Urban Outfitters

From Paris 07/01/09

Miss Bibi

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Miss Bibi creates jewelry for adults that is inspired by fairy tales and childhood. This colorful “candy” necklace will be envied by everyone at the playground, err...office. 

From London 06/30/09

David Sykes

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Feeling a little unprepared for swimsuit season? Take a cue from David Sykes and go for a light breakfast.

From London 06/29/09

Ben Toms

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Ben Toms has photographed some of my favorite editorials for Dazed & Confused. I always hope with each month to see a new set of his incredible photos and July does not disappoint, on the right. X - Jen

From Berlin 06/25/09

Safety Pins by BLESS

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This 100% steel safety pin from BLESS manages to be both entirely necessary and entirely unnecessary at the same time.

From Berlin 06/24/09

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Papergirl starts by hosting an exhibition of submitted works of art, then rolls them up and distributes them for free via bicycle. Recently, she’s brought her paperroute stateside in Salinas, California. 

From Paris 06/23/09

Odélie Chan

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Odélie Chan‘s colorful creations are definitely dreamy, with designs that include peacocks, masks, Egyptian pharaohs, and hummingbirds.

From London 06/23/09

Maria Francesca Pepe

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Maria Francesca Pepe does not design for the timid. In fact, most of her pieces double as small weapons.

From London 06/17/09

Neurotica Sad Panda

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This sad little panda is so cute and so sad that you should buy him so he feels better!

From London 06/16/09

If You Could Collaborate

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The latest If You Could project is If You Could Collaborate, pairing artists of every discipline imaginable with someone of their choosing, to create a project entirely of their choosing. Collaborations include Jim Stoten and Andy Rementer, Oliver Jeffers and Aaron Ruff, Fontaine Anderson and Deanne Cheuk, and many more. Results of the pairings will be shown at the A Foundation Gallery in early 2010, proving we can all just get along.

From London 06/12/09

Whatever Happened to the Men of Tomorrow?

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With his one-inch installations placed around the streets of London, Slinkachu creates something that is simultaneously cute and a biting commentary on modern life. With Whatever Happened to the Men of Tommorrow?, opened June 4th at Andipa Gallery, his tiny guys are superheros. “I used old and out-of-shape superhero characters to hint at failed hopes and dreams,” he says. “When we are young we think of ourselves as invincible and destined for greatness, but before we realize it we are old and forgotten—like the war hero beaten up at the bus stop for his pension money or the doting father left alone in a care home.” Heavy stuff for tiny stuff.

From London 06/10/09

Charlie Le Mindu

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Hair stylist extraordinaire Charlie Le Mindu is the one to call should anyone on Sesame Street or in the Addams Family ever need a new ‘do.

From Paris 06/10/09

Estelle Hanania

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French photographer Estelle Hanania has a way with images, and with creatures, as in her “Demoniac Babble” series.

From London 06/10/09

Daniel Eatock

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From a project that is ”29 coloured plastic tops and lids arranged and rearranged” to Everything Heinz, which is 57 kinds of Heinz foods mixed and packed together in 57 sealed tins, artist Daniel Eatock makes the most out of everyday objects. 

From Elsewhere 06/05/09

Frank Lloyd Wright Legos

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After decades of training young builders and designers, it’s only natural that Lego should start offering kits of famous buildings. They’re launching their new architecture line with two Frank Lloyd Wright buildings: Falling Water and The Guggenheim Museum. Perfect for architecture-loving kids and Lego-loving architects. (via Designboom)

From London 06/05/09

Don't Let the Bastards Cheer You Up

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Don’t Let the Bastards Cheer You Up, Harland Miller’s show at Baltic, features entirely works that Miller made or adapted specifically for the gallery. Included in the exhibition are several paintings adapted from Miller’s ‘Bad Weather’ series, and based off of old Penguin dust-jackets customized with references to the place where Miller grew up. Through July 19.

From London 06/03/09

Atherton Lin

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Atherton Lin‘s set of summer greetings is as sweet as a blue coconut popsicle on a hot afternoon. 

