For F/W 09/10, Jun Takahashi answers the age old question, “What did the Machu Picchu Incans wear when they appeared as extras in Return Of The Jedi?”.
I don’t normally listen to the radio or even watch the telly. One day I rented a car to move house. 30 bucks a day got me a chance to drive a Yaris and not have to suffer a cabbie. The car just happened to be tuned into this station, which I’d never heard of before.
They played all kinds of good shit even if the DJs sounded like they was high or sum’in. Although, that’s a good thing mind. It’s FBi 94.5FM by the by. They’re also trying to get Richard Branson to give them $1000000 dollars. If you help them, you get $50000.
Which reminds me that I am currently in the process of securing $1000000000 dollars for charitable works. I harvest Nigerian diamonds and its a sorta multi-level sorta thing, only more princely. Did I mention that I got my honorary degree in money from Bernard L. Madoff’s Fynanshull Yookneeversssity? If you want to get behind da cause, pls send monies in various denominations to my paypal. notreallycharitable@all.com
I liking gurl singers right now. Not sewing machines mind. Blonde Redhead, Asobi Seksu, Bat For Lashes, Camera Obscura, Fever Ray, Ladyhawke, Metric, YYY’s… heck, even Royksopp put out an album fulla chicks putting hot air in a mic.
We shud celebrate this with some videos!
Poor Natasha Khan gets molested by people wearing black boobie shaped balloons on their heads in what looks like Maarten Baas’ studio. At least this time she dumps the bike and gets to drive. This indie chick is clearly moving up the social ladder. This track is actually dedicated to The Karate Kid. I kid you not.
Next up is Kazu Makino’s ode to the 23 enigma set to some dreamy swarthescapes. The Redhead have a new LP coming out soonish.
Now we have Tracyanne Campbell going on about some fella from the French Navy. Its got like 2 chords and the verse and the chorus is like the same but its hella breezy.
Karin Dreijer Andersson scares me when she sings but her amazing “hipster shaman chick who ran through a forest in the fall and got attacked by wolves” look really enamours. I also would like to state my disappointment after waiting 4 minutes to find that she doesn’t get into the pool in that vid.
Welcome back 1980s. I missed you. Phillipa Brown talks about Paris burning as she vamps along looking slightly awkward in a Snoopy tee as she gets variously assaulted by feathers, a drunk, sparks and silver flaky stuff. There’s also a wolf! Probably the one that got Karin from before.
Here’s another Japanese babe in a band. Yuki Chikudate alternating between her mother tongue and mine. Um. I meant English.
I tink Sydneyside needs moar gurls lyk deez.
The NYT tells me that using inexpensive materials to craft jewellery out of is in vogue. Dispensing with the idea that a ring or a brooch needs to be made of some opulent piece of metal, designers today are looking towards that greener, more responsible outlook in their work.
Janna Syvanoja from Finland basically turns what we all know into reality. That is, painstakingly slicing and twisting recycled paper into parabolic pieces of art is a worthy cause. You can see what she did with my thesis below.
Then we have the other school of thought, which is CNC milling pieces of wood into wearable art gets you creepy frozen fungus bracelets. Like Anthony Roussel demonstrates.
Andi Velgos though. Her stuff is on some next level steez. I got this off sufu and its amayzing. Probably not the most wearable or hardy but so visceral and tactile.
And if all that’s still not quite what you’re looking for, maybe you live in the 19th century. In which case, these steampunk enabled cufflinks might interest you. That’s just one example from a wealthy catalogue of stuff from edmdesigns.
