Scolar @ POOL

Wasabi surely digs Japanese brand Scolar with it’s harajuku colors and designs. Even their website is spectacular fun, when you mouse over their logo girl with swirly hair, she blows flowery kisses! Even that for a statement sounds Japanese. Check them out!

Buy:: www.scolar.jp

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Pleasure Doing Business @ Project

Can you hula hoop? Have that thing go round and round around your body? That same elliptical concept was kept in mind when designing “Pleasure Doing Business with you”. They took some elastic bands and stitched them together to go round and round around your waist. Voila! And let there be skirts.

Buy:: www.placelosangeles.com

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Rojas @ POOL

And though the Pool booth for cutting edge designer Freddie Rojas was a small portion and just a tip of the iceberg of his incredible LA showroom and designs, their jewelry displayed magnetized my sixth fashion sense. Using mirrors as the main material for their rings, combined with plastic and geometrical shapes, you can only suspect he’s out for more. Rojas introduces four clothing collections every year for both men and women. He has exquisite taste and intellectual knowledge of the fashion business excelling not only in the design but also in the pattern making, production and marketing of his line.

Buy:: www.rojasonline.com

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Melissa @ Project

You can easily locate in your colorful thoughts a shoe whose body is made from something like plastic (It’s called MELFLEX and this material is 100% environmentally safe). Dig into your mind for a shoe that is seamless, award winner designed worth and sustainably dipped in color.  Melissa, out of Brazil, has been around for 25 years making more than 50 million pairs of shoes. She has also partnered up with designers like Campana, that bring an “organized mess” of patterns and texture highlighting the simplicity of the design and making it even more candy-like must mold-my-foot-with it. Among other designers, you can also find collaboration with Viviane Westwood who introduces her “Lady Dragon,” a princess sandal shoe with a red butterfly spirited heart placed on top of the tippy toes of the shoe.

Melissa is like liquid dreams molding your feet, try picturing walking on clouds for an instance. Now exhale, that is what Melissa’s designs and creativity can do to you.

Buy:: www.melissaplasticdreams.com

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Shigoto Fashion @ Project

Shigoto is from Japan. Their designs are not only originally Japanese but also got their historic roots built in them. All designs are adapted from the Japanese construction worker uniform. But what makes this story really interesting is that the worker’s uniform is adapted from the ancient Samurai warriors. The Samurai were just as meticulous about their clothing as their weaponry; they designed their armor and fashion to better their movement, provide protection from weather, and to give them the ability to be sleek and fast when needed.

Shigoto introduces the practicability of Japanese fashion into the western world with a dash of boldness, color and attitude.

Buy:: www.shigotofashion.com

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Realm Jewelry @ POOL

“Three dimensional collages.” That is what designer Jesse Walker calls his jewelry. Each piece is a universe of its own, combining safety pins, chains, brass and steel and unconventional materials with a new decoration roll.  It’s avant-garde art elevated to the power of creativity.

Buy:: www.realmbyjessewalker.com

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PopKiller @ POOL

In love with Japanese fashion? Popkiller will satisfy your desires. They are a company based in LA, bringing kaleidoscopic exclusive designs from Japan that you won’t find anywhere else. Check out their sunglasses collection. They will poke your eyes out!

Buy:: www.popkiller.us

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Kao Pao Shu @ Project

Every one has the freedom to create, even to call themselves an artist. However, to make that idea a fact is what makes one a real creator or have an ingenuous mind. That is the case of Bosnian designer Naida Begeta and her kaleidoscopic designs.

Whatever the piece that falls your way for examination, it gives you the chills for its exquisite complexity. All her pieces consist of an unpredictable way of folding and stitching tape-fabrics into the creation of a new fabric and the composition of a new garment. Naida stitches not only thread but also that European avant garde enchantment and appeal into all her designs.

Buy:: www.kaopaoshu.it

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Jump @ Project

This is the sneaker shoe that will match your tie or your denim outfit. It’s not that it has a multiple personality disorder, it’s just that it knows how to roll when it comes to design. Jump is originally from Taiwan and it has been in the shoe business since 1975.

