DSM-V

The Dover Street Market in London is a Comme des Garcons project that stocks curated merch for the ubercool. My favorite DSM wear are their playful heart-logo tees that feature some cute characters for your closet. Here are five of my favorites:

If I had the opportunity to wear one of these babies, I have a pretty good feeling that it would be a very self-hug kind of a day. Aren't they sweet? Something about their lack of mouths makes me love them even more.

Connie Lim Is A Player.

Illustrator Connie Lim is about to make your game of go-fish the prettiest darn thing that ever crossed a card table.

Her project for the site Trend.Land makes fashionable friends with that old deck of playing cards. Her illustrations for a full deck are gorgeous to say the least, and sexy with a capital S to say the most.

I'm not aware of any purveyor of a deck of these pretty things, but you could stay up to date on her postings via Trend.Land and print yourself a lovely set when she's all done.

Even if you don't actually get to play with these cards, they'll at least be fun to look at.

Play With Your Fashion

Visionaire is a quarterly fashion publication that changes themes, formats, and contributors with every issue. There is a core team of editors and creative directors, including the fabulous Cecila Dean, who conceive of each issue and choose collaborators. Always featuring the work of brilliant established and upcoming artists with a fashion focus, Visionaire has managed to stay innovative and current even after 17 years and over 50 issues. Although I can't afford the $675 annual subscription cost, exploring back issues in their online gallery is a free taste of the couture mag's conceptual, cool fun. Lucky NYC'ers can also get their hands on the real issues at the Visionaire Gallery located at 11 Mercer St which houses back issues and stages exhibits related to the current issue.

Their latest issue is entitled Surprise! and is composed of a limited edition series of pop-up books from various artists and fashion world luminaries, including Sophie Calle , Solve Sundsbo, and Cai Guo Qiang.

The coolest thing about Visionaire, in my humble opinion, is their constant embrace of the new and their innovation. They've had issues you can taste, smell, light up, and wear. They play it so cool.