I have never felt this way abut a bag in a LONG time.
The colour, the shape, the studs, the matching wrist bands. AMAZING.
Paris Fashion Week really pulled up some beautiful objects.
Ever day, for 100 days, Andrew Miller will paint on branded object totally white, thus removing all visual branding, and in his words, "reducing the object to its purest form. He has called this project, Brand Spirit. Clever name if you ask me.
Miller can purchase each object for less than $10, it can be something that he owns, something he is given by someone else, or something that he finds.
I have loved this idea ever since I was it when he was only up to 12 objects, and I have been meaning to share it ever since. Well, I have stopped procrastinating, and here it is.
Enjoy.
You can find all the rest of the Brand Spirit collection on his Tumblr, Here.
I have had an obsession with bow ties for as long as I can remember. I just love them. So when I stumbled on the brand, Forage, I immediately fell inlove. They are so perfect. And Who loves the last little quick sketch of the Thistle bow tie?
Cuteness.
There once were three skater friends. Add a little design skill, a bit of business smarts and a touch of photography and here you have New Zealand brand, Gus. Gus, a premier New Zealand men's fashion line, was created by Angus Dobson, Hamish McRae and Joe Dowling. Men of the world rejoice, as men's fashion is taking one gigantic leap forward. Gus exposes men's fashion to a new plethora of fabrics, textures and styles that frankly have not been seen in accessible brands before.
So, get on your horses off to Gus's website, which lists stockists and will soon have their own store very, very soon. gus.co.nz GET ON IT.
Just as a side note, who love the models hair? look like mine when I first wake up. Why is it that men can get away with so much more things?!
I would be lying if I said that I have been sticking to my
weekly allowance. But who wouldn’t go crazy in a new city in a new country that
has a plethora of shopping destinations after having your only shopping
destination as post apocalypse/earthquake Christchurch. And because of this I
have been prompted to take an experiment. I am going to see if I can go
spending free for the whole month of April, with the excepting that it is going
to come out on my birthday for a drink, or two. Or four.
In today’s society we are obsessed with getting new things.
And they don’t have to be directly ‘off the shelf’ new, but rather just new to
our hot little hands. We buy second hand clothes from boutique stores and say,
‘oh I am saving my precious money that I earned by being paid 1¢ above minimum
wage’, but when you think about it, we really are spending the same amount of
money because after a piece of clothing is so old it is labeled ‘vintage’
meaning we want it more and the price just skyrockets. It doesn’t really matter
how shitty it is made or how god damn ugly it is. The price makes us want it.
This is going to be tough for me. I am a self confessed
shopaholic. I LOVE SPENDING. I love pretty things.I am like a magpie and I love anything that has even the
slightest hint of glitter or studs. YUUUUMMY.
I am 100% do not need 99.99999999% of the things that I buy.
So my eftpos card is safely locked away and put in a place
that is near impossible to reach with my 5’4” frame.
This is going to be so hard. But you know what, like my
mother, I LOVE A CHALLENGE.
(and yes I do in fact know that it is now the 2nd
of April and I am technically putting this up ‘late’, but all of yesterday I
spent being in transit on my way back from New Zealand (the HomeLand) to
Australia (le Stud3yLand). So there.)
