Cool Hunting
| 26 September 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Mosley Tribes Supports Free City
by Josh Rubin
I've been loving my Mosley Tribes sunglasses since I first started wearing them a couple months back. The styling is great, comfort perfect and optics top-notch. I've also been a long time fan of Nina Garduno's work at Fred Segal and her relatively new clothing line, FREECITY. This week the two come together with the launch of a limited edition series of sunglasses distributed exclusively at Fred Segal's Melrose location.
"Nina is one of the most influential and progressive women in fashion today. What she has created with FREECITY is inspiring. We have been long time friends and I am honored to work with her," says Larry Leight, Co-Founder and Chief Designer of Oliver Peoples and Mosley Tribes, when talking about their first brand collaboration. The frames come in three color combinations—gold with blue lenses, gold with yellow lenses (pictured here) and silver with brown lenses. The shape is a slightly squared off aviator and the co-branding is subtle and tasteful.
Shamiana Snacks
by Evan Orensten
Visitors to Taj Hotels in India have been served these tasty snack mixes for years, and now they are available in the U.S.
Available in Punjabi, Bombay, Madrasi, Manglori and Madras flavors, each of these vegetarian snack mixes combines items like chick pea flour crunchies, nuts, spices, fruits and legumes. Some are spicier than others, and all of them will brighten up snack/bar time.
Shamiana snacks are made and distributed by House of India and are also available from Amazon. 14 oz bags are around $2.50 each.
Beard & Bangs
by Letizia Rossi
I am never taking off my Beard & Bangs t-shirt! Its excellent fit and super soft material have made it an instant favorite. The line of t-shirts, sweatshirts and accessories incorporates Americana and Old World woodcut prints into their designs, which are all dyed, distressed and silkscreened by hand.
Beard & Bangs is collaborative effort between Doris Ho and Mark Kane. They find find inspiration in classic typography, historic imagery, childhood folklore, public libraries and overgrown, unkempt gardens.
The t-shirts ($65), sweatshirts ($115) and neckercheifs ($75) are available from Steven Alan, In God We Trust, Stuart & Wright and Odin in New York.
Squished: Nir Adar
by Letizia Rossi
Food being among my favorite subjects of conversation and art, I was delighted to find food stylist and artist Nir Adar's Squished series of photographs in the latest issue of (t)here magazine. The work originally appeared as part of the Value Meal: Design and (over)Eating, which was curated by Laetitia Wolff and Aric Chen and represented the United States at the International Design Biennale in Saint-Etienne, France in 2004.
The photographs, which Adar calls "deliciously disgusting," were created by placing foods between two pieces of glass and standing on them, creating compositions that have been called "both beautiful and psychologically gruesome."
Adar's latest project, Crispy Cones, is an attempt to reinvent the way we eat by serving popular foods like pizza, chicken curry, and s'mores in an edible, portable cone.
The Trip 2 Navigated by Tom Middleton
by SummerSeventySix
You may remember that all the way back in March, we gave you an early tip-off that Tom Middleton would be following up his essential mix album for The Trip series on Family Recordings. In what we think is a bit of an exclusive for CH, we can finally reveal the artwork and tracklisting, both of which look like being worthy successors. Like last time, the album's split in two, with the first side now called Vertical and the second, Horizontal.
As you might guess, Vertical is the party mix, and one that goes off at a tangent at every opportunity, starting with hackneyed tv themes before mixing in the likes of hip-hop pioneers Eric B. & Rakim, Brazilian body-percussionists Barbatuques and weird electronica from I Monster. Horizontal is naturally more laid-back. Modern classics like Boards Of Canada's Dayvan Cowboy and Here's What's Left by RJD2 melt into tracks old and new from Quantic, Plump DJs and The Orb. The seminal Tangerine Dream hypnotically rap things up with Love On A Real Train.
The Trip 2 Navigated by Tom Middleton is set for release on 23 October 2006, and you can see the full tracklisting after the jump.
