Oh so 60′s! I felt like I traveled back in time to the 60′s as the models strutted down the runway with their long hippie locks paletted in Holly Fulton’s highlighter looks. Holly Fulton has become one of my most anticipated shows for London Fashion Week. Her reoccurring signature Art Deco prints have made me yearn to see her development season after season. For S/S 2012 Holly Fulton delivered another dose of fashion euphoria. What I find so humbling about her collections is her apparent relationship to the the craft and her ability to project her sense of humor/joviality through it, while everyone else seems to take it all so seriously.

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Mathew Williamson’s S/S 2012 presented his usual ultra feminine silky printed looks but those were not the hero pieces for me. I fell really partial to the more embellished looks, which have always been his strength as well. The intricacy of the cut-out pattern paired with feather details made those dresses real showpieces. The concept also translated nicely in some of the separates for more versatile day to day looks. READ MORE

Formafantasma, has done it again! Known for showing us materials in a new light, the Eindhoven duo takes a look at the world of polymers pre-oil times as well as combining nature and plastic. Botanica is commissioned by Plart, an Italian foundation dedicated to scientific research and READ MORE

While the good people at Scottish techno label SOMA Records were digging through their archives, preparing for Daft Punk’s 20th Anniversary Retrospective, they came across a never-before heard track called Drive.  Found in the form of an unassuming DAT labeled “Daft Drive”, dated 1994, the track is classic Daft—a bombardment of of drums, sythns, and sensual vocals—and has just been dropped as Track 1 on the upcoming triple CD release.

While the Soma Records 20 Years project was released earlier this week and can be purchased through the SOMA Records site, you can give “Drive” a listen below.

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A deluxe toy.  Audi has created this electric-powered and half-scale recreation of an Auto Union Type C, grand prix racer of the late 1930s. Audi will be showing the “Auto Union Type C e-tron study” with electric drive at the 62nd International Toy Fair in Nuremberg.
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Despite her more experimental construction techniques and unconventional use of organza Ann-Sofie Back’s S/S 2012 retained a sophisticated simplicity that easy to absorb. The collection was all very wearable. In some of the looks she took what seemed to be very simple patterns and used shoe string belts to gather or create closures that gave the pieces a very unexpected finish. READ MORE