If you’re running around Tokyo this winter, be sure not to blow by this window display, which was installed by designer Tokujin Yoshioka. The Maison Hermès building features an interesting sight for passersby. Beauty through simplicity wins every time.

Heck, people drink designer water at $55 a bottle (yes, I’m looking at you, Bling H2O), so why not sell designer band-aids to rich people that obviously get their papercuts from counting too much money?
Here’s an experimental leather band-aids by conceptual artist Scott Amron – now, you can fashionably dress your boo-boos for a mere $15: Link – via Refinery29 Pipeline
Colombian designer Miguel Caballero makes what is probably the world’s safest haute couture: his clothings are bullet-proof! To keep his customers safe, Miguel has made bulletproof jackets, polo shirts, and yes, even underwears …
Miguel Caballero slides open a box of 9mm bullets. “Choose one,” he says to his employee Lizeth Castaneda. He points his revolver at Castaneda’s abdomen and fires. Seconds later, his victim giggles with relief…
Caballero, 41, dresses presidents, government officials and their bodyguards, as well as businesspeople and celebrities, in discrete and stylish blazers, leather jackets and tuxedo shirts that can stop bullets shot from pistols and Mini Uzis
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You can get a better look of the cases by visiting the artist’s website. The site’s in French, so if you speak the language you’re in luck. But if you’re like me and speak only two languages – English and bad English – there are plenty of pretty-shiny designs and pictures to look at.
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