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Fashion Bianca Saunders, Jamaica-print cotton-blend poplin shirt

A growing presence in the menswear landscape, Bianca Saunders brings a fusion of the classic and the avant-garde in designs that reference traditional streetwear designs and cutting-edge couture. Experimenting with conventions around male fashion, her latest design makes a further mark. This latest Jamaica-print shirt features a photograph set in a tropical location and is a celebration of the British Caribbean diaspora. Crafted in the UK from a cotton-blend poplin, the oversized design is finished with a point collar, dropped shoulders and a curved hem.

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Fashion Craig Green, Paradise Worker Jacket

Bring the tropics home this summer with Craig Green’s latest jacket, Paradise. Modelled on Green’s signature ‘Workers’ jacket, this latest version enjoys an exotic overhaul, featuring a graphic colour design of vibrant palm trees and setting suns. Made from comfortable quilted cotton, the jacket is an example of Green’s clean, utilitarian style – grounded in the beauty, humility and functionality of design. Unsurprisingly the designer has archive pieces in the permanent collection of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London – this jacket is vintage in the making.

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Objects Eco Dinner Candle Set, British Colour Standard

Burning bright. Stylish and sustainable, this colourful candle set is available with British Colour Standard – a brand first established in 1931 and recently revived by design duo Jackie Piper and Victoria Whitbread. Since discovering an old colour dictionary in an Oxfam shop, the pair have created a homeware collection based on original colours derived from flora, fauna, stones and spices. These candles are hand-poured in Indonesia and made of ecological dyes and natural ingredients – the ideal eco-gift for your next dinner party (if you’re not keeping them for yourself).

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Objects Haas Simon Leg Table Lamp, L’OBJET

Leg of lamp. Celebrated worldwide for their weird and wonderful creations, the Haas Brothers’ collection with L’OBJET turns the everyday into the extraordinary. Bringing their colourful cast of creatures to a range of homeware items – such as this Simon Leg Table Lamp – the duo create designs that are easy to connect with, reflecting their ethos about ‘emotional content before functionality’. Blurring the boundaries between art and design, they have been exhibited in museums across US and Asia. Filled with imagination and spark, this characterful lamp certainly brings the domestic to life.

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Objects Dodo Egg Lamp, Beata Heuman

Since establishing her own studio in 2013, Beata Heuman has made a unique mark in the design world with creations that bring a playful, sophisticated energy – testament to her view that ‘every room should sing’, the title of her recently published monograph. Blending Scandinavian accents with a more poetic and unexpected touch, this Dodo Egg lamp is the perfect example of Heuman’s vision. Inspired by fantastical, ancient times, the glowing pendant creates a focal point of whatever room it’s in. Making the mythic out of the mundane, this Dodo Egg isn’t going extinct any time soon.

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Design Panelled clear-sole sneakers, A-COLD-WALL*

Pioneering a different kind of sustainability, A-COLD-WALL*’s sneakers are designed to embrace the ageing process. ‘I want to encourage users to put the shoe through wears,’ brand founder Samuel Ross explains. ‘For me there should be a dialogue between you and the piece that you purchase, and I’m into the idea of speeding up the layer of humanity you find in a product. There’s the idea of a life cycle contained within the shoe.’ Suede-panelled and made with a tonal blue, cracked effect leather, these are sneakers your feet will gladly grow into.

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Design Bernard Buffet x Nike Dunk Low SB Paris (2002)

Art and sole. Among the rarest and most expensive shoes in the world, the Nike Dunk Low SB Paris sneakers were released in posthumous collaboration with French painter Bernard Buffet. This limited-edition model was specially made for Nike’s ‘White Dunk’ travelling art exhibition in 2002, in which artists were challenged to use shoes as canvases. Adorned with Buffet’s graphic Expressionist artwork, the model – of which only 150-200 were released – is now a collectible work of art in its own right, fetching up to £40,000 at auction. We’ll have to jog on (in other sneakers).

Design Air Jordan 36 x Nike

The latest design to set the sneaker world into a frenzy, the 2021 model in Michael Jordan’s iconic signature line, Air Jordan 36, has been revealed. Prior to officially announcing the shoe, the Jumpman family allowed Celtics’ All-Star Jayson Tatum to debut the kicks in-game for Game 2 of the NBA Playoffs against the Brooklyn Nets. Due for release later this year the model combines sunset shades of orange and purple with a design of usual athletic prowess. Released annually since the 1980s, the Air Jordans are an example of the cultural identity and importance that sneakers have gained over the last few decades. Ours is on pre-order.

Design Stan Smith Mylo x Adidas

The nature of sneakers. As part of Adidas’ pledge to reduce plastic waste, the brand recently launched its first-ever shoe made from mushroom leather. This new vegan sneaker is made using Mylo, a fungi-derived material developed by biotechnology company Bolt Threads. The material can be grown in less than two weeks in a lab-controlled environment and has a texture similar to cowhide. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary since the launch of the iconic Adidas collaboration, this new development promises a revolutionary approach to the making of sneakers in the future. We stan.

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