A new Swedish book about style is out in the shops! Modemanifestet – De stilsmartas handbok by Sofia Hedström explores how we can communicate our personal style on a very low budget.

By being creative with what we have, and use the clothes others are willing to throw, or give away we save money, free up time by avoiding weekly shopping sprees, save the environment by cutting down on material and production and last but not least; get cred for having a unique personal style! (having a personal style is on the top-10 list of things that give you status in Sweden).

Just another creative session sprung from the sound formula creatives + booze + stuff we’re willing to sacrifice for design. Something for the X-mas season, or even better, let Rudolph light up your August dusk.

In the United Kingdom, where if you, as a man, wear cologne and anything other than dirty sweat pants and an ill-fit t-shirt will be a suspected homosexual, I decided to buy a new pair of purple boots!

I mean, who gives a fuck?

PS. I’ll later write an article about the childish, so called, manliness of British males compared to European men (I mean, isn’t the UK in Europe? DS.

And the days stood still.

Not so much activity here lately?  Well, the style guru duo aint the same duo if we aint together, so it’s high time I get my sad ass over to the country of footie, afternoon tea and dry gin. From next week London will be my new playground. Look out for the original style gurus – TrendGiveAfuck at your service.

Orange, together with Gotwind, have designed thermoelectric wellingtons that charge your mobile phone using heat from your feet!

From their press release:
Twelve hours of stomping through the Glastonbury Festival in your Orange Power Wellies will give you enough power to charge a mobile phone for one hour. To increase the length of time you can charge your phone for, simply hot step it to the dance tent because the hotter your feet get, the more energy you produce.

Although still just a prototype and unavailable to buy, the Orange Power Wellies will be showcased by Orange at Glastonbury Festival later this month. So visit their “Chill n’ Charge” tent – you may see other cool eco-friendly charging things like the Foot Power Pump, as well as contests to win side-of-stage tickets…. and charge your phone, of course!

Hot chick not included

Love boots? Love retro? Love the classic game boy? I do! And I want these boots! They’d be perfect for dancing to chip music!

I guess you’d have to buy two game boys from 1989, but they only costs around $10 on eBay!

Designed by Helen Red Richards
Via: If shoes could kill

STOCKHOLM.

ATTITUDE.

Buy yours at our place.

So now we can buy an attitude? Yes, the clothes you wear will affect the way you feel, but this ad still annoys me. Buy clothes, buy an attitude, buy a style, buy happiness. I buy R/I shades and select imagination. Turn on, tune in, drop out.

After this weekend the iPad hype might be less annoying. Oh, so you bought one? Maybe you want an iTee or an iDress with that?

“iDress – From the office to the cocktail lounge, read your iPad comfortably on your way to the next party in town.”

“iTee – The protective almost invisible front pouch stores and carries your iPad with you on the move.
Perfect for men and women with a digital lifestyle.”

… and a beer belly…

Find them here: www.iclothing.com.au

It’s raining. So I’m doing some house cleaning today before a good friend from Sweden arrives to share a couple of glasses of high-percentage alcohol. Sorting out all the shit (papers and bills) and clothes in my room. Here’s to show that I’m not all show [sic], I actually have ties in every colour!

I found and old ticket in a pile of rubble in a suitcase. Glade was happy times! This year, it was cancelled due to policy restrictions and too much police involvment.

A Facebook group tells more about closed down festivals and how to protect your other favourite festivals, and I urge you to join and continue the discussions:

“Last year saw the closure of the Big Green and Thimbleberry Festival. This year, so far, Strawberry Fair and now the Glade……….. How many more are facing similar problems?

The aim of this group will be to bring together all those who are saying ‘enough is enough’. Stop closing down our festivals. Excessive charges for policing and over the top Health and Safety are killing a lot of the small, independent festivals.
This has to stop…”

Visit Save Our Festivals here.

Take a look at how fun we had at Glade last year!