Levi van Veluw is a young Dutch multidisciplinary artist, he lives and works in the Netherlands. His Landscapes series is pretty amazing ! see more on Behance

‘Landscapes’. This 4-piece series reinterprets the traditional landscape painting, removing plots of grass, clusters of trees, babbling brooks from their intimate 2 dimensional formats and transposing them onto the 3 dimensional contours of his own face. Thus a fresh twist is given to the obsession inherent in the romantic landscape of recreating the world and simultaneously being part of it. The romantic landscape and self-portrait genres are combined as a means of re-examination.

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Chanel Mobile Art installation

In 1955 Madame Coco Chanel launched the iconic, quilted ‘it’ bag 2.55. Now, fifty-three years later, Chanel have decided to make the bag the center of attention once again, namely the center of a traveling exhibition entitled Chanel Mobile Art. Twenty international contemporary artists have reinterpreted the classic Chanel hand bag and designed everything from a gold quilted guitar-shaped shoulder bag to a giant 2.55 lying thrown on the floor. The exhibition opened in Hong Kong in a futuristic, curved glass pavillion designed by Zaha Hadid, which was the first stop of a two-year world tour, where the artists have smoothened the fine lines between fashion design and art. “We don’t need art, but we cannot live without it,” said Karl Lagerfeld at the opening of Chanel’s Mobile Art pavilion in New York City’s Central Park. The exhibition will move on to cities like London, Moscow and Paris.

Colette has launched a series of guest blogs on their site. A true creative think tank the guest editors include the designer, artist, and activist Andrea Crews, DJs A-track and Michel Gaubert, the lovely and adorable graffiti artist FAFI, Brooklyn Born artist and designer Eric Elms, make up artist Feride Uslu, and a product idea blog. Leave it to Colette to gather some of the most creative and interesting people around the globe! It looks like they have some space to fill, I wonder who else will join? Check out all the blogs here.

Maison Martin Margiela for Maria Luisa Catalogue

If you dont know by now I have huge weakness for fashion illustration. These renderings by french Artist Cedric Rivrian are absolutely beautiful. The flow of his work is flawless; accents and detail where necessary and loose line work use to express the aesthetic of certain design or designers. I definitely feel the Egon Schiele inspiration but his style is clearly distinctive.

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October 1st // The official release of The Healthy Hustle editorial: Ratha of Stablished.

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I couldn’t resist bringing up this photo from the Spellbound editorial out of V mag’s November 07 issue. The Styling is absolutely phenomenal in this shot and I dont think I have ever seen a more fabulous coat. Few words can measure the greatness of this shot so I’ll leave it to the viewers to indulge.
Coat by Giorgio Armani, boots by Marjan Pejoski

Womens’ design category winners Alexander Wang, Elise Overland, Lyell’s Emma Fletcher and Michael Kresse, Reyes’ José Ramón Reyes, Wayne by Wayne D. Lee.

Mens ‘ category winners Alexander Galan, Oliver Helden, Paul Marlow, Matthew Sandager, and Melissa Vail of Loden Dager. Read the full story

Check out Alexandre Duret-Lutz, a Paris-born photographer who uses his Pentax K10 to focus on spherical panoramas and Escheresque spirals. His photos have got a beautiful,mathematical style to them, ( not that i’ve figured out the equation though!) and each time I look at them, my eye finds something it did not see the first time around.

Wild and vibrant, this trend is not for the weak. Soren Bach creates eccentric head pieces for his Spring 2008 catwalk. I’m inundated with hats that are “rediscovered vintage looks,” and this is why Soren Bach leads the mad hatters to forward progression that is both shocking and stunning.

Today begins the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute blog discussions of some 40 acquisitions titled ” Blog.mode: Addressing Fashion.” Each piece has some artistic or historical relevance to fashion, and is something of a crash course in fashion history. This public dialogue is a great concept, because those who are fearful to comment on artwork are not at all afraid to disclose their thoughts on fashion, thus taking fashions’ need to judge and be judged into a way of engaging public discourse with the museum experience.

You’ve got to check out top shoe designer Jonathan Kelsey, who learned his trade with Jimmy Choo. ( Fashion runs in his family, his cousin Stuart Vevers won the Accessory Designer of the Year at the 2006 British Fashion Awards.) The shoes have a kind of polish and sophistication that I enjoy but with a rock ‘n’ roll edge that any age group will lust over.

They are available now at Saks 5th Avenue.

New York Magazine has launched the New York Look Magazine.

According to the press release, New York Look Magazine is “a new, twice-a-year fashion magazine from the editors of New York [magazine]”, which focuses on the bi-annual fashion week season. The latest issue seeks to capture “the Spring 2008 collections and the parties, personalities, and drama that defined them”. The magazine is like a behind-the-scenes look to all the fashion shows and after-parties, as well as fashion trend analysis.

The best outfits from the New Museum party in New York on Wednesday.

This is Thousand Reason’s Why debut collection ” The Junk Generation.” Started by Ben Turner and Daniel Lindsay in Melbourne, the boys behind the brand are pleased to find their items stocked in stores across Australia.Their Summer 07/08 line is a fantastic plastic array of loud prints and colors and the theme revolves around the pleasures we encountered as children.

The Billionaire Boys Club opened Tuesday to a warm reception. People waited outside the store to get a sneak peek of the merchandise offered. Though it is closed today for a private party, BBC will open its doors to the public again on Thursday, November 29.

Advertisers are continuing to evolve their methods to attract our attention. This short film directed by Guy Ritchie for BMW stars Clive Owen, a M-series tiger of a sports car, and a musical superstar near and dear to most of our hearts. It is both inspiring and frightening to see the new level reached by advertisers in attracting consumer attentions. After this short I definitely wanted to test drive a BMW.

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What I hate most about driving is that since I’m so focused on the road, alot of the time I’ll miss out on all the cool graffiti on the streets of LA. Melrose Avenue has served as a canvas for many street artists like Banksy and Shepard Fairey. Thanks to LAist for the photos, I hadn’t seen some of them yet!