For only $190 Maison Martin Margiela has crafted the ultimate Key Chain — surely the most marvelous piece of work the Italians have invented since the Ferrari 250 GT. Since your simple mind probably can’t comprehend a design so intricate, we’ll try to break it down for you: OK, so there’s a ring made of […]


Coming straight from the New England frosts of Portland, Maine, is Portland General Store’s whiskey-inspired shaving products. The Wet Shave Jelly (below) is a whiskey-scented gel that creates a rich lather to shave with. Bentonite clay — “one of the most effective and powerful healing clays… that pulls oils and toxins from the skin” — […]


28 Mar
Bodega bags made from fine supple lambskin

We’ve been fans of Cast of Vices for a minute, especially their head-turning jewelry collection which allows you to wear coke bags, vicodin pills, cigarette butts and various other vices around your neck. Cast of Vices continue their subversive fashion attack with these re-usable Corner Store shopper bags, except instead of making them out of […]


22 Oct
The compact Cardboard Oddments Cabinet

Made of cardboard and studded on the outside to add some style, this Oddments Cabinet is loaded with drawers to hide away all the stupid small items scattered around your bedroom. Compact in a small sleek box you can fold up and hide away, it’s the perfect locker to store the things you just never […]


15 Sep
Hasn't he done enough to make the average man look half-assed?

Damn that Jack White! Can’t he just leave shit be? Does he have to be cutting edge in every damn thing he does, making the rest of us look ineffectual and doodling? Turns out today he announced that The Dead Weather’s new single, “Blue Blood Blues” will be issued in the previously unheard of Triple […]


29 Mar
Part Two in the lost history of a pop-fashion machine

This is Volume II of Lo Pan’s History of tokidoki (read vol I from Friday), the story behind one of the most prolific pop fashion lines of the decade. You’ve seen their coveted hyper-stylized Karl Lagerfeld vinyl figures, ubiquitous LeSportsac handbag collection, and Cactus Friends plush toys — not to mention all their wide-ranging Sanrio […]


26 Mar
Part One in the lost history of a pop-fashion machine

Tokidoki is a Japanese word whose etymology is, for the most part, vague. The definition can flip from “sometimes” to “constantly”, although the latter’s more appropriate when applied to the flourishing pop-fashion brand tokidoki, as its proprietors are always in motion. Their output is prolific, their hustle grand. You’ve seen their coveted hyper-stylized Karl Lagerfeld […]


4 Nov
Gucci and Mark Ronson collab on a shoe, then launch Gucci iPhone App to sell it. Sneaky bastards.

The Gucci Icon-Temporary pop-up store opened up to the public on October 24 in New York City at 43 Crosby Street and will be open for the rest of the week, and will then will go on a semi-world tour to Miami on December 1st (ostensibly for Art Basel), and then London and Tokyo in […]