29.6.09

Al'rite rude boys



"Ska Face," a rude-boy-inspired men's-wear fashion story
photographed by regular T
contributor Alasdair McLellan
styled by Beat Bolliger

28.6.09

Where Are You Go - Tour d' Afrique

Four months on bikes, from Cairo, Egypt to Cape Town, South Africa.

27.6.09

Prada's $1600 Hat?


Looks like DIY

26.6.09

Europe looks to Africa for Solar Power

New York Times Article located here

25.6.09

Think: Material Exposition

THINK:Material exhibit, Material World Pavilion at IIDEX/NeoCon Canada.

IIDEX/NeoCon Canada show, an innovative materials from around the globe, presents the interactive exhibit "THINK:Material." The exhibit is curated by leading international materials consultant, Jim Salazar, and showcases product innovation and cutting-edge materials including glass, metals, natural fibres, ceramic, coatings, textiles and polymers from over 100 companies.

Click here for more information.

22.6.09

Wimbledon lends Fred Perry's New Face


Scottish tennis player Andy Murray, hello Wimbledon!

21.6.09

19.6.09

Can Eating Donuts Lead to Sitting on Donuts?


Q. What is the longest and widest nerve in the human body?
A. What is the sciatic nerve.

Q. What part in animals are not usual considered kosher meats in the Jewish religion due to the difficult process of deveining?
A. What is the animal's hindquarters, the area encompassing the sciatic nerve.

Q. What is sciatica?
A. Sciatica is pain normally caused by compression of lumbar or sacral nerves.


More information on the anatomical location of the sciatic nerve can be found here, through Duke University. Definition of spinal disc herniation can be located here. Symptoms are described as sciatica.

Alternative surgery treatments include:
1. Bed rest and lumbo-sacral support belt.
2. Physical therapy
3. Massage therapy
4. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
5. Oral steroids (e.g. prednisone or methylprednisolone)
6. Epidural (cortisone) injection
7. Intravenous sedation, analgesia-assisted traction therapy (IVSAAT)
8. Weight control [31]
9. Spinal decompression

Preventive measures: reference from the Mayo Clinic
1. STRETCH and EXERCISE
2. Maintain proper alignment. Remove the wallet from the back pocket before sitting down to keep vertebrates in line.
3. Always lift using your legs from a squatted position. Do not bend over from the waist.
4. Take breaks. Get up walk around, go to the water fountain. Stop for a second.

16.6.09

Mourning Ruby's Death


My bike, Rubina aka Ruby, was stolen. But for those of you who have a bike check, out the Bicycle Film Festival June 17 - 21 in New York.

If you miss this one, don't fret there are many other cities on the list such as....... Memphis • New York • Philadelphia • Pittsburgh • Minneapolis • Richmond • San Francisco • Detroit • Oakland • Portland • Austin • San Diego • Chicago • Toronto • Orlando • Seattle • LA • Milwaukee • Washington D.C. • Zurich • Lisbon • Vienna • London • Las Vegas •
Copenhagen • Milano • Paris • Auckland • Denver • Melbourne • Sydney • Tokyo • Miami • Houston • Boston • New Orleans • Boulder
Salt Lake City • Montreal

I'm planning on catching up in London with a new partner in crime.

For details click here.

13.6.09

Emma Watson the new Burberry star

Emma Watson stars in Burberry ad campaign | News | Drapers

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Hotel Zaza Houston






Boutique hotel in Houston's Museum District where I went to a dear friend's wedding this past weekend, Hotel ZaZa.

12.6.09

11.6.09

Jenny Bird


Myth, fable and fantasy works from San Fransisco based artist Jenny Bird. Also featured in Hi-Fructose Magazine.

10.6.09

New York Home Textiles Market Aug 14-20


New York Home Textiles Market Week

Register to attend or participate, advanced registration is required.

SCHEDULE INCLUDES:

Friday, August 14

Home Textiles Week: 7 West 34th Street open

No programming on Friday, August 14

Saturday, August 15
NYIGF: Pier 94 and Handmade® at Javits open; All other divisions at Javits closed

Home Textiles Week: 7 West 34th Street, 230 Fifth Avenue open

NYIGF Orientation
8:30AM – 9:30AM
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Club GLM Lounge – 1E02-1E04
Free for all first-time visitors
Visiting NYIGF for the first time? Make sure you don’t miss a thing contained in its four locations, nine divisions, and miles of aisles! Free daily NYIGF Orientation sessions will help you navigate the Fair, use the directory and make the most of your time at market! And Giftware News editor-in-chief, John Saxtan, will be on-hand to answer your industry-specific questions, provide you with free copies of the magazine and other information to help you shop the show!
Advance registration is required.

