A Marc for everybody

The news is that you can have your own Marc Jacobs bag at 24 dollars.
The other news is that buy it helps art and artists with developmental, mental and physical disabilities like the ones of the Creative Growth Art Center.
Not bad.

Via: MissTrendy

Maybe they’re not so wearable, but the new shoes born from the mind of the designer and architect Zaha Hadid are surely unique and ethically coherent.
The Brazilian company Melissa presents a collection based on the complete eco-sustainability of the production process, that uses a plastic processing technique called thermic injection.

Melissa's jelly shoes

The brand presents the innovative match between architecture, fashion and eco-sustainability in the interesting frame of Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, international key event in the home furnishing sector, in its open day.
Zaha Hadid has been the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize of architecture (chapeau!) and has declared she have enjoyed the synergy with the brand, whose production technology is perfectly married with the sinuous lines that characterize the architect’s style.
Melissa is not new to the collaborations: from Eighties artists as Vivienne Weswood, Judy Blame, Karim Rashid have contributed to join the brand with art.

They’re called Super Lemon, Vibrant Green, Palace Blue.
They’re not summer cocktails on crowded beaches, nor the extravagant names of an Hollywood star’s child.
They’re the colours chosen by Pantone for the Spring Summer 2009 Fashion Colour Report, a sort of Bible for designers created by the main authority in the field of colours for design industry, in which fashion is in full right included.
What strikes is the interpretation given by various designers that have commented the colours: it speaks about optimism, relax, nature and hope, hope and hope.
What intrigues is that such a precious document is downloadable for free and can be used by everybody, without social or wealth distinctions.
Fashion is often elitist, both conceptually and practically (because of impossible prices), and it tends to relate only with itself.

Spring Summer 2009 Colour "Bible"

Giving a glance to the designer’s comments to Pantone Fashion Colour Report we understand that is not true.
We discover that, however, the idea of a dress come from a more articulate idea, and ideas are always free: if someone wants to find a compromise between being fashion and not adapting to the fashion system trends there’s a solution.
Find one of that bright colours in a vintage foulard, in a forgotten dress, in an unknown shop, can make our ideas concrete and really stylish.
High ideas for the haute couture.