Porter has released a new Grocery Tote, which looks exactly like the paper bag that you get in a supermarket, but it is not made out of paper and of course reusable. The bag comes in the same brownish color, has the same handles and even comes with the triangle pattern on the edges, imitating the paper cutter. Inside it has a light blue lining.
More pictures after the jump.
For the holiday season this year Barneys New York is celebrating in green. For the occasion they asked several designers to either donate for charity or to create eco-inspired one-offs.
French luxury leather goods brand Goyard came out with a remix of their most popular bag. It comes in green, and features the recycling logo in gold. Not only the color hints at the theme, the bag is actually made out of recyclable canvas, unlike their regular collection. The bag goes for 1065 USD.
Throughout 2007 Atmos Tokyo has released many Hello Kitty collaborations, including t-shirts, hoodies, other clothing as well as small accessories. To finish the year, they now released a collaboration with Porter.
The Atmos x Hello Kitty x Porter collaboration collection consists of several pieces - wallets, porches, drum bag, tote bag and a messenger bag. The collection features an all-over Hello-Kitty design and each piece also comes with both the Porter tag and a Hello Kitty tag.
Check out all pieces in detail after the jump.
Most of you will probably head out for a nice ski/snowoard trip in the next couple of days. But some of you might prefer the warmer climates and catch some sun to relax over the holidays. In that case we have the perfect accessory for you, a Kidrobot beach towel. As exhausting as the all-over prints and crazy colors sometimes get on t-shirts, hoodies and sneakers, on a beach towel one is allowed to have more colors, not only it is not disturbing, it's a must!
Kidrobot has released a couple of beach towels featuring their iconic Dunny characters! You can purchase them here.
French sneaker brand Spring Court has finally also released a US website. The brand has for many years made some of the most classic white sneakers and continues to do so. Traditionally a tennis brand, Spring Court specializes in canvas sneakers and offers several models, both low, mid and high in their collection. Especially for the summer, a nice Spring Court sneaker is always a good choice.
Make sure to check out their new website here.
This year Nike is a bit early with their St. Valentine edition sneakers, but at least you can plan ahead. This time around they released a Nike Court Force High. It comes with a white/pink upper, patent leather accents and a Nike heart tag on the tongue, just to make sure everybody understands the message and the occasion.
We came across it at Atmos Tokyo, but it will likely release around the globe in the coming weeks!
US retailer Target now released a series of limited edition artist beach towels, featuring artwork by none other than Kehinde Wiley and Jeff Koons. The towels are exclusively available in the Target online store and go for 50 USD. Via Supertouch.
The Koons graphic is the same one we have previously seen on Supreme skateboard decks!
The New York Times has a nice new article up about the recently opened Muji Flagship Store in Manhattan - The Civilized World Finds A Refugee.
"Muji’s bright cube-room on Broadway takes all the ugliness out of shopping. A refined combination of Kate’s Paperie, Uniqlo, Bed Bath & Beyond and the Container Store, it is the folded-down, crisp origami essence of a superstore. Everything here seems a necessity — stationery, bedding, flatware, rain gear — so that for once in your consumer holiday journeying, you can shop for gifts and convince yourself you are not being a slop pig."
Check it out here.
Today Crooks & Castles released some pieces of their 8021 flagship store collection for women. A couple of t-shirts and the Landrones hoodie are now available. Make sure to pass by for some last minute Christmas shopping!
The Married To The Mob x Kangol cashmere beanies were first released at Colette a while back, now they have finally been launched in NYC. Instead of a releases event or party, they did something a little bit different this time. Besides releasing it in the MOB online store, they also quietly put up a billboard on Stanton/Orchard above the WK piece. The billboard pictures Leah's (the founder/designer of MOB) little sister, wearing the beanie. Definitely nice work and something a little bit different!
A few weeks ago we presented to you the new Daft Punk Alive album. Sold Out now got in the Japanese version of the CD, which comes in a boxset together with two Daft Punk Bearbricks. Definitely a nice package and cool gift, in case you still need one!
We have reported before about the Takashi Murakami exhibition at the Moma in Los Angeles, that is still going on until February 2008. For the occasion Louis Vuitton opened a temporary pop-up store in the museum and is selling a few items, only available at that store. The most interesting items are the coin case and the shopping bag, both coming in the classic Monogram design and with special Murakami artwork.
