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ABERCROMBIE & FITCH FLAGSHIP STORES - Selldorf Architects

Selldorf Architects designed flagship stores for Abercrombie & Fitch, across the United States, Europe, and Asia. In keeping with the client’s desire to attract a fashion-conscious clientele, while also referencing the company’s heritage, the firm created designs that are a modern reflection of their signature style, customized to each location.

All stores carry certain common elements including a central unifying staircase, wall murals throughout, a denim display bar, and dramatic lighting—but the detailing and articulation of each store is specific to the context of its location. The first store, a 30,000 sf, four-story space on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, has a steel and glass façade that reinforces the character of the original building. Behind the façade, wood louvered shutters create a strong visual identify for the flagship, as well as heightening expectations about what lies inside. The interiors suggest tradition with dark wood, bronze fixtures, and a glass and iron staircase, reminiscent of an old library. The New York flagship was followed by stores in Los Angeles, London, Milan, Paris, and Tokyo.

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Normally we see timelapses in video form, but motion designer Dan Marker-Moore has found a way to show the passage of time in a static format.

His images, which he calls time slice photographs began when he wanted to share the beauty of a timelapse on Instagram before they added the video features. His aerial view time slices feature beautiful city skylines from all over the world. He captures moons rising, suns setting, and rainbow-colored cotton candy clouds dancing through the sky.

Check out more work by Dan Marker-Moore on his tumblr page. To purchase a time slice, click here. You can also follow him on Instagram

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This video is so powerful that it brought me to tears in the first 15 seconds.

Not only does slavery still exist the world today, but there are MORE slaves now than there has ever been in history. That seems a little hard to believe, I know. 27 MILLION men, women and children are enslaved, and this video was made to bring awareness to a portion of those people who are enslaved in sex trafficking. I was brought aware to this issue in 2012 at the Passion conference in Atlanta. My heart was broken for all of these people and I wanted to make a change in the world. No one deserves to live their life as a slave, they deserve a life just like you and me. Just by spreading awareness, slavery will be stopped and people’s lives will be SAVED.

Do you live in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, St. Louis, Tampa, or Washington, DC? Because those cities are the top cities in America where sex trafficking is the worst.

In Europe, there are annually 600,000 to 800,000 men, women and children caught in sex trafficking.

And South East Asia, is the LARGEST exporters of sex slaves to brothels to Japan, China, Australia, Europe, and the United States.

Every minute there are at least 2 children becoming victims of sex trafficking. And the average life span of a child who is a sex slave is TWO YEARS, because they have either been beaten to death, caught an STD or overdosed on the drugs forced upon them.

So, I ask you now to please reblog this. Spread the word. The more people who know, the more chances there are to give these people a life of their own. If you haven’t heard of END IT movement, then I suggest that you look it up or you can click here to look at their website.