An Interview with Mihara Yasuhiro

For the past seven years Japanese designer Mihara Yasuhiro has been collaborating with Puma on a line of wildly inventive sneakers that has become known—with features like patterns, drips, fur, studs, stripes and metallics—for adding a true avant-garde edge to shoes. The current Spring/Summer 2007 collection marks Mihara's fifth collection with Puma that includes limited edition re-issues of the MY-1 Peace, featuring a variation on …

Reader Find: Clown Chic Jewelry

Cast from bird feet, these Clown Chic pendants showed up in CH's new Reader Finds section and as a tip from Berns Rothschild, the designer of the line, at about the same time. Much like cute-and-sinister combos, Rothschild's gold-plated pieces (also available as belts) mixes high-end materials with gross-out subject matter. Starting at $135 for the more delicate partridge foot necklace (the chicken is pictured), …

Yaacov Agam Kinetic Op-Art Watches for Movado

A Kinetic and Op-Art pioneer, Yaacov Agam created this 1980s limited edition watch series for the Movado Time Museum Collection. The only other artist to produce a watch for Movado was Andy Warhol with his "Times/5." Featuring anthracite colored steel straps, a mystery dial of multi-colored glass discs rotating circles/semi-circles overlaying dotted hands for time, it sold at auction in 2000 for $10,925. See more …