In case you do not have the chance to pass by the museum until February, then you can now also purchase the items at Cliff Edge.
Together, Longchamp and Michel Gaubert have imagined and developed a mini collection with the aim of meeting the technical, practical and creative needs of a talented sound designer’s specific lifestyle de talent or for all those whose life revoles around music and the digital world in general.
The MG by Longchamp collection, is on sale exclusively at Colette from 3rd December 2007 and in Longchamp boutiques end January 2008 onwards.
8 pieces make up this mini collection, dedicated to the world of music. All these products are in a coated cotton canvas trimmed in cowhide leather. This exclusive graphic print is available in black or white.
A nice collection with pieces for all purposes. You can find the smaller pieces in the Colette online store, otherwise you have to pass by the store!
All James Jarvis fans out there will be excited about the released of the Illustrated YOD toys. YOD has only recently been released and now comes in a remixed version in two new colorways, featuring tattoos all over. Both the toys and the new James Jarvis Book, "Selected Drawings", are now available at Sold Out.
Dr. Romanelli has released a new version of his website. With new projects releasing in the near future, it was time to rework the site and properly present what there is to come. On the new site they present several new projects, including an on-going project with the Richard Kidd boutique from Canada, the Converse Century project, Lupe Fiasco and more.
Also Dr. Romanelli got together with Las Vegas vintage boutique Fruition to collaborate on some t-shirts.
Make sure to check out the new site, it's one that you have to discover. Take a few minutes and skim through the impressive list of latest projects by Dr. Romanelli.
Italian sunglass brand Super now released the third model in their line-up, the Eazy Gold frame. It looks exactly like the Eazy frame, that we presented earlier, but has the additional gold plated part in the middle of the sunglasses. They released the Eazy Gold now in a white and a black colorway. All Super sunglasses are handmade in Italy. Available here.
After the jump you can check out the white model.
Shortly after the release of their Holiday 2007 collection, Married To The Mob is back once again and re-releases one of their most successful t-shirts in new colorsways - "My Girls Rock Balenciaga & Smoke Mad Marijuana".
The t-shirts have now been released in blue, pink, green and red. If you did not have the chance to get it the first time around, here is your second chance.
Artist INSA just finished his latest project, a wholecar in East London. The entire wholecar got covered in INSA's iconic heel all-over design. Nice job!
More pics after the jump.
Geneviève Gauckler and Medicom once again get together and this time bring to life a new character by the artist - fuzzy Pierre. From 1D to 3D, Pierre the funny doll, now came to life and is available at Colette.
Following the recent addition of the Arkitip Intelligence (sort of a blogroll), they now also updated the rest of the site with a fresh new design and more user friendly site overall.
Check out the new Arkitip website and discover the new products they have added to the online catalogue!
Just in case you have not come cross it yet, Nabaztag is an electronic rabbit, that can be connected to your computer and the internet. People that have a Nabaztag can receive messages send to the rabbit, read them out loud, etc. Also you can configure the rabbit to light up when you get emails, IM's or anything else.
Just in time for Christmas, they launched a new limited edition version of Nabaztag, designed by Parisian artist André. The rabbit got a classic, simplistic André make-over. The Nabaztag by André is now available online.
Tobias Wong and José Lapage (a regular curating duo) have teamed up with Aric Chen ( a highly regarded design journalist) to produce a temporary tattoo parlor during Art Basel Miami titles "As Long As It Lasts". The tattoos will be permanent, so you better think about it before going for it. But it will be a tough choice, as the line-up of artists is impressive - Vito Acconci, Kaws, 5.5 Designers, Yves Behar, Hella Hongerjuis and many more. If you ever wanted one of Kaws's characters somewhere on your body, now is the time.
Just a couple of days ago when we presented the new Married To The Mob Holiday 2007 collection we mentioned that we would love to see more pieces from the brand. Here we go now, a great collaboration between MOB and Kangol on some winter beanies. The beanies come in 100% cashmere and three colorways - grey, pink and purple. The signature lipstick mouth logo of MOB comes in the form of a golden clip. Good quality, nice branding and not too much.
The beanies are limited to 150 pieces per colorway. This is by far the strongest womens headgear we have seen this season. They have launched a few minuted ago at Sold Out.
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