Plain strainer you say? Look closely … Spanish artist Isaac Cordal sculpted faces onto metal cooking strainers, which cast beautiful shadows. Brilliant !!!...................................................…

Constance Jablonski features in this editorial entitled "Olympiad" in the June issue of Interview magazine, which was photographed by Mikael Jansson and also features Suvi Koponen, Matthew Terry, Myles Crosby, and Nicklas Kingo. Styling by Karl Templer.…

Nick Veasey a British photographer uses industrial X-ray machines to create incredible photos of everyday objects. In his recent series, Veasey attuned his focus to finding an antidote to the “obsession appearance” through revealing the beauty within. His work comments on society’s increasing paranoia and control by security and surveillance. He states that “To…

After many an inbox message on asking how I achieved my nerd-upstyle in the previous post, I felt I had to write on how to wear the ballerina/doughnut bun!  This voluminous bun-style should perch atop of your head although I quite like the lower and side version too.  It's chic, stylish and easy!  Perfect for a bad hair-day or just a lazy one.  The best part is that this…

What made you think you could enter The Bar One Manhunt?

After hearing the radio advert, I felt it really spoke out to me – it mentioned a lot of attributes I felt I had, so I figured, “why not?”. I’ve always wanted to enter something like this and I’m a very adventurous guy, so this sounded like a great challenge to…

2012 marks their 50th Anniversary in the world of High Fashion, and Casadei are still celebrating their Success in coveted Creations. They have exploded everywhere, and Ankle Boots embody Femininity and Flirtatiousness, when it comes to Footwear. Their Classic Composition makes them a Must-have Item for Autumn/Winter 2012. These Leather Creations display the perfect…

One might be forgiven for expecting the title-holder of a national pageant, such as Miss South africa,

to be high-maintenance and aloof. Pretoria-born Melinda bam, who was crowned in december

2011, is as far from that as possible: she was both friendly and approachable to everyone she met.

her love of fashion was evident as she discussed her…

Karmen Pedaru appears on the supplement cover of the recent issue of Vogue Paris and stars in a follow up editorial photographed by Hans Feurer. Enjoy.

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Lori Nix has created these post human images of the aftermath of the world as we know it. Nix built the diorama of each scene, then photographed them. The twist is that Nix's photos aren't Photoshop manipulations - they're real images of tiny, painstakingly detailed dioramas that Nix has designed just for these photographs.…

 Ticket designs for the London Olympics have been unveiled. Interpublic's brand consultancy Futurebrand incorporated pictograms designed by Someone into the tickets. They also color coded them according to venue. To reduce counterfeiting, a hologram, a barcode and the name of the booker will be printed on the ticket. …

Winter is creeping up on us; the Days are getting shorter and the weather, colder — This is a good excuse to update your Winter Wardrobe with our Winter Warming Fashion...

Menswear:…

Prada unveiled a special short film directed by Roman Polanski and starring British actors Helena Bonham Carter and Ben Kingsley at the Cannes Film Festival May 21. The film, sees a Prada-clad Bonham Carter's character visiting a psychiatrist (played by Kingsley) to discuss a bad…

I wish I could take a heavenly bite of this universe.

Chocolatier L’éclat of the Righa Royal Hotel in Japan have taken good eats and…

The exhibition illuminates the various facets of organic design and traces how the concept of organicism runs throughout twentieth-century design. Organic design is commonly associated with soft, flowing forms. Many designers seek models from nature or use organic forms to…

It might be winter here in South Africa but there’s a new summer shoe in town: a throwback to the dippy hippy culture of the early 70s...wooden heels. Get a 2012 makeover via clever injections of neon leather, panels of contrast wood and updated shapes that only wistfully look back to the original clog shape.…

The words on everybody’s...and I mean everybody’s lips are iPhone this, iPad that. But one thing that has come to the forefront of the "i" industry are the 'Slide to unlock' iPanties: They are thongs that come in black and white and are made from 100% pure cotton. They are a hilarious take on the iPhone whereby the plays on words are displayed on the front of the panties.…

Trend alert!  It’s the revenge of the nerds!  Now is the time to express your inner geek and embrace the trend for thick-framed, square, 'nerd' glasses.  More fashion accessory than they are practical necessity, these specs play on some 1960s nostalgia thanks to some of their iconic ambassadors...…

For all intensive purposes, I am a rural lass. A lot of my childhood was spent playing in long grass, minding the snakes, and running with the dogs in the opposite direction of where the baboons were.

Time spent between farms and the beach just aren’t the same without big, blustery, rascally canines.

This is the same for everyone, right?

Wrong. Dating and Dogs. Not the homosapien type. I used to think I’d never date a guy…

Africology Relaxing Massage Oil:

This grass has a very pleasant and mild earthy smell which has a calming effect on the body and the mind. Vetiver is known to promote the growth of new skin tissue and eases anxiety and stress.…

So I heard that in an unprecedented joint venture, two of South Africa’s hottest designers have joined forces following a successful show in London’s trendy Kensington. Missibaba, luxury accessory design label established by Chloe Townsend, guru of all things leather, and jewellery artiste Kirsten Goss, recent winner of Design Indaba’s “most beautiful object in South Africa” with her Lily Pad Ring,…