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High ResolutionThese bracelets were made from sound.
Nu transforms music into a unique piece of wearable art. Using sophisticated audio analysis, generative 3D code, and 3D printing to understand the fundamental musical elements of a song, they define the structure of a physical object using unique parts and pieces: every song leads to a completely original form.
Nu exhibited their innovative jewelry at an interactive art exhibition at #SXSW. Their work transforms the way musicians and fans connect by allowing fans to wear their favorite melodies and become even more connected to their favorite pieces of music.
Nu also represents a new approach to design and manufacturing – a way for artists create through code, and an approach that enables both mass production and mass customization. It allows people to use technology to create pieces that are completely meaningful and unique to them.
Nu’s custom fabrication code uses six pieces of musical data:
- The BPM of the song determines the overall complexity of the folding pattern.
- Beat emphasis determines the ratio of folding from left to right.
- Syncopation determines the ratio of folding from front to back.
- Beat intensity controls the depth of the folding pattern.
- Song length determines how far the holes extend.
- Rythmic complexity controls the ratio of the inner ring’s folding scale to the outer ring’s folding scale.
- Frequency distribution determines the depth of the inner ring’s folding pattern.
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Good God.
I would do things for this dress.
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![Anna Piaggi, the queen of modern street style, is dead at 81.
She, and her style, were truly ageless and timeless, and on the heels of the losses of Isabella Blow and Alexander McQueen, it feels like the end of an era defined by masters of glamorous eccentricity.
Anna brought vintage clothes and graphic street style into popular culture. Because of her unmistakable presence in the fashion world, even teenagers in Wisconsin (like me) could be inspired by a way of dressing we’d never seen before. Her experimental fashion sense and the daring confidence with which she approached her life inspired many of my [misguided] fashion experiments in high school and college (fortunately or unfortunately).
The hole she leaves in the world’s fashion community cannot be filled.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8e5ttcaVc1qdp2klo1_500.jpg)
Anna Piaggi, the queen of modern street style, is dead at 81.
She, and her style, were truly ageless and timeless, and on the heels of the losses of Isabella Blow and Alexander McQueen, it feels like the end of an era defined by masters of glamorous eccentricity.
Anna brought vintage clothes and graphic street style into popular culture. Because of her unmistakable presence in the fashion world, even teenagers in Wisconsin (like me) could be inspired by a way of dressing we’d never seen before. Her experimental fashion sense and the daring confidence with which she approached her life inspired many of my [misguided] fashion experiments in high school and college (fortunately or unfortunately).
The hole she leaves in the world’s fashion community cannot be filled.
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Most of our donated clothing does not end up in vintage shops, as car-seat stuffing, or as an industrial wiping rag. It is sold overseas. After the prized vintage is plucked out and the outcasts are sent to the fiber and wiping rag companies, the remaining clothing is sorted, shrink-wrapped, tied up, baled, and sold to used-clothing vendors around the world. The secondhand clothing industry has been export-oriented almost since the introduction of mass-produced garments. And by one estimate, used clothing is now the United States’ number one export by volume, with the overwhelming majority sent to ports in sub-Saharan Africa. Tanzanians and Kenyans call used clothing mitumba, which means “bales,” as it comes off the cargo ships in the shrink-wrapped cubes like the ones I saw at Trans-Americas and Salvation Army. The bales are cut open in front of an eager clientele and buyers, who pick through it for higher-value finds.
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Once again, while many Americans might like to imagine that there is some poor, underdressed African who wants our worn and tattered duds, the African used clothing market is very particular and is demanding higher quality and more fashion-forward styles. Paben told me that access to the Internet and cellphones has made the continent fiercely fashion-forward in recent years. “There’s been a change in what you can sell there,” he says, and the bales have to be much more carefully sorted based on style, brand, and condition. As incomes rise in Africa, tastes become more savvy, cheap Chinese imports of new clothes flood those countries, and our own high-quality clothing supply is depleted, it’s foreseeable that the African solution to our overconsumption may come to an end. What then?-Excerpted from Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion. By Elizabeth L. Cline, excerpted at Slate.com.
If you’ve ever wondered what happens to your clothes after you drop them off, with the best of intentions, at your local Goodwill, wonder no more. After discarding bin after bin of the unwanted clothing that no longer fits into my adult life (because I believe I’ve chosen a lifestyle, a career, and an aesthetic that makes perfectly good - if a little old or unfashionable - items unwearable) this weekend, I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole of America’s disposable clothing culture.
Buoyed by the necessitated thriftiness of my under-employed early twenties, I’ve learned how to be a first-rate shopper - I’ve learned how to find a minimum level of quality in the kinds of quantities I believe I need to hold on to my outward image as a fashion-conscious, stylish young woman. But it also means that I’ve become comfortable buying way more than I need, and consuming clothes at a rate that accommodates the capriciousness of the fashion industry. And that’s definitely not okay. I need to become much more comfortable looking for quality and wearability - pieces that I’ll want to wear for years, pieces that I’ll be able to wear for years. I’ve defended Forever 21 as a cost-effective option for people who want to look trendy and accumulate a fashionable wardrobe despite their financial situation, but really I’d like to see a movement in fashion similar to the organic and local food movement, where quality, affordability, and location are emphasized over quantity and mass-production capabilities.
(Source: Slate)
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High ResolutionThis is the only photo that exists on the internet of Martin Margiela’s face.
Refinery 29 solves 29 of fashion’s biggest mysteries. You know I love things like that.
Also, in what comes as a surprise to no one, those scenes from The Hills at Teen Vogue were fake.
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"You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select … I don’t know… that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise. It’s not lapis. It’s actually cerulean. And you’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent… wasn’t it? Who showed cerulean military jackets? (I think we need a jacket here.) And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff."
-Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada
I know you’re not supposed to like this moment in the movie, but I’ve always loved it.
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High ResolutionIn March, Karl Lagerfeld can eat a big ol’ slice of humble pie.
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I estimate I could probably get my Cost Per Uses down to $10 for this dress, because ORANGE. It’s already sold out in my size, though, because this is a recession, folks.
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High Resolutionrainbow bright: ann wears a custom-designed TODAY anniversary-themed dress
Ann Curry, you can take your job perks and get out.
(Source: today)
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If this winter continues to be unseasonably warm, I will be left with no choice but to start buying sandals.
Go ahead, make me.
Left, Sam Edelman. Right, Boutique 9. Both, at Shopbop.
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This is a dorm room?
Note to Miss Schwartzmann: You are actually not a broke college student. You are a college student whose parents refuse to give you an unlimited allowance, but still subsidize your mid-line shoe habit. That’s cool, though. Me too, girl.
Dorm room tour: Teen Vogue intern Rachel Schwartzmann gives us a peek into her living space on campus. Pictured above is just a sample of her impressive shoe collection.
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High ResolutionToday I realized that society is keeping me from making any more money than I currently do specifically so that I do not buy these boots.
If you do not share my strange curse, they are available to you here, for $498, which seems an outrageous price to pay for something everyone would probably make fun of you for wearing off of the internet anyway.
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High ResolutionIn honor of the its most famous young resident, Betsey Johnson designs an Eloise-inspired Christmas tree for
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These are for the days on which I need to stomp through a post-apocalyptic Arctic acid trip in style, or for the next dogsled racing-themed formal event I attend.
Belle by Sigerson Morrison eskimo clog boot // via Shopbop
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