i apologize in advance for sending out so many bicycle obsessed links, but i really like how thoughtful these new cycling jeans are. There are so many design decisions made here which advance the cyclist’s sensibilities into actual clothing. Please have a look at the link below, and you will see the various good ideas put into a beautiful pair of cycling jeans. I have not looked up the price, but i’m guessing expensive.

Osloh Jeans | gBlog.

I don’t know if I should be pissed off or in love after reading this post at Wallpaper*. Why should I care? For one, the fashions from Maison Margiela pushes the limits of what I should wear into a mysterious abstract art. Although I feel they rule the edge of excitement in fashion, why is it that fashion houses feel so inclined to enter new territories such as interior and furniture design? Although this concept can work, I feel that often times fashion brands feel the pressure of making more and more money by expanding their brands to any object they can get a hold of rather than sticking with their core skills. The result is a future that holds Maison Margiela branded tube socks and coffee cups. Of course, if these objects actually existed I would be buying. I ain’t gonna lie.

Maison Margiela launches an interior collection – Fashion – Wallpaper.com – International Design Interiors Fashion Travel.

I live in the Mission District of San Francisco where there is a great concentration of fleabag hotels. I’ve never stayed in one, but I’ve imagined them in my mind as I walk by them in the morning on my way to the subway. The rooms, I’d imagined, were filled with threadbare furniture and stains of all sorts. I also imagined smack in the middle of the room a bed that looks somewhat like this bag from Chanel: a dirty, ragged, unshapely mess resembling a rectangle. Let’s not lie, though. There is something about the rawness of it all that gives me an instant erection. This bag is a mixture of prostitution, dirty sex, and a rainy night on a streetcorner mixed with just a hint of Hampton shabby chic.

Dream Big | Chanel’s Mattress Bag – The Moment Blog – NYTimes.com.

I read that Nancy Wu is a design student, and I kind of figured as much. Why? Because there are two traits design students always seem to have. First, students are not afraid to go way out there with their experiments. Using a dried meat product as fabric for a purse- check. Second, design students are obsessed with popular icons. Twenty years ago when I was in school we all used Rambo and regan as our clownish icons. Today, we look to fashion brands such as Chanel.

As studentish as this purse is, I’ve come to realize that jerky texture is quite nice, and I thank miss Wu for opening my eyes to edible fashion beyond underwear made out of fruit rollups.

meat purses and cut-up sneakers by nancy wu

Years ago, I reported on Konzuk, and now they are just getting better and better. Think minimalist concrete and steel perfection not for your building but for your ear. You will like this if you are a Miesian stylist.

Stainless Solid Square Earrings
List Price: $90.0
Price: $90.0

Looking to get a little more green in your life? You could plant some grass in your back yard, or you could just buy one of these rings by Hafsteinn Juliusson. One ring is sort of the brass knuckles for greenies. I can imagine a new brand of superhero who respects the environment by punching oil company executives in the face with this invention leaving a welt in the shape of blades of grass.

sub-studio design blog: Hafsteinn Juliusson

A Couple of years ago, my wife and I spent a few hours in Macy’s doing what we called the Celebrity Smell-Off. Over the course of this time, we smelled Britney, Paris, Sex and the City, and even Desparate Housewives. But all the time, I wanted a real man’s scent that I might take home. Finally, one that I can really get behind: The scoul in the white tuxedo, I like to call him. That’s right. P-Diddy. Now, if I could only get a sample of this to see if the sweet life is really for me.

Beauty Call | Diddy’s Cologne Preview – The Moment Blog – NYTimes.com

I’ve been meaning to write about this small Finnish company for quite some time. You need a fabric for your design that incorporates a kind of 80s collage DIY aesthetic? This might very well be the designers to look at. Their fabric work suggests industrial wastelands, flowers juxtaposed with grainy penwork of enlarged Maurice Sendak children’s books, and gritty abstract lines.

This design from Birkiland merges two important functions into one simple package. You can keep yourself completely dry from rain while punching someone with a dibilitating blow to the face with this invention.

I really don’t see myself ever using this invention except maybe in a rough and rainy London Neighborhood? A bit too James Bond-ish for my personal tastes, but I’m always wooed by the product mashup.

Birkiland – Umbuster