High end shoe label Christian Louboutin is a highly revered name among Sex and the City addicts and dapper young (very rich) men from across the globe, mostly due to the designer’s distinctive leftfield approach to haute couture footwear. The new Spring/Summer 2011 collection includes both high top and slip-on men’s sneakers, and like previous […]

Dutch design duo Lernert and Sander have reinvented ordinary household items into fabulous fashion displays. “We wanted to turn stock items into startlingly smart footwear,” they explain. “A humorous take on fashion as an ideal escape from the daily grind.” Utilizing dishwashers, dustbusters, sinks, brooms and sewing machines, these domestic appliances are remodeled into the […]

I can’t explain exactly why the art of Horacio Salinas strikes me, but I like it. Maybe it’s the fact that sometimes he can take everyday, mundane objects, assemble them abstractly and create some really stunning art. And other times, like above, he takes very un-mundane objects and de-mystifies them, debases them into the mundane. […]

Paris fashion week for Spring 2010 Ready to Wear saved my sanity. The collections were fresh, inspiring, and didn’t continuously remind beleaguered audiences of the crapper state of the economy (we get it, shit sucks) while not being overly ostentatious. Trends present on this season’s runways include an ode to the 20s and 30s, art […]