Milan | Paris fall '10 picks

MILLIONHANDS new limited edition designs are set to fly!

MILLIONHANDS was launched in 2009 by Berlin based British music producer Tom Mangan, fusing his two long held passions: music & T-shirts. Tees – such as the signature O Face, the new We Not Me design and the new Big Prince and Big Grace – sit alongside limited edition design collaborations with musicians & labels.

Previous collaborators include acid hero house Adonis, Berlin label Made to Play, Munich disco dons Permanent Vacation and London’s Heavenly Jukebox. Unisex printed tees are 100% organic cotton and manufactured using climate neutral wind & solar energy. Plus, for every We Not Me t-shirt that is sold MILLIONHANDS will donate £5 to Shelter.

Varvatos designs limited edition tees for the 52nd GRAMMY Awards

John Varvatos has designed a collection of "We're All Fans"-inspired GRAMMY T-shirts that will be available for purchase nationwide in John Varvatos boutiques and selected Bloomingdale’s stores. The shirts feature this year's Album Of The Year nominees and will cost $45, with all proceeds going to support The Recording Academy's charitable affiliates: MusiCares® and the GRAMMY Foundation®.

SAPE - Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes

A portrait story of the members of the SAPE from Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo
by Francesco Giusti - 1st Jury Prize Documentary - Viewbook PhotoStory 2009.

In Congo “elegance” is identified with its own cultural history. The SAPE (Society for the Advancement of People of Elegance) began when Congo was a French colony. Many Congolese people were fascinated with French elegance and decided to imitate the French look. In the 70s and the 80s, many Congolese immigrants went to France and coming back to Brazzaville brought the cult of elegance.

The SAPE is an art and the real gentleman have to know the concept of gentleness and good manners related to the inherent moral code of the individual. A true member of the SAPE is first and foremost a gentleman and a pacifist. Every weekend, the members of the SAPE with their eccentric and amusing nicknames, gather in bars and fashionable dance halls or parade in the streets to the amusement of the children and the applause of passers-by.

The legendary Clash style

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Burberry SS10 Campaign:Behind the Scenes

Project White T-Shirt

31 designers from 13 countries transform and redefine the white T-shirt. Project White T-Shirt aims to transform a plain white T-shirt into something more. The designer can turn the shirt into furniture, equipment, electronics, a bicycle-anything they want, however they want. They will transform and redefine the definition of the T-shirt as we’ve understood it for so many decades.
All the tees will be exhibited and then auctioned off and all proceeds will be donated to DAA-Designers Against Aids.

Wear your support ! 'Hopenhagen organic bamboo tees'

Viberg Boot Since 1931

Viberg Boot: Down to the Brass Tacks
from Inventory Magazine

Cartier ID One concept watch - not for sale

The basic concept behind the Cartier ID One is to create a watch which does not require regulation or adjustment either during assembly or indeed at any time during the life of the watch.

Perpetuelle blog reports the numerous innovations in this watch:

Zerodur hairspring - a proprietary ceramic/glass material that is completely unaffected by magnetic fields and is also highly dimensionally and elastically stable across a wide range of temperatures.

Carbon Crystal - an extremely hard, diamond-like material which effectively enables the escapement to be oil free.

Shock resistant escapement cage - This allows the escapement cage to shift both laterally and vertically to absorb force, thus protecting the entire escapement from shock.

Niobium-Titanium case - a highly wear resistant and hypoallergenic alloy that has its own unique shock absorption properties that give it an advantage over a material such as steel.

Currently ID One is only a concept watch and with no plans to offer it for sale commercially.

Pangolin Fair Trade Backpack

Pangolin backpack, made of recycled inner tubes of trucks, has been designed from Cyclus, to look like an armadillo's back.

Equipped with pockets for notebooks, pens, mp3 player and a convenient to transit the earplugs of your mp3 player or cell phone. Closes with 3 magnetic closures.

This anatomically shaped backpack is handmade by people from Colombia with a social disadvantage, such as single mothers, refugees and Indians of the Camentsa tribe.

Vue dc...

Three longtime friends and their continuous passion for the 30' and 40's frames brought them to search for the true craftsmen who acquired the knowledge through several generations of artisans.

The selection of acetate colors, the choice of cutting the materials in a specific thickness to emphasize the volume of the frame were the important elements contributing to the creation of the Vue dc collection.

Art of the Trench | a Burberry social project

Burberry today launches Artofthetrench.com, a digital platform with social networking functionality.

Burberry will invite site users to submit their own portraits to feature on the site, creating a body of images reflecting personal trench coat style across the globe. Visitors to the site will be able to favourite and comment on the portraits and share these over Facebook and Twitter.

For the launch of the site Christopher Bailey commissioned a collection of Scott Schuman photographs of people in Burberry trench coats in London, Milan, New York, Paris, Berlin, Sao Paulo and Venice over the last few months.

Benjamin Montoya Douglas Collection