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Futuristic Prada Heels

TrendHunter: If Jane and Judy Jetson were to get glammed-up for a space-age style night on the town, they’d no doubt be donning a pair of peep-toes from the Prada Spring 2012 footwear collection.

The shoes that make up the turn-of-the-season assembly are catwalk treads that will quickly soar to the top of the runway ranks due to their handy rocket-packing heels. Mixing 1950’s framework with feminine flames and futuristic embellishments, Prada bring their cool kick collection well past the upcoming season and into the far off years of fashion.

The Prada Spring 2012 Footwear is Fierce and Futuristic [TrendHunter]

Cool Shades for Kids

Popgadget: Trying to keep a pair of sunglasses on a toddler can be like getting your cat to wear a festive costume. (Ever see a Kitty that enjoyed dressing up?) Given the dangers of UV radiation though, kiddies need to learn early to rock some shades.

Enter Eyes Cream Shades who make quality sun glasses for the younger set in bright, fun colors and fashion-forward designs. No need to tell them that they provide 100% UVA and UVB protection.

Rockin’ Shades : Form AND Function [Popgadget]

Touchscreen Gloves for Winter

Dvice: We now have the surest sign that touchscreen devices are no longer limited to the realm of techies and have gone truly mainstream. This winter one of the biggest apparel chains in the world has decided to make iPhone-friendly gloves a major staple of their line-up.

Just in time for the cold weather, Japan’s Muji has introduced unisex Touchscreen Gloves. The wool gloves feature conductive material woven into the fingertips (index finger and thumb) of the gloves, with a design that subtly highlights the tech-powered nature of the otherwise normal gloves. The iPhone, iPad and Android device-friendly gloves come in a wide array fall/winter colors and retail for just $24.95 here.

Touchscreen gloves allow for fashionable winter smartphone use [Dvice]

Plastic Fantastic Protection

Plastic Fantastic is a tube of highly advanced plastic that will seal tight around your stiletto heel when sufficient heat is applied – the recommended way to do this is with a proper hairdryer.

Plastic Fantastic will prevent all those scratches and scrapes that have so many times made you wish that you hadn’t worn your favourite shoes out.

Plastic Fantastic is a virtually invisible and permanent solution to this well-known problem and is made from a durable material, designed to resist almost any damage.

Joe Button Custom Fit Shirts

Joe Button embraces the DIY fashion model and allows both men and women to design their own shirts and shirtdresses online.

Each shirt is created to the customer’s individual preferences and male customers can choose from one of four sizing methods depending on their time commitment. A lot of people find that the only problems with a standard sized shirt are that the sleeves are too short or the neck is too tight, so Joe Button developed a system where customers can start with a standard size and then tweak as many measurements as they like to fit their bodies. Joe Button’s blog is also a platform where customers can learn about style advice, what’s hot and celebrity styling with shirts & shirtdresses.

All of Joe Button’s cottons are sourced from Europe and start from $99 which is a lot cheaper than the price of an off the rack shirt of comparable quality.

Where To Get It

With Where To Get It, the hours spent searching for a store that has the dress seen on Carrie Bradshaw, or this random girl down the street, are over.

Users can simply post a picture of their finding and access the power of W2G highly fashion savvy community who will find it for them. Within minutes they receive insightful tips and will never have to wonder again: “Where can I get this look?” Users can also use the #W2G hashtag, or Connect with Facebook, and start a fashion ques on wheretoget.it, from any place, with any device.

Fashion Stake

TrendCentral: Community-based shopping site Fashion Stake was founded out of frustration among aspiring designers who, historically, have had limited means of connecting directly with consumers. Though the original concept for this venture, founded by a Harvard Business School grad, was to give users a chance to invest in designers they wanted to support, it has evolved into an e-commerce bazaar that’s stocked by the same people who make the purchases, allowing them to view collections from new designers and vote on which items they think would fly off the rack. Prices max out around $200, making it a hit with a cost-conscious crowd, as well as some notable investors.

Democracy in Style [TrendCentral]

Custom Gems from GemKitty

GemKitty.com is the design-your-own gemstone jewelry company that lets you play with their web app, putting you in your very own online jewelry studio, to create your next favorite pair of earrings or necklace. You can’t go wrong with millions of different possibilities either!

