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Fashion Superheroes. Comic Strips Feature Funky Fashions For Men & Women.



above: glasses and unitard by Bernhard Willhelm

The fabulous French online magazine and shopping site Prestigium, has an inventive series of flash interactive postcards that feature trendy and unusual fashions for men and women by some of the most irreverent designers of today.

Items by Viktor and Rolf, Bernhard Willhelm, Yves Saint Laurent, Af Vanderhorst, Anne Valerie Hash, Etro, Sinha Stanic, Alena Akhmadullina, Raf Simons, Lacoste, Marc Jacobs, Boris Bidjan Saberi, Martin Margiela, Balenciaga, Salvatore Ferragamo and Walter Van Beirendonck are nestled into comic book and graphic novel art.

Viktor and Rolf:

Walter Van Beirendonck:

Bernhard Willhelm:


The photos of the designer fashions are collaged into moving superhero art comic strip illustrations. It's not really easy to see the fashions, nor is that the point. The postcards, which you peruse by clicking on an arrow, have a lot of movement and move quickly, so I took screengrabs of them for you. Each "postcard" has little "click" pulldowns that mention the designers and describe the item (in French).

Sinha Stanic:

Yves Saint Laurent:

Berhard Willhelm:

Balenciaga:

Yves Saint Laurent:

Raf Simons:

Salvatore Ferragamo:

Bernhard Willhelm:

Martin Margiela:

Bernhard Willhelm:

Marc Jacobs:

Lacoste:

Alena Akhmadullina:

Sinha Stanic:

Yves Saint Laurent:

Balenciaga:

Bernhard Willhelm:

Af Vandevorst:

Boris Bidjan Saberi:

Etro:

Balenciaga:

Walter Van Beirendonck:

Anne Valerie Hash:

Balenciaga:

Bernhard Wilhelm:

Sinha Stanic:

Go see them in their flash glory here.

Clever Helmet Experiment By GOOD! Photoshopped Brain Buckets.




This fun experiment with helmet designs is really more of a photoshop feat. The Kazakhstan-based creative marketing and PR firm GOOD! wanted to try the synthesis of two different objects around one form.

Some are clever visual puns, others just play with texture and objects. Either way, they are a fun little project to peruse. Enjoy!
















all images and info courtesy of GOOD!



Karim Rashid Heats Things Up For Caleido With His New Radiator Designs.



I simply cannot get over how rich the area of industrial design is when it comes to radiators. This is my fourth post on radiators and I simply keep finding more and more ones that I want to blog about.

Nathan Love Animates The NBC Peacock For A Bit Of Broadcast Branding.




So how did the NBC Peacock get his colored plumage? That was the challenge that resulted in this cute (and I mean that in the good way) 30 second animated piece of branding for NBC by Nathan Love and NBC Artworks.

According to Joe Burrascano, Nathan Love's owner and creative director, "The brief was to create a stand-alone logo animation for NBC. The only guidelines were to make it our own, and of course, for it to be 'the best logo ever.'"



Project Name: Nathan Love's "NBC Peacock"
Project Length: :34

Client: NBC Artworks
Production Company: Nathan Love
Director: Nathan Love
Creative Director: Joe Burrascano
Art Director/Designer: Anca Risca
Animation & Rigging: Dan Vislocky
Additional Animation: Ryan Moran
VFX Compositing: Sylvia Apostol
Sound Design & Music: Drew Skinner

Be sure to check out the Nathan Love website. It's got a great interface and lots to look at.

Two Fashion Forces Fuse: Iris van Herpen x United Nude




I was both surprised and excited when I received the following press release, given that I'd blogged about both these fashion designers/companies separately and had no idea they'd ever collaborate. Luckily for me (and you) coutourier Iris van Herpen and architectural shoe company United Nude joined forces to release a collaborative pair of wild high-heeled shoes that does justice to both their talents and styles.




The press release:

United Nude, an iconic brand at the intersection between design and fashion is open-minded towards creative talent. After two successful collaborations with Dutch fashion designer Antoine Peters, United Nude and Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen joined forces to create shoes for van Herpen’s Autumn Winter 2010 collection.

The shoes were presented in her catwalk show during London fashion week and the collaboration shall soon be available as a limited edition item, only available at the world’s most exclusive retailers and at the United Nude flagship and concept stores in Amsterdam, New York, Shanghai and Vienna at a retail price of $1,295 USD (EURO 1,000)








The Iris van Herpen X United Nude product is a glamorous ankle bootie with smooth round lines and golden leather detailing on the front and back of the shoe, with three-dimensional characteristics. Transparency, reflections and movements create the effect of visual estrangement.



The construction of the shoe is so complicated and precise that each pair is 100% hand-made with the highest grade Italian kid leather available.



Therefore, the production of this unique product has been kept to the very low number of 240 limited edition pairs worldwide of which 168 are in black with gold and 72 in ivory with gold.




United Nude’s Creative Director Rem D Koolhaas reflected on the collaboration by saying: “I was introduced to Iris after I had admired her work. I offered to make shoes for her, as I know that for fashion designers shoes always come as an afterthought and most fashion designers don’t have the resources to get it all done on time. I think the result of our work together is that of a pure and successful collaboration as her identity and our expertise and craftsmanship are joined in this marvelous product”.

Iris van Herpen
United Nude

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