What do Oscar de la Renta, David Rockwell, Yoko Ono, Rikke Korff of The Furies, and Lady Pink share in common? For VIPP’s 70th anniversary, thirty-five leading movers and shakers of design have joined forces to each create a uniquely customized waste bin. Currently on display at Design Within Reach: Tools for Living on Wooster Street, the wildly blinged-out cans will be auctioned off at the end of the month, with all proceeds benefiting DIFFA (Designer’s Industries Foundation Fighting Aids).

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A few months back, I was grabbed off the streets of Williamsburg and asked if I would share a secret on film — to be shared publicly online. Usually happy to oblige for a good cause, I asked what it was for. “It’s for PostSecret, the new book is coming out soon.”

Since its inception in 2005, PostSecret has been a safe haven to many needing a sanctuary to release their painful burdens, desires, and inhibitions. Or more simply for some, just to share their hopes and dreams. The instructions are simple: create a four by six postcard, decorate it along with an honest but never-before-confessed secret. Then mail it to Frank Warren, a complete stranger who may or may not post it on his blog. Read More »

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Each year, thousands flock to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to create, participate, gawk, and gasp in marvel. A beautiful spectacle, Burning Man is like a Dali painting on one too many psychedelics. For one week, the playa is filled with bright, garish neon lights, sweeping and blinking to all; oversized sculptures or structures of every material, shape, and twisted design; bicycles wholly covered in plastic flowers, fur, and dangling balls of light; and art cars creatively re-imagined to resemble skulls, wagons, birthday cakes, and other creepy crawlies of the night. It is utter wonderment watching a city spring up from nothing into an endlessly colorful feast of pure sights, smells, and sounds… and then just as quickly, melting back into bleak emptiness. Read More »

Photo credit: Yingjia Puk

Name: Andrea Campbell “The Red Bunny”
Age: 22
Profession: Fashion model and artist
Style philosophy: “Every day I wake up, I look at myself as a blank canvas!”
Of note: Andrea made the bag-pack she is carrying; she couldn’t decide which brand she wanted to buy, so she created her own. She has received so many queries that she might start selling them. Also: Andrea was wearing some serious rings that are pictured after the jump. Read More »