Pink Rock Candy – Top fashion trends, news and shopping of 2010

Not a fan of bright color combos and crazy patterns, avert your eyes and make sure you never fall for the nu rave trend. I for one am oddly attracted to bright colors and things that are so wrong, they’re right. That is the basis of clothing brand Naked Ape. According to them, they are just a bunch of people who come together “for the love of making stuff and having fun together”, but just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I find their “stuff” to be so much more.

Very rarely do you feel a bond with a garment unless you had something to do with its creation, and even then its questionable. However, the shear wrongness (is that a word?) of the eclectic patterns on the clothing made me swoon in a way I hadn’t in quite a while. Their pieces are urban yet nu rave, comfortable yet chic.

My favorite pieces include:

• The ‘Forynja Dress’, 265.0 € SOLDOUT- I rarely like dresses with hoods, but the loose fit of the dress works well with the drappy hood.
• The ‘Ponies Hoodie’, 110.0 € – Its My Little Pony gone nu rave, what more is there to say?
• The ‘Heartbreaker’ t-shirt, 40.0 € – Who can resist half-naked rockers in leopard pants? I know I can’t!
• The ‘Ponies & Yetis Snood’, 55.0 € – It’s winter and we all need a good hood-scarf. Except my idea of a snood is something like a hair-net, who knew! Oh, and its MLP meets the ever illusive yeti, come on…

The only thing to bring me down from this fashion high was finding out Naked Ape is based in Iceland, and realizing the USD/EUR exchange rate is crazy (1€ is about $1.50 USD).

For more information on Naked Ape visit their website: http://dontbenaked.com/.

Target is on a never ending quest to find great designers to collaborate with. They’ve taken the term capsule collection and run with it. After having quite a few successful collaborations with accessories designers like Devi Kroell, Hollywould, Dominique Cohen, and soon Loeffler Randal, they have decided to launch a line with Joy Gryson.

The accessories line will launch sometime in 2008, but according to Fashion Week Daily, they are previewing the line to long lead press (a.k.a. magazines) on December 12th.

Joy Gryson started her line Gryson in 2006 after being the director of design for the Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs handbag and accessories lines. If you know anything about the Marc Jacobs & Marc by Marc handbags, you’d know they’re amazing, and the bags I’ve seen of hers are very reminiscent of those designs. The ‘Layla’ bag from the fall 2007 season is absolutely radiant. Giant, chocolate brown, Italian calf-skin leather totes tend to make me swoon.

For more information on Gryson visit gryson.com.

[via Fashion Week Daily]
Image courtesy of chinese.chosun.com.

There’s a new kind of vintage out there, and its called Trashy Vintage. Actually, Trashy Vintage is an ebay auction/soon-to-be-webstore that sells really rad vintage pieces. The great people at the Trashy Vintage headquarters are trying to help you get a head start on all of that holiday shopping. How? They’re giving you a discount, and having a discount on vintage prices is such a great deal.

From now until February 1st, 2008, you can get $5 off any purchase of $25 or more (that is not including S&H). Just send a message to Crystal on ebay with the code DEARSANTA, and voila! A revised invoice will be sent to you showing the discount. This can’t be combined with any other offers, discounts, or coupons (sorry!).

Right now Trashy Vintage is still in the ebay auction format, but that definitely doesn’t take away from the hipness of the clothes. They are also working on their new website as we speak. Since you’re buying their vintage finds on ebay, my suggestion is, if you’ve never bid on anything on ebay, scope out the items you want, and then wait until the last minute to bid in an attempt to be the last bidder and win the booty.

For more information and to see what’s new each week visit the Trashy Vintage website, ebay store, and myspace.

I’ve done this once before, and it was mighty fun. So here are the rules. I was tagged by Angelique from Couture in the City to write 7 random facts about myself. Not only do I have to write 7 random facts, I have to tag 7 other fashion bloggers and link to them at the end of this post. I have to contact the bloggers I’ve decided to tag by comment or otherwise and make sure they know its time to put their running shoes on because this game of tag is in full swing!So here are my random 7 facts:

1. I started wearing contacts for the first time ever in September. I was 18!
2. I recently realized I have a slight obsession with t-shirts and high heels. If it were up to me, I’d wear just the two all day…okay, maybe I’d throw on some underwear.
3. My obsession with green tea has transcended my beverage choices, and now encompasses frozen delights like green tea and white chocolate chip gelato. Mmmm!
4. I’m constantly scoping out new fashion blogs to read, sometimes I find myself going through the list of Coutorture fashion blogs just to see whats new.
5. I wear high heels almost every day of my life. I would probably even try to wear them with a broken leg, but since I haven’t ever broken a bone, that’s just an assumption. (does that count as 2..nahh!)
6. I haven’t gone to a concert in what seems like forever, and it makes me really sad. I always end up competing against the scalpers who have infiltrated ticketmaster, and I always seem to lose. I also can’t bring myself to pay said scalpers double for the same tickets.
7. My 3 favorite new cds right now are: Foo Fighter’s Echoes, Silence,Patience, and Grace, Radiohead’s In Rainbows, and Cobra Starship’s Viva La Cobra.

That’s it for this round, so my tags are: GLAM & TONIC, That’s Chic, Eye4Style, Diva in a Carry On, Fashion Fling, Fashionably Cute, and Discotheque Confusion.

“These guys are aces!” To be completely honest, I’d never say aces, unless I’m playing cards, but after listening to every song on OK Tokyo’s myspace page, aces was all I could think of. Its as if the culmination of their grinding, grungy, powerpop beats, fairly naughty lyrics, and snarky “we stole all the hit songs from the future and made them our own” attitudes took over and sent me straight back to Las Vegas in the 70s.

The guys of OK Tokyo, Sammy Tokyo, Jonny Tokyo, and Matt Tokyo, hail from Reading, UK (or the past/future, it depends who you ask), and are currently saving ears around the UK from the everyone-sounds-the-same doldrum taking over the music world. After only playing a few gigs, OK Tokyo decided to skip to the big-time and play Glastonbury last summer. Well, maybe that’s not exactly how it happened, but since they’re my new favorite rock superheroes, a little extrapolation is necessary. They were actually picked to play Glasto out of hundreds of other bands (I guess that’s rad too, if you’re into that kind of stuff). Unfortunately, the evil genius, Dr. Atlantic O. Cean, is keeping them from playing shows in the US, but I have every faith they will defeat him very soon.

For now listening to their songs over and over again on myspace will have to suffice. Make sure you listen to “TV Evangelist” and “Sums”, they’re ACES and watch their homemade music video for the song “Presidents of Outrageous Behaviour” below (that’s ‘behavior’ for all of you in the US); its hilarious!

For more information on OK Tokyo, visit their website and myspace.