Lykke Li : Knocked Up Rodeo Mash Up

I just saw Kings of Leon play at Madison Square Garden this past weekend. As always, they were great live. But every time I see them play, I observe this fact: the song “Knocked Up” is absolutely epic live. Its an epic song all around. I mean every time he sings the line “people call us renegades, we like livin crazy”, with that sharp guitar noise accompanying it, I get the chills! So no surprise that my favorite girl Lykke Li had similar thoughts. She decided to cover the song, and as would be expected from anything she does, its great. Have a listen.

Listen to Lykke Li’s “Knocked Up Rodeo Mash Up” Here

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Let the countdown begin…Im giving you 15 days to get a trip to London organized, get in touch with your peeps in London to handle business for you or just enter it into your agenda if you are London…

Phase 1: FEB 15th – MARCH 15th

KTZ – London, NAKKNA – Sweden, ELTON AND JACOBSEN – Norway, WEAR IT FOR THE BOY – Denmark, DIANA ORVING – Sweden, RESTERODS – Sweden, MARIOS – Italy,

Trendland’s favorites of Phase 1:

KTZ – UK

Founded by Marian Pejorskis. Inspiration for this season is drawn from Blade Runner, referencing Bronx and Kenyan tribal wear. The collection embodies the eccentrity and exuberant prints and candy colours from the 90s. The iconic detail of the collection is the application of large jewels on the pieces.

DIANA ORVING – SWEDEN

Diana Orving’s creations are characterized by layers and draped fabrics, resulting in a tailored look. Drawing inspiration from dance and movement these influences are evident in the fluid nature of her designs.

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A pretty cool design by Pablo Matteoda the Sharky tea infuser.

The Designer Words : ‘INFUSION means to extract certain properties from an soluble ingredient such as tea leaves , herbs or fruit by soaking in liquid (water) until it gets saturated. So we can say that a infuser is the in charged of make this happen. This is a ludic point of view about the color given off from the phenomenon, wich makes more interesting the waiting of the whole process.’ [via DesignBoom]

A little interview of L.A. artist Shepard Fairey ( aka Obey ) about the Barack Obama “Hope” poster, The Poster is hang in the U.S. National Portrait Gallery  since January 20th, 2009 (via Los Angeles Times)

French retoucher Christophe Huet is a true photoshop Master! His work is fascinating. He is the one who creates the famous advertising for Playstation, but also some for  Nike, Motorola, Surfrider Foundation…. I spend an hour on his site looking all of his work, and the Best of all is that he has few working progress slideshows where you can see the process of each image, Like the one above… Its really interesting and inspiring.

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Beirut : My Wife Lost in the Wild

Beirut released its third album this week, a double EP split between ‘March of the Zapotech’, which follows the orchestral band’s traditional sound as it mixes with Latin – in particular, Oaxacan – influences. But its the second half, the ‘Holland EP,’ where things get interesting. Recording under the name “RealPeople”, Zach Condon’s band incorporates electronic sounds and follows in the pretty paths of Portishead and Hot Chip. You can find the opening track “My Night with a Prostitute from Marseilles” around the internet, and I recommend doing so, but here I offer the stunning “My Wife Lost in the Wild”.

Listen to My Wife Lost in the Wild Here

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Could you believe that photographer Andrew Matusik used Rene Magritte as inspiration for his photoshoot!? For Genlux magazine winter issue, Andrew created an Amazing editorial called ‘ Sir Realist ‘ – A beautiful work, really well executed, and you can see that Andrew spends a lot on photoshop compare to Magritte who was painting – Technology Vs. Art

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Hartland Villa is a French Production Agency, who is representing photographer and Art Director, like Elen Usdin who made this beautiful lookbook for Lanvin SS08 inspired by Pacman/Lego

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Refinery 29 delivered s with a bit of Swedish Goodness this morning upon their return from Sweden’s fashion week. Their short lived trip to see the Acne, Whyred, 5th Ave Shoe Repair shows, among a few others was full of excitement and photos, capturing a lot of the street style of Sweden’s fashionistas.

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He’s My Brother She’s My Sister : Tales That I Tell

He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, a space-folk collective from Echo Park, was formed by siblings Rachel and Rob Kolar, featuring Lauren Brown as a tap dancing percussionist and Molly Collins on backup vocals. Lauren and Rachel are a performance team- their play “NEW”, an avant hardist portrait of socialites in a post-apocalyptic world, recently had several sold-out runs in L.A. and will soon be touring on the East Coast.

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Visit their Myspace for the full line up of their tracks.

Lina Bodén is a Swedish Illustrator, just graduated of advertising & graphic design at Beckman’s Design college in Stockholm, She already work with H&M, Weekday and few other trendy Swedish brands…Really like her style and how she draws feathers.

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Everyone is talking about the brilliant collab between Opening Ceremony and Pendleton. I mean how could this combination go wrong, one of the best stores in the US and one of the staples of American dress. For their 100th anniversary Pendleton worked with Opening Ceremony to create a full collection, including bags of mouthwatering designs. But the punchline here is not the collab, as you probably all know about it, but rather the fact that it is already in store at the La Cienega shop. Everyone is saying the collection is suppose to hit in August, but my little secret can set you ahead of the herd. I cant promise the whole collection is there but there are defintly some pieces including the raddest leather and flannel bags.

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French Photographer Mathieu Deluc have a really nice portfolio, working with pretty good amount of fashionista Magazines ( WAD, Elle…) and designers, He arrived into the world of photography a little bit by hazard – It happens after working as art Director for a pret a porter brand : “ In the prêt-à-porter, I was in charge of the choices of the materials, the casting, the shows. One day, I decided to make photos of the lastest collection. A nice British stylist saw those photos and asked me to do some for her magazine. I told her that I was not a professional photographer, but she insisted. I really enjoyed shooting those stories. An American writer saw these and asked me to do a book for Abrams/éditions de la Martinière. During this production we did some photos for Elle international. Thus, began my professionnal career! ” Pretty cool story and beautiful work Mathieu ! Bravo

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It seems like the Godfathers of rap are running out of hard-knock fodder for their gangsta rhyme schemes. Yeah, it’s kinda tough to rap about the streets when your kids have their own shows on MTV (Snoop Dogg’s Fatherhood & Run DMC’s Daddy’s Girls).

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Arguably, rap music is rooted in the Blues. Hardship is an essential ingredient to the anthems of the genre.

If you’re hungry for new music, check out Rapper K-Naan originally from the slums of Mogadishu, Somalia. MORE inside the post

You know that at TrendLand we love the work of Miles Aldridge, We already introduced him and reviewed few of his Editorials, This one is pretty cool called Bigfoot Lives for NY Times in 2006

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