Underoos, the infamous line of underwear for children and small adults alike, produced by the Fruit of the Loom company in the late seventies is back. Yes you heard it here first. Although updated for kids of today, the much adorned original line included a matching super hero top and bottom, resembling the likeness of characters from pop culture including superman, R2D2 and Wonder Woman. It was one of my favourite escapes (I’m not telling you which outfit I had). Like a superhero who wears their costume under their street clothing, Underoos empowered children to believe they had the ability to believe and do anything. Sort of like an earlier version of Oprah for underwear.
… When is the last time your Stanfields accomplished that?
The new 2011 Nike Air Mag is designed to be an exact duplicate of the sneakers worn by Michael J.Fox in Back to the Future II and even includes a glowing Nike logo on the side.The new version of the shoe, which is rechargeable, contains an electroluminescent “Nike” panel on the strap and various LED lights on the sole and heel. The shoe can glow for five hours per charge.
All proceeds will be donated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s disease research. Fox famously played Marty McFly in the Back to the Future time-travel trilogy, where he wore the shoes during a visit to the year 2015.
The new shoe range was designed by Nike designer Tinker Hatfield, who also helped create the original version featured in the film.The eBay auctions are slated to run until September 18. Google founder Sergey Brin has pledged to match all donations made to the Michael J. Fox Foundation – up to $US50 million – until the end of next year.
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Forget your laptop or iPhone, This uber tech glowing animated shirt dynamically displays the wi-fi signal strength in the hood to yourself and everyone around you.
Battery pack is concealed in a small pocket sewn inside the shirt.
The 40s and 50s. A man knew how to dress and keep sexy secrets just like John F. Kennedy and Mad Men’s Don Draper . The lining of these faithful reinterpretations of the famed peek-a-boo tie have their own secret agenda too, an artfully rendered pin up girl. Now Miss Feeney’s are making them new again. View the entire line here.
Never lacking vision, writer, artist and now clothing designer, Douglas Coupland goes retro-vision with this limited edition test pattern dress. The complete line from his upcoming collaboration with Roots debuts today across Canada and online at www.roots.org/douglascoupland. (CNW Group/Douglas Coupland)
According to Design Taxi,The Diesel ‘Be Stupid’ campaign, which won an Outdoor Grand Prix at the recent Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, has been banned by a UK ad watchdog for being offensive and promoting antisocial behavior.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned the campaign to appear on outdoor billboards or as posters, citing those platforms as an “untargeted medium” that will likely be exposed to minors. The authority claims 33 complaints have been made against the ads.
Actually, welcome back. Not necessarily to that same old place that you laughed about. But welcome back all the same. To that hairstyle you tried to replicate. To soup cans as art. To the defining logos, artifacts, and icons – plastic, human, and plastic human – of a time. Sure, we may tease you a lot. But we’ve got you on the spot. Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back.
MOPOP is a celebration of everyday life: an archive of the artifacts, icons, items and obsessions that become the backdrop to our daily lives.
GARNET MCELREE DIRECTOR
At a crowded New York art opening, MOPOP director Garnet McElree couldn’t help but notice just what it was that was not being noticed: The art. Instead guests nibbled on their canapés – their backs to what they had come to admire – as they talked amongst themselves: great shoes (Manolo Blahnik? Knew it!).
In a seemingly-unrelated parallel-universe moment, Garnet found himself in his own un-arty dialogue about, well, Pez dispensers. However, as the conversation progressed so did the surrounding circle of Pez-enthusiasts.
Where the art failed to spark dialogue or stir emotion, the artifact succeeded. On a level created by the people, for the people, of the people. Because the rumbling wasn’t just about Pez. It was about stories, connections, and memories. It was about the power of nostalgia. In that moment he knew that people craved a different kind of experience: An environment to showcase the pieces that evoke the unrivalled brand of enthusiasm reserved for matters of the heart, the past, or – quite simply – the supremely cool.
MARY-JO DIONNE Editor in Chief
The only thing writer Mary-Jo Dionne loves more than pens is the act of stealing them from hotels around the world.
And the only thing she loves more than that bit of debauchery is, well, her collection of Boy George t-shirts, Law & Order re-runs, Bea Arthur, hoop earrings, chicklit, memories of watching Welcome Back Kotter with her mom, soy lattes, driving in her convertible Bug (his name is Doug), When Harry Met Sally (and anything by Nora Ephron), red shoes, animal rescue, her grandma's quilts, low-maintenance friendships, puffy stickers, puffy vests, the spirit of entrepreneurialism, Monopoly marathons (she's always the car), and the fact that she has every journal from the time she was 8 stacked chronologically in her office today. They're sitting next to an awfully large cup of pens.
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