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Miuccia Prada Served With Shoe Karma
Shift Buzz The fashion designer — arguably the most influential living today — is a host of the Met Ball taking place in New York this evening. But she might not attend, she told the press, because she hurt herself on her platform shoes.
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If “Fashion Star” Is Renewed, They Might Lose The Acrobats
Shift Buzz John Varvatos says, “If the show continues to go on, you’ll probably see less of that and more of the clothes.” BOO!
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Clothing Of The Future
Style Buzz Back in the '30s, some fashion designers imagined what women's apparel in the year 2000 would look like. Their ideas were both hilarious and surprisingly accurate in some cases.
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5 Rockstar Purses
Style Buzz Designer James Piatt knows ladies are rockstars, too. Here’s a small sample of his best handbags, which range from girly to hardcore.
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State Mottos Never Looked So Good
Culture Buzz A group of 50 U.S. designers were given the challenge of reinterpreting their states' mottos for the 50 and 50 project. The collection, which was completed today with the addition of Colorado, is a solid tribute to the badassery of our forefathers. (via danielc20)
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Where Are They Now: The Cosby Sweaters
TV Buzz There were originally hundreds of Cosby Sweaters. Many of Koos van der Akker's designs have disappeared into private collections, but there are four — including the infamous Comb Sweater — preserved and on display at the Museum of the Moving Image, in Queens.
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Link: If Famous Graphic Artists Were Web Designers…
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/27/if-famous-pain...
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What the world would look like if celebrities were designers.
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Jon Gosselin, Children’s Clothing Designer (Huh?)
Celebrity Buzz After selling his soul to TLC in exchange for hair plugs, Superdad Jon Gosselin will be helping design “fun, easy clothes” for kids under fashion label Ed Hardy, often worn by people you'd rather not talk to out loud. Meanwhile, rumors continue to swirl about Kate Gosselin's being tapped to help promote a line of coonskin caps, meant to be highlighted and worn backwards (cuuuuuz that's what her hair looks like, you guys).
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Link: 25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designers
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/25-useful-infogra...
Infographics can be a great way to quickly reference information. Instead of pouring over figures and long reports to decipher data, an infographic can immediately make apparent exactly what a dataset actually means. Below are more than 25 infographics that can be useful to web designers.Some are inc
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Behind The Cosby Sweater
Style Buzz In the early 80's, someone gave Bill Cosby a sweater designed by Koos van den Akker, and history was made. Still doesn't explain the pudding obsession.
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Image: Periodic Table of Typefaces
A designer's dream college-room-poster! This is not just pretty to look at but also grouped by families and classes of typefaces: san-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed.
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Designer Condoms
Style Buzz Condom making: It’s not just for condom companies any more. So Marc Jacobs sells condoms. What if Marc Jacobs had a whole line of items you usually buy in the drugstone? Designer tampons, designer ibuprofen, designer Snickers Bars, designer Sudafed you can ground and snort like Meth…
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Louis Vuitton Sues Darfur Charity
Style Buzz Artist Nadia Plesneris being sued by Louis Vuitton for depicting a LV-inspired bag in an image sold to raise money for a Darfur Charity. The image depicting a Darfur victim carrying a designer handbag and a Paris Hilton-style dog was meant to draw attention to the media’s disproportionate focus on celebrities. The Paris based company is demanding over $20,000 for each day that Plesener continues her project, presumably because they do not appreciate having their brand equated with genocide, a move that seems to have backfired.