Buy:: www.jumpcorp.com

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Owlita @ POOL

Feather waterfalls that sit on your shoulder. Beautiful will simply be a word from the poem that these pieces are to describe with their presence. All creations by Ashley Doty, the heart of Owlita. Ashley, Originally from Oregon, has moved from her kitchen to her studio, reaching more than 40 accounts offering these earrings.

Buy:: www.owlita.com

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Jayimie Jean @ Project

Jayimie Jean is a jeans company out of LA. They offered a jean that has that aura of a rock star with cut-offs, color thread stitching, patchwork and different dye treatments. Maybe you have heard that before, but what’s cool and very dig-able about Jamie is that she will customize your own jeans too. She understands how sometimes we all have those pair of ancient denims that we wear everyday and wouldn’t want to trade for any new pair of oh-wow-brand. For that, Jamie has a solution if you just want a new look. You can mail or pass by her boutique in Hermosa Beach with your favorite denim pair for an up-do. JJ will decorate your jeans according to your rock and roll request.

Buy:: www.jayimejean.com

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Lana @ POOL

Bulky, dreaded yarn knitted, knotted and Legoed to make up for the walls of  Lana’s purses and scarves. The whole collection is wept by Lana’s hands with two big plastic needles. Bags that contain the designer’s happiness in every stitch and thread. Lana Williams lives to love what she does and does what she loves.

Buy:: www.shoplana.com

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Dr.Martens @ Project

A shoe brand with more soldiers than an army. A dictator that is loved and cherished.  A classic born in the 60s. Before internet, before cell phones before instant communications this boot was raw-ly famous. They were seen, heard and worn by every rebellion identity known to men. Dr.Martens have grown into the heart of every revolting group “Mods, glam, punks, ska, psychobillies, grebos, Goths, industrialists, nu-metal, hardcore, straight-edge, grunge, Britpop and many others.” They stand by revolution and they state and recognize that to stand up against a system is not about how much mess you create, but how you can hold up to yourself and let your individuality happen. This boot dresses the individual not the institution.

Buy:: www.drmartens.com

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High Fydelity , Scratch Tracks@ POOL

These are the coolest bags, and even if they didn’t function well, they would still keep their cool rocking glow, however, they do! They are stereo bags with built in stereos that connect to your smart phone, MP3 or iPod.  They come in bright prints, metallic, or neon colors. Very 80s, very pop, very very rock-and-roll.  Chose your favorite style among backpacks, funny packs, messenger bags, hobos, purses . . . just use your imagination, they will surely have a style to dress up to your style.  A-ha! they have style.

Buy:: www.highfydelity.com

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Dosh @ Project

These wallets are SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSMOKIN’! Recall the MASK with Jim Carrie? That crazy character waterproof,  dish washable resistant, good recovery after deformation material, unaffected by tear propagation and extremely flexible? Well, these wallets are The Mask superhero of the money keeping artifact business. Thin to sit on your back pocket, and durable to protect your dollars and your plastic magic cards. They come in solid colors keeping a modern simple design topped with a swoosh of color.

Buy:: www.dosh.com.au

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Glamour Kills @ POOL

A thirsty twenty-something dude with an artist’s soul and a basement in his parent’s apartment in NY, attempted to create something a couple of years ago.  He created Glamour Kills, a lifestyle brand encrusted in the underground culture that stands for street fashion and music as the liquid that flows in your veins.  Mark Capicotto started with five shirts and a website and believing that anything was possible he persisted, worked and grew with his company.

Buy:: www.glamourkills.com

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Confection Jewels @ POOL

Yanique Venezia uses button gems to compose her shimmering symphony of iridescent rings. Take a peek at this delicious banquet of one-of-a-kind pieces or “cocktail rings,” as designer Yanique calls them. Once the ring sits on your finger, it will hardly ever fall off, as if it was a tattoo you want to keep forever. Its glow and glee automatically attracts lots of compliments. Believe me, I have one myself.

Buy:: www.confectionjewels.com

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Yums @ Magic

Shoes that look like if they have just being sprayed with a spray paint can. Their color shines like glass under the sun and that is not an accident. Yums is an extremity of Graffiti and urban artist Howard “Text” Moton. His shoes come in vividly bright looking-like-candy colors, his love for his writing art is expressed in his designs.

Buy:: www.yumshoes.com

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