SKY - the last evening of august 2012

Pure White

Last Days of Summer

Deep Blue

Aggiungi didascalia

It's sunny and gorgeous today

Constantine - Atelier du Gout
Monaco

God Save My Shoes - Tabitha Simmons

Tabitha Simmons was born in England. After studying film at Kingston University, Tabitha began her styling career.

She is a contributing editor for Vogue™ magazine and a regular contributor to Dazed and Confused and Another Magazine.

She collaborates with photographers Craig McDean, Glen Luchford and Steven Klein and fashion designers Calvin Klein, Alexander McQueen and Zac Posen for whom she has styled catwalk shows.

Tabitha currently lives in New York and works internationally

Ziio

Fascinating lanscapes of Egypt, crystalline Greek Islands and exotic Thailand have enriched the inspiration of the designer, while providing different approaches to jewellery production methods. Silver, gold and semi-precious stones are augmented by Elisabeth Paradon's foray into Murano glass art techniques to the point of attracting the interest of established houses like Lacroix and Missoni. Today form her base in Tuscany, Elisabeth presents collections of refined elegance that are timeless and boundary-free.

Ranjana Khan

Growing up in Bombay, Ranjana Khan's obsession with beautiful embellishments began at an early age. At 17, Ranjana became a fashion model, traveling the world and expanding her creative vision in the process. For the last ten years, she has worked as a creative collaborator to many of the world's greatest couturiers and fashion designers—from Jean-Paul Gaultier to Alber Elbaz— providing concepts, techniques, and inspiration to achieve intricately detailed pieces executed in surprising ways.

With her eponymous collection, Ranjana challenges the entire idea of what jewelry can and cannot be. She mixes hard and soft, applying disparate elements in striking combinations that often convey an emotion or tell a story. Ranjana approaches each season as a unique, creative journey that ultimately yields her inventive and eclectic creations. The resulting designs are both new and timeless, intended to be worn, cherished, and passed on for generations to come.

available at Boutique One Monte Carlo

Meet Karim Rashid

Karim Rashid is one of the most prolific designers of this generation. Over 3000 designs in production, over 300 awards and working in over 35 countries attest to Karim's legend of design. He is based in New York, with an office in Amsterdam, Holland as well.

His award winning designs include luxury goods for Christofle, Veuve Clicquot, and Alessi, democratic products for Umbra, Bobble, and 3M, furniture for Bonaldo and Vondom, lighting for Artemide and Fabbian, high tech products for Asus and Samsung, surface design for Marburg and Abet Laminati, brand identity for Citibank and Sony Ericsson and packaging for Method, Paris Baguette, Kenzo and Hugo Boss

  

Karim's touch expands beyond product to interiors such as the Morimoto restaurant, Philadelphia; Semiramis hotel, Athens; nhow hotel, Berlin; Universita Metro Station, Naples as well as exhibition design for Deutsche Bank and Audi.

Karim's work is featured in 20 permanent collections and he exhibits art in galleries world wide. Karim is a perennial winner of the Red Dot award, Chicago Athenaeum Good Design award, I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review, IDSA Industrial Design Excellence award.

Karim is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences globally disseminating the importance of design in everyday life. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the OCAD, Toronto and Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington. Karim has been featured in magazines and books including Time, Vogue, Esquire, GQ, Wallpaper, and countless more. Karim's latest monograph, Sketch (Frame Publishing, 2011), features 300 hand and digital drawings selected from the last 25 years. Other books include KarimSpace, featuring 36 of Karim's interior architecture designs (Rizzoli, 2009); Design Your Self, Karim's guide to living (Harper Collins, 2006); Digipop, a digital exploration of computer graphics (Taschen, 2005); Compact Design Portfolio (Chronicle Books 2004); as well as two monographs, titled Evolution (Universe, 2004) and I Want to Change the World (Rizzoli, 2001).

In his spare time Karim's pluralism flirts with art, fashion, and music and is determined to creatively touch every aspect of our physical and virtual landscape.

