fan of OC

i'm a fan of opening ceremony so i check out their website frequently.  these are the pieces i clipped today.

i'm not wild about animal print, but this is a pretty clever idea.

Lahssan, $1,365

nice!

Phosphorescence, $275

well done on seamlessly incorporating the little AH ribbon logo into the historic barbour jacket.

Barbour x Anya HIndmarch, $525

simple and bold.

Mark Walsh & Leslie Chin, $550

punk!

Mark Walsh & Leslie Chin, $800

another amazing art piece by rodarte.  what i really love though, is the cool haircut of the model..

5 available

this email came in yesterday.  i love the color of the font.  if i could, i would have gotten the pair in black with gold speckles.  great shape, great color, cute arrow on side.  but "ONLY 5 PAIRS OF EACH AVAILABLE!".  why???

gift idea #5

in the style of good ol' siskel & ebert on their movie reviews, the Like & Dislike Stamps emphatically announce your thumbs up or thumbs down.  what started out as a rubber stamp to attack each others' paperwork at the Nation Studio became a hot item selling to people all over the world, "including one to the man himself, Mark Zuckerberg".

available at jailbreak toys for $12.99 a set.

i have to say however, that the old prototype (when the product was purely a studio joke) in the old fashioned rubber stamp with a wooden handle was much nicer.  the thumb was more digitized, not smoothened out.

it's actually a good and economical project to design your own rubber stamp with a funny, quirky message or image.

EVERYTHING GOES?

"EVERYTHING GOES with Mattia Bonetti

The rule is:  if it looks like a Bonetti, it's probably not.  Known for his wildly imaginative and wide-ranging furniture and objets d'art, the Swiss-born, Paris-based designer Mattia Bonetti takes a tour through myriad styles and art movements, making stops from surrealism to rococo to minimalism, then arrives at a radical eclecticism that's all his own.  From metallic tables meant to evoke strings of chewing gum pulled from the pavement by a shoe sole to acrylic cabinets decorated with menacing brass spikes to an asymmetrical, multicolored leather chaise that looks like a melted Jeff Koons sculpture, Bonetti's fantastic creations have injected the design world with a bit of beautiful chaos - and without their creator ever committing to one look, one material, or even one philosophy of design."

nice!

like

interesting giant lego

still good

hmmm..

chewing gum inspired??

???

yikes

everything goes..  or anything goes?

useful reminders

"But genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will - a childhood now equipped for self expression, with manhood's capacities and a power of analysis which enables it to order the mass of raw material which it has involuntarily accumulated."

Charles Baudelaire

"I do not want to see how skillful you are - I am not interested in your skill. What do you get out of nature?... What is life to you? What reasons and what principles have you found? What are your deductions? What projections have you made? What excitement, what pleasure do you get out of it? Your skill is the thing of least interest to me..."

Robert Henri

The Department Store - in new zealand

excerpted from "about" on their website.

"The Department Store is a modern take on the traditional department store experience. It's the brainchild of Karen Walker, Stephen Marr and Dan Gosling of Black Box. Their vision is to create a single environment where one can experience the very best from the world of design, beauty, fashion and interiors... Since opening in October 2009, The Department Store has been recognized the world over as a leading example of smart new retail thinking... Further to those accolades was the nomination of The Department Store as the one and only location for UK High Street fashion giants TopShop to open in New Zealand..."

hmmm.. i think someone's taking themselves a little too seriously. i've always liked designers from down under for precisely the opposite qualities.

i like karen walker's funky, unusual style. it is reflected in the retro, feminie parts of the store. some parts feel more hard and masculine while others almost too trendy. overall, the style of the department store seems to lack an overall theme and coherence. maybe that's intentional, or maybe not.

like the retro mannequins and romantic colors.

twist on gerrit rietveld's red and blue chair and side table.

like the pallet inspired display bases.

down under

i've been talking about designers from down under. it really struck me now how relevant they've become. maybe they themselves have to get use to the rise to fame, as you browse through the funky brand names.. the work is solid. watch out, the rest of the world.

pistols at dawn

dr denim

stolen girlfriend's club - dude, you need to shave!

sorry, lost track of the brand..

we are handsome

ksubi. first class styling on this image.

acne

best thing i saw this morning from my hundred of emails is the acne e-shop-in-shop as curated by opening ceremony. i don't know the extent of oc's "curatorial", whether it is similar to how years ago when barney's new york would make suggestions to designers as big as prada how to edit their designs to better suit the local clientele. regardless. the result is good. this asymmetrical fur coat is my favorite. $3440.

cute, colorful and piccolo

are the three adjectives the designer ionna vautrin chose to describe her new table lamp Binic.  inspired by windsocks on boats, these lamps are indeed cute, quirky and unassuming like their creator.  there's a child-like quality in vautrin that's appealing.  i particularly like her simple but evocative sketches.  here's a video of her explaining how she came up with the design.

oskar metsavaht

"My creative process begins with a scene, a history, a style, a concept that I create from something that I wished or lived.  From this point, I create the environment, the atmosphere, the looks and the attitudes.  In most cases, I have the concept of the campaign before the collection.  Maybe that's the reason I love doing the art shooting.  I create the atmosphere of the story and I make my own films, with which I can share the scene I imagined from the beginning of the process.  The pieces are drawn to be the figurine of my film.  And it is possible to "watch" in each detail of my collection.  I am only satisfied when proposed elements for each piece, the colors, the textures and the silhouettes start being used by the characters of the film I made."

i'm speechless.  images from his current collection (below) might as well be clipped from fellini's 8-1/2.

my name is mona