Urban Art For Your Hands. Runway Gloves By Insiders1.

above: model wearing Brooklyn gloves

For fierce and fashionable phalanges, the Urban Runway Gloves from Brooklyn-based Insiders1 feature the urban and gritty city photography of Sigal de Mayo. Fun and afordable, they keep your hands cozy and turn them into little canvases. The gloves are made from Lycra with a soft, stretchy-suede feel and polar-fleece lining in the finger tops for warmth.


above: model wearing Barcelona gloves

Amsterdam:

Barcelona:

Berlin:

Brooklyn:

New York:

Paris:

Rome:


One Way:

Cyclone:

Change:

Imagine:

Model wearing Imagine gloves:


They make bags, clutches, wallets, bracelets and more, too!


Buy them here at Insiders1
Also available at Things We Love

Witty Hand Screen-Printed Tights From Luna & Curious

Les Queues de Sardines are an original range of tights notable for their unconventional and unique graphic style. Add a pinch of narrative humor - the result is a selection of elegant and eye-catching tights that will dress up your legs. Screen-printed by hand in limited quantities on a farm in rural France by Olivier and Marion, these rare and exclusive fashion tights will never go unnoticed.

The Autumn/Winter 2010 collection (shown below) are available in store and online from Luna & Curious, the only UK stockist of these amazing tights. The new collection features the golden winged ankles of Icare (that's Icarus for the Americans), graphic foliage trailing down or growing up the leg and the humorous Descente d’Organes, depicting an elegant and refined jumble of internal body parts dancing down the wearer’s leg.

Flizus Black:

Flizus White:

Icare (wings) - black:

Icare (wings) - white:

Organs - pink:

Organs - white:

Agnathe (Foliage) black:

Agnathe (Foliage) - white:


Added to this are old favourites, Bonny (gun slung in a garter), Pleurie (raindrops), Cumulonimbus (weather symbols) and the fabulous Fourmis which has a parade of ants crawling over the legs.

Cumulonimbus:

Bonny:

Fourmis (Ants):

Pleurie (Raindrops):


And some of their other wonderful designs:
Manon In Blue:

La Perlangra:



The new collection will be online from early September. Prices start at £34. Shop for them here.

Gauche Protocol- Typographic Scarves Made From Army Surplus

An advertising Art Director and Copywriter have just started their own fashion label, with type and a twist.



German-born copywriter Annette Spörel has collaborated with Catalan graphic designer/art director Saül Serradesanferm (both shown above) to start an interesting unisex fashion accessory label named GAUCHE PROTOCOL. The Barcelona-based brand is dedicated to sourcing new and recycled army surplus and transforming it through the application of text.



They have begun the line with seven 100% wool scarves whose patterns are printed snippets of conversation. Produced in limited editions of 300 each, the scarves can be worn by men or women and in numerous ways.




According to their website, their selection is made based on "a profound love for the written word and an intuitive sense for the popular, the unpopular and the workings of contemporary interpersonal communication". Sounds like advertising creatives to me :)

Claim Your Right To be Contemporary scarf:

Reach Out For The Greater Good scarf:

This Is Only The Beginning scarf:

As Long As It Looks Good scarf:

I Am Not Who you Are Looking For scarf:

I Don't Break Hearts scarf:

I Don't Know scarf:


Scarves are just the beginning... belts, bags and other items will be added to the collection soon.


GAUCHE PROTOCOL scarves are currently available at the following stores:

•HAMPTONS, Passeig del Born 24 (Born), Barcelona, Spain
•SUSPECT, Passatge del Crèdit 8 (Gòtic), Barcelona, Spain
•THEGOMEZ, Bulevard Rosa, Local 10, Passeig de Gràcia 55-57 (Eixample), Barcelona, Spain
•DOBLE A, C/ Fuencarral 45, Madrid, Spain
•LABORATORIO CAPRI, Via Ignazio Cerio 6, Capri, Italy

and online here at Not Just A Label.