The NOVA Shoe from Zaha Hadid x UNITED NUDE marries glorious design with shoe fabulousness ! This is an extremely limited release with only 100 pairs per color (silver, black and rose gold), so I am sure these will be gone quickly.
Watch this wonderful video on the making of this extraordinary shoe:
Images via UNITED NUDE
Paris Haute Couture Week Fall 2013-2014 hit many high notes that featured:
Just as amazing was the fashion looks out side of the shows – check them out in the following cool videos from VOGUE PARIS with DailyMotion!
Cartes Postales de Fashion Week: Défilés haute… by VOGUEPARIS
Cartes Postales de Fashion Week: Défilés haute… by VOGUEPARIS
Cartes Postales de Fashion Week: Défilés haute… by VOGUEPARIS
Image via GoRunway
Design Miami Basel 2013 brought together collectors, designers, cultural personalities and design lovers from around the globe in the spectacular new Hall 1 Süd designed by Herzog & de Meuron. For over 7 days, over 25,000 visitors viewed museum-quality historic pieces and new exclusively commissioned works from 48 galleries as well as presenting an expanded cultural program and the debut of commissioned works from the 2013 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award winners.
Add to that a special midnight Yeezus listening session presented by Kanye West and you have a once-in-a-lifetime event !
As their press release states:
“Design Miami/ Basel 2013 has been our largest and most successful show to date
with an increase in physical space, a record number of participating galleries and a
15% increase in visitor attendance over last year,” says Marianne Goebl, director of
Design Miami/.
There was a notable increase in the number of collectors, designers and cultural
personalities visiting the fair, including Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich,
Peter Brant and Stephanie Seymour, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lucas Haas, Laurence
Graff, Jonathan Zebina, Benedikt Taschen, Norman Braman, Jacques Grange,
Adam Lindemann, Caroline Bourgeois, Martin Bethenod, Etienne Russo, Raf
Simons, Jean Pigozzi, Ginevra Elkann, Martin Margulies, Hans-Ulrich Obrist,
Massimiliano Gioni, Dominique Lévy, Simon and Michaela de Pury, Zaha Hadid,
Bruno Bischofberger, Jacques Herzog, Helen Schwab, Almine Picasso, Rosa and
Carlos de la Cruz, John Baldessari, Caroline Sarkozy, Pierre Yovanovich, Lee
Mindel, Fernando Romero and Soumaya Slim de Romero as well as Kanye West.
I so wish I had been able to go but hopefully next year (fingers-crossed) !!!
Slideshow of highlights from the show after the jump… (more…)
The Paris Air Show at Le Bourget from June 17th-June 23rd is the largest and oldest international aviation show of its kind as well as the industry’s largest networking event.
On the trade side, it offers attendees the opportunity to check out the latest in all things aviation innovation as well as setting up B2B meetings with other companies.
On the general public side, it offers free access to students & school groups, a site museum, a careers & training forum in the new large scale Careers Plane exhibition space and flying displays.
Did I mention that their social media is is phenomenal ?
For a time, it appeared that a smaller version of Paris Air Show would come to Miami, however those plans are lost in limbo. (Florida Transportation News)
Check out highlights from the first day here:
I love social media . If I could, I would be online 24/7. However recently, I had to step away from the computer, ignore the smartphone apps and take a break.
My break only lasted a couple weeks but it was enough to rejuvenate the brain cells.
I have a whole heap of updates planned. It looks like its going to be a great summer !
In 1982, I was a teen in New York, attending Stuyvesant High School and as preppy as preppy can be. I was a pink button-down oxford Ralph Lauren shirt with khaki pants wearing Bass shoes prepster.
Then I heard the Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go” and everything changed. Punk music was cool, but to me punk clothes and style were cooler!
Was I true punk ? Nah… I was never going to drop out of school especially since I wanted to go to Brown or MIT when I graduated. But, I got an unconstructed olive green blazer, ripped out the shoulder pads and covered the lapels in safety pins. Wearing it made me feel like a superhero. I wore it everyday for almost a year. I had learned the transformative powers of fashion.
Starting this month, the stunning exhibition PUNK-Chaos to Couture at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores the influence of punk style on high fashion.
Focusing on the relationship between the punk concept of ‘do-it-yourself’ and the couture concept
of ‘made-to-measure,’the exhibition will be organized around the materials, techniques, and embellishments associated with the anti-establishment style.Presented as an immersive multimedia, multisensory experience, the clothes will be animated with period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques.
In this video, curator Andrew Bolton walks us through the galleries:
If you have the chance, make sure you see it before it closes August 14th.
Back in March for almost three full weeks, the House Vision 2013 Tokyo Exhibition , a groundbreaking collection of seminars, installations and an expo, organized by Kenya Hara and Tsuchiya Sadao took place. House Vision seeks to introduce the current Japanese urban lifestyle and discuss how traditional Japanese design elements can be pulled into its future.
About HOUSE VISION from HOUSE VISION on Vimeo.
In the U.S. our connection to our homes and urban lifestyle is based on the “melting pot”, we take in influences from everywhere. However, in Japan, the relationship between home design and preservation of traditional Japanese culture is strongly connected.
A few things about this exhibition were very interesting to me. First, is the idea of how “housing literacy” needs to be taught to the now maturing Japanese urban dwellers with emphasis on the “proper lifestyle” that is more a fit with their mature identity and thus will bring in happiness to their lives. This “identity” anticipates children moving out of the home and parents giving up having too much stuff. The mature Japanese urban dweller should be able to live in a smaller space that includes multipurpose appliances in a traditional Japanese living space design format.
This is totally different from the latest trend in the U.S. of generations families living together, as demonstrated by Lennar’s very successful NextGen homes. In a Nextgen home, a complete suite that includes a separate kitchen and living space can be added to the home.
In a way, our homes can be said to be ‘curated” by us; after all, we fill our homes with items that we hope represents our aesthetics and beliefs. Is it right to have all that stripped from you at a certain age because it is the “proper” way to live is a question that comes up when listening to the House Vision discussions.