Also, for guys that want to get a special gift for their woman, they can use GemKitty’s Bling-o-matic recommendation engine to help them create a unique piece of jewelry their woman will absolutely love.

At $47 to $191 for custom necklaces and custom earrings from $38 to $78, this is real affordable luxury. Pieces come in sterling silver or 14k gold complimented with handpicked gemstones, handcrafted in Portland, OR.

Idea contributed by Danny Wong. Thanks!

Tie-Up Belts

Josh Spear: Tie-ups are the first belts wholly realized in fine and recyclable plastic. Customizable: You choose the belt, buckle and tongue color and sizes. These belts are fun and earth friendly.

Tie-Ups [Josh Spear]

Multicolor Beaded Bag

Luxist: Intricate beadwork like this always comes off as so wonderfully earthy and luxe at the same time — not something that’s easy to do. This cute little number is the Perlee Small Beaded Cross-Body Bag by Paul & Joe. It has a multicolor beaded “festival” print with tassels everywhere — little beaded ones and big tan leather ones. It features nude leather trim on the top with white leather stitching detail, a white leather braided shoulder/cross-body strap, and it’s fully lined in gray twill. It’s open at the top, which fits the beautifully easy-going vibe.

Perlee Small Beaded Cross-Body Bag, Handbag of the Day [Luxist]

Rapanui Eco Wear

Rapanui is about making cool eco-fashion for young people; that means clothing that is eco-friendly, ethical and sustainable: Made from natural organic fabrics in a Fairwear Foundation audited, wind powered factory.

Rapanui has developed a unique traceability tool and eco labelling system which allows visitors to their site to find out exactly where and how their clothing is made and shop quickly with a conscience. It developed a grading system called Eco-Labelling, similar to energy efficient light bulbs, plus an interactive map tool. The maps can be accessed from a shoppers Smartphone and show exactly where Rapanui’s clothing comes from, and how it is made.

Conscious Eco Clothing from H&M

Trends Updates: This April looks set to get more fashionable with fashion house H&M making yet another foray into green fashions. Last Thursday, H&M announced its upcoming ‘Conscious Collection’ which is scheduled to start retailing in stores from Earth Day on 22 April.

Sustainable fashion may well be the need (and demand) of the future, but these are early days yet. However, H&M is moving from the tendency to use only organic cotton. H&M’s head of design, Ann-Sofie Johansson confirmed that the brand is not limiting itself to organic cotton. The fashion brand has included organic linen, recycled polyester and Tencel among the materials used in its new eco-friendly collection. Johansson revealed that sustainable fabrics provide immense possibilities for creating fashion statements in a greener way.

H&M To Launch Its Green Line, ‘Conscious Collection’, On Earth Day [Trends Updates]

Simple White Shirts

Reveries.com: “Ask any guy what he has the most of, and the odds are he’ll tell you, ‘Socks, underwear and white shirts,” says NPD’s Marshal Cohen in a New York Times piece by David Colman (1/13/11). “It takes no brains and no style to make a white shirt look good — as long as it’s clean and it fits,” says Marshal. Given that, it may come as some surprise that few retailers have capitalized on white shirts, particularly when it comes to “the little-discussed realm of retail known as … ‘replacement shopping’.”

The idea is “to perfect basic garments expressly so that the time-crunched or shopaphobic guy can whiz in and out of a store as if on a jet-fueled sortie, halting only briefly behind enemy lines to grab three/six/nine of his tried-and-true chinos/briefs/socks. In, out, nobody gets hurt.” The concept is frequently applied to t-shirts, jeans and khakis, but somehow white shirts have been left behind (maybe because of competition from “more casual-looking light blue shirts”).

White Shirts [Reveries]

Fast Fashion

Fashism lets you sidestep fashion faux-pas by crowdsourcing other users’ opinions. Snap a photo, email it to the site, and get pinged back with comments and ratings from other users. People are doing this anyway — taking photos in stores and sending to friends for thoughts. This site hopes to create a fashion-conscious community to advise you on your wardrobe in real-time.

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