Wow, what a month! Design Festival in London, Fashion Weeks in New York, London, Paris, Milan… Lots of new styles, shapes, materials and colours to be discovered, recurrent and new emerging trends. We compare fashion vs. furniture – two fields that have more in common than you might think.

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This concept study takes the iconic Minox form factor as inspiration. We wanted to create a sub-compact camera that targets the fashion-conscious consumer and encourages quick, discreet and stylish usage.
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Fashion houses have been extending their brands outside the intrinsic couture space for a long time now. Their cosmetics and accessories -including watches- are almost a given these days. But when we ran into this guitar by Chanel we were blown away by the shear beauty of the object itself and Chanel’s audacity at exploring the limits of where their brand could go.
So, for our latest blog entry we decided to look at Chanel and other leading fashion houses to see how they are extending their reach to new spaces and demonstrating the power and flexibility of premium lifestyle brands.
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OK, so Betty is dressing MUCH better these days… but we thought that her glasses, although endearing, still had some room for improvement, so we set ourselves the brief to redesign them for her – and this is what happened. Read more »

Not sure about you, but we feel that most male watches are either too techy or too minimal. STEPS is the result of a design investigation we have recently finished aimed at finding the right spot for a contemporary watch that conveys a sense of precision without making you look like a wannabe pilot.

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SONEL is a concept Netbook created by Lovely&Co for one of the leading fashion houses in Europe. Netbooks are small computers that are always connected to the internet and – at 250mm x 120mm – sit somewhere between a small laptop and a large Smart phone. The concept behind Sonel is to create a luxury Netbook that borrows more from the emotional values and craftsmanship of Haute Couture than from your average high-tech gadget.

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Inspired by Alexander McQueen’s incredible collection for 2010, we had a look into other fields of design, where new technologies such as digital printing on textiles and 3D printing of complicated shapes have a growing effect on the work of designers.
Welcome to a world of insects, micro-organisms, alien-like shapes and beautiful textures.
Above: shoe of the Alexander McQueen collection ‘Plato’s Atlantis’. |  Photo style.com

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Having somehow managed to survive the London Fashion Week followed by the London Design Festival, we thought that it would be fun to treat them as a single event and look for trends that would connect them both. If you ask us, the result is more interesting than looking at each one separately… maybe they should mix things up a bit next year.

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These are some samples picked from our favourite haute couture collections for the coming season. Rather than giving you yet another summary of everything out there, we have decided to look at some of the interesting details and find out the elements that bring them together. (photos Chanel if it’s hip it’s here; other designers style.com)

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