Really feeling Carte Blanche’s latest mixtape, House Party. As the name so succinctly suggests, the Ed Banger stalwarts (aka DJ Mehdi and Riton) drop tracks from some legendary house minds (Toddy Terry, Daft Punk, Inner City, Armand Van Helden, et al) blended in with some homespun tracks and remixes. The perfect heat for you 4th […]

This one really isn’t an easy concept to mentally digest at first. Initially, the project comes across as a game of “What’s wrong with this picture?” For instance: children, playing in a sandbox, nothing wrong with that…but children playing in a sandbox in the middle of a busy street? Seems very questionable. Each live sculpture […]

Some new styles from Raf Simons’ Fall/Winter 2010 collection of sneakers. Two new colorways are available, a canvas-built red and navy shoe and a black-on-black leather high top, both featuring an ankle velcro strap. Now available at colette for $600. via Slamhype See Images of Raf Simons Winter 2010-11 Sneakers below.

Hide and Seek is a series of photographs by French photographer Frederique Daubal. It’s a simple idea, but visually compelling. Frederique cut out pages from fashion magazines, sliced them into fringe and made them into masks resembling Muslim niq?bs. According to Daubal it’s a statement on identity, transformation and what it means to be French […]

The official supplier of the French army, quality bootmaker Hardrige drops their new Rafale Hurricane boots. Featuring dual zippered sides and color-contrasting orange tongue, the Rafale Hurricanes accomplish the rare feat of keeping their lines clean while adding enough flourishes to make the boots utterly unique. By tucking them inside your pants or wearing them […]

The pixel design trend has come up with some great halloween costumes, but could it be moving towards the mainstream? I doubt it, to be honest, but Parisian designer Dzmitry Samal may think differently. His 6 dpi Eyewear collection has a strangely retro future look, embracing technology long gone but yet looking like something teleported […]

I kind of like how Hermès isn’t afraid to move outside of the usual paradigm for luxury fashion houses. They’ve already created a baseball glove and origami paper, so why not a saddle? And if you’re gonna make a saddle, and label it Hermès (with corresponding pricetag to match), why not take it to the […]

After seeing Justice 42 times in 6 months back in 2007 I got really kinda sick of them, I’ll be honest. Then they wrapped up Coachella in 2008 with one of the best closing sets I’ve ever seen at the festival, and all of a sudden they were back in my OK book. I mean […]