Very graphic and minimalist, the young half Italian, half Turkish fashion designer Natacha Talay is definitely one to watch. Just launching her second womenswear collection for Spring/Summer 2011, the sensual androgynous looks are inspired by her love of art, nature, the Orient and black and white movies. READ MORE

Recent design school graduate Marte Haverkamp has some fascinating obsession with shadows. For her thesis project Marte decided to look deeper into her obsession with this abstract idea and realized what made them so special. “I found out that shadows do something no other product, human or animal can. It easily follows floors, corners, products. It seems fluid as

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Every fashion designer and fashion student has worked with dress forms. Dressing and draping on them while working on their future garments, before they get to fitting on a model. One of the most famous and historical brands for these dress forms is Stockman, and a lot of fashion lovers collect them and use them as decoration in their homes. Taking the fashion dress form as a piece of art, French art director Emmanuel Bossuet of EEM Agency collaborated with Stockman to READ MORE

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I’ve been skimping on the hip-hop, and for that I apologize. There is a big wide world of music and DELS (aka Kieren Dickens) has made a splash in it. The English MC has one foot in hip-hop and the other curiously dipping in indie electronic tendencies, which explains his refreshing collaborations with Joe Goddard of Hot Chip. In a frequently mono-stylistic genre, he seems to set himself apart with a playful sound and a distinguishable desire to be different. READ MORE

Wieki Somers Studio features the work of Wieki Somers and Dylan van de Berg. The studio is recognized for their ability to find the fantasy in everyday things and translate them into objects through their knowledge and exploration of materials, technology and finishes. I especially loved the two projects featured here, “Chinese Stools” and “Trophees”. The “Chinese Stools” are inspired by the designer time spent in Beijing, during which they

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Written by Guest Blogger Katherine Roettger

Twig spoon. Grandfather’s Timex (still broken). Family Bible. Champagne corks from important days. These items are among just a few of the responses on The Burning House, which poses the question: If your house were burning down, what would you take with you? The blog elicits these responses in both photographic and list form, with contributors snapping their most precious items in such diverse setting as outdoors or on a zebra skin rug.
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