| What a Croc! Lacoste Goes Wild Fernando and Humberto Campana are iconoclasts at heart: their fruit bowl for the French porcelain company Bernardaud was a mass of disembodied baby-doll limbs. Still, when Lacoste approached them to create limited-edition polos for its fourth annual holiday series, the São Paulo duo was wary. “It’s like asking someone to change the Coca-Cola bottle,” says Fernando of messing with the company’s preppy bloodline. But their four polos do just that: one features Lacoste’s embroidered crocodile logo... nytimes.com |
High and Low, With a French Twist Merci is a kind of one-stop shop for a stylish life, from showpiece items to well-chosen takes on life’s smaller needs. nytimes.com |
Emerging designers battle it out in Dunedin Who won Dunedin iD 2010? Young Croatian designer Igor Galas, who admittedly did do quite incredible knitwear that won over the Dunedin crowd. But to me - not an official judge so my opinion doesn't really matter at all does... nzherald.co.nz |
Milan Fashion Week: A lesson in juxtapositions After the untimely death of French model Tom Nicon yesterday, one might have expected a sombre mood among the attendees at Milan Fashion Week today. As it turned out, almost everybody seemed blissfully unaware of the tragedy that... nzherald.co.nz |
Beauty: Fresh bouquets The trend in fragrance styles for a fresher, greener turn on florals is right in keeping with the shift in the weather. Lighter, brighter spritzes are cutting through the sometimes cloying fruity-florals that still abound. Very refreshing... nzherald.co.nz |