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Billy Reid: Southern Hospitality

An Invite to the Designer’s Mini-Festival

Part soul food and music gathering, part late-night jamboree, Billy Reid’s annual Shindig lures luminaries of fashion, gastronomy and entertainment to the designer’s hometown of Florence, Alabama, for a celebratory weekend steeped in down-home charm. (more…)

Founders Card

FoundersCard is a first of its kind members-only community for leading entrepreneurs and innovators. Among our members are the leaders of many of today’s most successful companies and tomorrow’s most promising ventures. Headquartered in Manhattan, FoundersCard has members in virtually every major city.

Our members receive access to exclusive benefits, upgrades, and amenities from the hottest travel, lifestyle, and business brands, carefully selected to meet the needs of the entrepreneurial lifestyle. Members also have the opportunity to network at invitation-only events held on a regular basis.

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VICEROY HOTEL | BALI

Viceroy Bali is the perfect getaway, it´s a 5 star boutique hotel in Ubud featuring luxury private pool villas. With excessive indoor and outdoor pools, overlooking the majestic mountains and lush greenery, is a truly amazing place. The decoration throughout is simply stunning, a fusion of Balinese architecture and all the latest technology comforts.

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ACQTASTE Issue 1

Toronto-based food magazine and site ACQTASTE launch their premiere issue which documents the personalities and culture that surrounds food. Also filling the pages are points of convergence involving food and design, architecture, art, fashion, film and music. First up, features in issue 1 include Black Hoof & Company, Munge Leung, how to break down an entire deer, and of course recipes. The 96-page magazine comes ad-free and is available now through ACQTASTE

Source: Anotherfaceinthecrowd

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Joseph Erlanger’s House by Phillip Kalantzis

This morning I decided to bring across some photography by Phillip Kalantzis, a New York city based photographer, who took these fascinating pictures of Joseph Erlanger’s House in Urbana, Illinois. Joseph Erlanger won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1944 for the discovery of different types of nerve fibers, and to this day his house has been preserved and have been named a National Historic Landmark. Not long ago the International Astronomical Union even named a crater on the moon after him.

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I’ll be watching this new series

I can’t wait to start watching this new series on Fox. In short, the show is about a girl named Jess, an offbeat girl who after a bad breakup moves in with three single guys.

 
The sitcom set to premiere on Fox on September 20, 2011, where it will air on Tuesday nights at 9/8 central.

Natalie Joos’ Fashion Week Diary

In our first peek behind the scenes of the new fashion season, in demand casting director, author of stylish vintage blog Tales of Endearment and bona fide New York Fashion Week scenester Natalie Joos shares a day in her Balenciaga heels.

(Source: Nowness)

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WSJ Presents Raf Simons’ Home in Belgium

Raf Simons, the designer behind the Raf Simons and Jil Sander brands, recently opened the doors to his home in Antwerp, Belgium to the Wall Street Journal. The elegant apartment was built in 1968 and has a wenge-wood floating staircase, built-in cabinets and floor-to-ceiling sliding-glass windows. Furniture is the point of interest around the apartment with a Pierre Jeanneret couch and chairs in the living room originally made in the ’50s for public buildings in Chandigarh, India, a low Chapo coffee table, a Ron Arad “Rolling Volume” chair, and various George Nakashima originals including a conoid bench, woven lounge chair and rare dining-room table with five asymmetrical legs. Although Simons is considering moving to Berlin or New York,  Simons says ”in this business, I know I could work somewhere else one day, but I’ll always keep this apartment.” Read the full article over at theWSJ.

(Source: Hypebeast.com)

Cross-Pollination: The Future of Advertisement

What does Louis Vuitton and Palladium Shoes have in common? They both have a firm grip on the future of advertisement. Both brands have discovered effective, creative alternatives to mainstream advertisement.

I firmly believe if you have a strong brand, you have a story to tell – and there’s you ad campaign. Louis Vuitton and Palladium have a solid understanding of the their consumer base and have recently started to produce captivating media projects targeted at the wants and needs of their base.

Here are are two examples of recent projects by both brands, respectfully:

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