We’re still here.

Just shuffling about and reorganising things.

Will be back in no time!

Apple Tree accessories, we heart very much. The Thai label crafts out some fantastic and whimsical designs in silver and sometimes resin. Its designs are characterized by simple and witty styles that are youthful with a tinge of childhood nostalgia. There are humourous overtones in tea party designs or the rabbit with a scissors stuck out of its head – slightly macabre but also fun because the rabbit is too cute! There’s always something ticklish in misfortunate bunnies.

Now available at Front Row | 5 ann siang road

The Hunter and the Rabbit

Mad Tea Party knuckle ring

Artichoke Ring

Resin Barnacle Cuff

A.P.C rarely veers off from their clean aesthetics, so their A/W09 ad campaign was a bit of a surprise. Shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, culturesinbetween.net describes the campaign images as a “… dark beauty, mixing woven thick colours with graphic and pattern prints that perpetuates a bright warmth within a hellish season of weather and changing skies.” Well, yes. If it’s the same sort of photographic design aesthetics employed on Bjork CD covers, hell, it’s interesting and pretty enough – we don’t mind that at all. .

The French anti-brand do what they do best for A/W 09. These are mix and match exercises of basic staples that implore you to infuse a fair bit of individual styling (come on, there’s no effort in sensational pieces!)

This season, the interest is in the texture and fabrics. The lads can dabble with cobalt blue jumpers with tiny red, pinkish flacks, or quirky palette combinations in ultra-soft plaid shirts. Say what you want about corduroy, but the mustard and cherry coloured corduroy cords are just dandy. The core theme of tartan plaid continues in the women’s range. Highlights are the plaid ruffled front shirt, cream t-shirts with a minimal/vintage flock print, and the straight cut sleeveless dress with cuffed shoulders. The crepe jersey material adds a nice weight to the flattering cut.

A.P.C A/W10 is now available at Front Row | 5 ann siang road

Remember L.A Gear? Those sneakers which had soles that lighted up as you walked? My sister and I had a pair each when we were kids. They were the essence of cool. I would jump around a lot just to show off the lights, much to the amusement of my relatives. Unfortunately the trend died, as did the battery, so the sneakers were chucked aside, and the excitement we felt when we gazed down at our walking feet accompanied by flashing lights, was forgotten. I kinda miss them.

But obviously Mr Jimmy Choo (or rather, Tamara Mellon), didn’t forget. Or perhaps someone in the Choo house got inspired by Chanel’s light-bulb heels, because look! Jimmy Choo’s with plexiglass heels that light up!

Very useful, I must say. Think of what fashionistas could do with these. (1) They could dance in beat to the music at some club, and provide extra visual lighting effects. You can then tell whether they have any rhythm too. (2) They could share gossip in Morse code with another fashionista seated elsewhere. (3) When crossing the street at night, the motorists and drivers couldn’t miss you. (4) They could provide some light in the case of a blackout by, er, repeated, constant stomping.

I wonder what’s next. Why don’t the great shoe designers create killer heels that boast the comfort of crocs instead? Practicality, practicality.

Source: Joe Zee’s Twitter

If you’re a street-style-fashion-blog-phile, you might have noticed this one particular pair of shoes that’s been seen everywhere.

Susie/Style Bubble

Hanneli

Karla/Karla's Closet

Rumi/Fashion Toast

Rumi/Fashion Toast

From Facehunter

It’s the Acne Atacoma ankle wedge, and the blogosphere’s heavyweights have obviously given their stompin’ stamp of approval. I’m liking it a lot myself: the design is simple and effective, and the subtle skeletal outline at the heel is just brilliant. The best thing about this shoe? It goes with ANYTHING, as illustrated above.

It probably won’t be easy to get your hands on this beaut. Oak has it, but already the version with the mirrored bottom is sold out. Guess everyone has been busy clicking around for these. If I had a pair, I’d give them a shelf of their own. So awesome.

Pictures: Style Bubble, Facehunter, Karla’s Closet, Fashion Toast

Slotting neatly in between the lifestyle brand adidas Originals and the sport-inspired luxury label Y-3, adidas SLVR is a collection of innovative pieces – pure, streamlined in form and stripped of excess. Even the SLVR logo echoes these key elements in a reduction to three clean and parallel bold strokes. So in love are we with SLVR’s clean shapes and fluid lines that we’ve partnered adidas to launch the very first SLVR pop-up store in Asia Pacific.

Located on Level3@ Front Row, the store-in-store reflects the brand’s contemporary design elements within the minimal functionality of the space, characterised with a balance of raw wood and polished steel.

The SLVR store-in-store launches with its A/W09-10 collection - a smart, pared down, subtle affair with poplin, organic cotton and water-resistant nylon in the brand’s signature shade, gun metal grey, and simple black with strong accents of dark bordeaux, cobalt blue and lime green.

Simple and unassuming, say ‘hello’ to a collection of everyday essentials that ask to be layered, combined and rearranged in infinite ways.

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Here’s a gorgeous video of SLVR’s FW09/10 campaign to get you started.

The adidas SLVR pop-up store launches at Level3@ Front Row from 11 September 2009 | 5 ann siang road

www.adidas.com/slvr

SLVR offers creative solutions for the production process which also take the environment into consideration. The Zero Waste Tee is produced in only three steps and its interlocking pattern creates absolutely no waste.

With an eye to the environment, SLVR products reduce complexity. The Seven Piece shoe is made of only seven pieces (most sneakers use 25-30) that are stitched together instead of using environmentally aggressive glue.

The S/S09 collection of Raf Simons x Dr Martens is now 20% off. Keep an eye on the iconic 3-eye shoe and heroic mandals in chromo leather and wet patent; finished with a red welt stitching and signed off with the Raf Simons signature on the footbed.  Also look out for the same Raf Simon’s attitude and mood translated into Dr Martens in the upcoming A/W09 collection. It will be pewter, gold, brassy… and amazing.

Raf Simons x Dr Martens S/S09 is now 20% off at Front Row | 5 ann siang road

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