Alexander Wang was King of New York last year with his Womenswear, t-shirts and bags. There were no molds broken but more a combination of the right amount of street, edgy design and celebrity. This season he’s lending cool to a Linda Farrow line of sunglasses, featuring zipper frames and Cats eyes. I’ll bet Catwoman wants a pair.

Tomer Hanuka has beautiful limited edition prints for sale…hmmm.

Just ordered a copy of Recent Work by Geoff McFetridge, it’s a small book (only 16 pages) that collects some of the work he did for Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are including the Title Designs.

Here he is talking about his work via DO Lectures…

Thanks so much to everyone who ignored the greasy weather and made it down Thursday night for what a great Pecha Kucha Night. A sold out crowd, apologies to anyone who got turned away, got treated to a wealth of presentations from the insightful to full blown ginger exploitation. What’s more, we managed to raise around 1300 euro which has been donated to the Irish Red Cross Haiti appeal.

And when we mentioned it to the international Pecha Kucha people they decided to get all the monies made in PKN’s all over the world in February and donate it to the relief effort. We’re delighted.

Really nice insight on the making of a New Yorker cover. Art Director Françoise Mouly takes us through the process of their ‘3 cover’ Money issue special with artists Dan Clowes,  Zohar Lazar and Mark Ulriksen.

Danish designer, artist and music maker Henrik Vibskov always puts on a good show. Before getting to see for myself, I had heard from somebody that the production was a little more reserved then usual this season. That guy was either plain nuts or pulling my leg, as the Slippery Spiral Situation does not disappoint. The catwalk ran around a suspended sculpture of wood and metal Topsy Turvy land.

The clothes were straight up Vibskov designs delivered via the Highlands;  mismatched prints, over sized jackets, shirting, parkas and a skirt thrown in for good measure. The styling of antique reading glasses fitted with oblong mirrors, wooden skeletal headpieces, satchels, backpacks and seriously sore fingers made the models into some kind of retro future scavengers. The future may not be bright, but it sure looks bonkers.

These paintings are only a taste of the amazing paintings done by Brooklynite Kevin Cyr as part of an ongoing series which I’m loving. The detail is epic, the almost look like photographs, kind of remind me of the observational style of Evan Hecox but with a tweak. My fingers are crossed he compiles them all in a book soon. The internet campaign starts here.

Hope to see you down The Sugar Club on Thursday night. All money made on the door goes direct to Haiti so come down, have a drink, get chatting and do some good. Cheers. More information here.

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Animation by James Newport, Narration by Bridget McCann.

To launch into Spring Summer, Pringle of Scotland commissioned an animation from David Shrigley and a short film from photographer Ryan McGinley. Shrigley’s animation about the making of Pringle jumpers was to celebrate their return with a menswear collection to Milan Fashion Week, while McGinleys showcases the new SS10 Womenswear collection. The first is a high brow sweater v jumper debate and the second is Tilda Swinton in beautiful dresses romping around the highlands.

As a first time collaborator with the historical label Shrigley says…

“My film is about the heritage and workings of Pringle of Scotland. I have perhaps used some artistic license in depicting this, but i think it is nonetheless fairly accurate. I have enjoyed making artwork for a fashion label. The characters that i draw are better dressed as a result. In fact, I used to draw naked characters. Now they have clothes. I think this is a good thing.”

Some images from the new menswear collection…