Hong Kong based shop, Kapok was created to serve as the antidote to the traditional mall shop. It certainly fulfills the intention with a selection of simple, but beautiful objects and clothing. While they do ship overseas, they require a minimum purchase of $322, which is a bit disappointing. Still, the site is worth bookmarking if not simply to ogle their changing stock!

So I admit that I was mostly ogling the beauties above (in the women’s section), but British menswear company, Folk has plenty of nice preppy essentials for the guys and the gals who like to wear menswear. No time really to post my favourites from the clothing sections or the prices, so be sure to click over

We’ve been neglecting the male readers, so today’s feature focuses on Toronto shop Nomad, which stocks plenty of labels like Acne, Nom de Guerre, Opening Ceremony, APC, Common Projects and many others. The shop is set up on a blog, so you search for available products from a ‘Category’ dropdown and I believe you have to call or email them to purchase, but they do list the prices of several of their items. It would be very nice if they expanded their online offerings and set up an actual shopping cart because they appear to have quite a nice selection!

In all honesty, what really caught my eye when looking at the work of Norwegian designer Maleen Dalan was the magpie-like arrangement of fabrics and embellishment, not the obvious confrontation of gender associative clothing. Sometimes I just want to look at pretty things without thinking about if I or anyone else would wear them, and this is a good example. Her real challenge for the future will be developing clothing that isn’t so heavily dependent on art school type statements. Click to enlarge