Karim is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences globally disseminating the importance of design in everyday life. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the OCAD, Toronto and Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington. Karim has been featured in magazines and books including Time, Vogue, Esquire, GQ, Wallpaper, and countless more.

Karim's latest monograph, Sketch (Frame Publishing, 2011), features 300 hand and digital drawings selected from the last 25 years. Other books include KarimSpace, featuring 36 of Karim's interior architecture designs (Rizzoli, 2009); Design Your Self, Karim's guide to living (Harper Collins, 2006); Digipop, a digital exploration of computer graphics (Taschen, 2005); Compact Design Portfolio (Chronicle Books 2004); as well as two monographs, titled Evolution (Universe, 2004) and I Want to Change the World (Rizzoli, 2001).

None other than New York designer Karim Rashid is behind the interior design of the nhow Berlin. His visionary style strikes a perfect chord with the building’s exterior, designed by star architect Sergei Tchoban - making the nhow Berlin one of the capital’s modern architectural and design highlights.

Karim Rashid’s vision is a radical design movement, whose core principle is to break with old ways of seeing and living, and thereby to create a world free of nostalgia. Fresh colours, rounded forms and clear lines create spaces that are much more than simply four walls and a ceiling. The design of the nhow Berlin is a manifestation of a philosophy that allows guests to enter another world for the duration of their stay. A trip to Berlin turns into a sojourn in a new dimension - a positive experience that takes you to the edge. In this ambience, the inspiration of the nhow Berlin becomes tangible

Perfectly composed chords combining aesthetic harmony and continuous stimulation of the senses change our perception of ourselves and everything around us. Everything seems more intense, making this electrifying atmosphere the ideal breeding ground for creative energy. Words and images cannot do justice to something that needs to be experienced first-hand - because great design begins at the point where language has reached its limit.

BEAVALDES SPRING/SUMMER 2013 PREVIEW

Inspiration: Anarchy in the Garden

Topics of this season: Exploration of texture as pattern, delivering a pastel punch

New Materials: Matte Pearls, Opaque Crystals, Neoprene- modern materials for a fresh Spring Season

On the Street - Copenhagen

Copenhagen

On the Street ... Copenhagen

Copenhagen Fashion Week

Copenhagen Fashion Week

Sussan Zeck

Just in KSUBI

Over the past 12 years ksubi has evolved into one of the most notorious and recognisable fashion brands in the world.

Undeniably one of the most famous Australian brands in the international marketplace, ksubi has built a significant presence and cult following along the way.

Ideas, individuality and authenticity have developed ksubi into a tangible subculture; one that encompasses all that is fashion, art and music.

Remaining uninfluenced by consumer trends, choosing instead to set its own agenda, the social commentary that originates from ksubi is as relevant and thought provoking as ever.

Whether it be their numerous conceptual feats, topical fashion aesthetic or signature denim, the boys behind ksubi have already inspired one generation and is well on the way to inspiring another.

Collette Dinnigan

Iconic Australian fashion label, amazing lace dresses, and diffusion collections

ToyWatch: Maya Collection

The colours and exotic images of Central America, the birthplace of the first Pre-Columbian civilisation, have led to the creation of the new collection from ToyWatch: Maya, watches inspired by the textile embroidery art of the Mexican and South American peoples

A hand-woven strap, which can be fastened as required, characterised by two different sides that permit two different variants, a gilded case with a white and champagne dial and a unique back which emphasises the unique nature of the entire collection, featuring an engraved Symbol of the Sunstone, make ToyWatch’s Maya a real fashion accessory, a special and very trendy object for summer 2012.

Maya watches are available in four colours, the same ones the Mexican people used in their famous frescoes and pottery: tones of blue, like their beautiful sea, shades of green to recall the luxuriant Rain Forest, warm and enveloping hues of brown, representing the native earth, and lastly, purple, symbol of mystery, a typical characteristic underlying Mayan culture.

The 40-mm steel case has time only Japan movement and is waterproof up to 3 ATM.