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Following up on our original post on the addition of the Phaidon Wallpaper* City Guides for the iTouch/iPhone hitting the App Store, we’re happy to announce that we have a handful of promo codes to pass onto our Facebook Fans. Join up and follow this discussion for your chance to win.
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BBlessing is preparing a collection of t-shirts as part of their Spring/Summer 2010 collection that pay tribute to the 6th and final season of the “LOST” television series. The t-shirts, designed by Nicholas Kratochvil, will hit stores when “LOST” comes back on the air next week. Each of the seven t-shirts pulls from the show’s story, including “‘Another Life’ – Inspired by Desmond’s line ‘See you in another life, brother’” and “‘Good Vibrations’ – This Beach Boys song is the code that Charlie has to put into the Looking Glass station computer to make contact with Penny. It’s also the last song he hears before he is grenaded by a kamikaze Russian cyclops and drowns.”
More looks at the “LOST” inspired t-shirts from BBlessing after the click.

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Mark Steinmetz takes rich photographs of everyday folks. His subjects have included children, little league baseball, and summer camp. Above is an example from a series focused on school teachers in Cleveland, OH. It’s Nice That notes that Steinmentz’s work is available in book form (Greater Atlanta, Nazarelli Press) and that the publication does better justice to the images than possible on the web.
More from the school teacher series after the jump. (via Curated).

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ACNE’s Jonny Johanssen presented their collection of furniture this weekend in Paris. In Mr. Johanssen’s own words, ”The Nya Berlin was an archetypical piece of Malmsten design and was created for use in the Swedish consulate in Berlin. It has not been in production since 1949, so it was really inspiring to work with. With this sofa as a reference, I started to look at how we worked architecturally, instead of just treating say the upholstery. I decided as an alternative to objectify its form from a perspective play. As we do with fashion we played with proportion, lineage and structure – stretching, squashing and pulling the simplistic shape to create new sculptural forms. and why we chose to dress it in indigo? Denim is our heritage and i thought it was super interesting to treat the upholstery in the same way we approach our jeans – by washing bleaching and hand-dying the pieces to create very bespoke finishes. I just love how the fabric changes and grows with time. For me denim is always fashion…”
Many more looks from the ACNE furniture presentation in Paris after the click.

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The previews keep on rolling. Here’s a couple of looks at what’s to come from Lavenham’s AW10 collection. Whilst the quilted jacket is to be expected (it is their M.O, after all) the duffle jacket is one of those old new additions that only brands with genuine heritage can get away with – if you know what we mean.
The yellow-y beige duffle is a nice change from the usual sea of navy and the tweed jacket is our preferred version of the quilted jacket. We like the nylon ones, but it just makes too much noise when you move, no one wants their upper body movement to sound like you’ve plugged your coat into an amplifier. Readers should also enjoy that one of our writers are taking turns modelling – with the head cut off to preserve our modesty and your stomach.
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With our staff running around NYC, Berlin, and Paris the last few weeks, it made it a bit difficult for us to cover the fashions of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT. Luckily for us, NYC’s own MISTER MORT headed out to Utah to give his first person take on the happenings in snow country. Here is his first rap/report.
MISTER MORT travels to Sundance film festival where the Hollywood dopes invade the Park City slopes, where the ole glory days of glitz and glamour has long been hushed to small fits of clamour…snow, ice and slush without much reason to gush, MISTER MORT had to scour the beats, and devour the streets, from front row to the nose bleed seats, tee pees and tents only to find a few classic gents, even when the bubbly stops bubbling, MISTER MORT’S eye never relents…so without much ado the Mister managed to snap quite a few, so enjoy the pics, but it isn’t the best litter, let’s just say MISTER MORT’S not a quitter….
View more of MISTER MORT’S photos from the Sundance Film Festival after the click.

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What happened when millions of British servicemen were “demobbed”—demobilized—after World War II?
Alan Allport, postdoctoral lecture at Princeton University, answers the question in his new book, Demobbed . His story follows the dark side of reintroduction to civilian life. Wrought with anxiety and fear – on both sides of the tale – the integration to family and working life is often lost in study of the great war. Allport draws from personal letters, newspapers, film and more to build a compelling narrative. A worthwhile read for all war buffs and students of 20th-century history.
From Yale University Press.
Available now from Amazon .
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Emigre magazine, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, has decided to mark this milestone in an intriguing and unique manner. Making expert use of their archives, they’ve created ten digital collages of their covers which are available to buy from them. While the price is certainly hefty ($1,000 a pop) it’s a great piece of art for the man who has more than a few extra coins in his pocket. (Emigre)
Take a look at the rest of the prints after the leap.

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Here’s another sneak drop from SL fave, Mismo – who apparently won’t stop their accessory assault until every man has bought Mismo and thrown his old bags away in disgust. Using full grain ‘wrinkle’ leather, which was specially made for Mismo, they’ve created a shopper, document and added a duffle bag shape to the collection. A true limited edition bag (under a hundred of each style worldwide) it’s a worthy addition to the Mismo family.
The song remains the same, detailed images after the leap.

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One of our favourite blogs, Kitsune Noir, turns us onto this interesting project. Created by Damon Winter, a staff photographer at the NY Times, the pictures juxtapose two separate cities using double exposures.
As Kitsune Noir notes: “It’s quite interesting to hear about his process, some of the images are about color and form while others are about contrast, like an image taken on Fifth Aveue in Manhattan and then Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn. They’re very different places but he manages to marry together a similar idea that links them together, and in this case, the neon signs from the Louis Vuitton store and then a pair of umbrellas that sit in front of a bodega.”
Listen to the feature here.
Take a look at a couple of shots from the project after the leap.

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