Taking inspiration from “the duke of windsor”, Belgian Bruno Pieters autumn/winter mens collection (his first mens collection) reflects a contemporary fitted silhouette, with the mix of breeches, bowties, and three-piece suites offset with skinny pants, and reconstructed trench coats. Bruno has recently been appointed the art director for Hugo Bosse’s edgier Hugo line. He has filled the gap where cloak left off.

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On his blog at 12oz. Prophet, Grotesk has just added a nice little studio visit with Espo. Enjoy.

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Graffiti.org which is better known as Art Crimes, was the first graffiti site on the internet. Founded in 1994 by Susan Farrell, the site is an incredible source of information for graffiti around the world. Artzmania is a super e-zine that “is widely recognized as one of the most successful free e-zine in the web.” Based out of Malaysia, and founded in January of 2007 the slick-designed e-zine is on it’s fifth issue. In an interesting collaboration Artzmania, has dedicated an entire .pdf issue to Art Crimes. Clocking in at 165 pages, it is a nice slideshow.

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RUSSIAN developers outlined plans on Saturday for a 350-hectare artificial island in the shape of Russia to be built off the Black Sea coast near the future Olympic venue Sochi.
Federation Island is expected to house around 25,000 people in apartments and villas and is to be completed in time for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, said its designer, Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat.

It will have two marinas, three religious centres, roads, parkland and artificial rivers, the latter designed to mimic some of the major rivers of Russia.

Via Strait Times.

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Led Zeppelin, the British rock band, is still held in high regard for their artistic achievements, commercial success, and broad influence.(and blatant stealing of songs) This limited edition Jimmy Page 1275 double neck electric guitar is a recreation of Jimmy Page