New bag, but with old school looks – the Fred Perry vintage shoulder bag.
Take your pick from green (above), dark blue or deep red, all with thick, adjustable shoulder strap, contrast stripe, Fred Perry laurel logo and plenty of space for either your everyday things or your hand luggage.
Yours for £35.
Not the easiest thing to find, but if you do pick up this Space Invaders LED watch, you'll certainly turn a few heads.
A limited edition of just 500, the watch shows the time as a red dot-matrix display, with a press of a button replacing the digits for the words 'space invaders', followed by some game-like invaders animation and the words 'game over'. All wrapped up in a 70s-style casing with the game's logo on the front and back.
Downside? Well, one big one – you can't actually play the game on the watch. Sold in a custom box, you can pick them up from Japanese online retailers (like the one below) for the equivalent of £143.
Find out more at the Ebten website
Via Technabob
Jaeger is a familiar name, but you might be surprised to know that the fashion house has been around for 125 years. And that landmark is being celebrated by a new book, with the appropriate title of Jaeger 125.
The work of London College of Fashion lecturers Amy de la Haye and Judith Clark, the book plunders the archive of Jaeger to show its development from avant-garde knitwear maker to modern-day fashion brand. Look out for it in March 2009 for an as-yet undisclosed price. A couple of images from the book are above.
And for fans of vintage fashion, Jaeger is also producing a 'capsule collection' of original designs from the Jaeger archive of the 1960s, specifically from 1962 to 1965. These Jaeger 125 designs will be on the shelves and online from March 2009 – more on those when we get the images.
If you're a fan of Le Corbusier's modernist design and architecture, you just might want to get yourself down to London's Barbican for the appropriately-named Visions of Utopia: Le Corbusier at the Barbican.
The season runs from 7th March to 10th May, with the Barbican highlighting events, films, music, performances and talks accompanying the Barbican Art Gallery exhibition Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture (more on that later). Some of it might be a little too heavy but related movie showings including Jaques Tati's Mon Oncle (pictured above) are certainly worth checking out. See over the page for the full program.
Remember the Dr Martens Made in Monochrome collection? It was described as a 'no frills' reworking of the classic eight-eye Doc Martens boot in black and white. Well, now the company has done the same thing with colour – with the Dr Martens Primary Pascal collection.
Once again, this is the classic book, but with colour covering every part of the boot. Which means blue leather upper, blue sole, blue eyelets and blue laces (if you choose blue) or you can substitute red, yellow and green if you wish.
Certain to get your feet noticed – although I'm not sure that's necessarily a positive thing in this case. Yours for £85 a pair. See over the page for an image of the red boot.
Did you know that there's an International Spy Museum? And did you know that this particular museum has an online shop? Well, indeed it does, offering a mix of modern-day spy kit and vintage goodies – the latter including this authentic KGB hip flask.
It's made of stainless steel and weighs eight ounces, with enough capacity for a slug or three of vodka on those cold nights. It also features the KGB emblem, with the words 'Honorable Worker of the KGB and USSR' (in Russian of course).
Flasks vary, so might not look exactly like the one in the picture, but all sell for the same price – $24 (around £16).
