Yenra: Consumers spend hundreds of dollars for custom jeans that shape the body to show off their best features. “Ten years ago premium denim was anything over a hundred dollars a pair, today it starts at anywhere from a hundred fifty to an excess of five hundred a pair and in some cases even a thousand dollars,” advises Kenneth Wengrod, […]

Popgadget: Remember when people carried huge boomboxes on their shoulders before walkmans were invented? You don’t see that too often and now it’s all about how small your mobile music device can get. The Digital Sound Bag lets you slip your personal music player into a clear acetate pocket and plug it into built in speakers if you ever get […]

YOGURT ACTIVECULTURE: What started as a nickname for our yoga practice—Yogurt— has now become a symbol of our vision. For us, yoga is a practice that is colourful, varied and deep. And while it’s helped us get in touch with our ‘inner’ selves, we feel that the typical yoga ‘look’ doesn’t do much to reflect that expression as far as […]

Iconoculture: Sit and … suck? Shaped like a high-design beanbag chair, the Airpouf vacuum cleaner doubles as a spot to sit or a room decoration. For those who want to keep housekeeping appliances at hand without sacrificing style, the fabric-covered Airpouf by Italian designer Lorenzo Damiani has three openings: for the suction tube, the vent, and the start button. Aside […]

Straight.com Vancouver: Think of it as giving your girlfriend her own personal thong song: new locally made Smart Ass underwear flashes a saying at its back T-bar every time she bends over in her low-cut jeans. The duded-up dental floss, in pink or black seamless polyamide-spandex ($2.95 at www.getsmartass.com), sports mottos like Desperate Housewife, Yummy Mummy, Drama Queen, and, for […]

DailyCandy: The apple may not fall far from the tree. But what about the leaf? Different story entirely. Tossed by the winds of chance, wrangled by the rakes of fate, the delicate foliage of autumn cannot know its destiny. With any luck, however, it will get immortalized on a pillow, tablecloth, or stationery by Inleaf Designs. The company adorns linens […]

Influx Insights: Young French designer, Ora-Ito who is being hailed as the country’s new Mr. Starck, has just designed a playful new stackable hard drive for Lacie The hard drives are shaped like Lego bricks and come in various different colors. Lacie had worked with Porsche design in the past and Maxtor had made some effort to bring a more […]

DailyCandy: You haven’t gone for the posters-as-decor thing since your rabid seventh-grade Depeche Mode obsession. And, generally speaking, this has been a positive development. But not so fast. Jason Munn has reinvented the wheel with his hand-silk-screened album and concert posters. A trained graphic designer, Munn creates his pieces in his Oakland, California, studio, and each one begins with a […]

calgarysun.com: Someone let out Calgary’s little secret — that Stampede garb can look urban and sexy. Two important fashion shows in Milan this past week featured cowboy hats, wide Western belts, glistening silver and jade accents and acres of denim. Later, twins Dean and Dan Caten rounded up their Dsquared2 spring/summer 2006 collection. With a set straight out of Gunsmoke, […]

Popgadget: UK-based designer Diana Irani is working on the Re_Medi fashion label that not only makes you look good on the outside, but also makes you feel even better on the inside. The clothes will be made from specially developed fabrics that release a controlled dose of a complementary or homeopathic medicine into your bloodstream through your skin while you […]