If you’re stuck for a gift for your closest camera-lover, look no further. These bracelets are custom-made from old camera lenses, providing a one-off piece of jewellery that any photography nerd is bound to love.
A new student-run startup has come up with a “sexy, yet functional pocketed bra”. Finally.
This handbag features an internal battery and pocket for charging smartphones or tablets, as well as a flashing charm to let you know you’ve got a call. But fashion changes quickly; will this still be considered stylish in six month’s time?
The last time we looked at Meike Harde’s work, it was a beautiful hand mixer called the Quix that sadly may never see the light of day. This time, however, it’s a series of masks portraying the media’s idealised image of beauty that we’d be happy to never encounter in real life.
The NBA is making Twitter-themed T-shirts with a hashtag and the team’s logo on the front, and a star player’s Twitter handle on the back. It’s calling these “____ Has Handle.” They are impossibly stupid and ugly and horrific and oh my god I want one.
Megan Lara has created a wonderful tongue-in-cheek version of the famous Louis Vuitton pattern — customised for geeks — that you can now get on a T-shirt over at Threadless.
Our favourite jeans company, Naked and Famous, has made a pair of jeans out of the heaviest denim in the world. Two to three times the weight of your average high quality denim, these Naked and Famous jeans are made from 907g selvedge denim and are so heavy and rigid, the jeans can stand on their own.
Plaid shirts will always represent for me Kurt Cobain, riot grrrls and grunge music. That’s because I’m self-centered and lived my twenties in the ’90s. But today when I see my husband putting on a plaid shirt, it inspires entirely different connotations. He couldn’t be less grunge, but he is a certified geek. And it suits him perfectly.
Whenever I leave town for the weekend, I always pack a nice shirt — you know, just in case. Trouble is, I always stuff that shirt into a tiny bag so it gets wrinkled. The Shirt Shuttle is the travelling man’s saviour.
