The above icy-pastel lounge chairs were created by ever-so-famous jean company Acne. The Swedish designers premiered their first foray into furniture at the Hotel Pozzo di Borgo, which is basically a really nice place in Paris, France that Uncle Karl Lagerfeld calls his home away from home. We’re really enjoying the pastel color palette, as unpractical as it is, but I’m not blown away by the design so much. The lounge and chairs seem a bit … awkward.
But they look ridiculously comfortable. Kind of like the jeans.
In the poetry contest in China by which the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism was chosen, there were two poems. One said: “The mind is like a mirror. It collection dust. The problem is to remove the dust.” The other and winning poem was actually a reply to the first. It said, “Where is the mirror and where is the dust?”
Downtown NYC based label Sophomore NYC released a video lookbook for their Spring/Summer 2010 collection shot on the boardwalk at Coney Island. It’s a great place to capture the breezy fluidity of the brand’s thin tees and basic designs that always seem perfect for summer on the beach. The lookbook features fashion luminaries like former Missbehave Fashion Editor (and writer) Lesley Arfin and model Kim Matulova, as well as celebs like lead singer of The Virgins Donald Cummings and actor Leo Fitzpatrick. Shot by Cass Bird, I really like that the lookbook doesn’t emphasize the fabulosity of either the clothes or the cast. Instead, it captures exactly what it was meant to– a group of fun, real young people reminiscing on the boardwalk.
