Paul Coudamy is a French architect whose work is a contemporary mash-up of inventiveness supplied by today’s technologies and materials. Paul’s ethos is to mix new technologies while diverting from their original use. His latest masterpiece, aptly named Random Resurrection, is a table and chairs made...
How can you help shoppers feel less guilty when shopping for luxury? One of the hottest new stores in Paris, Merci, is fusing fashion with philanthropy. The store's light, loft-like space is as trendy as any other concept store, and stocks brands such as Stella McCartney, special versions of Annick...
Last week Dell hosted an event intended to unite the worlds of fashion and technology bloggers. Their goal was to discuss how technology could be re-positioned as fashion in order to sell it to women. With Microsoft's research highlighting that technology is as important to women as fashion, should...
K-Swiss, the global sportswear brand, wanted to do something interesting with their retail space. So they briefed architects, 6a, to create an environment where their new and classic K-Swiss products could sit alongside other objects with similar brand values, including books and cds. The idea was to...
London architect, Julian Hakes, has designed a pair of shoes with no foot-plate. Called Mojito, the design consists of a single piece that wraps around the wearer’s foot, forming support for the heel and ball. The foot naturally forms a bridge between the two. ‘One late summer night in the studio, I...
Baileys Home Store is set in a series of interconnecting farm buildings on the A49 near Ross-on-Wye. They sell a delightful mixture of vintage and new, including furniture and home- and garden-ware. They also have a café, which is full of homemade cakes and unusual art objects. Everything Baileys does...
The LVMH-owned brand Kenzo are using their ‘poppy’ symbol to introduce the concept of nature in the urban space. A field of 200,000 poppies has been popping up in cities throughout Europe. From Paris to Madrid and London to Warsaw, passersby are encouraged to pick the flowers and indulge their senses...
After recently launching a New York version of her ‘considerate design’ website, Inhabitat, Jill Fehrenbacher has turned her attention to fashion. She’s created the website, Ecouterre, to try and convince sceptical fashionistas that there’s more to ‘eco-fashion’ than super-expensive organic T-shirts...
Wanna get noses pressing up against the windows of your city centre store? Then take a look at fashion retailer, All Saints. They recently filled their Manchester store windows with classic Singer sewing machines. It’s a big, bold nod to the virtues of DIY craftsmanship and hand-finishing. (Cheers, Gemma...
Off the beaten fashion path, between showrooms in central London, and at Somerset House, visitors of London Fashion Week have been getting treated to tea, cakes and intimate peeks at six select new designer's lines, inside the city's oasis that is the boutique hotel 40 Winks. The showroom hosted...
