If you are in the Sydney, Australia area and interested in fashion, I highly recommend you check out Fashioning Now running from July 28 – August 28. Part fashion show, part symposium, Fashioning Now brings attention to the realm of sustainable fashion and the efforts being made by some designers and others in the textile industry to help create more eco-friendly solutions to waste management and production that works in accordance with creativity as opposed to stifling it.

Investigating the way in which clothing is produced, used and discarded, Fashioning Now is an exhibition and accompanying symposium featuring innovative research projects from Australian and international practitioners.

Visit fashioningnow.com for more info.

- SPL

Sanrio will have being doing it huge with the Hello Kitty icon for 35 years on November 1st. With branding on clothing and accessories to kitchen appliances to feminine hygiene products, you slap that simplified white cat face on anything and guaranteed it will be bought up by little girls, otaku and candy ravers stil stuck in 1995 world wide. To celebrate this occasion, Sanrio is teaming up with companies like Dell and Flik Flak and most importantly (to sneakerheads) with Asics to produce an interesting pair of kicks.

These kitties will set you back about $145 and will be available around September through sanrio.com. We’ll keep you posted on the drop.

- KAGE