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He was selling custom-made clothing to Hip Hop’s finest for thousands of dollars a piece, fashioned from rolls of fake Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Fendi prints imported from Korea out of his Harlem boutique during the 1980s. His name is Dapper Dan and before the likes of Kanye West and Rihanna were doing it, this [...]
If you have typography skills, obviously the next logical step is to just start illustrating designer label-dropping Hip Hop lyrics, right? Okay, so it’s a little random but a perfect excuse to ogle some beautiful typography on this fine morning by graphic designer Luke Skinner. His project “Luxury Rap” consists of his hand-drawn lettering in ink [...]
“I wear your grandad’s clothes. I look incredible.” I‘m no expert on the intricacies of today’s rap music so I can’t really comment on whether the song is kiiind of a sh*t sandwich or not, but this is also one of those ultra confusing and challenging occasions in modern media culture when you can’t tell [...]
I think it’s safe to say I go through a lot of vintage and historical material everyday–archive after archive… So when I came across these colorful, all-in-good-fun artworks over iconic portraits of the past, the prints literally jumped out at me. I don’t know much about the artist except that he/she is probably from London [...]
This is Not a Birkin Remember when Anya Hindmarch designed the “I’m not a Plastic Bag” that kept selling out within minutes of going on sale? Well this screen-printed tote featuring a likeness of the Hermès iconic Birkin bag reminds me of just that. Emerging “it” label, Thursday Friday, were looking to create a bag that could be [...]
I spent my Saturday afternoon, avoiding the Parisian summer crowds and tiptoeing along the train
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Tonight in Paris, tens of thousands of people dressed in white, will converge at a secret location,
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Ever since school, I feel like I’ve been continuing my own education; on the internet, with
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I finally watched Life of Pi last night and was pleasantly surprised to learn that the hero of the
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Promise you won’t tell anyone…! 1. L’Etage de Pastavino – Saint Germain’s
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What good is an iPhone if it can’t take you to Paris?! Or an iPad that can’t take you
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Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute
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You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical
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This breathtaking pool of glistening turquoise water under creamy ecclesiastical stone vaulting is
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