A Lexus, Toyota and Yamaha collaboration resulted in an electric bicycle. The bike was designed by Lexus and  produced by Yamaha. The 2-wheel drive bike has a carbon fibre frame including two motors  which are allegedly 100 watts at the front end and 150 watts at the crank giving the bike a maximum speed of 25 kph. It was introduced recently at the 41st Tokyo Motor Show. No news of it being released to the commercial market yet.

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Canada’s luxury retailer Holt Renfrew pays hommage to the Porsche Panamera launch with a swanked-up event at their flagship store on Toronto’s Bloor Street. In the menswear department surrounded by the well dressed, Holt’s VP Lanita Layton and Porsche Racing Driver David Donohue both comment on the respective qualities of the Panamera at the champagne soiree. The event is part of the Style Rules Speaker Series.

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Reintroducing the artful mosaic with some contemporary bling is Gemstone Creative. Based in England, Gemstone Creative’s intricate pictures are handmade; produced by their own employed artisans and the pieces are made to order. Think of the obsessive ego and grandeur that brings one to commission a portrait of themselves in fine gemstones or Crystallized Swarovski Elements.

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It turns out the 1:700,000,000 odds of getting your hands around the steering wheel of the Lamborghini Reventón Roadster comes with a higher price tag. The ticket price for the limited edition automobile was set at €1.1 million at the Frankfurt Autoshow some weeks ago. Now, a new owner (one of ten) is punting it off on Jameslist for €1.45 million. The promo vid informs us that someone’s more likely to give birth to a Nobel prize laureate than driving one of these. If given the choice, which would you choose?

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Bloomframe has to be one of the best of the practical architectural innovations. The Dutch designers Hofman Dujardin Architects won a slew of awards for their product that is now on the commercial market. With the casual click of the remote, an unsuspecting window transforms into a glass balcony. Coming in several sizes, this balcony would pimp up your apartment adding square footage to any room. That is, if you can get it installed. But surely, we’ll be seeing the Bloomeframe in newly built apartments ready equipped sometime soon.

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Beppi Crosariol has his Decanter column in the Globe and Mail’s Life section. Great perspectives and advice on wine, liquor and alcohol of all types. Over time, via his quasi-educational reporting any pedestrian alcoholic could be brought to full literacy. It this installment we learn the depths of what types of wine - grape or vintage, in what sequence and what temperature it is ideal to serve several them.  For example, when and where you should serve a Chateau Mouton 1982.  To paraphrase Beppi, don’t put an acoustic set on stage after a Metallica show. And apparently, it isn’t sacrilege to cool down a glass of wine with ice. (Pity he doesn’t go into advising the stemware or decanters for that matter.)

YSL creative director Stefano Pilati again presented his men’s collection with a short film, this one shot by French actor/writer/director Samuel Benchetrit and starring Benchetrit’s 11-year-old son, Jules. Jules, who portrays a young 21 Jump Streetesque Johnny Depp finds a key to a room at the Bristol Hotel on the sidewalk, who then enters its corresponding suite. Surprising, he’s in no rush to leave, or ransack the venue. In the process of modeling the clothing of the vacant suite’s tennant (as well as delving through his other personal belongings), he also casually performs the iconic Taxidriver scene in front of the washroom mirror. Our pre-pubescent hero is so cool knowing how to manipulate an iPod, or the ability to absorb the lux-ambience around him that he has to portray a cultured someone who’s at least 10 years older, or whatever fantasy-like reality, or rather persona we project into this character. Furthermore, the sound of opera can and will inspire anyone. Even an 11 year old child who reads and recites a passage from Musset’s Confession of a Child of the Century. Yes, there is a latent and overlapping love story told in the plot’s related imagery. And yes, after seeing the film we now know what era, emotions, culture and philosophy had inspired the new collection’s appeal. It’s a stimulating flick. Tim Blank’s review of the collection here.

What Japanese goldsmith Ginza Tanaka decided to do with 850 grams of gold was to craft a beer mug. Apparently, consuming the beverage from a golden mug adds to the pleasure of beer drinking. Drinking beer from a glass the cost of a luxury car is the ultimate cool experience, so states the designer. Ginza is also known for other gold workings, namely the golden threaded bikinis, X-mas statuettes and other luxurious golden miscellanea. Gold wine glasses are also available at $30/gram. The solid gold beer mug’s ticket price: $50,000.

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Don’t know if you’ve ever felt naked without a jacket, or whether anxiety struck when you had to retire and hand down your favorite two-piece. I know I have.

These wheels won’t clash with your CC wardrobe.