NY Market: On the Town at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
3:30PM – 5:30PM
11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
Join NY Market participants in celebration of Accent on Design’s 25th Anniversary at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the foremost museum of modern art in the world. Whether you attend this viewing, or visit MoMA at your leisure during Market Week – admission is free, compliments of NYIGF, 7 West New York, 41 Madison and 230 Fifth Avenue. Simply present your summer 2009 badge at the Museum for complimentary admission at any time during Market Week (August 14-20).

Current exhibitions include “Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge,” a selection of bold designs from MoMA’s collection, ranging from striking posters to fierce chairs, and from incisive videos to vehicles designed for harsh terrains and unforgiving circumstances; and the return of Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory and Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night.
www.moma.org

At Home Welcome Reception

5:00PM – 6:00PM

Pier 94

There’s no place like “At Home”! Join NY Market participants for an opening day At Home welcome reception, hosted by NYIGF. Enjoy cocktails while browsing and buying At Home’s comprehensive collection of hard lines for the home – from contemporary to traditional and indoor to outdoor.

Sunday, August 16
NYIGF: All divisions/locations open

Home Textiles Week: 7 West 34th Street, 230 Fifth Avenue open

NYIGF Orientation
8:30AM – 9:30AM
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Club GLM Lounge – 1E02-1E04
Free for all first-time visitors
Visiting NYIGF for the first time? Make sure you don’t miss a thing contained in its four locations, nine divisions, and miles of aisles! Free daily NYIGF Orientation sessions will help you navigate the Fair, use the directory and make the most of your time at market! And Giftware News editor-in-chief, John Saxtan, will be on-hand to answer your industry-specific questions, provide you with free copies of the magazine and other information to help you shop the show!

Advance registration is required.

GHTA Rotating Forum – Retailer Best Practices Session
12 noon – 1:30pm, with light lunch and networking starting at 11:30am
Javits Center, 1A02-03
Benefit from experience! Industry veterans from the Gift and Home Trade Association (GHTA) will facilitate a series of interactive discussions, addressing key business issues and opportunities. Over lunch, participants will share information and ideas for effective communication and cooperation among retailers, sales reps and manufacturers, as well as ideas for effective in-store events and promotions.
Tickets $20 advance/ $25 onsite

Moderators:
Carol L. Schroeder, Orange Tree Imports, Madison, WI
Sherri Ness, Bates Nut Farm/Farmer’s Daughter, Valley Center, CA
Rosanne Brown, Venice Stationers, Venice, FL
Marc Rice, Fox Premier Sales, Atlanta, GA

Eartha McClelland, ICU Eyewear, San Rafael, CA

Retail Strategies: Using Social Media to Connect with Customers
3:00PM – 4:00PM
Javits Center, 1A02-03
Facebook. Twitter. You Tube… How can you use these online tools to connect with your customer and increase sales? Jenny Heinzen York, editor in chief of Home Accents Today – and a panel of Internet-savvy retailers – will share their secrets for logging on, linking up and cashing in!
Tickets $20 advance/$25 onsite

58th Annual Retailer Excellence Awards
6:00PM– 10:00PM
Marriott Marquis
Join Gifts & Decorative Accessories in celebrating the 58th Annual Retailer Excellence Awards, which recognize excellence in retailing and individual achievement. During this festive industry gathering, 2009 finalists will be recognized, retail category winners will be announced and special recognition awards will be presented. Introduced in 1951, the Retailer Excellence Awards are among the most prestigious in the industry.
Tickets $150 each, including cocktails and dinner, are available through www.giftsanddec.com

2009 categories include:
• Gift Store Design/Redesign
• Marketing Achievement
• Visual Merchandising/Display
• Retail Internet Innovator/Innovation
• 2009 Outstanding Manufacturer’s Representative
• 2009 Rising Star
• 2009 Gift For Life Industry Achievement

Monday, August 17
NYIGF: All divisions/locations open

Home Textiles Week: 7 West 34th Street, 230 Fifth Avenue open

NYIGF Orientation
8:30AM – 9:30AM
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Club GLM Lounge – 1E02-1E04
Free for all first-time visitors
Visiting NYIGF for the first time? Make sure you don’t miss a thing contained in its four locations, nine divisions, and miles of aisles! Free daily NYIGF Orientation sessions will help you navigate the Fair, use the directory and make the most of your time at market! And Giftware News editor-in-chief, John Saxtan, will be on-hand to answer your industry-specific questions, provide you with free copies of the magazine and other information to help you shop the show!

