourself to pick up the dry-cleaning, the Post-it Note watch is way more fun! Designed by Dorian Favre, the note is made to form a circle and be worn around the wrist like a watch. They are available for purchase through a small boutique in Paris called PA Design. BUY NOW MORE: TETRIS STICKY NOTES $900,000.00 ...
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If Super Heroes Were Hipsters
Fabian Ciraolo is an illustrator from Santiago, Chile. His work is mesmerizing, witty and riddled with parody, which is exactly why we love it. Ciralolo’s collection of super heros and villains dressed up as hipsters are a big hit. The colourful and textured backgrounds are reminiscent of 70s psychedelic imagery in terms of luminosity and colourfield, but also have a hint of 80s flare to them ...
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L.E.D. Slippers For Midnight Snackers
These seemingly simple slippers are actually genius if you consider just how painful it is to turn on the lights in a dark room when you’re still half asleep. Instead of stubbing your toe as you fumble through the dark, you can wear these LED-powered wool slippers that will illuminate 20-25 feet ahead of you in order to safely guide you to the toilet in the ...
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Finger Print Activated Wallet
For only $825.00, you can purchase a wallet that is fairly secure from theft. The Biometric Wallet by dunhill is virtually indestructible and will only open with the touch of your fingerprint. Pretty nifty, huh? The waller can be linked via Bluetooth to the owner’s mobile phone and will sound an alarm if the two units are separated by more than 5 meters – a fabulous ...
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Super Geeky Bathing Suits
Thank goodness for designer, James Lillis, the brains behind the trendy fashion brand called Black Milk. James unknowingly started the popular clothing brand when he bought a used sewing machine and as much cheap nylon lining as $6 could buy. He made a couple of awkwardly sized shirts for himself and then the idea of designing and making his own clothing hit him after a friend ...
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2lmx: The Luxury Watch Re-Thought
’2lmx’ luxury watch in platinum with black dial full view, anthracite titanium case with black dial full view, rose gold case with white dial custom order model: chocolate brown with gemstone insets diagram of watch mechanism Sexy Promo Video: Designed by watchmaker and former museum director arnaud tellier, the ’2lmx’ is the inaugural watch of a new geneva-based luxury watch manufacturer by the same name. A ...
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Alien Inspired Designer High-heel
Famous designer, Alexander McQueen, is known for pushing boundaries in the fashion world. Remember his 2010 spring collection featuring his newly designed 10-inch alien heels? They seem very clearly inspired by H.R. Giger’s film, “Alien”, and recently made their way back onto our radar. And yes, during the same collection release, the world was introduced to the hoof-heel – a shoe that Lady Gaga took to ...
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Ladies Circuit Board Shoes
Wearing awesome works of art on your feet can be fun, and these shoes designed by Steven Rodrig of pcpcreations are no exception. The shoes are made from PC mother boards, ribbon wire and other electronic components. Rodrig is from Hillsborough, New Jersey and is an artist who uses circuit boards from discarded computers (and other electronics) to make cool stuff, which not only means he ...
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19 Amazing Dog Costumes For Halloween
Apparently, Halloween is not just for humans anymore – there is somehow an abundance of hilarious costumes available for our furry friends this year. Pet stores are stocking more Halloween costumes for dogs than ever before, and unfortunately for the animals, these costumes are painfully hilarious to humans (translate: utterly embarrassing for canines).
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THE NIKE ‘AIR-BURGER’ SHOE
Quirky Swedish designer, Olle Hemmendorff and 7 other creative designers, photographers and artists were commissioned by Nike to interpret the Nike Sportwear icon. Hemmendorff’s interpretation of the Nike Air Max 90 is nothing other than a shoe-shaped hamburger. When describing his work of art, Hemmendorff stated “I constructed a running shoe using the most powerful, must durable and most delicious material known to man: hamburger.” A ...
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SWEET MEAT: SUGAR STEAK APPAREL
Kyle Creek started Sugar Steak Apparel because he wanted to counteract the “affliction” of overly macho, predictable, and all-too-common attire in our society. While attending college he began designing fun, unique, and stylish shirts that he wanted to wear and he had a feeling he was not the only person who felt this way so he decided to start an apparel line. After some trial and ...
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ANATOMICAL CLOTHING
Ever wonder where your Pectoralis Major is? What about your Tibia? Well now, you can rest easy thanks to this clothing entitled the Anatomical Edu-Wear by Seasons Studios. The clothing is Whoa-worthy because it’s more than just quirky; it’s a full-on accurate anatomical biology lesson, complete with bones and muscle diagrams (and the socks also come with reflexology points printed on the soles). These cotton teeshirts ...
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STEAMPUNK PAC-MAN TEE SHIRTS
From the looks of this retro-mechanical machine, it looks like Pac-Man was in existence long before the 1980s. The Ghost Eater 1 is powered by gears, steam, cherries and power pellets, and is the perfect t-shirt for retro gaming fans. You’ll notice that Pac-Man is leaking some oil and clearly requires constant maintenance, but would you expect anything else from such an old and complex mechanical ...
