May The Force Be Fashionable. The ADIDAS 2010 Star Wars Collection.

Star-crossed Branding - ADIDAS & STAR WARS

adidas brand and Lucasfilm Ltd. have released a new collection of kicks and clothes inspired by the now over 30 year old George Lucas film, Star Wars. It took a long time for the collaboration to come to fruition but the collection is now hitting stores. With shoes (for both men and women), T-shirts and hoodies, the products feature everything from Stormtrooper Sneaks to a caped Darth Vader hoodie. Definitely for the die-hard fan.

Dress Like A Wild Thing. Clothes, Bags, Jewelry & More Inspired By The Movie.

In collaboration with director Spike Jonze, Opening Ceremony created a limited edition collection of fashions inspired by his recently released film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s treasured book, Where the Wild Things Are. The new movie also inspired a jewelry collection designed by Pamela Love for both men and women.



The Fall 2009/2010 capsule collection is all faux fur (of course) and surprisingly cute and wearable despite the fact that they are based on huge hairy creatures.



The clothing line features a full range of faux fur pieces for both men and women, evoking Max’s crew of wild friends including Carol, Judith, K.W., Douglas, Ira and Bull. The line even includes Max’s iconic one-piece playsuit - complete with furry-eared hood and wolf tail. To top it off, Pamela Love has also contributed to the project, creating silver and brass men’s and women’s jewelry inspired by the film’s iconography.

The Fall / winter collection 2009-2010

For Women

Outerwear:




Dresses and skirts:





For Men

A military jacket, a lined parka and a bomber jacket:

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending upon your personal taste), The Max Suit and Hoodie jacket shown below are no longer available.


Bags
The Tote bags are really adorable. And reversible.
With one faux fur side and an opposing plaid cotton side (that had an open pocket), they have the where the wild things are x opening ceremony tag /logo and fabric straps. the faux fur: 85% acrylic, 15% polyester, lining: 100% cotton. Available in carol, judith, kw, bull and ira:







Jewelry by Pamela Love, inspired by Where The Wild Things Are:






The following pieces from the collection are not available at Opening Ceremony or Colette:


To see more of Pamela Love's jewelry designs, go here,

Shop for the clothing and jewelry collection at Opening Ceremony

Colette only caries three pieces of the clothing for the women (one skirt, one dress and one vest), none of the tote bags, but most of the jewelry as well as some Where The Wild Things Are figurines and toys. Shop for the collection at Colette


above:Collectible Kubricks from Medicom available here



above: Dave Eggers' The Wild Things (Fur-covered Edition)


Or buy Where The Wild Things Are books, soundtracks, calendars, puzzles, ornaments, plush toys,collectibles and more here.

Come Rain Or Shine, Here's Fun Design. Color Changing Umbrellas From Squid London

Viviane Jaeger and Emma-Jayne Parkes of Squid London have designed a line of umbrellas made with a special white ink that turns colored when exposed to water. These umbrellas (or Squidellas) make a piece of art out of a utilitarian product that makes walking in the rain a sort of performance art.



They now have four different umbrellas; the iconic London Skyline one, one commissioned exclusively for the Tate, one whose proceeds benefitted a charity), and the final one for Suck UK.

Here's a video of them in action:


The Bird Squit, London Skyline, Squidarella (Paint Drips) and Clouds each retails for £25 ($42.00 USD) and all are sold at different places (but I have the links for you to buy each here in this post).



1. Color-Changing Bird Squit Umbrella:A portion of whose proceeds go to support ChildReach International, a UK charity aimed at fighting child poverty in developing countries

Bird Squit (dry):

Bird Squit (wet):


buy it here.

2. Color Changing London Skyline Umbrella:
London Skyline (dry):

London Skyline (wet):


buy it here


3. Color-Changing Paint Drip Umbrella:
made exclusively for the Tate museum

Paint Drip (dry):

Paint Drip (wet):

buy it here.

4. Color-Changing Clouds Umbrella:




buy it here.

Squid London

Hate the rain? Then this might be a better umbrella for you:
Art Lebedev's'Fuck The Rain' Umbrella

Donatella Versace And Artist Tim Roelof Dress Up The Runway.

above: one of Tim Roelofs' 3 dimensional collage pieces for versace and one of the four dresses from the collection

During fashion week in Milan, edgy Dutch collage artist Tim Roelof (based in Berlin) and Versace debuted their collaboration of fashionable, wearable art which consisted of four beautiful dresses utilizing artist Roelof's style with Donatella's designs and utilizing some of the famous Versace icons along with Berlin imagery.

Please note, the following text is from Wallpaper magazine:

Working with his own photographs and a pair of good ol’ fashioned scissors, Roeloffs’ three dimensional visual montages each depict an aspect of Berlin’s history and social landscape. For Versace, the artist created a total of twelve original works that were completed as recently as January this year.



Supplied with reference books by Versace, Roeloffs fused images from old ad campaigns with his trademark scenes of Berlin. The results range from people waiting for the tram dressed in Versace outfits from the 1980s, and figures lounging in a palatial interior filled with the label's neo-classical furnishings and a fragmented skyline of Berlin in the background.



'Donatella wanted to do something about Berlin because Gianni loved Berlin,' Roeloffs said. Armed with a list of artists to vet, a design team from Versace was dispatched to the city, where they discovered the Berlin-based Roeloffs and his work.

'I’ve been wearing the same clothes for the last 20 years, and I know nothing about fashion. I think they expected to meet someone in a suit. But I was very impressed with the result as I didn’t know how they planned to put photo-montages onto clothing. They did it very well and still maintained the dimensionality that’s in my work.'

Apart from specify that he work on both pink and yellow backgrounds, Versace gave Roeloffs the freedom to create what he liked. In addition to the Versace imagery, he was also given books relating to Gianni Versace’s personal interests, such as 1960s wallpaper, which inspired the floral motif that appears prominently in all four dresses.




Fresh off the back of our ‘Artists Relations’ story in this month’s issue, the sheer unexpectedness of this collaboration is what we found the most intriguing. While Versace epitomizes Italian glamour, Roeloffs is a true modern bohemian living in Prenzlauer Berg and exhibiting his work in the Tacheles, a bomb-damaged Jewish department store that is now a gallery run by an art collective in Berlin’s Mitte district. The two could not belong to further ends of the spectrum. 

When he attended last week’s Versace show in Milan, Roeloffs readily admitted, “I arrived in such a chaos by train because I brought my two dogs, three kids and my wife with me. Of course, there was a limousine to pick us up and it was really like coming from the gutter to being at their level.”

Here are some of Tim's three dimensional collages that he created for the collection:





Below are a few more examples of Tim's work:






See the artist's site here.
The Versace site.