Capturing the very-best and the absolute-worst of Americans and how they party - a snapshot of urban fashion from the gutter to the red carpet, from one man’s camera perspective: Last Night’s Party.
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A great collection of magazine covers - as chosen by the president of American Society of Magazine Editors back in 2005 - which I guess explains the US-centric nature of the selection. I’m a particular fan of the 2001 New Yorker cover. List appears here.
I adore these sweet adverts from the Icelandic vodka company, “Reyka“.
There are more, click on the above to see. BTW: the girl is Hafdis Huld from the band Gus-Gus.
What IS it she says when she kicks the wee bird away?
To most people Erwin Olaf is known as the ‘Lavazza guy’. However the Lavazza campaign is only a small fraction of artwork created by this Dutch photographer.
Olaf’s output is rather disturbing but how very captivating.
My absolutely favourite is Royal Blood. Painfully pretty.
I can see this from my living room window. Not this view, alas… but I’m close enough to enjoy the spectacle, which changes nightly.
This is Torre Agbar in Barcelona - it has more than 4,000 LED devices that allow the generation of luminous images on the facade. It has temperature sensors on the outside of the tower that regulate the opening and closing of glass blinds, reducing the consumption of energy from air conditioning, and therefore changing the appearance nightly. Sweet.
One of the best selling fashion magazines made a long list of what-is-hot-this-summer. The thing that caught my eye first was fidelity. Yes, fidelity.
What do you mean it is ‘on’ not to cheat this season. Did I miss anything? Was being faithful passé last year? 
I sighed, put away the magazine and left the house.
Sitting in my favourite café I kept on staring at people walking around the old town. There was a clumsy girl in high heels. A man wearing a horrible pink shirt, an old lady in very short shorts and a chubby teenager who managed to squeeze herself in a pair of (too) skinny jeans.
It was a rather sad thing to watch. A mass self-destruction of a sort.
Would you jump into deep water not being able to swim? No? Then why do you put a mini-skirt on when your legs are not exactly thin…?
Being fashionable is not about what’s-hot-this-season. Being fashionable is about being faithful to yourself.
Once you could re-date your ex on the quiet, shop in discount stores, lose weight at the gym in relative safety. With the camera-anywhere era we’ve entered, with cameras on phones, cameras on videocameras, web cameras broadcasting 24/7, it’s nigh on impossible to get anyway with anything. Introducing Underwater Camera Housing, affordable to everyone, removing that one last bastion of safety from the prying camera: underwater at your local club.
I came lens to nose with one of these on Wednesday, at about the four metre point - my good friend Jayn had brought it with her (someday I’ll post it guys…) - after I’d gotten over the shock I was taken by how very pretty it was.
One good thing about photos underwater girls: it distorts reality - I think I’ll be posing more.
Pro Keds is a sneaker company that has been around for sometime now, but lately hasn’t been getting a lot of attention. When first launched in 1949, many styles attained cult status in the neighborhoods of New York among the streetwise who adopted PRO-Keds as the first real sneaker with style. PRO-Keds became the shoe of choice with b-boys everywhere and earned its place as a true icon of early hip-hop culture.
After an absence of nearly 20 years, PRO-Keds is reissuing some classic styles (such as those seen here) from its archives, bringing to life once again the heritage and history of the brand.
Amazing where a little mindless surfing can lead you on a Saturday afternoon: across the net and back, glorious wonders to be found.
Like Jelle Pelle (Jelle Gijsberts), a very talented young artist from The Netherlands, take a moment to go down through his blog and spot a few more gems he created, such as this one.
Hello! *waves* My name is Kat, and I’m new.
I found this bag from Carry-A-Bag on a blog i recently visited, called tumbleweed & rose. “all the bags are handmade to take with you to the shops” as it says on their site from the u.k. a great message I think, since plastic bags are kinda over used and even not-so-stylish. Heres the eco-version of being handy AND stylish at the same time.
Diesel are a clever bunch. Take a wall. Give artists an opportunity to get their art up there. Artists get benefit from association, Diesel get the street creds. I like what they’ve done here, in Milan. (And it works, Flickr is full of these images.)
