Cool Hunting
| 21 June 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Celux Salon
by Josh Rubin
The next tidbit from Theme's second issue is a story about Celux Salon in Tokyo's Aoyama shopping district. It's a members only boutique created by LVMH and featuring highly exclusive items from the big luxury brands as well as lesser known designers. It's as much a lounge as it is a shop and they aim to curate an entire lifestyle. How one gains membership is unclear, but according to Rabbitgirl:
For a £1,000 joining fee (annual fee of £100), members are given an exclusive code card that allows them access to the store, its website and its very exclusive products.
Check out more pictures of Celux here.
Louis Vuitton Omotesando, 5-7-5, Jingumae Sihibuya-Ku, Tokyo
Eric Feng
by Josh Rubin
I just finished reading the second drop of Asian Culture Quarterly, Theme Magazine. Twice as good as the first issue, there were a few stories that really struck my fancy. Firstly, Eric Feng (a.k.a. Feric) is an illustrator of infinite evolutionary possibilities. Each of his creatures is meticulously crafted with translucent layers that reveal the sometimes inner workings that explore the hybridization of nature and machine.
His new book, Fevolution: The Art of Eric Feng, is available at Amazon.
Operation Baby Drop
by Parker Hutchinson
Kudos to Mark Jenkins for making some of the most charmingly interesting street art I've seen in ages. With masterful craftsmanship, he's populated the streets of New York and D.C. with life-size babies made from nothing but tape. Jenkins fittingly calls the project Storker, the name he's also assigned to the race of clear creatures. They can be found climbing city streetlights, signs, billboards and trees, as well as campaigning roadside in Virginia, where the translucent tots have apparently launched a gubernatorial campaign. Jenkins is urging any big-hearted passers-by to take the babies home for proper love and breast-feeding, after which he swears they'll grow to be full-sized tape men and women. Check his site for the locations of future baby drops, so you can see them in person before they're all adopted away.
Naco
by Ami Kealoha
Naco is a fashion gawker's story come true. An Argentine friend pointed out their "boludo" (slang for fool) t-shirt to me while we were in Barcelona. Six months later in Mexico City's Lagunillas market I bought her one and picked up "I heart DF" for myself. (DF stands for Distrito Federal, local terminology for the capital city.) The Mexican company's witty pop designs are available at fabric8 and at select stores in the U.S. and Mexico.
Look out for co-branded Vans with the "I heart DF" design soon.
