Hans Ubbink - The Kate & Pippa Middleton Collection

Top designer Hans Ubbink showcased his SS12 Collection in De Lasloods in Amsterdam on June 21st. A beautiful collection combining both delicate chosen fabrics cut in wearable shapes.

We were taken by Ubbink's modern take on tailoring with a strong sense of what is moving in current trends. The current Kate & Pippa look & feel in fashion is driven by perfect suitable garments. Ubbink's SS12 collection clearly communicates how fashion improves our lifes.

Thank you Hans.

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MONKI BUSINESS

Get ready for some serious MONKI Business. The Monki World is coming to London, arriving at Selfridges, Women’s Street, on 1st September 2011.

In just five short years, The H&M owned Monki has exploded into an international retail chain with 49 stores in seven countries; Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Hong Kong.

Monki will add its feisty style to that of the selected brands at Selfridges London. Presenting our fashion made for people wanting to express who they are through what they wear, sold at a super price in a story-based interior, designed like no other, we will create a door to another world.

Viktor & Rolf - Ready To Wear - Fall 2011 - Paris Fashion Week

Viktor & Rolf - Ready To Wear - Fall/Winter 2011 - Paris Fashion Week

Photograph it Up Side Down

Found on Gizmodo a cool photograph contest.

Photograph something in a way you've NEVER seen it photographed before, in a way that makes it difficult to know what we're looking at. (Of course, the photo should still look cool/stunning/beautiful.) In this regard, it's a bit like our abstraction challenge. But push to make something truly confounding—use your creativity to build an enigma.

Some of the uploads are more than interesting. Want to participate? Here are the rules

You can find more photos on flickr, click here.

Gizmodo photograph contest

Jason Naylor - M.A.C. - attack

Jason Naylor draws and doodles and sketches an illustrates and art-directs and take pictures and scans things and colors them in and look at blogs and flips through magazines and tears of pages and pins them on walls and asks questions and draws on everything from chairs and notebook covers to clothes and walls.

His works employs a lot of both illustration and typography, always relying on the creativity of the subconscious to take the wheel, which he believes is the root of all creations.

Before we forget... he's also doing some great things for M.A.C.

Jason Naylor website

Sebastian Strikes met Pamela Love

Fearless styling... zo is het bericht dat we gekregen van Sebastian Professional

Pamela Love een van de muzes, of visionairs zoals ze zelf zeggen bij Sebastian, heeft haar Fall Winter 2011/2012 collectie getoond. Pamela Love is een creatieveling in de ruimste zin van het woord, ze is stylist, designer, beeldhouwer en musicus. Geboren in Brooklyn en een New Yorker in hart en nieren. Is wereldwijd bekend als ‘It-Girl’ en ontwikkelt en dicteert ‘what’s next’ met haar edgy, rocker/biker persoonlijke style en sieradenontwerpen.

Wil je deze looks thuis maken... get your Sebastian gear together.

De haarlook:

1. Breng eerst Mousse Forte aan in het haar. Begin achterin de nek, deel secties van circa 5 cm af, deel deze in tweeën en draai ze tegen de klok in. Spray Shine Define over de gedraaide lokken en behandel ze met een steiltang, laat daarbij de bovenkant van de lengte (1/3) ongemoeid.

2. Focus vervolgens op het bovenste deel (1/3) van het haar. Verdeel het in kleine secties en spray er Trilliant overheen. Toupeer elke kleine sectie en behandel deze met een steiltang. Laat de secties afkoelen en kam ze lichtjes uit voor een zachte, lichte textuur.

Finish door de gedraaide secties uit elkaar te halen en over de bovenkant van het hoofd tewrijven met een opgeblazen ballon zodat er staticiteit en natuurlijke textuur ontstaat.

Bekijk pamelalovenyc.com en Sebastianprofessional.nl voor meer info.

takashi murakami - art is unnecessary

"If my art looks positive and cheerful, I would doubt my art was accepted in the contemporary art scene. My art is not Pop art. It is a record of the struggle of the discriminated people." - Takashi Murakami.

This Japanese artist is one of the famous Poku (Pop + otaku) artists. In his paintings his view of the present and future Japan and the relationship between Japanese culture comes to live based upon animation.

In a interview Murakami says, "otaku is discriminated against in the contemporary Japanese society. The latest example of the discrimination is the suppression of the Aum Cult. They committed murder. However, religion usually seems to have the latent nature of ideological war which makes people kill each other. It occurred in the present Japan and caused widespread fears. I am not taking Aum Cult’s side. However, I’m not surprised that Aum Cult emerged in Japan and that it was connected to otaku culture. Most of the newly developed cults consist of people like the otaku because they are so severely discriminated and alienated that they either choose to join these cults or create new cults in their desperate search for salvation. Then, when I consider what Japanese culture is like, the answer is that it all is subculture. Therefore, art is unnecessary".