Satin finish shorts, baseball/bomber jacket, gingham and a bow-tie. Why not? Better yet why not for fall? Idol Radec doesn’t mind the idea. It might sound ridiculous on paper but you can’t deny the execution here is more than effective. Below are some more easier looks to pull off from their FW 08 line.
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By: Mikhail Budhai – Style
The creative team over at Asuza have certainly caught my attention with their 2008 Winter Collection. The strikingly casual sillohuettes contrast the moody, mainly black, color pallette. The influence of the 80’s and 90’s was evident through the utilization of acid wash jeans and geometric graphics. Here it is folks, we can now quit trying to reinvent our favorite non-color… BLACK IS BACK.
*images via: Asuza
By: Eric White – Style
Fig Marmalade and Goat Cheese crumbles
I’ve decided to do a weekly post entitled “Try this” . I’ll be giving you simple and quick food and drink ideas meant to make entertaining easier. This week, I want you to try this: Goat Cheese with an apricot marmalade paired with Dr. Konstantine Frank’s Semi-Dry Riesling (2006). A simple wheat cracker topped with the goat cheese and marmalade is a great combo in itself. The goat cheese has savory taste (read:umami) with a bit of saltiness that is complimented by the sweetness of the marmalade. The wine fits so nicely with the ’snack’ because its has similar qualities in that there is a great balance between sweetness of the wine and its acidity. The characteristics of the wine are toned down as well as its flavor profile are changed by the fat from the cheese that has coated your tongue.
I would recommend this to anyone, especially if you are looking for a quick and easy item to prepare for a date or any social gathering. I recently had 3 of our editors try this combo and got a great response. The goat cheese and apricot marmalade is readily available at most, if not all, grocery stores but if apricots aren’t your thing, try fig (pictured above) or some other fruit spread. Everyone’s palate is different so experiment! Find what you like!
Dr. Frank’s Semi-Dry Riesling is available for about $15.00 per bottle at most wine and spirit distributors making this affordable as well….
Enjoy!
By: Alvin J.B. Roberts, III- Food Correspondent
Okay this is the last drip for me in the desert boot pipeline. I believe you’ve all been saturated enough. Opening Ceremony, proprietors of all things New Hampshire, Nantucket and pastel were the first to take the desert boot to the next step in my opinion. The classic silhouette is there, the lines are cleaner, the form leaner, and the look thus effortless. Desert boots don’t come much more dressed up than this.
By: Mikhail Budhai – Style
The Monster Mash-up party at Pearl Nightclub in Rochester, NY
Featuring Dieselboy, Ewun and Annalyze
Special thanks to Pearl Nightclub and RipRoc for letting us party with them.
If you don’t see your picture here, stay tuned. Much more about this party and all involved coming soon.
Photos By: Antonio Aresco
If my parents built me this as a child, I would never move out. I’m sure you’ve heard of Jenga, and I’m sure you’ve heard of PCP creativity. Combine the two then exponentially raise idle time, and you get Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto’s latest brain child; Final Wooden House. There are no separations of floor, wall, and ceiling, just movement and interaction in a truly 3-dimensional space, created from a strict use of lumber. Brilliant.
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*Via – ArchDaily
By: Mikhail Budhai – Style
This is Hamish Bowles, a very respected member of the fashion community. I saw this shot from my new favorite altamira, and I was just struck in the worst way with this outfit.
I understand the shirt-tie combo is really his sort of shtick, but, that’s beside the point, it was the shoes that really got me. In an earlier post about wearing things because they do not go together, I wrote that I found the outfit refreshing because the counter-culture devise was not the focus or out of place.
This outfit makes a point of having everything put together very well, and then, suddenly, and brazenly going for broke with dusty loafers. I am a huge fan of loafers, but that does not mean I appreciate them when used poorly. This time, was not one of those.
The trick to pulling off a great outfit with things that don’t go together, is that they should not be obviously in contrast, it makes your outfit look like a costume. This was a double-breasted number, his coat was hanging off his shoulders, nonchalant and supposedly elegant. It just looks weird. Maybe weird is good?
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The guys over in news room are gonna go ape shit for this. Microsoft just released an add on to there venerable Surface table. Most commonly scene being played with by large suited children on CNN explaining to other children what an Election Map is, and more recently parodied on SNL. The add on, known as SecondLight, provides a 3rd dimension of usability to the already intensive touch surface. With the use of a second “screen” placed or held on top of the existing table a “zoom” image is generated showing the according information. In the demo above, a picture of the night time sky coupled with this second “screen” allows the user to see a more detailed image of a star system in the little window. Bet the CNN children are already itching for that extra touch fix for Election Day, think of the possibilities. *Score: PC – 1, Mac – …….*
*Via – Giz
By: Mikhail Budhai – Style
These two recent releases by the brand with 3 stripes represents the perfect juxtaposition in their representation. Adidas has managed to toe the line between relevant and classic expertly over the years, teaming up with high end designers like Alyasha Moore and Yohji Yamamoto (for their recurring Y-3 line) to re-interpret it’s classics, in clean understated silhouettes, fashioned in high end materials, and if they need to funk things up they look to their Originals line which melds the classics to brazen colourways to keep the hipsters hip. Above Alyasha Moore for Adidas, Below Tech Rave Originals Collection.
By: Mikhail Budhai – Style
The Krona hooded dress shirt is a creative hybrid design by Arbitrage. However, it doesn’t stop there. The use of contrast stitching, two by two buttons, and subtle details are pretty damn dope. I wish I could get my hands on one! The black/white check and hood combo is my favorite, but I guess that’s just my inner hipster.
It doesn’t stop here, these guys have some great stuff in the line up. More about Arbitrage later.
By: Antonio Aresco