My Italian’s not the best, so I can’t get you a translation just now, but I’m working on it! I’m guessing the guy on the left is saying he would like there to be a day when… something… to this wall. It’s the something I’m missing. Help? Solved. See comments. Thanks Patrizia.
My other half has long had her hunger for style in accessories satiated by none other than Orla Kiely. The seasonal launch of Kiely’s latest collection is invariably preceded by months of almost hormonal anticipation and trawling of the web for hints or tidbits or blurry photos of the latest bag being road tested. And that’s just me!
The problem is, I find myself strangely drawn to the Kiely range, the design, the materials, the finish, oh my god the finish. The true virtue of a designer is what they do with the hidden and unseen parts of their creations. Check out the inside of an Orla Kiely bag and tell me that you wouldn’t want to move in and set up home in there.
The images don’t do her justice, go find a stockist and touch one of these things. (Careful! I got weird looks in BT in Dublin and was asked politely to extract my head from the bag and leave the store as I was scaring the other shoppers)
So here’s the dilemma, I carry keys, mobile, wallet, pens, newspaper why cant I have a bag that’s this well designed? Why do I have to carry a padded, black nylon or propylene laptop case that looks like a brief case on steroids? Where’s the style, color, imagination, creativity, and sheer elegance of Orla Kiely for Men?
I want my man bag!
I’ve been a fan of the work of Monica Calvo for a while now.
The opportunity to write for Le Style has given me a way to give her the nod she deserves.
Stunning artwork.
My third vote goes to PJ Harvey, aka Polly Jean of the family Harvey.
I’ve had the good fortune to see PJ about five times now, a slow drug, a reeling-sensation - always better alone with just her guitar, her voice and her intimate lyrics. On stage? Well, on stage she takes no shit, no banter, no fawning, just the music: for one of the more unattractive female artists on the circuit, she’s probably the most attractive of them all. A beautiful feeling, baby.
Being robbed of my beloved mobile phone on a busy London street I had no choice but to get a new one. I found myself in a shop with an overwhelming number of phones of all shapes and sizes.
I am not ignorant when it comes to technology but I certainly am not too picky when it comes to mobile phones. When asked what it was that I was looking for I replied ‘anything that I can use for calling and texting’ though the pretty shop-assistant didn’t seem satisfied with my answer. She looked at me with a strange grin on her face which made me exclaim ‘oh c’mon it’s just a phone!’
So here she was proving me wrong within 15 seconds when she brought a glittering PINK Moto.
I gasped. ‘Do I look like a person who would like a pink phone?’ she replied smiling ‘oh c’mon it’s just a phone’
Defeated, I went through millions of pages of catalogues and boxes. Eventually I picked one and was about to pay when I saw something sparkling on the wall. My female instinct made me come closer to have a look at the ‘shiney’ and there it was a phone with a build in mirror!
You know the ending.
Oh and by the way LG KE790 Shine is not just a phone, IT’S A FASHION STATEMENT!
Now, THIS is Style…
“Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can be proved by means of a sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say at night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.” 
Tilda Swinton provides voiceover to Max Richter’s piece from “The Blue Notebooks” album, quoting an excerpt from Franz Kafka’s “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”.
Heavenly. Listen by clicking on play button above.
I’m a Freitag freak… there, I’ve said it… I own four (three classics and one messenger)… my darling mother thinks they’re tatty, and for good reason I suppose, Freitag proclaim: “bags are made of USED truck tarps. thus, they may look dirty, even after the nice warm wash we gave them”.
So, with some pleasure, on a recent outing to the Tate Modern in London, with my dear mom in-tow, I was able to point out their new association with Freitag who are providing the gallery with their current crop of carry-away bags for the excellent in-gallery store. Check them out.
I’m glued to this iBook too many hours a day. So, while here, I’d better enjoy it, unveiling: Desktopography.
Desktop imagery created especially for you, and your desktop. This year it’s nature-themed, see image above. Sweet!