Advance registration is required.



The Influence of Color presented by IFDA

9:00AM – 10:30AM, with continental breakfast and networking starting at 8:30AM

Javits Center, 1A02-03

Color is one of the most powerful tools in the world. Join the New York Chapter of The International Furnishings and Design Association (IFDA) for an in-depth exploration of color and its impact on buying trends. Sara Mosley from Design-Options will discuss color and fashion’s key influences as well as other color insights and Deborah Sanders, managing editor of Veranda magazine, will address the use of color in the home.

Tickets $25 for IFDA members/$40 for guests advance / $40 and $55 onsite

For information, visit www.ifda.com, or to register, call 212-686-6020, or email ifdanyny@verizon.net.

Museum Buyer Networking Breakfast

8:30AM – 10:00AM

Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Club GLM Lounge, 1E02-04

Join your colleagues for a complimentary breakfast during NYIGF. All museum, gallery, and library store retailers are invited to attend! Co-sponsored by exhibitors Artobjects Unlimited, Booths 3078-82; and AfricaNow!, Booths 1676-82. RSVP to info@artob.com, call 212-595-7122, or fax 212-595-5786.

It’s Easy Being Green…A Conversation with Josh Dorfman, The Lazy Environmentalist
12:00PM – 1:30PM
Javits Center, 1A02-03
Discover easy, stylish and super convenient ways to green your lifestyle and your livelihood with Josh Dorfman, environmental entrepreneur, TV personality, radio host author and retailer. This lively one-on-one interview with Susan Szenasy, editor-in-chief of Metropolis Magazine, will offer insights into cutting-edge products and services, emerging trends, and innovation underway to bring our lifestyles into balance with nature. As an added bonus, Josh’s two books, Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget and Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish Green Living, will be available for purchase and signing following the seminar.
Tickets $20 advance/$25 onsite

Create Your Own Strong Economy: Use Email Marketing to Power Your Sales
3:00PM – 4:00PM
Javits Center, 1A02-03
Effective email communications can help you attract customers to your store, boost sales and build customer loyalty. Join Patricia Norins, publisher of GIFT SHOP and Green Retailer magazines, and learn how to develop email campaigns that will keep customers coming back! This fast-paced seminar will offer proven solutions, as well as plenty of examples for inspiration.
Tickets $20 advance/$25 onsite

Tuesday, August 18
NYIGF: All divisions/locations open

Home Textiles Week: 7 West 34th Street, 230 Fifth Avenue open

NYIGF Orientation
8:30AM – 9:30AM
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Club GLM Lounge – 1E02-1E04
Free for all first-time visitors
Visiting NYIGF for the first time? Make sure you don’t miss a thing contained in its four locations, nine divisions, and miles of aisles! Free daily NYIGF Orientation sessions will help you navigate the Fair, use the directory and make the most of your time at market! And Giftware News editor-in-chief, John Saxtan, will be on-hand to answer your industry-specific questions, provide you with free copies of the magazine and other information to help you shop the show!

Advance registration is required.

Extreme Spa Retailing
9:00AM – 10:30AM, with continental breakfast and networking starting at 8:30AM, underwritten by YG Laboratories
Javits Center, 1A02-03
Revitalize your bottom line with beauty and wellness retail sales! Join the Day Spa Association and learn how to add profits through in-spa and in-store retail sales. Carol Phillips of Carol Phillips SpaSmarts will offer ideas to turbo-charge your sales; and Rebecca James Gadberry of YG Laboratories will identify emerging, and sales-boosting, skincare trends. As an added bonus, participants will receive a complimentary copy of the Day Spa Association’s brand new report on in-spa retailing – who’s doing it and what’s working.
$25 for Day Spa Association members/$40 for guests.
For information, visit www.dayspaassociation.com.

To register, call 201-865-2065 (Visa, M/C only), email Barbara@dayspaassociation.com, or send checks, payable to The Day Spa Association, to 310 – 17th Street, Union City, NJ 07087.


