Cool Hunting

Slow and Steady Pop Up Store
Mary Ping's Slow and Steady Wins the Race has garnered quite the cult following. In celebration of five years of abstract exploration, Ping brought her entire oeuvre of limited-edition pieces to the Lower East Side's Sol Moscot Optical Shop. Opened this past Saturday, 8 September 2007, for one week, the store will be selling its reservoir of wares for $100 a pop, including these...

Super Sunglasses
Super, the newest project from Pig Magazine's Sean Beolchini and the Beckerman brothers, has taken the classic Wayfarer-style sunglasses and upped the ante with a virtual rainbow of unisex options—turquoise, cream, red, yellow, and blue—not to mention superior construction. Handmade in the legendary sunglass factories of Italy, each pair of slightly oversized frames is reinforced with Zeiss lenses and a gold-plated brand stamp inside....

Colab Eyewear
Touted as an 'anti-brand' by its creators, Colab Eyewear brings together a changing roster of artists to create a line that break all the rules of traditional shades. The fruits of this colab-oration of artists such as Perks & Mini, Eboy and Geoff McFetridge are quirky, playful, and a bit anarchistic. From sly inscriptions and removable lens stickers right down to artist-customized packaging, Colab...

Neon Shoes
Designed from pieces of hand-painted leather, these sexy men's-style dress shoes recently premiered at Neon's winter fashion show and bring action and color to any get-up. The Brazilian label's co-designer Dudu Bertholini has been collecting leftover painted cow skin—some of them rare—from his trips abroad to New York and throughout his home country, at last finding the best use for them. Because he only...

Von Totebags and T-Shirts
Award-winning London based illustrator Von has long been a CH favorite so when he decided to launch a range of tees and totes we grabbed the chance to find out more. Why did you decide to brand into fashion now? As much as t-shirts have been done a million times before I still get excited when I come across a really nice design printed...

De Grisogono Meccanico dG
Contrary to its appearance, the Meccanico dG has no digital components. Below the more conventional analog portion of the two-timezone watch is a numerical display driven by the intricate interplay of 651 strictly mechanical components. Numbers are formed by the motion of 23 cams, which are connected to gears and a synchronization system. To prove it, the watch's back features a transparent dial plate...