Parra this, Parra that! Parra, yada, yada! First off in Parra related news – Arkitip are presenting Parra’s first ever Exhibition and Pop Up Shop in Germany. Find out more here

Secondly, and more importantly, LOOK AT MY PARRA SHOES!!! (gotta click ‘more…’ to see ‘em though!)
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All I need now is a pipe! With the financial world collapsing, and money getting tight, many of us are going to be spending more time at home. So it’s only fair that we should be comfortable whilst lounging around the place. Maybe a pair of slippers wouldn’t be such a bad stocking filler this christmas? Especially if they’re a pair of artificial sneaker slippers from String Republic. Designed to look like your favorite sneakers, these pure virgin-wool lined slippers are stylish enough that don’t have to be ashamed of wearing them when your friends turn up on your doorstep.

Buy them now in time for christmas at String Republic.

Art lovers and denim connoisseurs now have a new joint objects of desire. The artist Damien Hirst has teamed up with Levi’s to produce Damien Hirst X Levi’s a limited edition capsule collection. The Levi’s brand and designer Adrian Nyman worked closely with Hirst to showcase his art in an exclusive, custom range of jeans and tops that is sure to be highly regarded by the most discerning denim collectors. The collection revolves around three key themes of Damien Hirst’s body of work – the skull, spots and tropical butterfly. Jeans and T-shirts are emblazoned with iconic Hirst imagery – tropical butterflies, dots and skulls.

Retail Prices start at £55 for tees, £150 for jeans and the collection will launch at Cinch, Newburgh Street, London, W1F 7RG, from October 14 2008.

So hot, my sunglasses are melting! You gotta love Anna Ter Haar’s Dripping Sunglasses made for the catwalk show of designer Klavers van Engelen fall / winter 2008-2009 collection shown at Milan fashion week.

See more work by Anna Ter Harr.

New clothing available from Parra. I’ve mentioned Rockwell Clothing by illustrator/artist Parra before, but it now seems the clothing store is full of new products featuring Parra’s distinct graphic styles.

Buy some new threads at Rockwell Clothing.

Don’t be S.A.D, be happy! Graphic designer Keith Hancox has created some clever t-shirts for a friend who suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder. The first S.A.D T-Shirt is over printed with black heat sensitive ink which turns transparent at 32ºc. So when the sun comes out, and the heat rises, the black clouds on the t-shirt fade away and the sun shines! The second S.A.D T-Shirt is screen-printed with the statement, “The Sun is nature’s Prozac”, in uv sensitive ink which only appears under sunlight. Clever stuff!

See more work by Keith Hancox.

Upgrade those nasty plastic bags of yours! Curated by Process Packaging, the Re-Bag Exhibition is a collection of limited edition reusable canvas bags designed by 15 of the UK’s leading design talents.

Designers were asked to create a design centered on the theme of sustainability and reusability. The resulting bags are produced in limited edition batches of 250, and are available to buy. So dump those environmentally damaging plastic carrier bags and pick yourself up a stylish eco-friendly alternative.

Find out more at Re-Bag.

Catwalk Fashion. Now available in wallpaper. Jean-Charles de Castelbajac is best known in fashion circles for his graphic heavy clothes collections. His coloured pop-art style patterns in the past have referenced Mikey Mouse, Princess Diana, Union Jacks and Jimi Hendrix. Now he’s bringing that style to the world of interiors with a collaboration with the wallpaper company Letuce. Jean-Charles de Castelbajac’s wallpaper debut features Zebras and the Eiffel Tower, supermarket receipts, Manga cartoons and the Taj Mahal.

They’re going to be priced at roughly £18/€25 per 10m roll, so call 00 33 1 55 34 10 10 for stockists if you’re interested.

Challange to the concept of jewelry, or a porkchop in a bag? I’m not going to get all deep on you, so I’ll just say that Ted Noten is crazy. But good crazy, not ‘eating spiders and mumbling absurdities’ crazy. His jewelry designs consist of porkchops, golden bullets, cocaine, starlings, broken coffee cups and a whole heap of other bizarre objects.

Just go and check it out for yourself at TedNoten.com

Art & Underwear. Although we’re used to the use of homo-erotic photography being used to flog underwear to the greater public, Bulge are doing it with a twist. For €99 you can buy a package consisting of a signed, numbered & framed photographic print of a subject wearing an item of Bulge underwear, and also the item of bulgewear featured in your print for yourself in your size.

So if you’re into artwork of men in their pants, and you happen to be in the market for a new pair of y-fronts, you better get yourself over to Bulge.