ELKE
Every girl needs a few things in her possession. A little black dress, a pair of killer heels, a gorgeous swimsuit and a piece (or ten) of jewellery from Aussie designer ELKE.
A great friend of ours, we’ve loved her quirky-cool style for a while now because it’s just the right blend of ladylike glamour and effortless cool.
Our Vintage shoot includes more than a few ELKE pieces that we absolutely adore and have a sneaky suspicion that you will too.
We are especially loving her Forminiferna Earrings in Larvae from the first photo. They are insanely easy to wear with anything in your closet. Lets be honest, who doesn’t need beautiful drop earrings going into summer!?
Head over to her facebook and website for some more gorgeous jewwellery that you’ll absolutely fall in love with. Continue reading
We Are Handsome and SMART
For our Gen X Art show in LA last week, we teamed up with SMART to design our very own car!
More info to come, but here’s a sneak peek!
Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi
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So Haunting, so beautiful, so beautifully produced is Spike Jonze’s new short film with Olympia Le-Tan.
Designer Olympia Le-Tan’s embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in director Spike Jonze’s tragicomic stop-motion animation Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side). On a shelf in famed Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Company, the star-crossed love story of a klutzy skeleton and his flame-haired amour plays out amidst Le-Tan’s illustrations of iconic first-edition book covers. “It’s such a beautiful and romantic place,â€� offers Le-Tan of the antiquarian bookstore. “The perfect setting for our story!â€� The project started after Jonze asked for a Catcher in the Rye embroidery to put on his wall and the plucky Le-Tan asked for a film in return. Enlisting French filmmaker Simon Cahn to co-direct, the team wrote the script between Los Angeles and Paris over a six month period, before working night and day animating the 3,000 pieces of felt Le-Tan had cut by hand. “I love getting performances from, telling stories about and humanizing things that aren’t human,â€� said Jonze of working with Le-Tan’s characters. After spending five years adapting Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze’s recent shorts include robot love story I’m Here and an inspired G.I. Joe-starring video for The Beastie Boys. “A short is like a sketch,â€� he says. “You can have an idea or a feeling and just go and do it.â€� Here the iconic director reveals his creative process to writer Maryam L’Ange.
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A Handsome Mixtape – DJ Induce
We are excited to present the fourth installment of A Handsome Mixtape. Each month we’ll showcase an amazing young DJ whose tunes are something special – they’re all ridiculously talented, unbelievably cool and will have you breaking out your best dance moves in an instant. Read on to see Induce’s interview. Continue reading
Nicole Hill Photography
Check out the gorgeous shots that we spied We Are Handsome suits in! The shoot was created by photographer Nicole L. Hill for the Ben Trovato Blog.
Credits are as follows:
Models: Morgan Chelf @ Photogenics and Sasha Blue @ Ford
Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist: Bethany Ruck
Stylist: Jacqueline Lavaun
Styling Assistant: Michelle Faurer
You can also find Nicole on Facebook, so go on over and check out her photos!
Rock Royalty
The ever-gorgeous Zoe Kravitz melds street edge with a ladylike twist in these stunning black and white shots by Simon Burstall for Wonderland. Continue reading
Vertical Forest

This is not a test! Italian architecture studio Stefano Boeri Architetti is responsible for the planning and construction of this amazing ‘vertical forest’ in the centre of Milan. The two residential towers will play host to 900 trees (not to mention shrubs and floral plants) which will equate to 10 000 sqm of forest. So rad.


Visuall did a nice job of summing it up here
Introducing The Vintage Collection
We’re so proud to introduce you to our latest collection – The Vintage.
‘TheVintage’ collection tells stories of European summer vacations, adventures in the forest, the excitement of far away lands and creatures of wonder. We’re proud to introduce ‘The Vintage’. An original collection of prints and styles designed to take you back to the memories, sights, sounds and smells of younger years and simpler times.
Check out the whole collection here.
SURF CITY – Luke Taaffe x Ryan Heywood
Ever wondered what would happen if you threw a collection of dark photographic seascapes onto some whitewash plywood boards and added a hand painted homage to beach and surf culture over the top? What about a bunch of beaten-up wetsuits sewn together to create a giant logo-covered patchwork doona? Well with photographer Ryan Heywood and artist Luke Taaffe teaming up for an exclusive show, you don’t have to wonder.
Catch their show SURF CITY at the National Grid Gallery in Sydney from the 14th of October through to the 2nd of December.
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