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The Berlin/Paris label Bless has always managed to escape all attempts at pigeon-holing. The projects fall somewhere between the realms of fashion and product design. The same thing applies to Bless’s new home in the third floor of a residential house in No.60 Oderberger Strasse in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg: the new shop combines exhibition space, living space and sales area and is in continual flux, growing and changing its appearance.

Berlin eyewear specialist Mykita is making its mark on the butterfly-shaped glasses from the fifties. By replacing the heavy acetate frame with lightweight metal and painted surfaces they are giving the icons of spectacle design a new, modern touch. 'Holly' is the light as a feather version of a fabulous feminine look from the twentieth century and is available in colour combinations Silver/Black and Silver/Off-White, as well as in the new variation Gold/Pale Blue.

Photo by Oliver Rath

Paper specs: Fashionable playground hype or subversive surgical intervention into the world of overblown trend obsessions? Where the optical cardboard cut-outs adorning some people’s noses have left us feeling somewhat amazed and confused in the past, it’s not really all that different in the case of Berlin designer Cantemir Gheorgiu and his partner Marc Aurel Hartung and their fake glasses edition No.2.

A few days ago we reported on the ‘Chic Chic Chic, c‘est picnic’ exhibition by the French street fashion label Sessun on the Rue de Charonne in Paris and we have just received some photographic evidence of the event, the specially designed straw hats and bags and the plaid in the typical Sessun pattern mix of Liberty flowers and their Piou bird motif. The exhibition will be on until 11 June – so if you’re currently in the French capital or planning a trip there soon, it’s definitely worth dropping by.

The 1976 Punk Shirt

After sifting through its extensive archive, London street fashion label Fred Perry is re-releasing four of its classic polo shirts. The focus is on the 50s, 60s and 70s, a period during which the British subculture went through several upheavals. And so the '1963 Northern Soul Shirt', which comes in two colours and is adorned with badges, pays homage to the Mod movement, while the '1976 Punk Shirt' with faded splashes of colour is reminiscent of Sid Vicious and Co.

'Break the style, run the street' is the storyline of a new virtual lookbook and inspiring idea from adidas Originals. Eleven streetstyle bloggers from nine fashion metropolises were asked by the German sportswear legend from Herzogenaurach to style and shoot several items from the current ladies' summer collection. Adidas Originals even managed to get streetstyle blog pioneers like Susie Bubble and Phil Oh from Streetpepper on board and onto the streets of the Big Apple.

On 20 May at the Röhsska Museum in Swedish Gothenburg Henrik Vibskov was pronounced the winner of the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize, selected by a jury of five museum directors from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. The prize of the world’s highest-paying fashion competition, which was established in 1994 and supports aspiring Scandinavian designer talents, is one million Swedish Krona.