After the recent turbulence, we’re struggling to adjust to a post-Maybach world. The early signs suggest it’s going to be pretty trill.
My Fashion Life is reporting a 243% jump in jewelry listings on eBay as the price of gold climbs past $1000 an ounce.
In other words, that chain just got 32% gaudier»
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“A Naked Girl Wearing Lots of Gold”: For once,
Vice Magazine eschews all irony and delivers on their
promises. [Vice]
All Apologies: Something still smells wrong
about the Kurt Cobain Chucks—even if they are more tasteful than
previously advertised. [Trashbag
Aesthetics]
Who Says Size Matters?: Agent Provocateur plus the
Cooper Mini equals a crowded back seat. [Hypebeast]
Playing Footsie: Amy Odell introduces the men of
Union Square to the latest in designer “Mandals” with completely
unsurprising results. [NYMag]
Will Indiana Jones Bring Back the Hat?:
These guys say, “yes. We say, “hahahahaha”. [Too
Spoiled Models]
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There are many paths to good design, but here’s one of our favorites: make something simple, useful, and so innovatively shaped that nobody knows what the hell it is.
For instance, these
things.
The secret is revealed»
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It would appear the art world isn’t immune to a little financial chicanery. This gold brick is currently on sale at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art as a paperweight/doorstop, but if the $80 price tag seems a little low for ten ounces of gold there’s a reason: it’s gilded aluminum stamped with a few significant dates and christened as art.
Of course, you could always pick up the genuine article for a few hundred more
but you’d have to leave the museum first.
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