Strolling down the Champs-Élysées in Paris today we happened to come across a Toyota shop, as many of you know we’ve been impressed with the Japanese brand of late, so we decided to sneak a peak at their European offering. We were impressed to walk in and find this prototype, like something out of an anime, we were impressed and can only hope that pieces of it will end up in production models.

Peep the vid we managed to find on youtube after the jump.

Located in SoHo, NY, Nike Sportswear’s first stand-alone retail space offers customers a never-before seen level of personalization. Choose from 82 premium, iconic materials and color options to customize up to 31 part of your sneaker. Your creation is designed on location with dedicated Nike designers and takes about 4 weeks to arrive.

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Something totally different is this Mossenger project by EL&ABE. Great work!
Let’s nourish the ecosystem we inhabit.

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What do you get the guy who has everything? How about an exclusive 35 yr collection of Billboard’s Top 100 records. Get inspired by listening to every no. 1 single since 1955 (18,400 records in total). Included is The Beatles’ “Ain’t She Sweet” -worth a cool $500 by itself. If you’ve got $275K to spend on your man, he’ll thank you for it. Not included is the garage sale bargain record holder… we hope!

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This 3 shoe collection designed by Julia Hederus is pure originality… Available only at Opening Ceremony in LA and NYC – 300 pairs split between the 2 stores.

Thanks to Ken for the heads up!

If you don’t want to look like Tom Cruise or every other young hipster bringing back the Wayfarer, peep this version from Chris Mendoza. Influenced by the early days of the grafitti movement the shades feature grafitti-esque markings and will be made available in a red, black and white colorway. Sweet!

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This Rolls sweater from fashion designer Jeremy Scott is fresh as hell! And if you haven’t already, peep his shoe design for adidas after the jump. Get it here.

Seems like there’s a new iPod/iPhone speaker system coming out every week or so, making it hard for us to sort through everything to find the best of what’s new. Looking like a molded piece of furniture and finished in Apple-glossy white, the iTamtam is an integrated sound system that can blend in with any lounge area. Featuring independent treble loud speakers, the base is produced by one central loudspeaker and attached to a high performance digital amplifier producing little heat, guaranteeing high quality sound. Available here.

This Orbital Light designed by Lucie Koldová is straight out of Star Trek!

The vertical bookshelf from Rick Ivey won’t hold many books but will definitely be a show stopper in your living room.

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Long Beach resident and Proper owner, Tristan Caruso, have teamed together with Vans again for the ‘08 holiday season. After several successful collaborations, Proper and Vans are paying homage to their ocean front city with a line of “nautical…but nice”, Sperry Topsider inspired kicks. The pack includes a variety of colors, low cuts,  high cuts, and come in nicely designed retro boxes. Peep the interview with Tristan Caruso at Sneaker Freaker.

This might just be the nicest release from BBC yet. Our favorite design, N.E.R.D.’s classic “Heart & Mind” logo done up in full color. It’s a Tokyo and Web only exclusive and only in very limited quantities. Available here.