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Photographer Clarke Tolton captured the effortless beauty and cool of the ravishing Abby Brothers in this brand new SS13 campaign for RAEN Optics. The new colors and shapes are innovative and inspired – favorites includes an “instant classic” collaboration with Deus Ex Machina and the chunky Volant in Crystal Rose… quite the statement piece. Check out the entire collection here!

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Leandra Medine’s eccentric sartorial habits, crazy quotes and funny faces are so deeply rooted in today’s pop culture (& your Insta feed) that it’s hard to believe that it hasn’t even been five years since an enthusiastic feature in the New York Times catapulted the lucky UES babe and her hilariously efficient Man Repeller blog to digital superstardom.

Earlier this month, our fave flamingo-obsessed fashionista teamed up with quintessential Cali apparel brand PJK Patterson J. Kincaid to create a SS13 collection that is quirky, colorful and totally wearable even if you’re trying to get laid. I mean – I surely know a couple hipsters in Silverlake who just couldn’t resist the sight of a peplum moto jacket…

Check out the first delivery of this exciting collaboration!

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“Something Wicked This Way Comes” is a morbid 1962 novel by Ray Bradbury, a movie, a TLC song and most recently an art exhibition showcasing new works by ten of today’s most innovative and powerful contemporary artists: Annie Owens, Christian Rex van Minnen, Christine Wu, Chrystal Chan, David Ball, Fulvio Di Piazza, Jana Brike, Jessica Ward, Judith Supine and Michael Page.

“The show was born merely out of my love and admiration for artists who fearlessly delve into the dark corners of their mind and a desire to see what such a phrase meant to them,” art writer and curator Stephanie Chefas explained to me when I interviewed her for Cool Hunting.

When it comes to art, torment and rebellion are often catalysts to masterpieces, and Chefas knows it: “The wicked are much more interesting, don’t you think? Not that I don’t appreciate the hero’s journey, but generally speaking good is so boring.” With robots, knives, dark forests, wide-eyed girls, cigarettes and bondate, there is nothing boring about her forthcoming show, as you’ll be able to preview below.

The opening reception for “Something Wicked This Way Comes” takes place Saturday, 23 February 2013 from 7-10pm, at Cella Gallery. The reception is open to the public, and the exhibition will be on view through 16 March 2013. Don’t miss it!

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THE/END is really just the beginning for Los Angeles-based creative entrepreneurs Cody and Mike Comrie, Mat Mickel and Jerrod Cornish, whose new All American menswear line showcases beautiful materials and craftsmanship while retaining a certain edge through dark tones, progressive cuts and stark detailing. We’re loving the dark vibes of this look book shot by Magda Wosinska in some obscure back streets south of Downtown LA, and we suspect the boys will be crushing in Vegas as they unveil their debut AW13 collection, “Street Where Nobody Lives,” at Capsule trade show this week.

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Season after season, London-based Estonian designer Kriss Soonik creates fierce, luxe lingerie and loungewear that’s sexy and powerful; a perfect choice for the ladies who like their underwear to be a true fashion statement. SS13 will make you want to unleash your inner angel – quite literally! We’re loving the leather & lace!

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“Last week, a bunch of my friends and I went to spray paint this wall across the street from the house where we were at and take some pictures.  We all woke up with skinned knees, not remembering what really had happened… and everything was painted over by the time we woke up so I couldn’t remember what I had written until this photo came out the next week,” says the fiery Teen Witch.

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Amsterdam-based photographer Katrin Korfmann is obsessed with life viewed from above, which allows her to focus on humans without their surroundings. Check out some powerful work, below!

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One thing I have in common with Dita Von Teese? Every month, I shop for frilly little things at Faire Frou Frou, the Studio City lingerie boutique Alison Rubke founded with her mom, Gail Rubke, seven years ago. Nobody does it better than this gal when it comes to curating glamorous boudoir attire and undergarments you can’t find anywhere else – I’m talking Bordelle, Fifi Chachnil, Vannina Vesperini, Myla, Strumpet & Pink, ARI DEIN, Fleur of England, Damaris, Maison Close, Lascivious and Brulee. All my favorites! I had a chat with Alison right in time for Valentine’s Day, and here she shares some sexy insights and shopping tips! Photos by Kimberly Genevieve.

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Supra TM Dennis Martin snapped this shot of Spencer Hamilton, Boo Johnson and Keelan Dadd catching wifi in an alley in Toulouse, France on the Supra European Tour back in July.

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Los Angeles-based Cody Comrie has developed a style of abstraction that is as emotionally charged as it is graphically pleasing. His work is clean and organic; it is inspired by nature, animals, decay, the Universe, and the way things naturally evolve and change. “It’s the circle of life, and it moves us all through despair and hope, through faith and love,” right? Read more as we sit down with one of our favorite artists and discuss his creative process, current projects and bad habits.

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L.A.-based jewelry brand KONTRAHO introduces a new collection inspired by a world where there are no rules, where you can “walk where you aren’t supposed to walk, breathe underwater, prove that boundaries are fictitious, exist in places you’ve never existed,” Kristina Karner & Gus Cawley, the brand’s founders, explain. Their lookbook was shot by Jason Lee Parry and starting his lovely creature of a wife, Jenny Parry, on location in Cabo San Lucas. Don’t you just love mermaids?

“We believe in accepting the imperfections of human nature and venerate those imperfections shown through handmade metalwork. We believe in the incandescence of nearby galaxies and the pursuance of like energies. We believe in an ineffable existence and embodying and preserving everything from the world that once was,” is the brand’s modus operandi.

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Love will always be stronger than hate, even when your world falls apart. Syrian artist Tammam Azzam pays homage to his beloved country by juxtaposing one of the most powerfully romantic piece in art history – Klimt’s The Kiss – on his hometown’s bullet ridden walls. Photo credit: Ehab.

Azzam’s recent work all “coincides with particular events of the Uprising, depicting a variety of fractured and wounded maps of Syria, fallen chess pawns and other symbols reconfigured in powerful reflections of the turmoil facing his countrymen.”

This brand new piece – painted this past Wednesday – is in the same line of thought as his recent “Syrian Art Museum” fine art series at Ayyam Gallery in Dubai, which incorporated iconic subjects from the greatest European masters such as da Vinci, Matisse, Goya and Picasso, paralleling the greatest achievements of humanity with the destruction it is also capable of inflicting..

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Montreal-based illustrator Alexandra Levasseur is one of the young, female rising stars I’m most excited about right now. She draws beautiful damsels in distress in strange dreamlike settings. Her dramatic subject matter is inspired by “a mix of love, sadness, loneliness and childhood memories,” she explains.

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“Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count” – don’t you love that quote? In search for the perfect time piece, we came across a whole lotta arm candy, and narrowed it down to these faves…

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Inspired by dramatic stills from 1960′s classic movies, this exclusive editorial created in collaboration with Lonelydot will transport you back to a glamorous place in time when some of our favorite leading ladies of cinema – Audrey and Katharine Hepburn, Claudia Cardinale, Brigitte Bardot – breathed, loved and hit big time.

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Having initially developed her craft with paper and razor blades because it was all she could afford, Miami-born Jen Stark has taken paper art to new heights of popularity. A rising star on the global contemporary arts scene, her unique technique and her mastery of color and geometry fascinate. No wonder her intricate sculptural work – so hypnotic and colorful – has caught the attention of critics and collectors alike. You have to see it to believe it. We were thrilled to meet up with this talented young lady for a studio visit in her new L.A. abode. Welcome to the vortex… Photography by Kimberly Genevieve.

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