Featured Image for Dreams Factory: a Buenos Aires-based handmade sunglasses company

New Fashion

Quirky, innovative and inspiring. Fashion is about staying ahead of the pack. We like to wear threads that show our creative personalities, fit our modern lifestyle and make people want to know where we bought them. Lucky for you, we like to share. Just don’t tell anybody.

Know your stuff? Contribute now

Futuristic turtle shell backpacks

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Fashion on Wednesday 17 April 2013

About a year ago, it was really cool for young kids to wear the turtle shell backpacks designed to make the kid feel like a Ninja Turtle. But now it’s time to grow up. This is the future of backpacks. Solid Gray backpacks are dutch designed. They’re tough, lean, and smart.

Read more

High fashion sneakers by Rodarte

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Fashion on Saturday 13 April 2013

The Rodarte sisters are very adept at taking high fashion to the streets. Between their dress design for Target and coffee mugs for Starbucks, they have an all-star track record. And now this. Rodarte designed a single pair of vans sneakers, each sequin hand stitched and a sharpie signature scrawled inside. Unfortunately for us, this pair is [...]

Read more

New t-shirt designs inspired by Albrecht Dürer

Travis Lawrence Reader Find

By Travis Lawrence in New Fashion on Saturday 13 April 2013

Everyone likes t-shirts! Everyone likes cool prints! I have just released some new t-shirt designs from my relief prints as well as a homage to our master printmaker, Albrecht Dürer. Our true homeboy printmaker.

Read more

QR dresses by Thorunn Arnadottir: how to dress smarter

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Fashion on Friday 12 April 2013

Where’d she get that dress? Now you can find out instantly! These gorgeous dresses by Thorunn Arnadottir have QR codes beaded onto the backs. Just whip out your smart phone and snap a shot. Viola! Shopping made so easy.

Read more

From the LAEM Store: Freewheeling Godzilla T-shirt

Alison Shepard Contributor

By Alison Shepard in New Fashion on Friday 12 April 2013

Tired of terrorizing by foot, Godzilla’s gotten himself a bad-ass new ride – courtesy of Ape Snort T-shirts – and can wreak havoc MUCH more efficiently now. There really is nothing like breathing fire at 90 mph. Godzilla and his mighty wheels plus other Ape Snort designs can be found in the Lost At E [...]

Read more

These Heart & Mind Tanks by BBC are so zen

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Fashion on Thursday 11 April 2013

There is just something decidedly zen about these Heart & Mind tanks from the Spring collection of bloke apparel brand BBC (Billionaire Boys Club). Depending on which one you’re looking at, they either scream ‘HEART’ or ‘MIND’, stretched out across the chest where the heart sits. World peace starts inside.

Read more

Strange Loop Jewellery: weird urban tribal fashion

Valerie Auersperg Reader Find

By Valerie Auersperg in New Fashion on Saturday 6 April 2013

This is amazingly wonderful and bizarre jewelry by the multi-talented British artist, Miles Glyn, whom I met years ago in London while we were both still working in film. The pieces are only available online at the moment, so get on it and start wearing some unique fresh art around your neck.

Read more (1 comment)

Stay classy in your sleep with Suitjamas

Rebekah Rhoden Contributor

By Rebekah Rhoden in New Fashion on Thursday 4 April 2013

If you’re one of those guys who just wants to be classy all the time, now you can even class it up in your sleep. Thanks to Suitjamas’a comfortably-talored silk suits, you’ll be living the luxurious life 24-hours a day. You might recognize the Suitjama from the show ‘How I Met Your Mother’, if you’re [...]

Read more

Chaotically eclectic fashion by Peter Pilotto

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Fashion on Friday 29 March 2013

The Peter Pilotto fashion label takes the concept of dress-up to the next level. Imagine being able to transform yourself into a new, more powerful, alien character every time you get dressed in the morning. Between the chaotic geometric patterns and powerful silhouettes, women are invited to change their image like a reptile changes its skin.

Read more

Avant-garde fashion by Tina Kalivas

Rebekah Rhoden Contributor

By Rebekah Rhoden in New Fashion on Thursday 28 March 2013

Tina Kalivas‘ avant-garde fashion designs are extravagant and daring. Her work seems highly futuristic, drawing influence from the great Alexander McQueen, whom she previously worked for as a seamstress.

Read more

From the LAEM Store: Spotlight on Fourth is King

Alison Shepard Contributor

By Alison Shepard in New Fashion on Thursday 28 March 2013

We just got our hands on this new video from streetwear designer, Fourth is King, and we think this captures them to a T. Or, Tee, that is. Fourth is King takes a less-is-more approach to graphics, with a clean, striking approach to the printed tshirt. Their line capture an urban vibe, with undercurrents of [...]

Read more

Return of the Balletcats!

Alison Shepard Contributor

By Alison Shepard in New Fashion on Friday 22 March 2013

We make no secrets about being huge fans of the The Balletcats, and their unique feline loving brand of disfunction. Pretty much every piece of clothing and merchandise that Balletcats (masterminded by Jordan Marzuki) have produced is completely perfect, in an absurd, slightly chaotic, completely unique cat (and other critters) illustration kind of way. The [...]

Read more

THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: watch your step, these knife-like heels really stab

Zac Contributor

By Zac in New Fashion on Friday 22 March 2013

Award-winning London-based shoe designer Chau Har Lee does these really cool made-to-order shoes that redefine the whole notion of killer heels with flat knife-like metal shards instead of pointy little stilettos. These photos by Viktor Vauthier do justice to their coolness.

This content series brought to you by Emirates - HELLO TOMORROW

Read more

THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: Cutting edge fashion by Mary Katrantzou

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Fashion on Thursday 21 March 2013

London-based fashion designer Mary Katrantzou has an anonymous quote on her Facebook page: “God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow into them.” Liberating stuff. With her latest collection for fall 2013, Katrantzou — who is absolutely wicked with prints — references photographer Edward Steichen’s works, juxtaposing both artificial architectural forms and natural landscapes onto shift dresses and the such so well that any woman wearing them would be proud to greet the future in them.

This content series brought to you by Emirates - HELLO TOMORROW

Read more

Lolic and Lime: handcrafted bow ties from Australia

Cormack O'Connor Contributor

By Cormack O'Connor in New Fashion on Wednesday 20 March 2013

Dana and Paolo from Lolic and Lime – the handcrafted bow tie specialists – are pretty much a match made in heaven. Paolo is Italian, and upon returning home to Melbourne from his annual family visit with a whole hoard of rare fabrics and sharing them with Dana in 2012, Lolic and Lime was born. [...]

Read more