Acne Studios is well known for creating lust-worthy fashion pieces and this time the label’s making waves with its latest unisex eyewear collection. The Acne Frame sunglasses follow a simple, minimalist design with handmade 8 mm acetate frames that come in six versatile shades. These sunglasses are bound to capture all the attention, so pick your favourite colour and complete the look of your most fashion ensembles, Check them out!!!

This is another preview of the second installment of Wooster Project. This is Part II of how Japan inspired Nick Wooster, enjoy!!!

When American, Paris-based fashion designer Rick Owens first met his wife, Michele Lamy, more than twenty years ago, he was employed as a pattern maker in the design company she owned and ran in Los Angeles. In 2008, in a definitive New Yorker profile, he described her as “a mesmerising sphinx. I’m so fascinated by someone who acts completely on instinct and feelings. The coolest thing you’ll watch all day. Or week. Or all year. Trust.

One of the fashion world’s best known street photographers, Tommy Ton, best known for his phenommolay succesful blog Jak & Jil keeps inspiring me. I finally got round to looking at all of Tommy Ton’s streetstyle shots of the menswear season just gone, and these are my favourites. Enjoy!!!

It would be near impossible if you haven’t run across a photo of Nick Wooster on one of the many street style and mainstream fashion sites.  He is always impeccably dressed and is a street style favourite. Wooster collaborated with the PROJECT show creating a highly curated menswear collection of some of his favorite brands, called PROJECT Wooster. Using Tokyo as a pivotal source of inspiration, PROJECT Wooster highlights Japanese designers and exposes their mastery in crafting product that transcends culture and time.

Fashion blogger and photographer Scott Schuman from The Sartorialist gathers some of the best dressed guys around for the first Sartorialist lunch in Florence. Such impeccable style gathered together in such a small space.

After almost 1 year in studio, Bambounou, French Fries and his wonderful sister Giuletta deliver their first track, a cover of the ghetto hymne -B.M.F – from Ricky Rozay. Check out the video right here, Real Birds getting money from the fucking start!!!

Let me introduce you to Italian footwear specialists Diemme. Diemme is known for using the best fabrics available and only using the best craftsmanship. The boots are produced in Montebelluna, Italy an area widely regarded as one of the most dominant areas for production and research of technical and performance footwear. With the cold weather in full force, a good pair of hiking boots seems to be the best option to stay warm!!!

Maurizio Donadi is my role model because, he has achieved so many things in life. Maurizio Donadi is Senior Vice President of Levi’s XX, the independent creative entity of Levi Strauss & Company. Based in Amsterdam, Mr. Donadi leads the global division that manages design, marketing and sales for Levi’s Vintage Clothing and Levi’s Made & Crafted. Throughout his 30-year fashion industry career, Mr. Donadi has worked with some of the most successful and influential international companies and their founders, including Benetton, Diesel, Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren. Watch this video where Mr. Donadi talks about the importance of denim in a man’s wardrobe.

I love denim & always have. Part of the reason I love denim, however, is not just the fact that it’s denim. It’s the fact that it becomes a part of you.

New denim fabrics just arrived, high quality and innovative denim fabrics produced by Kuroki Mill in Okayama, Japan.

My first jeans patch sample arrived today!! Logo design made by Kim Demane, big shout out to this guy for all his effort and time!! Also a big shout out to my lawyer Dominique Seedorf who helped me out with some legal work for the logo, thanks!! The next step is the jeans sample. I already ordered the denim roll for the jeans, hyped!! There’s always that moment before you open a package when you think ‘Will it be as I ordered’.

Life has been treating me well lately also, I’ve been doing my own thing, its a nice change. Sometimes, I’m creating a new project, or improving myself somehow … but sometimes I just find interesting stuff to read online or buy a cool magazine to read. I also workout almost everyday and like to keep myself busy, whether it’s productive or not. To be honest, there was a time when I thought that people who work out every day must either be really vain or just plain crazy. Who has the time or the energy for all that sweat and pain? Well, apparently I do. As I am finishing my bachelor degree, there are times when I am writing non-stop. But there are also long stretches of time when I am just waiting for feedback from my tutor. I’ve got to fill up my days somehow. Working out is one way and to be quite frank….I love it. Yes, I said it. I LOVE working out. I consider it a treat to allow myself 1-2 hours of kickboxing or running time each other day. And I enjoy every moment of it! Well…maybe not every moment (I hit my wall every week when I jog and my kickboxing instructor is something serious…), but I always have fun and feel great afterward! The results aren’t half bad either: amazing endurance, tons of energy, a better night’s sleep, and a bangin body (not perfect, but one that I am very proud of).

