The Hippest Gifts In Every Category For Everybody This Holiday Season.

Let me be your personal shopper this Holiday Season. Seriously.

I have spent the past several years creating specific shopping lists on the community shopcasting website This Next. The lists I have painstakingly compiled include images of the items, a description and a link to purchase, making it very easy for you to find and buy the perfect gift for just about anyone this holiday season.

My Christmas Gift To You.
You can benefit from the fact that I've already scoured the online (and offline) stores for the hippest items in tons of specific categories. The coolest products for designers, kids, pets, friends, fish-lovers, art-lovers, buddha-lovers, dog-lovers, gun-lovers, tattoo-lovers, graffiti-lovers, luxury lovers, casual acquaintances, signficant others and more. Home decor and furniture, technology and gadgets, piggy banks and jewelry... whatever you need, if it's hip, it's here.



From $10 items to $100,000 items, from trendy items to classic items, there's a total of 4,643 items to choose from, starting with the hippest holiday home decor.

Here's how it works. Click on the category below that interests you and you'll be taken to that list of items. Click on the name of the item that interests you and the screen will change to display that item. Lower down on that page it says : shop for this 'here' and you just click on that! Easy, peasy.

• MODERN CHRISTMAS DECOR (wreaths, trees, ornaments, etc) -205 items

Now, for the selections of gifts:

• PANTONE AND PANTONE-INSPIRED PRODUCTS (great for designers) -30 items

• SALUTING DESIGN: An Army Of Military Inspired Items - 35 items

• AQUARIUMS THAT ROCK: the coolest fish tanks - 40 items

• BUDDHA BOUNTY: All Things Buddha - 76 items

• MODERN DOLLHOUSES & ARCHITECTURAL MODELS - 44 items

• THE COOLEST WAYS TO WARM UP (candles, radiators, towel racks) - 131 items

• THE DISH ON DISHES (hip dinnerware and tableware) - 229 items

• EARTH-FRIENDLY AND ECO/ GREEN PRODUCTS - 87 items

• DIVINE DAMASK (home decor and products with damask patterns) - 72 items

• TAG, YOU'RE IT! (Graffiti inspired and related products) - 74 items

• WOOD WONDERLAND (wood furniture, toys and more) - 156 items

• GREAT GIFTS FOR GEEKS - 20 items

• REALLY ROMANTIC GIFTS -104 items

• FOR THE HIP BABY OR CHILD - 250 ITEMS

• LIST FOR LEGO LOVERS (Lego® everything) -50 items

• LIGHTEN UP (The best lighting and lamps) - 160 items

• MONDRIAN MADNESS (products inspired by Piet Mondrian) - 46 items

• ALVAR AALTO INSPIRED ITEMS - 14 items

• CHAIRS THAT ROCK (modern rocking chairs) - 56 items

• OBSCENELY DECADENT GIFTS (luxury products)- 60 items

• DEATH BECOMES YOU (over 160 things with Skulls) - 164 items

• FANCY FRIGGEN FLOORING AND RADICAL RUGS -163 items

• OUTDOOR ITEMS (from furniture to birdhouses) - 142 items

• HEDGEHOG HEYDAY (items inspired by Hedgehogs) - 33 items

• IF IT'S HIP & STICKS TO THE WALL (art and more home decor) - 180 items

• READY, SET...GLOW! (illuminated items and furniture) - 77 items

• CONTEMPORARY ART I WISH I COULD AFFORD - 117 items

• THE HIPPEST ANIMAL/PET STUFF (for both people and their pets) - 203 items

• TECHNOLOGY THAT ROCKS - 215 items

• TATTOO YOU. AND THIS. AND THAT. (tons of tattoo-related products) - 77 items

• HIP JEWELRY FOR MEN AND WOMEN - 216 items

• MODERN PIGGY BANKS OR MONEY BOXES - 65 items

• DIY STUFF FOR FRUSTRATED ARTISTS - 96 items

• PUT THAT DOWN, THAT'S MY GRANDMA! (modern cremation urns) - 27 items

• SHOP OR I'LL SHOOT! (gun-shaped products of all kinds) - 71 items

and lastly, many of the items that have been featured in this blog :

• IF IT'S HIP IT'S HERE - A list of items that celebrate design, functionality and art. Things to appreciate and admire. - 2056 items


Now, you have no excuse not to have found the perfect, or at the least the hippest, gift.

Colette's Cool Collaborations

One of my favorite stores' websites is that of Colette, whose physical store has been located at 213 Rue Saint Honoré since opening in march of 1997. The french cyber home to Cap and Pep (Capperino and Peperone, the two adorable dog 'mascots' created by designers Kuntzel + Deygas) and all things cool when it comes to art, fashion, style, music and design.



The site design is a delight, an engaging interface accompanied by hip music you can opt to turn off, down or up. And the site is very deep, you can spend hours on it.



Because the site is all flash, several surfers have missed out on Colette because it doesn't show up when you 'google' something.

They have so many wonderful projects in the works, images to see, exhibitions to attend, I wish I could tell you about them all, but instead I've chosen to focus on some of their recent collaborations between artists and designers. So, be sure to settle in when you have some time and surf their site: http://www.colette.fr

Never a stranger to collaboration, Colette has premiered many limited editions of fabulous items in conjunction with Medicom's Be@rbricks, Kid Robot's Dunny Series, Absolut Vokda, Disney, and Goyard to name but a few. Go to their site and look at archived issues of their newsletter or look under their 'design' section and you'll find a million things to write home about.

But today I'm talking about four of their most recent collaborations.

1. Famous japanese label Comme des Garçons meets artist KAWS for a series of limited edition products: leather wallets, men & women t-shirts, wool bags & fragrance sets. This amazing collaboration should make many people happy. Starting November 15th at colette and on colette.fr, then from November 24th at Comme des Garçons, Dover Street Market, OriginalFake.




Buy the Comme Des Garcons and Kaws Products here.


2.Longchamp and Paris DJ Michel Gaubert have collaborated to come up with the MG collection. A mini-collection that address creative, practical and technical needs. From ipod cases to high tech bags. Below are some pieces from the collection:






Buy the MG collection here.

3.Sexy & scorching hot, the colette Sex candle (they named it, I didn't) is back in a Purple magazine's Olivier Zahm designed box, with Terry Richardson pictures (the photographer who shot the controversial Tom Ford Cologne ads I blogged about) & an unseen print from artist André.




Buy the SEX candle here.

4.In 2005 Finé Japon decided to launch it's project for new bottle designs. Finé Japon plans to make people more aware of the connection between aesthetics and functionality of products. For its first new bottle design, Finé asked Karim Rashid to collaborate after having admired his bottle and packaging designs for clients such as Issey Miyake, Kenzo, Shiseido and Prada. After 2 years of work with Karim, Finé is pleased to be able to finally offer you its new, limited edition bottle "that captures the fluidity and purity of thermal artesian water". Worldwide premiere at Colette.

the current bottle:


Karim's New Bottle for 2008:

Finé Japon Water