The backpack that has been sold to over 3 million customers since its release in 1978 is celebrating its 30 year anniversary. Kånken is an unchanged classic, and the only things that have changed are the colours and the addition of a number of models to the line. The big release for the fall is …
FASHION
The creative director of Complete Technique, Osamu Koyama teamed up with 55DSL to design a limited edition piece that would compliment the recently launched 55DSL FW08 Collection. The graphic story in the Italian streetwear brand’s latest collection was inspired by hi-fidelity stereo equipment and has twisted references to the late 80’s. It’s a PERFECT FIT!!
I heard many people comparing Uniqlo to H&M, but I think it’s like comparing fish and meat…Uniqlo is a Japanese brand based on simplicity, good quality and simple design. Same philosophy of Muji, another worldwide famous Japanese brand, but maybe Uniqlo is less “posh”. and it produces just clothes. They have a great choice of …
Outnumber is a new online men’s clothing and footwear retailer. The site was launched in June 2008 and brought together a variety of street, skate, and contemporary brands as a one stop shopping destination for guys. The site hopes to educate it’s customers with interviews and trends spotted in todays subculture street, art, and music …
Hokuto Katsui and Nao Yagi founded Mint Designs in 2001. Together, they have been creating amazing and playful fashion, but they also explored different fields of design collaborating with various brands like Shu Emura, sony Ericsson, Nume…
Skinny Vinny is a Small Brooklyn-based studio that creates functional satchels. Their bags are all handcrafted and made in the USA with top-quality canvas for everyday durability. The bags tend toward a straightforward, no-fuss design, balanced with unconventional styling and an obsessive attention to the finer details. Their mission is to create functional products that …
The concept behind Hirocoledge is simple: a repetition of circles which creates amazing patterns. Japanese designer, Hiroko Takahashi, was successful in the difficult process of evolving traditional culture. She has mananged to give a fresh and more contemporary look to Japanese traditional items such as kimono, yukata, furushiki and tenugui, and at the same time …
Tumi, the luxury brand of travel, business and lifestyle accessories, introduces the newly redesigned T-Tech collection, designed by executive creative director David Chu. The line will debut this September in over 600 doors, including Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s. With its rugged, modern style, T-Tech is designed to appeal to anyone with an appetite for adventure. From …
Balkan tango was established in 2004 to come up with useful and pretty fashion accessories for town dwellers. Behind this brand there is Ipek Türkoglu, the founder and designer of Balkan Tango. You can find amazing bags made out of used bicycle innertubes on Supermarket. This is a recent interview from el-oso. How did you …
Natalie Thakur, emerging new London based leather designer, gained major press featuring in The World of Interiors, Blueprint, Instyle as well as The Independent voting her grocery bag the number 1 best gift in their top 50 designs. Her first and main signature collection, ‘The Reusable Range’ is based on the notion of disposability. Recreating …
The Baggu Bag, a new, eco-friendly alternative to paper or plastic, is reinventing the shopping experience. With a mission to provide shoppers with a practical and fashionable solution to the plastic bag problem, this simple and beautiful reusable shopping tote is a stylish approach to going green. Baggu’s design is a basic silhouette, inspired by …
Ulterior Motive is a brand new swedish fashion label bringing cutting edge design into men’s accessories.We have intervisted, in exclusive for Polkadot, the creative director Håkan Bruce. who’s behind UM and how everything started? The ideas behind Ulterior Motive was growing in my mind for quite some time but it wasn’t until I lived in …
The graphic story of 55DSL‘s Fall Winter ’08 collection was inspired by hi-fidelity stereo equipment and twisted references to the late 80’s. Quirky audiocassette graphics, as well as old LP covers, are corrupted with our usual irreverence. Besides the main theme, the guys at 55dsl still haven’t freed themselves from their habitual obsession with dynamic …