i-D Magazine’s Spring 2012 “The Royalty Issue” features nine covers featuring portraits and fashion from the very best around. Karl Lagerfeld carries the first of the nine with a self-portrait and “discusses fashion, the future and his fluffy pussycat Choupette, with i-D’s Fashion Director Charlotte Stockdale.” Other covers include photograph by Daniele Duella + Iango Henzi and others. i-D online tells us more.

The new issue hits store on March 22.

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Internet has been kind to Brian Dettmer over the past year, which is great. We first saw his work at the Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago about ten years ago and have been devotees ever since. Sort of the DaVinci of book sculpting, Dettmer takes books as raw material and finds the sculpture living inside of each one (which he then draws out of the pages using a scalpel and some serious attention to detail). Dettmer has an exhibition up through the end of the month at San Francisco’s Toomey Tourell Fine Art.

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Lanvin celebrates the last 10 years of Alber Elbaz’ work with the publication of their new book, Alber Elbaz, Lanvin. The book is also a look at the creative work behind Lanvin’s Winter 2011 collection and is only available in a hardbound deluxe edition with a handmade cover, “bound in silk grosgrain cloth, black foil stamping on front and spine, hand-gilded edging with engraved typography, delivered in a handmade cardboard box.” Inside the book are more than 688 pages with 317 plates.

Find it exclusively at Lanvin’s Paris flagship at 15 et 22 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and online.

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For many a youngster, central to a love of radio controlled cars is the frustration of not having your own and only getting to take cursory runs with a friend’s. This was the case with supreme lyricist MF DOOM, who grew up admiring RC action from afar. All grown up, but clearly not too grown up, DOOM has cultivated his interest in the hobby and takes some time to review a crop of cars for the new issue of Intersection Magazine.

“I’ll easily spend two thousand dollars on one of those,” he tells us. “Every kid wants to have a remote controlled car, but back when I was a kid we couldn’t afford it.” DOOM also talks about his new project with producer and rapper Jneiro Jarel called JJ DOOM.

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How about that for a exclamation: “Tomboys are confident, rebellious, and adventurous. They are bold, brazen, fierce—and sexy.” We’ll agree with that.

The new Rizzoli photography book, Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion captures the beauty of the style of menswear-inspired fashion for women. Stereotypes are broken with the tomboy look which have spun new lines from frontline brands like BOY by Band of Outsiders and J. Crew. Tomboy Style is a visual history of the tomboy movement over the last 80 years. Commentary is included throughout the photo book. As mentioned in the release: “Atomboy is not just about style—tomboys are measured in equal parts wardrobe and spirit.”

Coming from Rizzoli April 3, 2012. Available from Goodhood UK and Amazon.

Photography: Goodhood

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For Wallpaper’s April 2012 issue, the longstanding architecture and design magazine has teamed with renowned illustrator Noma Bar for a series of eight three-dimensional covers that pay homage to seven countries (Germany, U.S.A., France, Italy, Spain, Japan and Belgium) and a region (Scandinavia)—all top dogs in the making-it-a-reality game. The covers combine an illustrative mural and distinct products such as ink box by Babaghuri that acts as lips on the Japan cover.

Says Tony Chambers, Wallpaper’s Editor-in-Chief:

Known for his play on positive and negative space, usually in 2D, Bar entered a new dimension just for us. His cover designs are, in fact, room sets, painted in a three-dimensional studio space and integrating actual products from each of the territories. With his typical, though extraordinary, and witty visual brevity, he captured the identity of each territory using merely his paint brush and a few selected objects.

We are just now realizing that these are not literally 3D-faced wonders that will overcrowd newstands, but we doubt the full scope of the work will be fully absorbed anywhere but paper-in-hand—not even on your new iPad.

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Those sunglasses make this Emporio Armani Spring/Summer 2012 editorial for us. Big round spectacles with brazen branding, fakes these are not but still, it takes us back to days rummaging in Camden Market before it became overrun with tat and noodle stalls. The collection itself is described as “The Logic of  Subtraction: Airy fabrics and light constructions in shades of quartz, granite and marble”. Japanese magazine Popeye capture this perfectly. More at EMM.

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I’ll be the first to admit that I can lapse on my manners and when necessary, a reminder will set me straight. The good folks behind the premium basics collection, Etiquette Clothiers, have published a small guide book to the “rule” of being proper. “The Basics of Etiquette” book is a guide of sorts to addressing your closet and storage issues alongside proper technique for washing and keeping yourself proper. The book is available now from the Etiquette Clothiers’ online shop. While you are there, check out their selection of socks and undergarments for men, women, and the kids.

Etiquette Clothiers have generously donated a stack of copies for us to share with Selectism users.

Head over to the  Selectism Facebook page for a chance to win a copy!

Japan’s HUGE Magazine is huge in Japan—a great men’s mag with a strong aesthetic. They’ve turned their studied eye to the tools that make for a truly rich life with an updated book, “TOOLS 2012.” Everything from slippers to sleds to coffee makers is given a color photo and a loving description (well, we assume they are loving descriptions as we’re not so great at reading kanji/hirigana/katakana).

Over the course of 192 pages, HUGE profiles 365 tools, making for a great book to keep on one such tool: your coffee table. Available March 15 from Kodansha and Huzine, the mag’s book imprint.

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Jewelry brand Bunney presents its first paper, this issue focusing on the work of photographer Derek Ridgers, showcasing some fantastic images.  ”From the mid seventies through to the late eighties Ridgers captured some of the most significant movements in British youth culture history, not through images of the major players and influencers but through portraits of individuals who made up those scenes.” Featuring an interview with the man himself from writer Jason Jules, this impressive project will be available from Bunney stockists soon, grab one if you can.

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