Clothing designers collaborating on non-apparel related items is nothing new, but when it comes to gadgets the majority of designers have taken an approach that focuses on protective cases instead of branding the product itself.  A notable exception would be the D&G collaboration with Motorola that produced the golden Razr cell phone, but since only 1,000 were...

If fashion is obsessed with the past what would it take for it to truly embrace the future? Designer Hussein Chalayan continues to toy with the idea that fashion’s future lies in the hands of function as well as style and if this is correct then it could be possible that the future is nigh. According to Japan Times online a professor at the graduate school of the...

So you start off the evening with a couple of drinks coupled with great company then head off dancing in a pair of heels so cute that you’re lavished with compliments all night! By midnight you decide you just don’t care, you’ll go on barefoot if you have to, if only just to make the pain go away! Sounds crazy….I know…but welcome to my world....

The Aesthetics+Economist’s take on Miuccia’s Mobile

If you’ve seen the ultra stylish touch screen phone courtesy of Prada and cant decide whether to buy The Prada phone when its launched in February or wait for the much anticipated iPhone then read here. Although personally after watching this I don’t think it could possibly compete and I doubt very much that Apple were even worried in the slightest. I reckon it’s...

Apple has finally unveiled the iPhone to much anticipation. So what does this mean for fashion? Do we care? Should we care? The short answer is yes! This latest gadget from Apple combines your mobile with the internet and MP3 player costing around £250. (start saving now) What’s more the iPhone can screen television shows and films, take photographs with two megapixel...

The stunning iPhone has been announced, with specs that would make anyone drool, tech geek or not. [stylehive]

Julie Fredrickson and Phil Leif over at Coutorture.net launched this week a new section to the site, Coutorture It. A social fashion news service, and the first of its kind for fashion, the service allows readers to submit and vote for their fave fashion stories. Submissions can come from any source, be it online mags, websites, blogs and forums. As more users start...

Going live today, Riya launches like.com a visual search engine which aims to completely change the way we shop online. Rather than spending a lifetime searching for items on the net with text, like.com allows for a search on favourite items to be placed based on appearance, finding items with similar colours, shapes and textures. For example, you like Mischa Barton’s...

Everyone at the moment seems to be speculating about fashion’s future with Time magazine suggesting the industry is in a “state of medical emergency” and rightly so. Fashion is undoubtly stagnant and stale and with the number of celebrity labels which have infiltrated the market it is no wonder that it has become solely about marketing, i.e Topshop and Kate...