Clemens en August on Tour – a classic yet stylish Collection from Alexander Brenninkmeijer who’s family was behind the German textiles and fashion retail giant C&A. The name comes from Clemens und August Brenninkmeijer, who founded the company in 1841. Like in the old days where the brothers started making clothes and selling them directly to cash-strapped farmers, Alexander does much the same today; the collection is sold exclusively on “tour” around the world. Each season, Clemens en August tours 10 cities for 3 days only. From 29.10.-01.11. in Zurich Giesshübelstrasse 62c.
Stephan put my attention on another nice product manufactured and designed with care and skilled craftmanship: The Shwood Eyewear: “An experiment born from the limb of a Madrone tree, a rusty pair of cabinet hinges, and lenses from a store around the corner.” As the name says, they create with wood and play with its individuality and uniqueness- they keep the wood manipulation a minimum in order to showcase the medium’s natural and unique splendor. How nice to be inspired by nature to innovate and create such a nice thing. I’m looking forward to mine The Canby…
shwood | all pictures from the website
Video Experiment Skateboard Shades
An insight about the story and production of my favorite sneakers ilmia which were featured in yesterdays TV show Galileo on Pro7. Have a look in the manufacturing process to see with what quality and care they are made…Congrats Christian!
ilmia on prosieben
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Cabinet52 a new space in Zurich for temporary installations in the field of design, fashion and accessories. Jeroen van Rooijen “Zerlegt” classics of fashion and this in the truest sense of the word: with knife and scissors and the Bernina „Auftrennerli“, he cut the clothes, to analyse their story and check the processing. The concept is to ask the question of sustainability and rational production, to find out something about the origin, trade and production routes of each piece. Last Thursday, a shirt from the brand Rapha has been „Zerlegt“. The nice Thing is, that the arrangements of the cutted individual parts, photographed by Patrick Rohner, get a new life as aesthetic Pictures. From the series in the NZZ Folio, the best 44 projects are collected in the book “Zerlegt”.
The first boat shoe was introduced in 1935. I bought myself one of these original Sperry Top-Siders in the hope that soon a sailboat passes by…
I got new vintage elements from NY and designed a small collection of limited jewelry. I’m very proud that my necklaces will be available at the Tatjane Showroom in Zurich. Hope to see you there!
After a year and with her second wonderful collection, Tatjana Kotoric opens her first showroom and shop for her label Tatjane in Zurich’s Seefeld. As of March 31, 2011 the Tatjane collection and selected design pieces will be available there Thursday through Saturday.
You are very welcome to the opening apéro on March 3o, 2011 from 17.00 o’clock at Holbeinstrasse 35 in 8008 Zurich.
Please register with this link www.tatjane.ch/event.
ilmia is soon available at magazin.com! For this great event Christian Gafner invented the unibody-box ®. An innovative box with 30% less material thus they are 30% smaller than the old boxes. The concept is so clever that there is no need of adhesives. The sides are sloping thereby more stackable and tangible and at the same time extremely robust. There is no more need for extra wrapping paper because the shoes lay in separate chambers. These cool boxes are produced in Switzerland, precisely in Scheuren (in the middle of nowhere) by Glanzmann AG.
In 2007 when Kevin bought his MIH watch in Lucerne at the Embassy store, Beat Weinmann showed us an incredible prototype of Ludwig Oechslin’s watch concept featuring an intuitive calendar display. The brand is now called ochs und junior and that particular watch is the anno cinquanta.
The anno cinquanta’s annual calendar employs a system of orange dots to indicate the date, month and weekday. The dots appear in circles of apertures, and understanding the display soon becomes second nature. Conventional annual calendar mechanisms can incorporate anything in the order of 40 individual components. Ludwig Oechslin needs just three!
His concepts are one-of-a-kind, intelligent watches rooted in proven traditions. When the time comes for series production, Peter Cantieni machines the cases in a variety of metals, and Paul Gerber fits them with his exclusive self-winding calibre. The guys don’t polish the watch cases – they prefer to make them as accurately as possible, then to leave them with the (very slight) imperfections that reflect the craftsman’s artisanry. After that, your…my wrist…
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Today I made myself a Pre-Christmas present: the KBS Backpack designed by Baggy Port from Kobe. Found on japanproxy.ch a platform for fashion and design-oriented products from Japan, thanks for the tip Yukio! and bought at On y va. Hey guys, this is a really nice shop, unfortunately men’s wear only…