The Vacheron Constantin offering comes from their tantalum metal “Quai de l’Ile”. This is how they put it.
“Tantalum is a metal that is used by the airspace and airplane industry, as well as in surgery” says Julien Marchenoir, Head of Marketing Communications at Vacheron Constantin. “It has gray-blue tones and is very difficult to work with being much harder than any metal we normally work with.” The tantalum case of this watch is diamond-cut, the same way as you would cut platinum, but since it is very hard it is costly to cut as it destroys the cutting tools so they have to be constantly remade.viaselectism
"We featured this before, but it’s worth a closer look. We’ve been personal fans of COS for quite a while now – the only reason we don’t feature them more is because they’re very hard to get hold of. The Japanese stuff we feature is fiddly, but getting a COS piece without walking into a store is damn near impossible.
We liked this bag when we saw the preview, but loved it after seeing it in store. The first thing we love is that it’s huge, as in The North Face backpack huge. It could easily fit enough clothes for an overnight stay or a 15inch laptop with room to spare. The second thing is that the canvas material feels raw, like cocaine straight from Bolivia. The third thing is that it captures the whole hunter/workwear thing that’s going to be hot this Autumn down to a tee. It’s also at an affordable price (£129)."viaselectism
Yesterday was the opening party for Nooka’s first pop-up shop in New York. For the first time, the entire collection is available at the Nooka space, including all existing watches, alongside the newly introduced Nooka Strip belt, Nooka AO (Asset Organizer) wallet and Nooka eau de parfum fragrance.
Made of soft and flexible rubber-like substances, the Strip and AO complement Nooka’s Zub watches and are each available in black, blue, gray, orange, and green. The Nooka Fragrance communicates a universal language that transcends opposites. A synergy of scents, both familiar and foreign that come together as one, expressing each wearer’s multi-faceted individuality. Each bottle is made of polished steel wrapped in vintage leather and is sold for $80 USD.viahighsnobiety
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In commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11’s first lunar landing, which takes place on Jul 20th, Louis Vuitton has designed a custom-made “Malle Mars” trunk. The robotic, space age-looking piece opens in multiple places, unveiling a variety of compartments and drawers, fully equipped to carry various essential items.
The trunk will be on display this coming Monday, at the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History, being exhibited with other NASA memorabilia. History-making astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell and Sally Ride will be in attendance along with Louis Vuitton North America president and chief executive officer Daniel Lalonde.viahypebeast
Highsnobiety: What got you initially interested in designing jewelry and what makes it different from other product? Sabrina Dehoff: The small size and that you can basically use and combine any kind of material HS: Let's talk about your recent collaboration with Nike. How did the collaboration come about? What made this project interesting to you? SD: Next to the jewellery I started again with a little line of silk dresses which are called Hopdresses. Basically they are oversize Silk dresses which gives you freedom to do everything in them and look great at the same time.So I thought another option to the usual high heels should be actually a sneaker to wear with and suddenly in my bathtub I thought sneaker jewellery that`s it. It makes your favourite comfortable cool sneaker, even more cooler, more individual and very fashionable and even glam. So everything came together when I contacted Nike in Berlin and they got also immediately hooked by the idea. So for this season I created the sneaker jewellery espacially for the Air Max 1. For me it is great challenge to work on this new product and to think and create around this fabulous classic Air Max 1. HS: Can you give us some background on the collection that you created. What was your creative process? SD: The sneaker jewellery is part of my spring summer collection 2010 called " sweet surrender" and will be first presented on the 4th of July in Berlin. The collection consists of a clothes range and jewellery and plays with a futuristic romanctic theme. The creative process starts first with well first ideas and glimpses of something, but than of course first problems appear as well, like how to fix the jewllery actually to the shoe which had to be solved. So I started with first paper models, tried the proportions and various shapes. What I mainly created are different shields in perspex or 23ct gold plated metal which lay over the lace parts and are fixed by lacing on the bottom and tops. The shapes are like big or smaller tongues or hearts. For the girls they are partly covered with lots of swarovski crystals while for the boys we stayed more cool and star wars. But it would not be my collection if I would not have added some little stuff as well . Here I loved working with the tips of the laces by adding golden square tips and what I love personally most are the little friends like in the style golden shield with friends, which are little metall heads moving on the laces and there will be more of them... Ah, yeah nearly forgotten for the boys other cool stuff are the shoe tips also in 23ct gold plated metal to make a future cowboy out of you. HS: It is great seeing something new in this space and something much more creative than what the market currently offers. Do you see yourself continuing with sneaker/shoe jewelry? SD: Yes, definetely. I just started getting into it and hopefully will be able to create a collection that will give sneaker fans something to collect on top of there shoes every season HS: Thanks for taking the time to talk to us. Good luck and keep us posted on your future projects! SD: Thank you |
NYC based The Brooklyn Circus worked with classic Italian sportswear label Fila to produce a capsule collection in celebration of the 1st Anniversary of their San Francisco shop. The drop consists of two items: a Fila “Flyboy” Jacket, coming in a laquered black with magenta highlights; and a black Duffle Bag with heavy leather accents, including a prominent Brooklyn Circus “B.” The Brooklyn Circus x Fila collection will be released this Saturday, July 4th at The Brooklyn Circus San Francisco.viahighsnobiety
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1521 Fillmore St
San Francisco CA
