Unobvious things: 12 useless design items
Alexander Wang: condoms
Rumors that designers produce condoms, appear quite often. For example, the OMG blog recently wrote about Chanel condoms, and Marc Jacobs condoms have repeatedly come to eBay online auction. Young American Alexander Wang is one of the few designers who actually designed this item. Vang has created a limited collection of condoms for Planned Parenthood, which fights unwanted pregnancies. Sales started on Valentine's Day in 2009, coinciding with the date of the Alexander Wang show at Fashion Week in New York. Later, condoms for Planned Parenthood created Jeremy Scott.
Chanel: Segway
In recent years, the French brand Chanel, headed by Karl Lagerfeld, has released covers for guitars, sleep masks, as well as a line of sports equipment, which initially included dumbbells, rackets and boomerang, and then replenished with skis and snowboard. The most interesting idea of the designer was, perhaps, segway. Its wheels and steering column are decorated with the Chanel logo and monograms, the steering wheel and wings are covered with branded quilted leather, and the variation of a Chanel 2.55 bag adapted to a segway is attached to the front.
Denis Simachev: SimaPhone
SimaPhone collected a lot of critical reviews, but it was a commercial success. In fact, this is an ordinary iPhone, but its case is decorated with paintings under the Khokhloma by Russian designer Denis Simachev, and the buttons and screws are gilded. Recently, SimaPad and SimaPod have been added to SimaPhone.
Hermes: Apple Case
Three years ago, the French brand Hermes, whether as a joke, or seriously released a thing that has no practical use, is an apple lamb skin case. His prototype was green apples "granny smith", the image of which The Beatles group used as the logo of the recording studio Apple Records. Hermes claimed that the case is not worse than Birkin and Kelly bags, so they asked for $ 365 for it.
Lanvin: playing cards
The French brand Lanvin creates not only clothing lines for men, women and children, accessories and bridal collections, but also gifts and souvenirs. The brand offers greeting cards, figurines, and even pens and pencils exactly like those that the brand designer Alber Elbaz draws. Last Christmas, Lanvin released a set of two decks of playing cards with portraits of their creative director and various women: the set cost $ 85 and was sold out to Net-a-porter.com during one of the recent sales.
Marc Jacobs: stationery
Last year, Marc Jacobs, working for three brands at once, Marc Jacobs, Marc by Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton, opened the Bookmarc bookstore in New York. It began selling the first collection of stationery designer: pens, pencils and felt-tip pens, as well as notebooks with parodies of the names of favorite books by Jacobs and his business partner Robert Duffy — Moby's Dick and Dr. notebooks. Duffy and Mr. Marc.
Rachel Comey: Leather Socks
A couple of years ago, the tendency to combine sandals and sandals with socks just started to gain momentum. Then the young designer Rachel Komi created socks made of leather. This piece of clothing has been in a record number of different options heading Would you wear it. By the way, he was advised to wear not only with open shoes, but also as shoes, preferably on second-looking socks. These socks have long been considered the most expensive: they were asked for $ 200. But recently they were ahead of Rodarte’s angora and alpaca’s crocheted socks for $ 500.
Sonia Rykiel: sex toys
In 2002, Sonia Rykiel released a sex collection of two vibrators, a dildo and other toys like a vibrating lipstick case, as well as a collection of erotic lingerie. According to the designer, who turned 70 at the time, she invested a large share of humor in the project and wanted to show that such things are not indecent. Vibrators from the collection are still sold in Sonia Rykiel boutiques and in stores like 10 Corso Como.
Tiffany & Co: silver cane for dialing a phone number
In the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Paul Varzhak wanted to give Holly Golightly some tiffany from Tiffany & Co, but he only had $ 10. Not at all embarrassed by such a modest budget, the seller offered the pair a silver cane to dial a phone number, which cost $ 6.75. The times of rotary phones are over, and Tiffany no longer sell these canes. They can be found on eBay or on collectible sites like Collectibleskingdom.com. But now the thing is worth more than $ 100.
Vivienne Westwood: Eco-friendly Water Bottles
Each designer in his own way struggles with pollution. Recent initiatives include the joint collection of eco-friendly clothing by Alberta Ferretti and Emma Watson, or the decision by Gucci to reduce the harmful effects of production on the environment. Vivienne Westwood, along with eco-bags, produces eco-bottles for water. She has developed three bottle designs for the Swiss company Sigg, which produces drinking containers from aluminum without discharging industrial waste. The volume of each 600 milliliters, cost - € 23.
Yves Saint Laurent: Adapter
The French brand Yves Saint Laurent has customized an ordinary adapter. In the interpretation of the brand, it is decorated with the YSL logo and is packaged in a crimson-colored case. In stores, the device will appear this month for $ 450.
Yves Saint Laurent: cigarettes
At various times, cigarettes were created by Christian Lacroix, Givenchy and Versace, but Yves Saint Laurent became the longest playing players in this business. The line of cigarettes is listed for the brand since 1989, however, until recently, it was developed and produced by a third-party company. Not so long ago, YSL bought a license for the production of cigarettes under its brand. First, the brand changed the pack, which became thinner and was repainted from red and blue to black. In addition, before cigarettes were distributed only in hotels like the Ritz. Now it has been decided to export them to the Asian and Russian markets, where Yves Saint Laurent cigarettes can be purchased for $ 44 per pack of 200 pieces. Interestingly, in one of his interviews, Yves Saint-Laurent admitted that he smokes, but does not like cigarettes of his brand.