Limedrop - Snakes and Ladders

"Snakes and Ladders" is Limedrop's Spring Summer 09 collection created by the label's designers Nathan Price and Clea Garrick.
The collection (Limedrop's fifth) offers the Limedrop aesthetic - clean lines and unique play on colour. Snakes and Ladders takes you back to childhood games and family holidays, with energetic blue, canary yellow and stripes, key to the yachting reference. Metallics coated linen, plasticised lycras and floral prints also feature in the collection.

The collection includes wooden jewellery accessories, originally created as a set of hanging mobiles designed for an exhibition at Milly Sleeping during the 2007 L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival. Some of the spare hanging pendants were made into necklaces and proved so popular that Limedrop has now developed it as a new line. The line also features metallic finishes and pop-out earrings.

For further information about where to get Limedrop, visit
Limedrop www.limedrop.com.au

Limedrop www.limedrop.com.au
Milly Sleeping www.millysleeping.com

Danks Street Festival 2008

The Danks Street Festival was held on Sunday 26th October 2008, to promote Sydney design, and celebrate the design/art districts of Waterloo and Redfern. The festival included food stalls run by local businesses and fresh produce from Hawkesbury Harvest.

The PYD Building, located on the corner of Young and Philip Street was also open on the day in support of the festival. The PYD Designers market was also setup in the PYD warehouse downstairs, with over 80 designer stalls. Stalls included art, furniture, homewares, craft, jewellery and fabrics.

PYD Building www.pyd.com.au

Chronicles of Never Summer 0809 collection - Black Noise White Rain

The Chronicles of Never Summer 0809 collection "Black Noise White Rain" is now available via their online store at www.chroniclesofnever.com. The collection has a 'monochromatic' theme. The Apple Core series of tops includes a number prints, and many of the pieces have geometry inspired names like "Circumference of a Circle" or "Inverted Square"

The online store was launched earlier this year to sell the core elements of each collection, including: denim, t-shirts, knitwear and eyewear.

You can also get specialised items for the collection at selected boutiques Australiawide. Visit the Chronicles of Never website for more on the Black Noise White Rain collection, and Chronicles of Never stockist details.

Chronicles of Never www.chroniclesofnever.com

Wallpaper* Magazine - Rei Kawakubo

Wallpaper* issue October 2008 features 3 guest editors - Rei Kawakubo, Zaha Hadid and Louise Bourgeois. Each guest editor produced their own cover (Rei Kawakubo cover pictured) and their own section in the issue:

Rei Kawakubo - curates a portfolio of art, photography illustration and graphics from the co-creatives at Comme de Garçon; Zaha Hadid - profiled by art critic Matthew Collings and includes a die cut take on her new "Lotus" room installation; Louise Bourgeois - explores the work of 3 of her collaborators (Helmut Lang-fashion designer/artist, Peter Zumthor - architect, Roni Horn - artist).

Other features in the October 2008 issue include: Wool Power(innovative knitwear from the work of 4 new designers), Parting Shots(documenting the last days of the Polaroid factory in the Netherlands) and Turkmen Delights(a feature on Ashgabat, cultural hub of Turkmenistan)

Wallpaper* www.wallpaper.com
Rei Kawakubo www.doverstreetmarket.com
Zaha Hadid www.zaha-hadid.com

This Is Not Art 2008

This Is Not Art (TINA) is an independent, emerging and experimental arts festival, held in Newcastle, Australia. TINA 2008 ran from Thursday 2nd October to Monday 6th October 2008.

The full program of events and exhibitions included: Electrofringe (electronic arts, workshops, gigs, screenings, performance and works from over 100 artists)

National Young Writers' Festival (Australian writers, publishers, performers and troublemakers in the 10th anniversary of NYWF )

Sound Summit (festival to support independent music artists, labels and industry creatives; discussion panels, master classes and performances)

Ciritical Animals (creative research symposium; exploration of experimental art theories and practices by artists, writers, thinkers and performers and philiosophers)

Check back at www.thisisnotart.org for the news for upcoming TINA dates.



This Is Not Art www.thisisnotart.org

The Designers Remix Collection

The Designers Remix Collection is a high end line of clothing from Denmark for girls. Charlotte Eskildsen, the Designer and Creative Director of Designer Remix Collection describes the clothes as "sexy, edgy and slightly askew" - and the Spring/Summer 08/09 collection continues to embodies this sentiment (Showgirly dress, pictured).

This beautiful label is being stocked at Somedays Gallery at 72B Fitzroy Street in Surry Hills. If you are in Copenhagen central you can visit the Designers Remix flagship store at Gallery K, Pilestraede 8D, 1112 Copenhagen K, Denmark.

The Designers Remix www.designersremix.com
Somedays Gallery www.somedays.net.au