Nicolas Chevallier is rather a painter than a designer. With his young label 180g the French is turning what appears as a funny idea into an attractive business model: he paints clothes. An he paints them in a way that makes them even look better than before. One look at the Nike`s might be enough to explain what he`s aiming for. I like. Wich he could get over to paint my wardrobe mistakes into most-loved pieces. (more…)

Indeed, Raphael Young`s creations are the opposite of clothing items. His artwork called shoe is beyond all characteristics of an accessories. It´s nothing that completes an outfit – it`s the outfit maker itself. And so I dare to state, that instead of “urbanising haute couture shoes” – like Raphael Young himself considers his design attitude-, he´s “couturizing urban shoes”.
Platform, architectural and geometric shapes as well as material-mixes have been seen multiple times in shoe design. But the way, the Seoul-born designer courageously forces up those attributes to a uber-pointed scale, is beyond prêt-a-porter, it`s shoe couture and true master class. Compared to what we´ve seen in his first collection, Raphael Young´s autumn/winter pieces push the level of shoe design out of reach for a standard fashionista but into the scale of the superior fashion. I am curious how far the designer will go with his third collection.

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Never expected to call the Skolpen a sleeping beauty, but when BLESS kissed the dull Oxbow knit sweater alive, it evoke like a prince. No more thoughts about the ugly SKOLPEN frog, quaking the 90s aesthetics melody. What we see here, is the new born, famous again Oxbow knit sweater king, known for its great function and now – for fantastic design.

Thanks to BLESS who proved again that creativity and daringness lead to great things.
Hopefully the Oxbow design team has learned a great lesson about how to excite and refresh. It´s definitely not the stripes, checks and fancy prints that could create such a buzz. (more…)

Say hello to Ku-Klux-Mickey, Apollo-ET and Bondage-Goofy and explore your inner child in the Sweet World of ATYPYK (more…)

ATYPYK, one of my favorite design studios for gadgets and accessoires which immediately make you happy, came up with this fantastic Manet picnic blanket. It adds not only some intellectual vibes to a lazy sunday picnic abut gives even a hangover hang-around in the park some “class”. (more…)

Remember NDEUR, Europe´s most famous shoe customizer?

He´s causing quite a stir with his new discipline: paper folding. With this stunning heels and some more paper artwork you can see here, the French artist promotes a new design studio, he founded together with the Make a Paper World Duo. Purpose: bringing the do it yourself culture together with professional communication. More infos have not been revealed yet. Stay tuned. (more…)

Although I am way less excited today about Naco-Paris as I was then, I have to state, that this guy really knows how to get his pieces into the spotlight. (more…)

When i saw the Cabaret Jewelry line with it´s youthful but sensitive design language, I was pretty sure, that Lucie Saint-Leu will cross my paths again.

Now, the young French designer came up with her second collection. It´s inspired by all kind of nature-related things such as animals, insects and plants. And i have to state: I like. (more…)