So the short answer: just find things to entertain yourself. Keep your mind busy. Challenge yourself. Talk to somebody. Break out of your mold!!!

“Lessons From a Tailor” is a portrait of a Holocaust survivor who learned the art of tailoring while imprisoned in a concentration camp. After being liberated and emigrating to America, Martin Greenfield rose from floor boy, to manager, to owner of a factory producing custom suits in Brooklyn, NY. Along the way he made suits for celebrities, power brokers, and heads of state, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton. He now provides jobs for hundreds of working class people, most of them immigrants, and produces top-quality clothing the old-fashioned way. This film tells his story, and offers a glimpse inside one of the few remaining hand-made suit factories in the world.

When musicians aren’t making music, what are they doing? I’ve noticed that rappers have been getting more and more well dressed but some rappers even decided to move into fashion. Should these rappers stick to their day jobs? Yasiin Bey aka the Mighty Mos Def has always been fashion forward. Although concrete details are sketchy, the Brooklyn rapper and actor has started a design collaborative called Fellowship Mission with friends that include Chris Gibbs of LA streetwear shop UNION. Will he succeed where Kanye West failed?

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. Happy 2012 to all my readers!!! I wish that this New Year 2012 will bring smiles in your faces and forget all your bad memories of 2011. I wish that this 2012 will bring you more happiness, 365 days of success, good Health, good Luck and joyness in your life.

People to watch out for in 2012? You better watch out for Dutch designer, Jurgen Bey, who began his studies at the Design Academy Eindhoven between 1984-1989 and subsequently taught there for six years next to running his own designstudio. Bey soon attracted media attention through his early collaborative projects within the Droog collective such as Treetrunk Bench (1999) and Gardening Bench (1999) – works that catapulted the designer onto the world stage. In 2002 Bey set up ‘Studio Makkink & Bey together with Architect Rianne Makkink. Bey’s work is often mistakenly aligned with a rigorous environmental agenda due to his interest in using recycled or ‘found’ objects. However, the designer explains that he doesn’t set out to investigate environmentally sensitive solutions through his work. Instead, his interest lies in pursuing a ‘layered’ and conceptual approach to design and discovering delight in the hidden qualities of the world we live within. Truly Inspirational stuff.

Jason Last was one of the first filmmakers who dedicated his directorial craft solely to the genre of fashion and in doing so helped initiate the genre we now call “Fashion Film”. Educated in fine art, Last has always preferred capturing a moving image behind a camera to capturing a still image on canvas. In an industry dominated by the stealth power of the photographic medium, Last chooses to focus on movement and creates beautiful and captivating films that have featured collections of the likes of Comme des Garçons, Rodarte, Maison Martin Margiela, Emanuel Ungaro, Complex Geometries and Diane Pernet.

I’m tired of that crusty brown-stained white plastic Mr. Coffee Deluxe sitting on my kitchen counter. If I win the lottery this year I will buy myself an exorbitantly expensive coffee maker, that’s whats up!! Holla at me If you have great tips.

So I need some inspiration for winter outfits. A bit of inspiration is sometimes needed in these cold, gray winter days. Winter just puts me in a fashion rut. Not this year! Thanks to these street style pictures, I’m already inspired. There are a handful of items I wouldn’t mind wearing, from the layers to the textures and accessories, so chic.

Photos: Streetfsn

Hey guys and gals, just a little update about my Mens Line! I was hoping to have my mens line launched at the end of this month but.. it’s hard to find companies producing small quantities. At this point the denim is ready for finishing, this week I hopefully send a package to Tunisia for the labels of the jeans and clothes. Depending on the samples I will have the final labels delivered approximately two weeks after the final sample, HYPED!!  And of course I have to save a lot of money for these upcoming weeks. I love my clothing line enough to sacrifice my quality of life. I guess I have to give up things I love like buying books, art supplies, going to the movies, etc. HELL YEAH!! I’m not going to quit any time soon because I have devoted much time and most importantly, love, to this project.

Until next time!

The LunarGlide shoe was first launched in 2009 and has fast become Nike’s most popular running shoe. The Lunarglide+ 3 is the latest version of the most supportive shoe in the Lunar collection. Normally in running shoes, the heel counter includes a lot of hard plastic to aid support. However, in these, Nike have cut down the weight in this particular area by opting for a mesh material instead – hence an increase in ventilation. This is a strange move from Nike, as most of their other running shoes have a plastic heel cup – but I’m a big fan of the new approach. You get the sense that you are still well supported in this area. They generally feel light and airy and the sole offers a strange sense of rigidity and spongy at the same time – I was really keen to see how this reacted with each stride strike. I love my new running shoes!!!