If you’ve been hitting the summer music festivals and taking cool photos, this is your chance to shine and win $1,000 cash, a new iMac, a professional D-SLR camera and much more!!

Billboard and PDN’s first-ever Summer Music Moment Contest—the ultimate music photography competition—is the perfect opportunity to show the world the music scene through your eyes. Photos will be judged by a panel of music and photography industry experts.

For more go to the official website

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Prague Architecture

Prague is one of the most beautifull cities in the world. Its’ 15th century architecture provides tremendous design inspiration. Situated in the center of Bohemia this unreal city has a wide array of architectural elements. From Medieval to Renaissance, baroque and Art Deco here are a few pictures that might not do enough justice but are a nice introduction.

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Plastic Land

T & T Plastic Land Inc.
315 Church Street
New York, NY 10013
Phone: (212) 925-6376
Fax: (212) 274-9885
info@ttplasticland.com
http://www.plasticland.com/
Plastic Land website
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Plastic Land offers a variety of plastic boxes, color film sheets, lucite and acrylic shapes and liquid finishes like Envirotex.

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Japanese Street Fashion

Here is a regular weekly dose of Japanese street fashion as an endless source of inspiration. The english version of the website: Style-Arena.com delivers consistent imagery from Harajuku, Shibaya, Omotesando, Daikanyama and Ginza as well as info on shops and style in general.

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Win a Marc Jacobs’ Stam bag

Style.com is offering a Stam Marc Jacobs bag if you cast your vote in Vogue’s first-ever Best Dressed Sweepstakes. You will be automatically entered for your chance to win* one of fall’s most desired handbags—the Stam by Marc Jacobs.
The only “catch” is that you might register for emails or subscribe to Vogue magazine. If you don’t want a subscription or to receive emails just click “No” for the Very Special Limited Time Offer and you might win!

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Lost Values

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Technology is everywhere and wearing it can range from carrying an iPhone or a blackberry to a collection of fashion accessories that incorporate organic solar cells into textiles.
Elena Corchero integrates electronic components like solar cells, resistors, and LEDs directly into the textile and wires them together into working circuits using conductive thread. She has developed the Solar Vintagecollection, which resembles organic prints and embroidery. The pieces get charged while used outdoors during the day. When brought indoors in the evening they transform into a decorative ambient light display for the home, powered only by energy stored earlier.
Elena believes that when a technology is added to an ancient medium like textiles there is a need to respect and explore its history and traditions. balancing form and function with the nostalgia inspired by crafted textile techniques and accessories that have been lost or forgotten.

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Bergdorf Goodman windows Oct 25

Imaginative tailoring rules at the latest windows of the women’s Bergdorf Goodman store. They feature dresses by Thakoon, Peter Som, Derek Lam and Sari Gueron mixed with a variety of giant tailored fabric shapes of clothes, accessories and roses.
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How To Find a Manufacturer

You’ve already graduated form a fashion school and started a business. You have some orders and now you are just frustrated because you need a manufacturer with great prices FAST. The perfect factory might be waiting for business, your business but how do you find them.
Here is one great solution. AliBaba.com promotes and connects factories in China, Hong Kong, Turkey and India with businesses like yours. It’s not quite majic as it requiers some work on your part, but it’s pretty close to a perfect solution.
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Bags Rule at Louis Vuitton

So will the joke be on you if you are not wearing the latest LV bag printed with jokes by Henny Youngman OR if you paid a few thousand dollars to have a bag with a joke printed on it?
Either way the hottest bags for next Spring, 2008 will be the LV bags. You just might prefer the ones featuring artist Richard Prince’s washed and faded renditions of the Vuitton logo.
See detail shots from LV’s runway show at Style.com.
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The amazing design and styling sense of Harajuku girls in Japan is nothing new, but their themes are endless and incredibly new every time. HARAJUKU has been around since the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo.
Take a look at this stream of beautiful pics in flickr by ajpscs
no rules, no limitations, no boundaries it’s like an art

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