Beautiful swimsuits by We Are Handsome.

In cooperation with Vitra Design Museum and the Centre Georges Pompidou, C.I.R.E.C.A. (Centre International de Recherche et d’Education Culturelle et Agricole) has been putting on an international summer academy at Domaine de Boisbuchet since 1996. The international summer workshops are offered from July through mid-September and the courses are led by renowned designers, architects and artists who live and work together with the participants for a length of six to ten days. In this current edition of Boisbuchet Workshops CuldeSac and Studio Marisol will be using human hair as their working and inspirational raw material. The main goal is to research, design and build a project by using cutting, shape, fixing, weaving, teasing, textures and colour. But…how could these treatments have influence on design products? This is one of the many questions that emerge in this unique workshop where hair’s properties (versatility, resistance, structure, aesthetics, colour and light) will be given to newly created objects of design.

Photo by Katrin Backes and hair by Marisol Suarez, Studio Marisol.

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London fashion designer Lu Flux has launched her autumn/winter collection 2010, which features salvaged textiles and fairytale characters. Called Dame and Knight, the collection is inspired by old British fables and features creatures such as dragons and lions. Knitting, pleating, embroidery and patchwork are a few of the techniques used to transform discarded old fabrics into one-off contemporary pieces.

Les Queues de Sardines is a registered trademark of the French M+O design Studio created by Marion and Olivier and based in Normandie, France. The design couple illustrate their creative ideas on unconventional hand-printed pairs of stockings. The outcome is stylish, funny and elegant.

Via Yatzer.

Icelandic fashion designer Una Hlin Kristjandottir presented her first collection at the inaugural Reykjavik Fashion Festival as part of Icelandic design festival DesignMarch. Called Royal Extreme the label boasts silk fringing, wool pom-poms, lamb’s leather bags and stockings with plaits down the front.

Work portfolio of Jimmy Backius, a Swedish fashion photographer

The ongoing project of London-based graphic designer and illustrator, Nikki Faquharson, Mixed Media Girls, gives the viewer a lot to look at. The collages appear innocent and sweet but at the same time exude sharp, pent-up energy that does not feel altogether safe. The title of the work is also wonderfully suggestive – or not, depending on how the reader wishes to understand it.