Mainstream Green… New Directions in Organic Beauty
12:00PM – 1:30PM
Javits Center, 1A02-03
Today’s consumers aren’t just eco-conscious, they are eco-educated! Join Organic Beauty editor-in-chief/founding editor Rona Berg, and find out where consumers are getting their product knowledge, what they are looking for, and how they are using this information to influence not only product development but also sales and marketing strategies. A panel of retail and manufacturing experts, including Robin Brown of Erbaviva, Suki Kramer of suki, inc., and others, will help you stay on – and ahead – of the curve.
Tickets $20 advance/$25 onsite

Retail Makeover Business Planning Program - Your Action Plan to Surviving a Slow Economy

3:00PM – 4:30PM

Javits Center, 1A02-03

Position your store for the “New Market Challenge” and learn proven strategies for survival! Leading retail expert, and Gift & Home Channel contributor, Barbara Crowhurst, will offer a step-by-step guide to business essentials, including: setting and meeting sales targets, controlling debt and budgeting expenses, managing inventory, planning and executing marketing strategies and more! This session will preview a nine-part business training series, to be posted weekly on giftandhomechannel.com starting in September, and all attendees will receive a free “Business Planning Workbook” (valued at $39.95). As an added benefit, one participant will be randomly selected to win a complimentary “Power Hour” Retail Makeover by Crowhurst.

Tickets $20 advance/$25 onsite



A Night on Broadway, featuring WEST SIDE STORY
7:00PM – 9:50PM
Palace Theatre, 1564 Broadway (between West 46th and 47th Street)
One of the most memorable musicals and greatest love stories of all time returns to Broadway… Star-crossed lovers are caught between rival street gangs on the turbulent streets of New York City in the 1950s. Directed by librettist Arthur Laurents, the show features Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's legendary score, featuring such classic songs as “Something’s Coming,” “Tonight,” “America,” “I Feel Pretty” and “Somewhere.”
Tickets, normally priced at $109.50, are specially priced at $90 for NY Market participants, with the difference being absorbed by GLM.
Tickets $90

Wednesday, August 19
NYIGF: All divisions/locations open; Handmade at Javits closes at 5pm; At Home at Pier 94 closes at 3pm

Home Textiles Week: 7 West 34th Street, 230 Fifth Avenue open

NYIGF Orientation
8:30AM – 9:30AM
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Club GLM Lounge – 1E02-1E04
Free for all first-time visitors
Visiting NYIGF for the first time? Make sure you don’t miss a thing contained in its four locations, nine divisions, and miles of aisles! Free daily NYIGF Orientation sessions will help you navigate the Fair, use the directory and make the most of your time at market! And Giftware News editor-in-chief, John Saxtan, will be on-hand to answer your industry-specific questions, provide you with free copies of the magazine and other information to help you shop the show!

Advance registration is required.

Pringle, I'm Not Talking About Crisps







Celebrating the 195th anniversary, Pringle of Scotland plans for Londond Fashion Week shows in September 18-22 at Somerset House.

Here is why Pringle is in my top five brands.

9.6.09

Coco's Butter



Chanel Resort 2010, loving it. Karl Lagerfeld

8.6.09

Fix Up, Look Sharp

http://new.prettygreen.com/shop/Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher's Pretty Green interview in July edition of GQ

A bit lacking for the first collection; nothing more than me, me, me from Mr. Gallagher with his limited collection of polos, t-shirts, hats, scarves and track jackets. "If you're not into clothes than your not a lad!" huuuummmmmm more to come? "I'm not doing it cause I'm into money, you know what I mean?" Well given those stitches, don't expect to have deep pockets mate.

2.6.09

American Quilts


American Quilts: architecturaldigest.com
Read it:
Architectural Digest Article on American Quilts

1.6.09

Hey Hey Like Calm Down Like


Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today exhibition at Tate Liverpool in collaboration with Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Have twentieth-century artists began to perceive colour as 'readymade' rather than as scientific or expressive? What is the significance of color in contemporary art (Ellsworth Kelly, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Frank Stella, Yves Klein, Richard Serra, John Baldessari, Dan Flavin, Damien Hirst, David Batchelor, Jim Lambie, Angela Bulloch, Cory Archangel and more)? How does color communicate in the new wave of design?

COLOR IS MY LIFE!

If in the UK, join Late at Tate, Fool Spectrum
2nd July 2009 18:00-21:00

Tate Liverpool


Photo
Ellsworth Kelly
Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance II 1951
© 2009 The Museum of Modern Art / Scala, Florence