As
Sasha and John Digweed traveled around North America in the Spring Club Tour with their customized gear, any musician can customize his equipment thanks to StyleFlip.com, where
you have the possibility of choosing different skins to transform mixers, turntables, effect consoles and even drums. Check it out!
Before releasing their new album, Dave 1 and P-Thugg, the Canadian artists from
Chromeo, designed a T-shirt in collaboration with the sophisticated French fashion house Surface to Air, the same firm that already has the duo Justice
among its designers. Their design consists in a limited edition T-shirt featuring the cover art of
Fancy Footwork (2007), their previous album. However, it is just
the beginning of an entire new collection.
On the street, we find the real fashion pioneers that combine clothes and accessories with a casual, sophisticated and organic style. Encouraged by the accessibility of blogs, this new tendency is established and there are a lot of sites that publish, one after the other, photos capturing the most personal and current looks in different cities around the world.
"Some people make limited-edition records — we're making a limited-edition jacket," said Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth's bass player, to the New York Times as regards Mirror/Dash, the clothing line she has just launched that offers exclusive designs "for cool moms."
GQ Editor Dylan Jones; Faris Rotter, singer of The Horrors, who designed a cover art for The Charlatans; and designer of Factory Records Peter Saville are the curators of Spin: The Art of Record Design, a show that exhibits the artworks that inspired the best cover art of the past 40 years.
Apart from the techno sound of the German capital city, the DJ and producer Ellen Allien has been setting the beat of Berlin techno look with her exclusive clothing collection for a couple of years. Comfortably casual garments, with clean lines and minimal colors, perfect to wear in clubs, at outdoor festivals or while walking around any European city. Take a look at her latest collection *PLUS*.
Fashion is on the street. Under this premise and thanks to blogs, there appeared a new international movement that aims at
photographing passersby in the most important citys and show what they are wearing in a photo gallery. Today Flowmi welcomes On The Corner, one of the best representatives of this trend and the first professional street style project in Argentina. Take a look
at its work, bursting with style.
From toothbrushes to sophisticated gadgets,
industrial design is omnipresent in daily life. That's the aim of
Objectified,
a documentary that explores the objects and the creative processes of designers made by Gary Hustwit
, who also directed Helvetica and Moog documentary
. While we wait for its launch, take a look at this blog
that gathers interviews with the most influential industrial designers.
After presenting his new alias The BPA, Fatboy Slim is preparing everything to throw, in his hometown Brighton, a new edition of his outdoor parties Big Beach Boutique. For this special occasion, he will surely wear the Hawaiian style shirt -Norman Cook's trademark- he has designed with the brand Skunkfunk.