Blackbird mending kit, impractical practicality

The Blackbird Men’s mending kit won’t win any award for practicality. It’s not exactly travel friendly and won’t fit easily into your overnight bag, nor can its glass container be trusted to the misshandling your luggage will undoubtedly suffer at an airport. For at-home use though, the kit will serve double duty as a usable piece of decoration. Contained inside you’ll find a selection of needles, buttons & a measuring tape amongst many other useful supplies to handle those unavoidable mishaps.

You can check out the full contents of the kit by clicking on the thumbnails below, or if you’re already keen on grabbing the kit it can be yours for $35 over at the Blackbird store.

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Dior by Demarchelier

No, the famed photographer isn’t taking on the what seems to be fast becoming the least wanted job in the industry.
Instead Patrick Demarchelier’s latest photo book is a tremendous photo essay of Dior’s Couture story to date. Spanning the house’s entire couture history, the book will encompass designs from Christian Dior himself, the work of Yves Saint Laurent and the now controversial yet undeniably talented John Galliano. The book features over one hundred gowns and you can get a preview of it by clicking on the photo below.
Dior Couture by Patrick Demarchelier Preview

If the book has piqued your interest, you’re able to pre-order a copy now – just in time for Christmas. Get it at Amazon.com.

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Childhood magic and My Little Pony

Some childhood things stay magical forever. If the 1980s was your decade, that magic was probably fed to you in a diet of colourful ’80s TV shows and cartoons, from pastel-coloured My Little Ponies to Rainbow Brite and her horse Starlite, who could gallop across rainbows (and, I always thought, beat any of the Little Ponies hands down in a fight). If you have a fountain of nostalgia welling up inside you at the mere mention of such ’80s classics, then the odds are in favour that you’ll also love Wildfox’s spring 2012 White Label collection. It was inspired by those very things, manifesting the ’80s cartoon magic in lavender hair, sparkling stars, lace and equine prints; proving that our inner child is always there inside us.

 

Perhaps I’ll leave it to the designers to explain it best:

As 28 year old women, we might not be able to play with Barbies and Rainbow Brite, or create fantasy worlds in plastic castles on the floor, but we can do all those grown up things we dreamed of when we were little girls.
We can wear a lavender mini dress with flouncy sleeves and sparkling stars, we can kiss boys and run down the beach at night, we can fall asleep on the sofa with all our girlfriends watching 80′s movies, we can wear high heels and have wild adventures and, if we want, we can see the world.
The things we lose are not really lost, they shaped us growing up and still exist as fairy tales waiting to come true.

Via. You can view the full White Label look book from Wildfox at the gallery above.

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Weekend read: the birth, death and rebirth of Jacques magazine

“Jacques was attempting to recreate an aesthetic that died years ago in an industry that is collapsing in a medium that is declining…”
What happened to Jacques Magazine, the print world’s bold return to vintage-style erotica? From the crumbling relationship of its founders, to the crumbling of the title itself, Jacques has had a bumpy ride.
Jacques Magazine #3 shoot by Jonathan Leder (NSFW)

Over at Brooklyn Ink, Jonathan Tayler finds out that all is not lost and the future of Jacques may still be looking up. Co-founder Danielle Leder thinks unique print can survive – and that Jacques has a strong point of difference.

“Our girls are much different than what Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler are offering,” Danielle said. “Those girls that they’re showcasing, I could easily hop on my computer and get millions and millions of pictures that are those girls. I would like to think our girls are different. They’re curvy and not airbrushed. I feel like this is filling a gap that does not exist right now.”

Read more here.
Above: photos by Jonathan Leder for Jacques Magazine issue 3.

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