Technical Textiles: Fjallraven's G-1000

Fjallraven's Greenland Winter Jacket in Black and Blue, Featuring a G-1000 Shell

The apparel and accessories aficionados over at fashion and lifestyle blog High Snobiety have compiled a brief history of fall's most popular fabrics, including Fjallraven's popular (and patented) G-1000. Here's what they had to say about the technical textile:

"No technical fabric list would be complete without Fjällräven’s very own G-1000 fabric. The material was invented by Fjällraven’s founder, Åke Nordin, after discovering on an expedition to Greenland in 1966 that the selection of outdoor clothing was far too limited. Taking matters into his own hands, the adventurous Swede sewed together the very first G-1000 jacket adding a mixture of beeswax and paraffin.

"Nowadays, the tightly woven fabric is constructed of 65% polyster and 35% cotton and coated with a layer of natural Greenland wax. The combination of materials allows for both wind and water resistance on top of being both extremely durable and highly breathable. Like Gore-Tex, G-1000 allows for built-up moisture to release from the material so sweating stays at a minimum."

Playlist of the Week: Autumn Chillers

It's a bit difficult to put into words what exactly makes an "autumn chiller," but give this baby a listen and you'll understand pretty quickly what we mean. Our closest approximate: the musical equivalent of sweater weather. And you know we love sweater weather.

Design Milk Dairy Prints

Boss, Wesley Bird

Interesting and affordable wall art can certainly be hard to come by nowadays, but luckily some of our favorite fellow bloggers are hoping to change that! The Design Milk Dairy is a collection of Society6 artists' products curated by popular Design Milk founder/editor Jaime Derringer and the Design Milk reader community. Prints start at just $15 with new ones added every week. Check 'em out!

Cheeses Is Love, Lucy Knisley

Wrap Game: Our Favorite Scarves

With New York temperatures in the 70's one day and the 40's the next, getting dressed in the morning can be quite the challenge. You know the situation: that snuggly shearling bomber jacket seemed like a great idea in when you left your apartment in the early morning fog, but it feels like torture during an unbelievably warm al fresco lunch. Maybe you set out for some late afternoon fresh air and found yourself shivering as soon as the sun set. Our solution: wrap up with a scarf for a simple and stylish layer of warmth you can easily stash in your bag if the weather changes. To help get you started, we've picked out some of our favorites for the ladies, including some pieces by Flying A in-house designer Sophia Costas.

1. V-Dragon Night ($69) by Becksondergaard

2. Wada Wrap ($198) by Humanoid

3. Elephant Scarf ($129) by Sophia Costas

4. Beetle Lightweight Wool Scarf ($129) by Sophia Costas

5. V-Another Nova Scarf ($109) by Becksondergaard

6. Flowertribe Scarf ($129) by Alison Oliver for Sophia Costas*

*Check out our interview with illustrator Alison Oliver here!

Playlist of the Week: CMJ 2012 Picks

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Indie aficionados and college radio fans rejoice: CMJ 2012 is finally upon us! The annual music marathon kicked off yesterday with a plethora of shows and events all over New York featuring basically every genre imaginable. Unfortunately many of these concerts require a ridiculously overpriced badge, but the ever-accountable PAPERMAG has compiled a lovely guide to what you can (and should) see gratis. In the meantime, fans young and old can get in the collegiate music mood from the comfort of their computers with our weekly Spotify playlist, an eclectic selection of our favorites from the festival for your listening pleasure.

SMoA Hits Williamsburg Walls with New Exhibition "In Plain Sight"

Jaye Moon

The so-called Street Museum of Art (SMoA) combines the guerrilla installation tactics of street artists with the curatorial practices of traditional museum institutions to present their inaugural exhibition, In Plain Sight. Rejecting the recent trend to show street art in official gallery spaces, the organization instead chooses to display works by artists such as C215, Imminent Disaster, Nick Walker, and Sweet Toof in situ, highlighting the interplay between art and Williamsburg's dynamic urban environment. Exposure to the elements plays into both the ephemeral and phenomenological aspects of this highly experimental exhibition, the duration of which is "entirely reliant on external forces and the reaction of the public."

Gaia Kent

Playlist of the Week: Soul Food

As much as we love new music, there's no denying that some songs are truly timeless. For this week's Spotify playlist, we're bringing you back to a bygone era with a selection of our favorite vintage 60's soul hits.

Architectural Envy: People's Meeting Dome, Denmark

In running an independent boutique/concept store, we often find ourselves scouring the internet and blogosphere to see what fresh new ideas are emerging in the worlds of art and design. If you're reading this post, you probably share many of the same ideas and aesthetic interests as us, so we figured why not share our findings and show some fellow blogger love? This week we're pretty amped on an architectural masterpiece known as the People's Meeting Dome, a space created to host a Danish symposium on the future of housing.

Designed by Kristoffer Tejlgaard and Benny Jepsen, this architectonic wonder centers around a steel, wood, and glass geodesic dome that can be disassembled and rebuilt elsewhere, as well as modified in shape and size to accomodate its setting. The architects explain their design as a modern twist on the "anti-architecture" structures of the '70s. (Photos via We Heart)

Playlist of the Week: Rainy Daze

Talk about a tease: somehow a forecasted week of sunshine and temperatures in the 70's has turned into grey skies and an incessant cycle of fog and drizzles. It's definitely not our favorite weather, but if nothing else these showers serve as the perfect excuse for some chill time at home. With that in mind, kick back and relax with our latest mix, a blend of cool and calm tunes we like to call "Rainy Daze."