{ Fashion Obsessions }

I'm not going to lie, I'm, like most women, obsessed with Target, but not just because it's a great get everything sorta place. Or cause while in college, I could take a blank check from my mother and get groceries and supplies, which really meant tons of new outfits and shit I never really needed. But the designers Target has been hiring for the past few years never and I'm always excited to get something more coveted and better designed than what I should be able to afford.

This December (the first to be exact) Target and Neiman Marcus are launching one of the biggest design partnerships! I may just have to brave December shopping for this event. I've already got my list ready, which includes a Marc Jacob scarf, Rodart Christmas ornament, Alice + Olivia bike (yeah, right, but a girl can dream can't she?!?), and maybe a tory burch thermos to just name a few!{via}

{ Olympics 2012: Deconstructing an Icon }

Now, I'm not the biggest Olympics fan... but really I guess I don't get 'into' too many sports, unless it's South American Futbol, aka soccer. But the nationalism, spectacle, and tradition of the Olympics usually wins me over enough to enjoy a few games. This year, I think I might be watching for another reason, the fashion! Stella McCartney (yes, the last name is familiar cause she is Paul McCartney's daughter) is one of my FAVORITE fashion designers, and as of late I've been on a project runway / sewing my lil'  butt off kick, so McCartney's collection for Team Great Britain was something for me to really get excited over! Primarily made up of a deconstructed icon, the Union Jack, was a fun, new, modern way to re-interrupt the team uniform. Made by Adidas, the kit supplies over 900 British athletes with a total of approximately 175,000 items of clothing during London 2012, talk about a big deal! 

Adidas UK Marketing Director Nick Craggs said: ‘All eyes will be on the British athletes when they take the stage at the Games, so we wanted to ensure that they would be the best equipped team through a combination of leading technologies including PowerWEB and Climacool and a unified and striking team identity.’ {via}

{ Linxxx Luv }

and of course in my absence on the blog, I've collected a few really beautiful sites I'd love to share!

• Saks in the City - Fashion blogs are a dime a dozen, but with Saks I found a real girl trying to make it in the really big city (Paris), and she is doing it all while looking great and sharing her secrets. I know, as I have never been petite in size, fashion and even just drooling over fashion is hard. There is never anything that fits just right, and while there have been great advances in the ...dare I say it... Plus Size World, It's still hard to find someone to really identify with, but Saks is great! wearing things I would wear, and not at all feel weird about wearing them.
  
• Isle of Tune - a great little time waster. This site lets you make roads and houses and plant trees and lights in a city of your dreams, but to car driving music. wait.... does that make sense? It's like Sim city, but as you let your cars drive around it plays music based off where you placed your houses and stuff... It's really cute and fun! and I'm just loving the MJ Beat It city!
  
• Google Body - Now you can be an anatomy perv! Google just recently launched Google Body! an 'Google Earth' for the body. I know I'm not the only one who zoomed in on the genital, right?
  
• Missed Connections - You know those great posts on Craigslist, Missed Connections? Well this clever artist is making up some great illustrations to go along with those missed out love ones. 

{ Honeysuckle: 2011 Color of the Year }

Be sure to bookmark this handy guy! It's a nice departure from this year's Turquoise. I anticipate a lot great sites and graphics and fashion next year in this color. Are you excited about it? {via}

{ Vanity Fair knows Architecture }

Or they think they do... They asked 52 experts (deans of arch schools, starchitects, and architecture critics) what are some of the world's most influential buildings post 1980. The list, for a magazine with no real authority on architecture, did put together a pretty decent list. and I guess the most exciting part for me, was out of the top 21, I had visited 7. {via}  and not to go on a whole other rant, but does it bother anyone else, that Tod WIlliams and Billie Tsien are counted as one vote, while Ricardo Scofidio (from Diller Scofidio) is counted individually? The list of women voters are far and few between, and here we have some acting and voting with their male counter part... so sad.

{ Surrealist Fashion }

I found this article via vintage vixen (she too cute!), and was really excited! I'm such a Salvador Dali fan + fashion. Look at his influence and ideas. I'm just too inlove with this skeleton dress!

The most notorious, prolific and ultimately commercial of the Surrealists – that revolutionary group of artists, poets and provocateurs that grew out of Dadaism in 1920s Paris – was undoubtedly Salvador Dalí. The Spanish Catalan best known for his masterly technical skill as a painter and perversely sexualized subjects had his hand in just about anything he could put his name on, due in part to the push from his wife Gala who was keen to collect a paycheck and not so bothered by the virtue of integrity. However, the signed blank lithographs and commercials for Alka Seltzer aside, most of Dalí’s forays into ventures outside of his main discipline were inspired, original, and hugely influential.

