UnCENSORED | Totally SFW
UnCENSORED, for some, is Thailand’s solution to anyone who seeks to live an edgy, modern lifestyle but can’t find the wares. UnCENSORED stocks well-designed items that are selected to leave their customers with freedom from having to ‘censor’ their creativity or creative expressions. Available items are created by edgy designers who are passionate in a...
Profiling | Vibe Harsløf
The interplay between form and function is epitomized in Denmark designer Vibe Harsløf‘s jewelry designs. Based in Copenhagen, Vibe is an accomplished goldsmith and has had more than ten years of experience in her field. She artfully combines the formalism expected in conventional jewelry and turns it on its head by combining it with various...
Profiling | KRANE Design
KRANE Design, led by mastermind Ken Chow, saw a progression of the 1940’s military theme that they’ve been building upon since the beginning for this year’s A/W collection. The collection was showcased in an intimate studio space in Toronto’s Heritage Court for the Toronto Fashion Week, where select pieces of the KRANE bag collection were...
Forever Chic
Marcial Berro was born by the seaside in barren Patagonia. However, he found himself moving to New York during the early 70’s by an unexpected twist of fate. Starting off his career as an actor, it didn’t take him long before he discovered designing jewellery and decorative objects to be another way of expression. His...
Abbey Lee MANIA
Australia. Synonymous with soft, honey sunlight, golden sandy beaches, surfing and kangaroos; it is also the sweet native soil of model, Abbey Lee, and jewellery label, ManiaMania; whose collaboration, ‘Rêve’, is proving to be hotter than a speedo rocking surfer. ManiaMania’s inspiration for ‘Rêve’ neglects crude Australian clichés; instead it flows heavily through the inspired...
Profiling | OBBI GOOD LABEL
Subtly tucked away on the second level of a shophouse along bustling Arab Street, Obbi Good Label’s store is nothing like subtle. The store is not your conventional retail store – it is part workshop and part showroom; and even has a sofa thrown in the mix to add to the overall cool and laid-back character. The...
The Boldly Understated – NATALIA BRILLI
Belgian born Natalia Brilli designs sets and costumes for theatre and collaborates with many established fashion designers. Natalia channels all her energy into her fashion accessories which projects a simplistic, ethereal presence. Being a busy design student, I adore the fact that the accessories are monochromatic themed; meaning that they will match just about anything...
IRIS TSANTE Jewellery
Iris Tsante graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2008. This Greek-born jewellery designer often uses wood, paper, wax and textile as basis materials in her work, which have connotations of optismism, lightness, simplicity, joy and innocence whilst at the same time, qualities like fragility and vulnerability. Her attraction to materials related to...
FREITAG Reference Line
Change is good! According to FREITAG, new means just as good too … a line that provides variety without compromising its quality. Utilizing its trademark recycled truck tarpaulins; only this time, the optical selection process and washing is even stricter. The same quality fetish is also applied to the stitching of each piece. So if...
