The Coveted

16/Feb/2008

The Fashion Blog of Jennie Tamm

Ms. Jennine Tamm was raised amongst mall rats and supermarket cuisine.
She escaped the throws of cookie-cutter purgatory to learn the streets of New York, to become educated in London, and finally San Francisco, where she keeps her heart. For several years she has been practicing the fine craft of graphic design, and has recently ventured into musing the annals of virtual fashion by writing her blog, THE COVETED. Ms. Tamm is also the founder of Independent Fashion Bloggers, a resource and community of fashion bloggers. see it here

Wardroom, wall based clothes organizer

22/Jan/2008

from Gizmodo: Designed by a trio of Italian designers known as Paula, Wardrom is described as a vertical wardrobe "to enhance disaster", ie, celebrate the fact that you are a scruffy bastard who, despite your mother's/girlfriend's/parole officer's best attempts to domesticate you, constantly pooh-poohs the idea of order and neatness in the bedroom. Read More...

Lancome Magnetic Reactive nail polish

31/Aug/2007

New from Lancome as part of their fall limited edition collection comes Le Magnetique. It's not just a rich reddish brown shimmery lacquer. The bottle comes with a magnetic sleeve that, when held up to the polish, creates a gold starburst pattern on your nail. Read More...

Istanbul Street Style

20/Aug/2007

Acollection of symbols and characters, images that celebrate avant-garde style and individualism as witnessed on the streets of Istanbul, Turkey. Click the pic to see more. Read More...

ByUs - unique Danish Jewelry Collective

05/Aug/2007

ByUs is a collective of eight Danish jewellers with modern, experimental sensibilities. I've posted some of them here before but there's plenty of new stuff to see! Pictured above, clockwise from top: work by Karin Pinnerup (glass), Hanan Emquies (rubber) and Mikala Mortensen (silver); the rest of the octet are Kirsten Ellemose, Ditte Marie Jakobsen (don't miss her inside-the-shirt brooches), Annette Dam, Lene Hald and Marie-Louise Kristensen. Read More...

Smashing Darling - Indie Fashion

06/Jul/2007

SmashingDarling.com is sort of retail meets social network for sellers and buyers of indie fashion. (sort of like etsy.com, but with less craft and more fancy stuff) click the pic or link to visit. Read More...

Stephane Coutelle Photography

20/Jun/2007

a french fashion photographer... interesting stuff. Read More...

Painfully Hip - Fashion on a budget

18/Jun/2007

Painfully Hip is a cheap chic fashion blog and a collaboration of a pair of west coast twins with different but complimentary styles.
Amber (Vancouver, BC) might describe her style as vintage boho glam with 60's tendencies. Eve (NoCal) is more folk-rock chic with a 70's edge. They are both mad about color and prints. click the link to visit their site. Read More...

Wickedly Chic

12/Jun/2007

Liz Nonnemacher's site for shoppers seeking advice and product recommendations from the world of Indie design and fashion. Liz’s experience as trend-spotter for her two daughters led her to take the reigns of Wickedly Chic in 2006. Not everything here is great, but she's passionate about finding interesting things. Read More...

Minimalist button $1.50

12/May/2007

I love Design Milk's perfect little minimalist accessory. Click the link to get one from their Cafe Press Store Read More...

How wigs are made (video)

06/May/2007

for some reason, Youtube won't let people embed this anymore, but you can click on the pic and see a 6 minute segment on how handmade wigs are created... pretty amazing. Read More...

Shirts made from Milk (milk protein)

22/Feb/2007

Dolores Piscotta, of Piscotta Cashmere, New York, has been selling clothes and accessories made from milk for the last two years. The eco-friendly milk cloth T-shirts, pants, camisoles etc are available online and are sent to boutiques across U.S.

The fabric is made by a Chinese company, Cyran, that Piscotta discovered online while on one of her searches to discover innovative materials. The process of making cloth from milk involves extracting the milk protein which then undergoes a chemical process to create usable fabric. And this is something that surprised me the technology to create milk fabric was known since World War I! The inhibiting factor however, was the high cost of production. The process remains expensive even today inspite of advances in technology the proof lies in Piscotta's T-shirts retailing at $110 a piece.

Advantages of milk fabric? Velvetiness for your skin that beats even the finest quality silk. And Cyran claims that the 18 amino acids that milk protein contains are healthy for humans. Read More...

HEL LOOKS - street fashion in Helsinki Finland

01/Feb/2007

HEL LOOKS is selected street fashion from Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The pictures are taken in the streets and clubs of Helsinki from July 2005 onwards.

HEL LOOKS is a hobby project of Liisa Jokinen and Sampo Karjalainen. The project is a tribute to Fruits and Street magazines, the pioneers of street fashion photography. Shown here is a woman wearing clothes made from curtains. Very "Sound of Music!"

click the pic for more. Read More...