Kaws & Comme des Garçons Collaboration Collection

American artist Kaws has teamed up with Japanese avant-garde label Comme des Garçons to create a series of very cool wallets. These wallets utilize the popular CdG zip style wallet together with the familiar styles of Kaws illustrations. This collaboration includes more than just wallets and will also feature clothing, bags and fragrances. These items are set to debut on November 23rd and will be available at Colette in Paris, Dover Street Market in London and Original Fake , Kaws co-owed shop with Medicon Toy in Tokyo.

They do remind me of something eerily organic like little hairy turds or limp penises, am I right? Maybe I just have a dirty mind or could Freud explain it?

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Fetish @ Galerie du Passage, Paris

In one of the more imaginative collaborations we’ve seen of late, Christian Louboutin and David Lynch have locked heads and created a show, Fetish. The exhibition shows five limited edition pairs of shoes by Louboutin alongside five signed photographs of the shoes by Lynch. As if Louboutin’s day-to-day footwear weren’t fetishistic enough, the pair together has taken the theme to an entirely new level.
As with so many collaborations, things moved very quickly. The process began when Lynch commissioned Louboutin to make shoes for an exhibition he was hosting at the Cartier Foundation back in March this year. The pair quickly became friends and when Louboutin wanted to push the notion of extreme fetish in his work, by creating shoes and then playing with their creative representation in two-dimensional images, it was clear Lynch would be the man to translate his vision.

"I tried to keep an element of my drawings, to be faithful to the drawings, with no practicality, just pleasure, thinking of extreme fetish shoes. Usually when you go to the third dimension you lose something," explains Louboutin of his initial concept, "then I wanted to photograph them - I find there’s more emotion with cinematic images. I wanted Lynch’s style and since we’d recently become friends it was natural for me to ask him."

The designer has an atelier where the one-of-a-kind shoes are created. With practicality and comfort out the window, Louboutin has pushed the designs to their limits: think 26cms heels, spikes on the inside and sole of the shoe, and Siamese heels (two shoes fused at the heel).
The idea is that the shoe becomes a cult object, transcending the most beautiful part of the shoe and/or foot. Louboutin pinpoints ‘The Siamese shoe’ as his favourite, "For me the shoe and the picture together become very close to Twin Peaks."

FETISH : 10/03/2007 -11 /03/2007
DAVID LYNCH (Photographs, 2007) CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN (Souliers, 2007) @ Galerie du Passage

Via Yatzer Via Wallpaper

Dita Von Teese in Paris

Burlesque Goddess Dita Von Teese was a vision of perfection at the Spring/Summer 2008 shows in Paris last week. She attended all the major runway presentations including Chanel, Dior, Loewe and Elie Saab, to name a few. She also attended the Fetish exhibit party, co-hosted by photographer David Lynch and shoe designer Christian Louboutin. At Chanel she posed next to a grumpy-looking Victoria Beckham, that didn't seem too thrilled to share the spotlight with the raven-haired beauty.

Every time I see Dita's looks she is flawless from top to bottom: the hair, the make-up, the outfit, the nails, the bag, the shoes, the TOE NAILS!! She does not miss a single detail and it shows. Her clothing choices are always perfect and true to her 40's-50's pin-up look, that she never seems to compromise or misstep. A true fashion icon!

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Via Celebutopia

New Gucci Perfume Ad by David Lynch

This is the new Gucci by Gucci perfume ad shot by Hollywood director David Lynch. The surrealist creator of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks adds his kooky views now towards fragrance sales, for Gucci's first ever TV ad. Brazilian supermodel Raquel Zimmerman, along Natasha Poly and Freja Beha Erichsen were the hand picked beauties to star in G by G film and ad campaign. The ad will run in Europe from late October on. But all I can think of is "These girls have no rhythm!", as they sway away out of beat to Blondie's Heart of Glass.

Via Vogue UK

Mark James @ Colette Paris

This limited edition of 99 pieces only is by UK artist Mark James and it's available at Colette in Paris, the coolest shop around. It's 7"5 tall and for 100 Euros you can take one home.
Mark James and his take on this toy:
If 99% is shit then what's the 1%?
"It's up to you, one mans shit is another mans gold. 99% is an observation on modern life. It's not a dig at the toy scene or any other scene as some people may think, it's about society as a whole, the obsession with useless celebrities, politics, tabloids, fast food, reality shows, I could go on, but generally 99% is shit! It can be taken as a positive or a negative message, I prefer the positive, once you except 99% is shit, you can move on and enjoy life, lower your expectations."