The Design Crack Guide to Fashion
The umbrella but no handle UFOCAP
The beauty of this design is it’s so practical yet it’s so stupid looking. The advertising says, " On a rainy day, it will be the wings for your arms". Which is a not so good way of saying that the UFOCAP frees your hands from the umbrella. So, it solves a great [...]
Sunflower Diamond Necklace by Harry Winston
Harry Winston, as you may know, creates the most insane and fantastic diamond jewelry know to man. The proceeds from the sale of some of the Winston necklaces could probably run a small country for a good length of time. It is that opulent. I personally do not practice flaunting excess, but that’s because I’m [...]
Retainer Necklace by Kiel Mead at Areaware
Gold teeth have become so pas·sé these days that who wants to wear them anymore? Not to mention, if you are a young rapper, say eleven years old, you are going to want to wear something more appropriate to your age demographic while still retaining a high level of bling. And speaking of “retaining”, how [...]
USB Concepts by dialog05
USB Concepts by dialog05 mixes conceptual art, USB technology, and hint of iPod sensibility. The concept are pretty straightforward: take some USB memory and wrap something visually challenging around the device. Then, finish off the device with the cute, blue USB universal icon for credibility. There are a number of concepts that dialog05 has created. [...]
Army Trash by Gerhardt Kellermann
What do do with old weapons? Turn them in to luxury fashion accessories, of course! This was the concept that Gerhardt Kellermann adopted when he created his highly refined collection of recycled weaponry: Army Trash. Just take a grenade, defuse it (I’m assuming) paint it with gold and pink enamel, bejewel it with the finest [...]
Maarten Baas on Revver
Over the next few weeks, I thought I would start adding some of my favorite architecture and design related videos from the awesome video sharing site, Revver. These next few are from Designguide.tv. I think you’ll find these videos pretty compelling.
Maarten Baas presents his “Sculpt” furniture, Rough scale models of different kinds of products are [...]
Links to the Top International Fashion Weeks
As you may know, I’ve been hard pressed to create good quality posts with the birth of our son Lawrence. He is a tiny but precocious little fellow who has kept us on our toes. Since November 15th, my life has felt like one long and unending day. What do you do under heavily sleep [...]
Balenciaga Fall / Winter 2007
If you did not know, my wife and I just had a child 8 days ago. This child has been out of the house for his pediatrician’s appointment among other journey’s, but his real inaugural first day out I’ve decided to take him to the new Barneys in San Francisco. And what might I find [...]
Bell & Ross Watches’ Subtle Boxiness Wows
This past weekend, The New York Times had an advertising supplemental that was a slick magazine devoted to the watch, a dying breed of product design. Probably my favorite of the watches was the Bell & Ross BR01-97. It is, quite frankly, one of the ugliest watches I have ever seen, but there is no [...]
G-STAR RAW: Denim as Couture
I included G-STAR RAW to the Crack List simply because I’ve never seen denim treated so expertly. Where I live in San Francisco there are only two ways recognized as fashionable for denim: there is the teenage hip-hop style of wearing jeans around your ankles (how can you run from police with your jeans like [...]
Dior rekindles a Japanese flair with their Samourai 1947 handbag
This bag is soooo old news. However, The Dior Samourai 1947 handbag is still one of my favorites even though Dior has probably gone on to market bigger and better pieces. This handmade gem by Dior is nothing less than a work of art. The handbag comes in a variety of colors, but I like [...]
Salvatore Ferragamo White Pump with Mosaic Heal: A Break from Tradition
I have been contemplating giving who I am and everything I do in life a catchy tag line that will help an audience identify with me. Design Crack, as of yet, has no tag line. It pretty much explains itself, I think, with the mental visual of a design object that is irresistibly addictive- thus, [...]
Emilio Pucci Wood Clutch Purse: Modern Art as Fashion Accessory
Now that another fashion week in New York has passed, all my future fashion posts for the next several weeks are going to be old news. So, if you really want to stay on top of the latest fashion trends, then this may be the wrong blog. If, however, you are simply in the mood [...]
Funky Shoe: Peu by Camper
I only include this shoe on the site for Camper’s design innovation concerning it’s shoe string. The name of the shoe is Peu and it has that characteristic Camper look. But the shoe is just so much easier to put on with its one elastic shoe string, that it makes me wonder why shoes have [...]
The Dosh All-Polymer Wallet Doesn’t Leave You All Wet
A couple of weeks ago, Dosh sent me an anoucment to me. I spent some time on the site, and I must admit that I really like the wallet. The designers of the product have developed a clear and compelling site to promote their product which I think on its own might have been overlooked. [...]
Sunday Prop: A Raf Simons Update Plus Dazed Digital
Kirsti from Dazed Digital has sent me a recent interview of fashion designer, Raf Simons, as a follow up to a post I made a couple of weeks ago on Mr. Simons’ latest collection. The interview is eye opening, and I really enjoyed it, but I must put out a huge complement to Dazed Digital’s [...]
