Last year whilst I was scanning the racks of my local CD store, slowly oozing down the aisles so I could carefully inspect every band, I stumbled upon Karl. Yes, Karl Lagerfeld, who was wedged somewhere between Lohan and The Kinks. At the time I was surprised, even shocked, to see a designer’s name on an album because the man may be a connoisseur of fashion, but music? Karl’s taste in music, though I am slightly reluctant to admit this, is awesome. He had chosen bands like The Pipettes, LCD Sound system and Siouxsie & The Banshees, which caused me to contemplate buying his CD until I realized the guy was charging over $40 for “some of his favorite songs.” Thanks, but no thanks.

 This year Vivienne Westwood has jumped on the proverbial bandwagon and has released a CD that she has conceptualized, curated, and art-directed and, similar to Lagerfeld, is a compilation of some of her favorite songs like “Last Night Was Made for Love,” by Billy Fury, and Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers. Westwood told British Vogue:

“My clothes always tell a story. It may refer to the past, but it’s always projected into this heroic future. And I choose the music accordingly … Sometimes the music can just be sexy, it can let you relax, look at the clothes, put people into a fantastic mood. Then it might just have to swing back and lift you up to the final triumph of the fashion show.”

I wonder who will be next?

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Look out for Hyoni Kang. This Korean beauty won the infamous ‘Ford Supermodel of the World’ contest in mid-January, and then stormed her way into New York Fashion Week. She was seen strutting down ten catwalk shows including Marc by Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang, and United Bamboo. This busy model has also already shot upcoming editorials for Interview, Korean Vogue, and Flaunt magazine.

Real Name:Seung-hyun Kang 

 Nationality:Korean

 Birthday:1987

 Born in:Korea

 Lives now:New York, NY

 Agencies:Ford

Known for:Her Lips 

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The turn-to-mute silencing mechanism lets users silence incoming calls in a discrete manner by turning the phone over, screen-side down. In addition to 3G capabilities, the 8800 Carbon Arte has a 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera, high-quality audio, and a vivid OLED screen. Luxury phone will hit the market in the third quarter of 2008. As expected, new Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte will have a high retail price: 1,100 Euros (about 1,615 USD or 870 GBP) without taxes and subsidies.
Tags: luxury phone, luxury goods, most expensive

Via: mobiledia 

Nokia has come out in Europe with a new version of their high end 8800 series. This is probably the nicest version to date that we have seen of the phone. The Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte, comes as the name hints, with a carbon upper, sapphire screen and lots of other nice high end details. All that does not come cheap though - the phone is priced at 1600 USD.

Have a look at some more detailed shots of the 8800 Carbon Arte after the jump.

Aram Bartholl is starting a new line of vintage style jeans that “show traces of mobile tech development in society.” Now, we don’t quite know what this means, all I know is that the above image has an imprint of an old Nokia 6600 (don’t ask how I know that) phone.

Personally, I don’t find this cool, and don’t see much of a demand in the market for something like this, but you guys tell me: would you rock these?

Thanks BrandFlakesForBreakfast

WWD is reporting on new plans from Ralph Lauren making mobile shopping easier for their customers with the introduction of QR Codes into their marketing media. A QR Code is something similar to a UPC symbol on packaging, except that it holds and stores information such as web addresses, email addresses, and more. "Taking its philosophy of “merchan-tainment” to a new level, Polo Ralph Lauren is launching into mobile commerce — m-commerce — incorporating echnology that allows shoppers to buy Polo merchandise from their cell phones."

In the USA, Nokia phones should come embedded with a QR Reader while Mac users can download a variety of QR Readers inside the iTunes Music Store. QR Codes have been popular in Asian markets for some time now.

Mobile phones have been around for over 20 years, and they're now used by more than 3 billion people. Yet questions linger over whether mobile phones can contribute to health problems, including cancer. The most recent alarm came from the director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, who warned school employees to limit their cell-phone use based on early unpublished data from scientific studies. "Although the evidence is still controversial, I am convinced that there are sufficient data to warrant issuing an advisory to share some precautionary advice on cell-phone use," wrote Ronald Herberman in a memo to 3,000 faculty and staff in late July.

