Bring the world with you

Made entirely of denim, only the finest Italian and Japanese fabrics have been used in a collection that sets out to be classic yet sharp. To maintain their intense shade of indigo the fabrics have been given minimal treatment, resulting in dresses, pants, suits, coats, jewellery, shoes and bags in a multitude of blue hues.

Launching in December, here’s the first look at what will be an ongoing fashion collaboration between two great, great design houses: Acne and Lanvin. Available only online, and through their Acne Studios stores, you can sign up for the presumably long waiting list here. I don’t doubt that it will sell very quickly—things do turn good when Swiss meets French.

In a perfect world, what would be doing today, if I could? After a nice lunch, I would probably be scoping out this Bless sample sale, with pieces ranging from all their collections, N°01 – 34. Of course, I would also have to be able to afford it – I’m pretty sure those fur wigs don’t come cheap.

Sale ends today, November 15 at 14 Rue Portefoin, 75003, Paris.

Via Hint Mag

I didn’t take this picture, but this is very much how this tee shirt is hanging on my wall.

Via ANP Quarterly

I’ve been regularly keeping up on Vice UK’s Creative 30 project, which is featuring 30 young individuals working in Britain under a variety of artistic disciplines.

I was especially taken by Zoe Lee, a former Toronto native who was referred to the project by Vivienne Westwood for her amazing work in shoe design. After working both at Jessica Odgen and Alexander Mcqueen, and later design assisting with VW, Zoe was offered a line of limited edition shoes with Te Casan – and looking at them online, they are pretty good fodder for my daydreams on a Monday afternoon.

Via Gnarlitude

The format of Me Magazine is to revolve each issue around its featured guest editor, whether it be Christopher Bollen, former Editor-in-Chief of Interview magazine, or the Mulleavy sisters of fashion house Rodarte. Each issue profiles their respective circle of friends, documenting how and why they know each other, and as a result, it serves as a nice window into the creative worlds of some really interesting people.

Friendships in general are always something I’m willing to read about, so start off my amity to the mag, I bought the Nate Lowman issue.

Here’s an interesting excerpt of AA Bronson’s take on art book publishing, as told in a 500 Words article with Art Forum:

[B]ook and art-book designers have been influenced a great deal by artists’ books, so we’re getting used to seeing mainstream catalogues that are quite unusual. The format of the book has become much looser over the past five to ten years. But more than that, I think there’s been a generational shift. For example, here at Printed Matter, two-thirds of the people who shop are under thirty-five. The norm at book fairs is that everyone’s over fifty—when you go to a book fair and look around, it’s all old people. When you come to the NY Art Book Fair, you see a huge population of young people. I think that bodes very well for the publishing and art worlds in general. But it also says something about young people themselves—they have a level of interest in books that nobody was quite aware of before.

And here’s Art Fag City, which happened to profile the same quote.

Maybe this is something more for you, Andre, but I wouldn’t mind picking up one of these for myself:

As one of the most influential and inspirational graphic designers of the twentieth century, Paul Rand defined modern American graphic design. His iconic logo designs for IBM, UPS, and the ABC television network distilled the essences of modernity for his corporate patrons.

This latest volume of the popular Conversations with Students series presents Rand’s last interview, recorded at Arizona State University one year before his death in 1996. Beginners and seasoned design professionals alike will be informed by Rand’s words and thoughts on varied topics ranging from design philosophy to design education.

Available at Magic Pony.

Yeah! Issue Two is finally here.