Giorgio Armani F/W '08 '09 campaign

leave it to the fabulous dynamic duo of mert & marcus to create these haunting, yet luxurious images.

Ad Campaign: Giorgio Armani

Season: F/W 2008 2009

Model: Jessica Stam, Du Juan & Sean Opry

Photographer: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott

scans via faking fashion

paparazzi files.

gisele.




[New York, August 21. Image via Bauer-Griffin.] via Jezebel

badass bear.

the karl lagerfeld teddy bear. only $1500 USD. so warm and sweet. just like uncle karl.

according to nymag.com:

"Only 2,500 of these limited-edition delights, which launch at Neiman Marcus next month, were made."

streetwalkers.

Secrets of a Hipster Hooker.

damned hipsters. what will they take over next?

article available at Radar Online








(Photo: Jessica Craig-Martin, shot on location at the Beatrice Inn)

Simultaneous Hear/See Stimuli

Abe Vigoda is a dead guy, and a band. This is what their label has to say about them:

If you want to know how kids can get so fucked in the head growing up in southern california, you gotta know about Abe Vigoda. Chino is the home of this sort of No Wavey sort of Pop oriented sort of twisted punked 4 piece. You can see it in the way they pound the living shit out of the instruments they play, and you can see it in the way they talk about things they are interested in, these kids are fucked, but in a good way. Fucked in the way that they can make a good record and play really good shows above all odds, like having terminal cancer and mental illness. Juan will kiss you if you ask and they are HUGE in England.

their new album skeleton is really really good. reverb punk pop tropics on edge or something. out on post present medium (dean spunt from no age's label). sounds excellent on vinyl.

here they are playing on a rooftop via pitchfork.tv








also, YACHT signed to DFA!
DFA has hookups in the NorthWest now.

here is the new YACHT single from their DFA debut 12''

Japan Fashion Week Preview.

images via nylon
more info here

want.

let's face it, the Louis Vuitton pattern and its many Chinatown incarnations has been done to death. But I admit I have a serious weakness for a beat-up vintage LV luggage and trunks. Just spotted this on goantiques.com:









this circa 1900 piece is in excellent condition and priced at $22,750.00 USD. want.