Dip-dying is the perfect medium for imbuing your laid back summer look with just the right amount of demure edge and savvy charm. To be sure, dip-dyes have been on the up and up for a few seasons, but there’s no denying that blue is dip-dye trend of 2012.

Sunglasses are a hard sell for us, mainly because they usually end up lost, crushed, scratched or mysteriously on the face of a friend who refuses to give them back. But APC, who teamed with Italian brand L.G.R. has perked our interests with their latest collab. Why? They’re handmade with cellulose acetate—a durable material that gives to pressure. Plus—simply put, they’re hot. Check them out here for $350.

The weekend starts early for Aloha Rag fans.

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When the nice bottles of Supergoop! sun care landed on our desk, to be honest, we couldn’t have cared less what was inside. It was all about the font on their bottle. But since sun care isn’t quite the product you should be choosing based upon how cool you think the packaging is, we dug a little deeper to find that inside said bottles are actually some rather useful, er, goop. All of their products are paraben free (read, no nasty chemicals that may  or may not give you the cancer) and they fully comply with the new FDA regulations (meaning they tell you that they protect you from both UVA and UVB rays) Check out the full line after the jump!

This weekend, should you happen to be on the island of Manhattan, you’d be able to pop in to a store called Bergdorf Goodman and get some face time with one of the most well respected hand crafters of shoes in the business—George Esquivel. The man behind the beloved Esquivel label is having a trunk show at Bergdorfs and will be on hand to help you select all the materials, colors, shapes and fit for your pair of custom shoes. Bergdorf Goodman is located at 754 5th Ave and George Esquivel will be there on Friday from 12:30 till 6pm and Saturday 12noon till 6pm.

The boys at Burberry have been doing some great work in dressing up some of our favorite male celebs. Witness their fine work at the Met Gala. But more recently, we’ve spotted Chris Hemsworth and Hugh Dancy wearing looking as stylish, comfortable and bold while Burberry London. Check out Chris Hemsworth at the May 14th, London premier of Snow White And The Huntsman, and Hugh Dancy wearing a Burberry London suit to a special screening of Hysteria, New York, on the same day. What do you guys think?

Why should Mac users get all the fun computerized accoutrements? Aperion’s ARIS gives you PC users a Hi-Fi, Wi-Fi experience inside of a handsome, kinda late 80′s/early 90′s-chic, looking design. ARIS has a full 100 Watts RMS of power built into four driven speakers and two passive radiators (read: awesome bass) and nary a wire to speak of. The product is up for pre-sale now (with a friendly 10% discount) and will ship beginning June 18th. Check her out here!

Australia’s Art Series Hotel Group is testing your knowledge of fine art—or at least how to spot it. They’ve  brought together the worlds greatest living art forger, Tony Tetro, with one of the worlds most forged artists – Andy Warhol – to ask you…which Warhol is Warhol’s?  Think you can tell? Read on…

La Prairie, who you may know from their world-class spas in New York’s Ritz-Carlton and in the Beverly Hills Hotel in California, also makes a luxurious face cream from the essence of caviar. Like all eggs, caviar is rich in nutrients, though sturgeon eggs are particularly good for your skin and work almost instantaneously. Caviar contains sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, and vitamins D, A, E, F then upon when meeting your skin, provide a good prolonged deep moisturizing, clear free radicals and fills cells with vital energy to make you look worth a million bucks. Or just $500. Either way…it’ll make you look rich…get yours here.

Even if Arnold Schwarzenegger has become wont of surprises (and guilty behavior), we were still struck with it upon learning that the 2 term governor had teamed up with GiltMAN to sell a limited edition set of watches he helped to design. The collab comes under the auspices of celebrating the Governator’s 2 served terms but its also working as a charity to get said politician, out of the proverbial gutter—Schwarzenegger is donating every single dollar made on them to After School All-Stars, a non profit that provides daily comprehensive after-school programs to nearly 81,000 children for free. And holy sh*t, politics aside, the watch is actually kind of handsome. The story…after the jump.