To be clear, many studies have presented evidence that cell phones are safe. The wireless industry, from Nokia (NOK) and Motorola (MOT) to Verizon Wireless and AT&T (T), says there is no cause for concern. "The overwhelming majority of studies that have been published in scientific journals around the globe show that wireless phones do not pose a health risk," said the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Assn., the wireless industry's trade group, in a statement following Herberman's memo.

Not Around Long Enough

But definitive scientific proof is tough to come by. One key reason is that people use their cell phones, by definition, in ways that make them hard to study. We make phone calls on the go, from the grocery store or in our cars. That makes it difficult to reap the precise details important to scientific study, like how long we used the phone or which side of the head it was pressed against. The topic also falls between areas of scientific study, with doctors expert in the human body on one side and engineers well versed in radio technology on the other. Finally, time is an issue. While cell phones have been around a while, they've been mainstream products for only 10 years or so, and it may take much longer than that for adverse effects to show up. "The most difficult thing to resolve is whether there is an effect with long-term mobile-phone use," says Rodney Croft, executive director at the Australian Center for Radio Frequency Bioeffects Research.

Consumers and scientists had hoped that an ambitious research project, due out later this year, to study the issue would overcome these limitations. The effort, called Interphone, is a decade-long study involving 13 countries. "It's time for the Interphone to come out. It's a public health issue," says Louis Slesin, author of Microwave News, a newsletter that tracks non-ionizing radiation research—the type cell phones emit.

Still, the slices of Interphone research that have been published recently (while the final report is being prepared) suggest that it won't be the definitive word, either. Interphone's research coordinator, Dr. Elisabeth Cardis, warns that "the interpretation of the data is not very clear." Slesin says that "Interphone will not be the last word. It is more a progress report."

Studying Tumor Risk

In February of this year, Japanese scientists participating in Interphone published partial findings, based on their research, in the British Journal of Cancer. They "observed no increase in overall risk of [tumors] in relation to regular mobile-phone use among our Japanese subjects."

While some experts hailed the research as providing evidence that mobile phones do not cause cancer, others dispute the conclusion. Bruce Hocking, an Australian doctor who specializes in occupational and environmental medicine, argues that the Japanese study had key flaws. In a letter to the Journal, Hocking said the Japanese gathered data that relied on people's ability to remember "cumulative length of use and cumulative call time," which "may be associated with random errors, leading to overestimation or underestimation of true usage." This is referred to as recall bias.

"It is hard for people to recall, accurately, their phone use over a 10-year period. Researchers want mobile-use records, but they are challenged by privacy rules," says Hocking. "The best way to research it is, prospectively, off billing data."

Closed Research Labs

But new studies on health and cell phones are tough to get going. In the U.S., most research on the topic was discontinued at the beginning of the decade, largely because industry groups and government considered the questions resolved and haven't been willing to finance new studies. "The U.S. had been the leading country in the research on radio-frequency radiation from the 1960s to the 1990s," says Dr. Henry Lai, a professor at the University of Washington who has studied research funding of the issue. Over time, however, "most labs in the U.S. that did research on electromagnetic fields closed down."

But scientists are concerned that cutting off studies could be a mistake. "It was 15, 20 years after people began smoking that we saw concerns associated with it," says Dr. Michael Kelsh, principle scientist and epidemiologist for Exponent, a scientific consulting firm. "Down the road, the same could happen with phones." He says that studying cell-phone usage requires time, because the latency period for brain tumors can be 10 to 15 years.

Dr. Michael Thun, vice-president of epidemiology and surveillance research for the American Cancer Society agrees that time is a concern, particularly with children using cell phones. "We haven't had long-term exposure with kids. There can always be surprises; we cannot say with 100% certainty that it is safe. It is just not clear yet."

Despite the ongoing concerns, Slesin cautions that people need not live in fear. "People should wear wired earpieces," he says. "I don't think people should stop using cell phones. I think people need to be aware that there is a risk."

Cell phone

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Victoria Beckham showed up on the red carpet outside the Nokia Theatre in this yellow dress by RM by Roland Mouret for the 2008 ESPY Awards on July 16th. Those black heels look painful.

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