March 15th, 2010
Fashion designer Jad Ghandour and Danasha Luxury are set to unveil a luxury dress valued at $1.5 million during Miami International Fashion Week.
The couture dress will incorporate diamonds and gold as well as other fine materials and precious gems.
The luxury dress is set to be worn down the runway by a celebrity model on March 20, but until then it’s in the safe hands of two armed security guards.
February 22nd, 2010
The latest collaboration from Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami for Spring Summer 2010 is the Cosmic Blossom Collection.
On a bright, block colour background, Louis Vuitton’s iconic Monogram flowers jostle playfully with smiling flower faces, a recurrent theme in Murakami’s art, which famously fuses manga graphics with traditional Japanese pictorial motifs.
Serigraphed onto the fabric, it will come in rose, bleu and violet and will be released on April 15, 2010.
May 26th, 2009
The Push Button House from architect/artist Adam Kalkin was originally displayed at Art Basel Miami in 2005.
The Push Button House is exactly that: it starts as a shipping container until a button is pushed, and it turns into a house.
Motorized walls unfold like a flower, revealing a fully functional house, complete with refined, understated furnishings
May 17th, 2009
You can choose the design of your phone, your computer, and your car - so why not your condominium?
That’s what Chad Oppenheim, head of Miami-based Oppenheim Architecture & Design, asked himself while putting together his architectural thesis at Brown University.
The question became the impetus for his latest project: a condominium complex, set to be completed by the end of 2010, that takes a bottom-up, user-generated approach to constructing residential space.
April 9th, 2009
In the market for a Bentley sports car, a Jean Paul Gaultier dress or a cell phone, but don’t feel like dealing with a pesky salesperson?
Literally at the touch of a button, visitors to the Mondrian South Beach can buy those items — as well as more prosaic hotel gift-shop staples like toothbrushes — from a new lobby vending machine called a Semi-Automatic.
March 23rd, 2009
South of Fifth and Lamborghini Miami join forces to create the ultimate luxury experience and the result is that only seven of the 28 South of Fifth residences remain to be sold.
If you want to purchase one of the these last seven ocean front units you will receive a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder 2008, valued at 260,000 dollars.