Case in point: anything we see with lips these days could be considered a direct reference to Dali’s iconic Mae West Lips Sofa from 1937 and his Ruby Lips brooch, created in 1949, also based on the sexy actress’ famous bouche. British designer Lulu Guinness is one who owes him her trademark padded lips clutch. {via}

{ Hobo Chic }

Apparently this dude in China is quickly becoming a fashion icon and trendsetter. Refered to as Brother Sharp, he has a distinguished snarl, cig hanging out of mouth, his layering and mixing of woman's clothing is his signature, but I guess a homeless dude doesn't have much choice but to do so to stay warm. Many have tried to help him out, or even get to know his story, but remember .. he is homeless and straight up craz-zay!  {via}

{ linxxx luv }

Here's some great finds I have been holding on too...
1. Design Observer.  posted a great collection of vintage cigarettes and photos... not that I'm a smoker, but I think had I lived 50+ years ago I wouldn't be able to turn it down, it was so damn glamorous! {via}


2. Friends of Type . this great site was a stumble / recommended to me via Nubbytwiglet (which I know I mention all the damn time - so if you haven't check her out). but I knew I would love this site as soon as I opened it and saw in green, orange, and white 'D'yer Wanna Be a Spaceman?'. this was without a doubt one of my fave Oasis bsides, and the graphic on the site was hot2death. linxxx luv fo'sho. {via}


3. Have you heard of Senoa Dancing? they were a new wave group from way back when... but do you recognize the singer? cause you should. It's Ricky Gervais, from the Office (UK) The Invention of Lying. This cute pudgy fellow actually tried a serious time singing new wave... just too funny! {via}

4. Fashion Indie's Top 10 Favorite Fashion Pervs (nsfw). but totally worth it. A nice lilttle collection of some classy yet creepy peoples, like tom ford, karl lagerfeld, and the grandmama madonna. {via}

5. Schrute Farms . yes, that's right you can leave Schrute Farms a nice lil' review on trip advisor. and if you don't leave one, atleast check out the others... ctm!

6. W+K Studio . a nice graphics firm. and worth the book mark. {via}

7. Hoefler & Frere-Jones . who doesn't need another great tutorial / write up on fonts? here the H&FJ folks help us out with 4 different ways to combine fonts! thnxxx {via}

I want to be this

Acid Girls - Lightworks OFFICIAL VIDEO dir. Steven Ilous from Steven Ilous on Vimeo.


Check out that skank at minute 1.07, she's so smug about throwing the first stone (really cake)... I think I am going to try to live everyday like this!

Fashion of the Future via 1930

not too far off...

Michael Jackson

I haven't mentioned too much about MJ. He was an inspiration, in fashion and music and just overall entertainment. I mentioned his passing to my mother, and she didn't seem that concerned. But I found the best way to relate this news to her was he was my generation's Elvis. I can't ever remember a time he wasn't around, the King of Pop, the greatest entertainer to live. I don't want to repeat what so many have said, but this hand made outfit by LUXIRARE is breathe taking. I think this is my favorite tribute to the icon. The embellishment on the leather might be my fave detail, well, that and the glove. So gorgeous. (via)

Tastey Cakes!

Like I need more ways to thicken my thighs... but its designers + cupcakes! via hintmag

Linxxx Luv

And here's this week's installment of the best things on the inter-web.

1. 100 Years of Design Manifestos. I haven't read them all, but F.T. Marinetti and Walter Gropius and El Lissitzky are ones I always go back to.

2. Do you Tweet? More Recently I have become way into it, but have you wondered why people quit following you? or who it was? Quitter lets you see just that, and what your last tweet was that might have sent them running.

3. Lessons from Swiss Style Graphic Design. What can't the Swiss do?

4. Inglorious Bastards opens in theatres in 2 weeks, and I have a serious itch to see this. Tarantino never disappoints.

5. Remember Kara Janx from Project Runway? She definately wasn't a fave. of mine, and honestly I think she had something to do with Santino not doing as well towards the end (he was my fave). Well her line is looking alright....

6. And the last thing I need is another distraction at work. Studies via pubmed show that gaming during work helps increase productivity... well sign me up I need some PORTAL!

7. Peter Callesen. Great paper artist.

Kill Those Crocs!

Finally it seems those horrid shoes, Crocs, are about to take a tumble. As an avid hater of the shoe, even a facebook group hater, I am excited to read reports showing the company is no longer doing that well. Hopefully we will see less of these mishaps.
Last year the company lost $185.1 million, slashed roughly 2,000 jobs and scrambled to find money to pay down millions in debt. Now it's stuck with a surplus of shoes, and its auditors have wondered if it can stay afloat. It has until the end of September to pay off its debt. - washington post

Vogue Paris + Icons

Time for a well missing (atleast in my life) Fashion installment. It seems Carnie Roitfeld has scored a great hit (in my opinion) in this August's 2009 Vogue Paris issue. A 64 page spread on fashion's most iconic brands. I mean who doesn't just swoon over Galliano and Dries Van Norton? (via)

Rendered Fashion

Thanks Kottke.org for this great, and somewhat humorous post.
The clothes from Irina Shaposhnikova's Crystallographica show look as though they were created with 3-D rendering software but haven't quite finished rendering yet.

Color by Number - Your Own Clothing

I have never been one for kiddie color by number books when I was a youngen, but new edition to the fashion world does have me intrigued, I mean I did always color my adidas sambas. How fun would it be have a 'custom - by - you' piece of clothing? Taking this simple idea to a new level, one designer has come up with an idea to let people color their own dresses and other apparel. The Designer, Berber Soepboer has also created a series of dresses that are designed to change color and pattern by snapping and unsnapping selective buttons and recombining layers in various ways.

Type Nerd. . .

You can never own too many type related items of clothing.