From Paris 06/03/09

Langendorff et Dune

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Artist Julien Langendorff and musician David Herman Dune combine talents to create a collection of T-shirts, accessories and objets for fashion collective Commune de Paris, 1871. Their ‘Fire, Fire’ theme evokes the smell of something burning, “moustache ends, and jacket buttons… “

From Paris 05/29/09

Chanel Paris-Moscow Pre-Fall Accessories Video permalink

I honestly don’t know how they do it. This Chanel Pre-Fall video brings you into this fantasy mindset for just a few minutes before reality sets back in and you then realize you are unfortunately not one of the lucky girls trying on one of those spectacular headdresses. Nice 7 minute daydream though. X - Jen

From London 05/27/09

Henry Holland Meets...

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Who wouldn’t spill their guts to this guy? Henry Holland puts his formidable interviewing skills to use for a video series for British Vogue: “I’m here with Alexander Wang. We’re going to ask him very probing questions. Or not. Whatever.”

From Paris 05/20/09

Forget Me Not

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Coco‘s illustrations are delicate and dreamy, so printing them onto scarves seems like a natural extension. 

From London 05/20/09

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Pom Pom International is a non-profit organization that promotes pom pom making for world peace. They’re collecting hand-made pom poms from all over, and sewing them together to create the biggest, yarniest, most colorful pom pom ever. A worthy cause, no doubt. 

From Barcelona 05/19/09

Gemma Degara

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Gemma Degara‘s AW09 collection is called ‘Sleepless Nights,’ which maybe means you’re going to toss and turn until the early hours, wondering how to get your hands on it. 

From Berlin 05/19/09

Reuber-Henning

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These dreamy rugs from Reuber-Henning mean the floor is the new wall. 

From Los Angeles 05/15/09

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Mark Hunter and Kitsuné have teamed up to release a digital EP, Kitsuné x The Cobrasnake, which drops on June 1. Hunter directed the video for Classixx‘s “I Get You,” and whaddayaknow, it’s like a Cobrasnake photo come to life. 

From Elsewhere 05/14/09

Vicolo Paglia Corta

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Since our Italian ends at ‘tagliatelle’ and ‘Peroni,’ we’re not 100 percent sure, but it looks like jewelry designer Vicolo Paglia Corta has made mini-Lomo cameras out of Legos, and then crafted them into pins and necklaces. Snap!

From Philadelphia 05/14/09

Fast Forward

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Artist Ryan Humphrey will soon recreate his Fast Forward installation, which was featured in the Queens International, at the Levy Gallery for the Arts. The installation features 30 BMX bikes, three versions of Duchamp’s “Bicycle,” made from BMX parts, and numerous ramps that will be put to use by local riders during the show. The show is in support of Philly’s love for the bike, and it opens on May 29, though a special event on June 19 kicks off a whole summer of bike lovin’. (Via ESPN.)

From Paris 05/13/09

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The Kitsuné fall collection is based on Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. The lookbook includes some Bob Dylan hair and a few carefully positioned scarves. 

From London 05/13/09

Shop

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Through May 25, you can stop by 143 for a dose of candy-floss colors and good design. A pop-up shop from Silver Spoon, Kate Moross and Gio-Goi, 143 is donating a percentage of its profits to charity, and is even raffling off this sweet ride, built by 14 Bike Co and customized by Moross, to raise more dinero.

From Stockholm 05/11/09

Permanent Vacation

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Design collective Permanent Vacation has an office on the third-longest street on the west coast of Sweden, and it’s decor was inspired by an R.Kelly song. One of their many projects is a beautiful fashion collection that, fortunately, doesn’t appear to be R.Kelly-inspired. 

From London 05/11/09

Ellie Goulding

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Ellie Goulding belongs to the same race of melodic nymphettes as Lykke Li, Marina and the Diamonds and El Perro Del Mar. Someday, their queen, Björk, will herd them all off to some great fairy disco in the sky, and all us mere mortals will be left wondering where all the good tracks went.