The American R&B singer, producer and designer Pharrell Williams has collaborated with the eco-thread company Bionic Yarn and the Dutch fashion brand G-Star RAW to create jeans from the plastic trash collected in the sea waters. Following in the footsteps of Levi’s that crafts denim pieces from post-consumer plastic bottles from municipal cites, the collaborators officially go as further—or deeper—as the oceans to extract the material for the jeans.
Author: Anna Rudenko
Heart Research UK has offered an alternative way to discard unwanted and disturbing memories about the past relationships. Ahead of Valentine’s Day, the organization launched an unconventional auction, #InstaHeartAuction, where people could trade the stuff their «exes» gave them in the times of romance.
Commuting using public transport can now be virtually germproof thanks to the new prototype clothing and accessory line “Straphanger” developed by the innovation consulting firm Gravitytank. The items feature anti-bacterial elements that protect subway riders from the microbes and viruses that spread actively during the cold season.
Adobe and the digital agency Razorfish have partnered to provide maximum comfort to the attendees to the annual music, film and interactive festival SXSW in Austin on March 7-16. Together they’ve created the accommodation- and bike-sharing project #UseMeLeaveMe. The initiative is an extension of Razorfish’s last year’s effort to address the lack of convenient transportation with the Tweeting Bikes, a City of Austin Bicycle program.
KLM is promoting comfort economy seats that have up to 10 cm extra legroom compared to a regular Economy Class seat with a new micro campaign that calls the audience to tell their own stories of comfort. The travelers are encouraged to share what comfort means to them through a dedicated Facebook app, KLM Get Comfy, for a chance to win two Economy Comfort tickets.
To bridge the gap between the younger generation and literature classics, PUMA interprets the Nunnery Scene from Shakespeare’s Hamlet with street dance moves. The piece is part of the “Puma Dance Dictionary” project by Grey London and filmmaker Daniel Wolfe, launched in 2013 to prove that the language of moves can render the meaning of traditional words.
Until now, tech-savvy customers could pay using tweets only for coffee or tech appliances, and now flight tickets are also on the list of items shoppable through social media platforms. The KLM Royal Dutch Airlines company has announced a new service that will allow passengers to request a new ticket via Facebook and Twitter.