From Trash to Fashion
Entrepreneurs in New Delhi, India have found a way to craft fashionable handbags from discarded plastic bags.
In New Delhi, polyethylene bags litter the streets, clog drainpipes and present environmental hazards. Anita and Shaleb Ahuja used their life savings to establish a non-governmental organization called Conserve to solve the problem.
Conserve's employees collect and wash the polyethylene bags and mould them into thicker sheets of plastic. The plastic is then stiched into bright, color…
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Seiko has introduced the first watch using E-ink. The Seiko Spectrum was recently launched in Japan (only 500 units available) at a cost of US$2200. At 34mm thick and 134g it may be start of a new wave wrist watch technology.
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"As a prominent portraiture and human figure photographer, Almond Chu and pH5 Photo Group present sixteen latest studio works on Cosplay Kids in Shanghai Street Artspace. This exhibition provides an anthropological investigation and disciplined scrutiny into the subversive street fashion of local te…
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Just like Mad Magazine, the new wonderbra ads are interactive. Pull the string, and you can see the power of the wonderbra, as the bra enhances the cleavage in the ad.
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Vibram has released its latest climbing shoe / sandals which include separate slots for each of your toes. As Vibram states, "Go barefood - without leaving yourself exposed"
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Let everyone know how tough you are with a new gun shirt from Atypyk. The shirts a gun printed on the back so nobody messes with you. “You can carry a gun, but it’s preferable to wear one.”- Aron Branam
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Jeremy Scott's fall 2006 collection pays hommage to Spaghetti and Meatballs. The spaghetti dress and meat ball necklace is featured in photoset featured in the online magazine Zoozoom.
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"It just happened," said the mustachioed NYU sophomore Armen Danilian, 19, as if a mustache fluttered down from the sky and landed on his upper lip. "I'm on that lazy-man note, you know?"
That note is becoming a five-act opera. Mustaches that sprouted last year out of laziness, or as jokes, or on d…
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Gareth Pugh released his Ready to Wear collection, which was recently featured in Style Magazine. Unfortunately, the ready-to-wear collection is now aging as the show was in Fall 2005. However, I think designs like these are timeless.
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Say "I love you" with the gift of cosmetic surgery.
Forget about the flowers and chocolate. This Valentine's Day, couples in China are giving each other plastic makeovers. According to the BBC:
"Young lovers in China's largest city, Shanghai, are turning to cosmetic surgery as a Valentine's Day …
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If you are looking for a cool watch that requires a bit of a learning curve, check out the Noo Nooka designs. The watches are stylish and pretty much gauranteed to start a conversation.
"Following the success of the zoo and zot, we are pushing the design of linear expression to its purist form wit…
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At just $395, the Nixie Watch from Cathode Corner is a piece of modern art you can own.
"The Cathode Corner Nixie Watch displays the time on nixie tubes, which are quaint neon display tubes once used in calculators in the dawn of recorded history (1969). It is a two-digit wristwatch designed for e…
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For just $80 you can pick up a Reveal Mystery Watch, as seen at MoMa. Reveal's cool watches are as close to a digital watch as you can get while still looking uber stylish.
"With Reveal, time is always in the present. This timekeeper reveals the current time through a looking glass while fading th…
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