What would the Dutch be without their aspiring designers one may ask from time to time? Here is another fashion label named after its founder Daisy Kroon. The studio Daisy Kroon is a fashion design studio based in Rotterdam. According to their own description the studio is professional and independent with a little twist loving to share their inspirations with their audiences. We fell for her great sense for color, a dream swatch for this season: beautiful camel, a dash of pumpkin contrasting with navy blue and silverish light grey. Meet Daisy Kroon and read what her attitude is all about.

Many brands have discovered curatorial journalism for themselves and many are turning in to experts when it comes to utilizing the force of multiplication by tying up creative professionals in their branding process as well. And so did Gas Jeans with its 25^th anniversary celebration by creating a book and an exhibition with 15 creative individuals – graphic designers, illustrators, writers, photographers, designers and directors to interpret the brand Gas Jeans.

The process resulted into a hardbound book of 226 pages with nine chapters reflecting the passion and philosophy of this company to its one and only product “denim”. As publishers, journalists and graphic designers ourselves we can certify that this brand book is thoroughly Italian in its quality; brilliantly offset printed on the Munken paper stock, solid typography and colorful photography. Each book is hand-signed by the mastermind of the brand: Claudio Grotto.

Together with Alain Rodiguez, French artist Raphael Garnier has founded their graphic design studio Pipi Parade, in Paris. The studio delivers both experimental solutions to solid every day visuals for clients from the world of fashion, design, music and contemporary art.

Raphael Garnier has invited Colin Henderson to be his counterpart for this fifth edition of Qompendium Questionnaire Session.

American artist Michelle Ceja is born in 1988 in Los Angeles finishing her studies at the California College of the Arts. Today, she lives and works in New York and since 2008 she has been actively taking parting in different groups shows and solo exhibitions through the United States and Europe.

Manuel Eckl is one of our favorite contributors travelling the seven seas in the quest of the best from fashion to architecture and of course the latest snippet on the glitterati. He also spends his time as a buyer, a fashion scout, a photographer and maintains his very own inspirational blog: Another Journal By.

Here is a set of some of his personal work that we find admirable. Enjoy.

Leon Levinstein (American, 1910 to 1988), an unheralded master of street photography, is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure studies made in New York City neighborhoods from Times Square and the Lower East Side to Coney Island.

Drawn exclusively from the Metropolitan's collection this exhibition features some forty photographs that reflect the artist's fearless approach to the medium. Levinstein's graphic virtuosity—seen in raw, expressive gestures and seemingly monumental bodies—is balanced by his unusual compassion for his offbeat subjects from the demimonde.