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Our favorite Dutch soft goods brand is back and at it again with a set of leather crochet touchscreen gloves. We’ve tried other touchscreen friendly gloves before but none come close to the quality of Mujjo. I mean, this is some high quality stuff – something you’d associate with fashion instead of function. This is some Versace Versace Versace sh*t! Pardon the language but I’m feeling hype because WINTER IS COMING and these gloves have arrived just in time to keep my hands warm.

They work flawlessly with almost every touchscreen. I can vouch for this since I own their other touchscreen gloves and they continue to work even after accidentally going through the wash. These leather crochet ones are crafted out of Ethiopian lambskin and Egyptian cotton. The crochet pattern exudes craftsmanship and the whole thing stays on your hand via a leather strap that snaps closed from a matte black leather button.

Designer: Mujjo

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Simon Birch est un artiste britannique vivant à Hong Kong qui réalise de magnifiques peintures, avec notamment cette série représentant des corps en mouvement. Son travail, paru dans de nombreuses publications telles que The Guardian ou le New York Times, est d’une beauté incroyable.

Industrial designer Marc Newson has updated his clothing line for Dutch fashion brand G-Star RAW.

Marc Newson‘s ongoing collaboration with G-Star RAW centres around denim garments influenced by American sportswear.

His Spring Summer 2014 collection includes a five-pocket worker jacket made from stripy grey denim, which matches a pair of trousers in the same material.

A bomber jacket reinterpreted in grey suede and a long navy trench coat feature an A-line cut, which Newson implemented in his previous collections.

The designer has also created a reversible baseball jacket in red and white fabric on one side and dark blue on the other.

Pastel-coloured short and long sleeved t-shirts have darker bands of colour around the shoulders.

Marc Newson’s 2011 range for G-Star RAW featured bold graphics and he also created a limited-edition range of his Zvezdochka shoes for sportswear brand Nike in 2010.

Newson has recently designed one-off items including an aluminium table and a Leica camera with Apple’s Jonathan Ive for Bono’s (RED) charity auction.

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Friendly Ghost. Bill Blass somewhere in Europe, in a photo taken by his friend Bob Tompkins.

Inflatable tanks, sound effects, elaborately painted faux convoys, carefully crafted illusions. It was all in a day’s work for the American G.I.s—including Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, and Art Kane—who artfully mislead the Axis forces on the battlefields of Europe during World War II. “They conducted 21 different deceptions, often operating within a few hundred yards of enemy lines,” filmmaker and author Rick Beyer tells us. “Their story was hushed up for more than 40 years.” Beyer brings it to light in The Ghost Army, a new documentary that will be screened on Thursday, October 17 at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (register here to attend). Beyer made time to tell us some ghost (army) stories in advance of next week’s screening.

How did you become interested/first learn about the story of this secret WWII unit?
I first learned about it eight years ago when a mutual friend introduced me to Martha Gavin, whose uncle, John Jarvie, served in the unit. Her enthusiasm was the spark that started the whole project. I have always loved quirky history stories, the strange, “can you believe it?” stuff. In fact, I’ve written an entire book series, The Greatest Stories Never Told, that focuses on just that. The idea that American soldiers in World War II went into battle with inflatable tanks and sound effects records was so bizarre, so contrary to every image from every war movie I’ve ever seen, that it immediately attracted my attention.

On top of that was the fact that many of the soldiers in the unit were artists, who used their spare time to paint and sketch what they saw on the battlefield. In fact, the first time I met Martha at a Boston area coffee shop, she was carrying an armload of three-ring binders filled with uncle’s wartime artworks. I was captivated with the way they presented such a unique and intimate perspective of the war. And that’s how I got hooked.

How were GIs selected to serve in this unit?
The Army threw the 23rd together in a hurry, in January 1944, so they assembled it from four pre-existing units. One was the 603rd Camouflage Engineers, which had been formed more than 18 months earlier. The Army had loaded the 603rd with artists, because their initial mission was camouflage. Some were recruited from art schools such as Pratt and Cooper Union. Word quickly spread to other artists interested in finding a way to put their art skills to use in war effort. (Or interested in finding a way to avoid ending up in the infantry!)

Similarly, the Army took a pre-existing radio unit and assigned it to The Ghost Army to handle radio deception. But because they wanted only the very best radio operators to carry out convincing deceptions, they pruned about 100 soldiers from the radio unit, and then plucked skilled men from other units around the country. In general, once it was formed, The Ghost Army had a very high priority status, and could whatever soldiers it wanted.
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