new obsessions
We just got this life-sized mirrored skeleton from the French-based design collective Domestic, and I'm nuts for it. Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Belgian cult duo Studio Job are behind the 5-foot-5 laser-cut Perspex wall decoration. The influential pair have worked with ceramics heritage house Royal Tichelaar Makkum and fashion avant guardians Viktor & Rolf.
Also love the "I Love Me" hearts by graphic designers Ich&Kar. The pair have given their whimsical take on fashion, food, music, design and architecture--and now these laser-cut mirrors. It's a grouping of individual mirrors that can be configured in whatever pattern you desire.
Now if I can only figure out where to stick them all in our house!

The Charming Charms are the bonafide bijoux of summer--their $22-$40 price for 3, being part of the appeal. Dutch designer Tord Boontje and L.A. studio Artecnica collaborated on this brand new collection of charms, plated in 18-karat gold or sterling silver and dangling from a black cotton cord. Loop them on hoop earrings, off a metal chain or silk ribbon, or from your purse. Each group contains 3 charms, and there are 4 different groups to choose. I love all 12 together, and knot them individually on a cord so they can be seen better.

what's in store?
January 30, 2008 12:06 PM  (go back to main view)
Rei Does L.A.
Comme des Garçons is finally bringing its "guerrilla store" concept to America. Following year-long "occupations" in Warsaw, Athens, Beirut and Singapore, the truly avant-garde house is slated to open in downtown Los Angeles on February 16. A former bank at 125 West 4th Street will be filled with all things rendered by Rei Kawakubo and then some, including the amazing men's collection shown in Paris this month, a punk rock fuck you-meets-Prince of Wales tailoring inspired by Jamie Reid, the graphic artist behind the Sex Pistols iconography. The back of one coat brandished the slogan: "Demolish the Dominator Culture." For Rei this isn't just a fashion statement. Even with the shiny new galleries surrounding CGD's downtown digs, zeroing in on this still-gritty 'hood over, say, Margiela's screwy choice of Beverly Hills, just shows the feisty old gal still has something of the contrarian revolutionary in her.
Photo Chris Moore/Karl Prouse
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