From Shinosaka to Tokyo by Daihei Shibata

Daniel Shibata is a Japanese Visual Designer that works for the design group WOW in Japan. This video called “Shinakansen ver.2″ (From Shinosaka to Tokyo), it was shot with an Olympus PEN(EP-1) with an M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 17mm Lens. It shows his journey in an interesting way, creating spectacular shapes from everyday objects that you see in the city.
The Shinkansen, also …

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From Shinosaka to Tokyo by Daihei Shibata

An Illustrated Look At Mens Fashion Week by Richard Kilroy

Pony Step illustrator, Richard Kilroy, gives us an illustrated look at some of their favourite elements from the Fall/Winter 2010 Menswear Season which just passed. This includes the likes of Jil Sander, Alexander Mcqueen and Raf Simons. I have to say, these drawings are stunning, seeing this has urged me

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An Illustrated Look At Mens Fashion Week by Richard Kilroy

Man vs Magnet 2010 Artistic Reel

Animator and illustrator Matt Smithson, or Man vs Magnet as he affectionally likes to be called brings us a collection of latest work he has been putting together so far in twenty ten. This artistic reel contains the many workings of Matt, with the majority for both curious pictures who represent him in the United States, and Nottoscale who represent …

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Man vs Magnet 2010 Artistic Reel

The reknit. Project

Haik Avanian, a designer, set up this website called reknit which you can send an old sweater or garment for his mum to reknit into a new item. Its an interesting project, but obviously he only has one mum, so there are a limited amount of orders being taken.
Here is the general artillery:
1.) you send an old sweater to my …

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The reknit. Project

Henrik Vibskov Interview

Highsnobiety recently caught up with fashion designer, musician, and artist Henrik Vibskov in this short film interview.
As a fashion designer Henrik Vibskov has produced fourteen collections since he graduated from Central St. Martin’s in 2001. This man is currently the only Scandinavian designer on the official show schedule of

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Henrik Vibskov Interview

Mousse Publication

I just found this cool publication called Mousse magazine.
Mousse is a bimonthly magazine published in Italian and English, it contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism and curation, alternated with a series of distinctive columns in a unique tabloid format.

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Mousse Publication

A Day At The Races By Philip Bloom

Starting at approximately 4.30 in the morning to shoot this project Philip Bloom went about creating this insightful visual production about horse racing in America. In his recent blog post on this piece Philip mentions that he was surprised by the types of people involved in the American horse racing when compared to those here in England. Often …

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A Day At The Races By Philip Bloom

Grenson for Tenue de Nîmes Factory Film

This is the second video from the Tenue de Nîmes guys, this time they visit the Grenson factory in Rushden, Northamptonshire. They developed a black Tenue de Nîmes interpretation of the Grenson classic: the Fred. The shoe is a limited edition high top brogue with a triple layer -blue tone- leather sole. You can view this shoe at the bottom …

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Grenson for Tenue de Nîmes Factory Film

Velour Spring/Summer 2010 Collection Lookbook

Velour started back in 1997 when Per Andersson opened a store called Nostalgi with a couple of friends.
The shop sold dead stock clothes mixed with re-made garments, their store became a forum for the Gothenburg independent scene.
The team were then inspired in 2002 to design their own clothes, the first collection being launched in

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Velour Spring/Summer 2010 Collection Lookbook

Sopopular Fall/Winter 2010 Collection Lookbook

Sopopular have gone with a dark vibe for their Fall 2010 Collection, which features a pretty much strictly black color palette, the black and white imagery in the lookbook seems to confirm this.
The german brand are offering a much wider range this time round, blazers, shirts, suiting, jeans, the two toned jacket really jumped out at me (second picture down). …

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Sopopular Fall/Winter 2010 Collection Lookbook

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