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Mixed Tapes: Micachu

polaroidme — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:54:51 +0000

Micachu is an alphabet soup, in which each letter is a new technological sound. Mica Levi is the young English musical talent that is behind the fictional and quirky Micachu. Michachu’s colorful experimental pop is drawn in neon colors. Songs like “calculator” and “Lips”, from the album “Jewellery”, are so bright that they will make you pull your Ray-Bans out. Can you hear Bubblegum pink?

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POLAROID ME

polaroidme — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:40:30 +0000

CHARLES ANASTASE

polaroidme — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:10:51 +0000

Charles Anastase is a designer and illustrator based in London, whose collections seem to be tailored for a remake of a modern day Alice in Wonderland. His latest show was labeled after a 1970 quote from Yoko Ono, “John’s something more abstract.” Although his latest collection is ground breaking avant-garde, the Spring 09 RTW is still what I believe to be the zeitgeist of the brand. In collaboration with Linda Farrow the brand created the “Tennessee” glasses after the drummer of the band The Like, Tennessee Thomas. Tennessee’s style reflects the brand concept of a Muse that is “Naïve, spontaneous, abstract, gothic” so well, that it might just be that her closet is an actual Charles Anastase store. How do you know I’m mad?

charlesanastase1979.com

WREN

polaroidme — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:34:17 +0000

Born and raised in the picturesque Illinois but now based in Los Angeles, Wren designer and founder Melissa Coker makes fashion for library-card-carrying hipsters. In a literary vein, the name Wren was borrowed from a Dickens character that made dresses for dolls named Jenny Wren. Quirky Brit cool meets Cali-girl on Wren’s Holiday 09 look-book featuring darling it-girls Alexa Chung and Tennessee Thomas. Slinky velvet skirts, light silk tops, shimmery frocks and dotted tights that are just so fitting in an underground dance party as in a lavish Jay Gatsby one. Can’t you just connect the dots on my legs?

www.wren-clothing.com

Mixed Tapes: Dirty Projectors

polaroidme — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:54:48 +0000

The Dirty Projectors own music apparatus, Dave Longstreth and band, projects distorted rays of light, jagged riffs, and fragrant folk melodies. The Brooklyn based experimental art-pop band led by Longstreth is known to produce music that can be utterly eccentric and oddly familiar at the same time. The band’s latest album is a kaleidoscope of style, which the effect is similar if not stronger than of narcotics and could leave any lighthearted listener woozy. Is stillness really the move?

dirtyprojectors

THE STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB

polaroidme — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:39:14 +0000

The Stolen Girlfriends Club plans to steal your heart with weapons of mass seduction. This New Zealand brand has me obsessing with getting a membership card after I fell for their “Welcome to Nowhere” collection. On top of that, the brand is always involved in an array of artistic projects. The latest being the collaboration with Oyster Magazine to create a photographic tribute to the legendary fashion photographer Helmut Newton, which was ironically named “No Safety Helmut”. Hold your loved ones close and check this out.

www.stolengirlfriendsclub.com

Broken Windshields

polaroidme — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:11:31 +0000

Stylist: Luiza Villar

Photographer: Nicole Irizarry

Mixed Tapes: Telepathe

polaroidme — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:46:28 +0000

Telepathe is a Brooklyn, New York based experimental noise pop duo. Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais, started Telepathe as a side project that was awaken by the monotony of playing in their habitual band. Telepathe has earned the respect from fellow musician Julian Casablancas, who has mentioned them in his latest Q&A interview, and as if that wasn’t enough, TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek produced their debut album “Dance Mother”. Superhuman, acknowledged absurd subhuman?

telepathemusic.com

PANDA KUNST

polaroidme — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:04:24 +0000

Panda Kunst’s concept is to create original t-shirts that can make you sound witty even with your mouth closed. Louis-Marie Castelbajac strives to create t-shirts that are not only 100% cotton and sweatshop free but most importantly are a conversation piece. The originality and absurdity of the brand brings freshness to the over saturated market of t-shirt lines. Panda Kunst will make you thank god you’re an atheist.

www.pandakunst.com

BOY MEETS GIRL

polaroidme — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:22:01 +0000

If your clothes could make Brandon Flowers confused, I’d say you got it right. Whether you stole your boyfriend’s jacket or bought brogues in the kids section, this trend is a lot more about having a unisex closet than trying to be a less original female version of a dandy bloke. All time favorite and creative adrenaline web shop Pixie Market has the outmost fashion forward fresh blood and original recipes for fashion that never feels dated. Somebody told me…