Lettuce and Lines: Salt and Pepper shakers

by David Shrigley, £79, available at Culturelabel.

p.s. Culturelabel, in beta, is a platform for limited-edition, artist-designed goods. Wait a minute - "artist-designed"? Don't artists create? Finding the ubiquitous, unexplained use of this term a little disturbing...

Sunglasses for Asian faces

If you're not Asian, or are but be blessed with a high-bridged nose, you may not be aware of this, but most Asians have really flat noses and super curvy, headband-like sunglasses just refuse to sit on our faces. We (or I, anyway) are usually made to settle for boring wire-framed glasses with wobbly plastic nobs at the nose (dunno what they're called sorry). So I'm quite pleased to find someone trying to fill the gap in the market - quite liking the Amelia aviators I must say.

Purple suede deck shoes

from Tailorable, a Korean men's brand with super-slim, colourful casual suits, polos, leather and shoes. They have this in size 38-42, so big(ger) footed girls like me can get their share too, BUT I can't get through their online shopping process and I can't find an email address to contact them at! Boohoo :(

Juicy Bling

Matina Amanita - jewellery by sister of the designer behind the Thai label Sretsis (reverse the spelling for the meaning), which has some chic city girl gear. She has costume and fine jewellery lines - more in the former category on her website, but I don't know what the proportion is like in reality. The flagship is at Gaysorn Shopping Centre, Bangkok.

The Magazine Rack

I absolutely love magazines. No surprise that I'm firmly in the "print is not dead" side of the debate, though I won't go on about it here. Let's just say, film and TV didn't kill theatre, so why will the internet kill print?

Here are my favourite magazines at the moment. They're surviving (and maybe even thriving) for a reason. Go figure, Conde Nast.

Sea of Shoes for Urban Outfitters

Capsule collection at Urban Outfitters by Jane at Sea of Shoes, one of the most talented 17 year-olds around. I love it when she writes something along the lines of "gotta go and revise for finals" at the end of her haute shoe-drool photo posts.

On another note, an interesting move for UO to tap into blogger talent...

See Jane's blog for more (also on my blogroll)

Jeffrey Monteiro FW09

Summer's barely arrived, but I don't have a taste for warm weather, so am looking to the future...

http://www.jeffreymonteiro.com