Categories / Sportswear

Adidas Stan Smith – Kermit edition

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We’ve already featured one customisation of the Stan Smith trainer in the last month, but here’s something completely different – a Kermit The Frog-themed Adidas Stan Smith trainer.

Part of the adicolor range, the Kermit shoe has a synthetic upper, synthetic sole and inlay, leather siding, green laces, plus a Kermit face, autograph and "It’s not easy being green" design on the exterior.

If you think you could get away with wearing them, good luck finding a pair – we’ve yet to find them in the UK, though we have found them for sale in the US for around $100.

More details on the trainers at Karmaloop

Categories / Music

Gibson guitars for girls

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The Gibson Les Paul is one of the most recognisable guitars in the world. A design collaboration between Gibson Guitar and accomplished jazz guitarist Les Paul, it was a very successful response to Fender’s Telecaster, which had previously taken the guitaring world by storm.

The finished product hit the shelves in 1952, with several slight re-designs keeping it ahead of the game ever since. And now there’s Gibson Les Pauls for girls.

Two models are available, the Les Paul Vixen and our favourite, the Les Paul Goddess. The Goddess is everything that made the original so successful, but with a reduced body size, slim taper and packed into a special lightweight mahogany body.

It’s available in Violet Burst , Sky Burst , Ice Burst , Rose Burst or Ebony, with a recommended price of just under £2,000.

Find out more at the Gibson website

Categories / Cars and Bikes

BMW’s futuristic retro sports car

Bmw_retro The BMW – a status symbol for upper/middle management. It’s reliable, expensive and incredibly dull. So imagine our surprise when we hear the German firm has thrown together a retro-styled sports car.

This is BMW’s new Concept Coupe Mille Miglia, which draws heavily for inspiration on the firm’s 1930s 328 racers. Underneath all those aerodynamic curves made from carbon fibre (to reduce weight) is a modified Z4 M coupe, complete with 343bhp and 3.2-litre six-cylinder engine.

Bmw_retro3 There’s no doors, the entire roof section opens for access, the car has a side exhaust and headlights that sit on (not in) the bodywork, incorporating the latest LED technology.

The Concept Coupe was unveiled at the start of the classic Mille Miglia race in Italy and is likely to make an appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July. However, as a concept car, it’s unlikely to make an appearance at your local showroom. Shame.

BMW website

Categories / Bags, Retro Men's Fashion, Retro Women's Fashion, Travel

Cathay Pacific vintage travel bags

Cathay Vintage travel bags – you can get them cheap just about everywhere these days, but chances are they’re cheap copies knocked up in some backstreet sweatshop. These Cathay Pacific vintage travel bags are different – they’re officially licensed reissues to mark the airline’s 60th anniversary.

Three styles are available – one each from the 50s, 60s and 70s and each has been recreated by the airline in exact detail.

And best of all they’re cheap to buy. They retail for between 190 and 200 Hong Kong dollars – which is only around £15 each, though worldwide shipping will be extra.

Find out more at the Cathay Pacific online shop

Categories / Design and Interiors

The Paulistano chair

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The Barbican’s celebrating Brazilian culture with its Tropicalia exhibition, so why not have a look at a Brazilian design classic?

The Paulistano chair, by Paolo Mendes da Rocha, was designed in 1957 as part of his first big project as an architect – a new gym for the Paulistano Athletics Club in Sao Paolo.

These easy chairs are made from a single piece of tubing, with leather or canvas cover. Only 350 were made for sale, but now they’re back on the market in five colours of leather with black iron or chrome steel frames.

Still not cheap though – they cost around £775.

More on the Paulistano chair from Bodie and Fou

Categories / Cars and Bikes

Classic scooter exhibition

Vespags_1 If you want to find out about and view classic Vespas and Lambrettas, you need to get down to Chelsea Space, which is hosting Ready, Steady, Go! – an exhibition covering the style, fashion, people and events associated with Italian designed scooters and their impact on British culture over the last 60 years.

The exhibition includes a range of exhibits from the life of the British scooter – images and drawings of the earliest scooter models, advertising and posters from Innocenti and Piaggio, original films including those of scooter stunts and gymkhanas, photographs of scooterists past and present, "scooter" clothing (whatever that means) and accessories, plus a rare Vespa from 50s and an insight into scooter designs for the future.

It all kicks off on Saturday 13th May at 12pm with a scooter procession which ends  on the Piazza in front of the gallery.

Chelsea Space
Chelsea College of Art & Design
16 John Islip Street
Millbank,
London
SW1P 4JU
Nearest Tube station: Pimlico (follow the signs for Tate Britain).

Chelsea College of Art & Design website