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Trend Report Vol. IV - July 2009 July 30, 2009

Perfume that makes you want to play, a music festival in an airport, sunglasses that are as fun as they are cool, and a shy marsupial...it's the MINI Space trend report.

Creative use of Scent: Play-doh perfume

Most adults haven't smelled Play-doh since they either stopped having 'playdates' or were caught by their mother trying to eat the red color, but Demeter Scents is determined to change that with their unique perfume collection.

Thanks to Demeter, you don't have to roll around in a meadow anymore, you can simply spritz yourself a few times with their 'Dirt' scent and you'll be good to go. Or better yet, combine their 'Grass' scent with 'Dirt' and you will be sure to get along well with anyone interested in lawncare and gardening.

FASHION: RETROSUPERFUTURE

We love our wayfarers, we do. But sometimes you want to mix it up a little bit which is why we dig RETROSUPERFUTURE sunglasses. In funky colors, reflective lenses, and over-sized frames these sun glasses poke a little fun at being cool.

Each pair of Super Future Retro Specs is handmade in Italy with various color graduations and carefully fitted with Zeiss lenses. Kanye West, Jessica Alba, and Simian Mobile Disco are a few of the celebs who have been seen sporting a pair.

Currently, the glasses are only sold in about 350 stores worldwide with a retail price of around 140 EUR, luckily for you, we have two pairs to give away so drop a comment below telling us, in one, very creative sentence, why you should get one of the pairs.

(There is no legal recourse. The judges' decision is final. Prizes are non refundable and non transferable.)

CONTEST IS NOW OVER.

Event: Music festival in an airport

From across the world visitors are storming Berlin August 7 +8 to check out this year's annual Berlin Festival, featuring some of the most popular music artists and ensembles around. Flughafen Tempelhof will be for two days, the official stomping ground of the party.

Tempelhof airport has been upgraded from its status of retired airport to become the latest Berlin event 'it' ground, and is doing itself more than justice by throwing its first ever non-stop official festival. Once the music starts on Saturday, it doesn't stop until Sunday night. An event organizer says the goal of the festival is 'to represent the perfect selection of indie and electro music.'

Animal of the Week: Echidna

What has opposable thumbs, a pink belly, spikes, no teeth, lays eggs and nurses its young? An Echidna, one of only two mammals which lay eggs and our animal of the week.

Native to Australia and New Zealand the Echidna is named after a monster in Greek mythology, quite an honor that one can only hope echidnas appreciate. Echidnas are the only surviving egg-laying mammals, apart from the Platypus.

by MINI Space Team

We have two pairs of RETROSUPERFUTURE glasses to give away so drop a comment below telling us, in one, very creative sentence, why you should get one of the pairs. Contest will end on September 1st. CONTEST IS NOW OVER.

(There is no legal recourse. The judges' decision is final. Prizes are non refundable and non transferable.)

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posted by: astroblackr53 | 10/07/2009 10:36 am

I need a pair of RETROSUPERFUTURE's because I need to hide my manic, helter-skeletered poker face while I listen to the new Beatles boxset on my daily commute to work. Of course, this is done in my wee lil british box doing 65-70 with the windows down blasting Revolver. Can't get much better fall days than that in Central Jersey! Rock n Roll. ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

posted by: Chen Li Li | 09/02/2009 07:04 am

Nowhere is too far to go.

posted by: Chen Li Li | 08/30/2009 03:22 am

I'm gonna be a RETRO in one day
While I'm walking to the FUTURE on the way
There're many SUPER interesting things to play
That's so you 'wayfarers' I can say

posted by: jasonchicago | 08/24/2009 10:50 pm

Some days, it seems as though having a pair of RETROSUPERFUTURE glasses would allow me to SUPERTRIPLECOMBINE words allowing me to work with TRIPLEWONDEROUSEFFICIENCY, live with VIGOUROUSECLECTICBOMBASTICNESS while driving with SUPERWHIPTASTICHANDLING, or something like that.

posted by: Rambazamba | 08/15/2009 09:44 am

Statt "Dirt" oder Duft nach Knete trag ich schon lieber eine obercoole Retrosuperfuture Brille mit hochwertigen deutschen Gläsern von Zeiss. Ich bin mir sicher, damit falle ich mehr auf und reisse mir die süssesten Jungs auf. Darum her damit, ich brauche das Feeling.

posted by: Dozelina | 08/15/2009 09:04 am

RETROSUPERFUTURE + Zeiss sind genau so ein fantastisches Doppel wie diese geniale, ausgefallene, obercoole Sonnenbrille und mein Gesicht :-)

posted by: swjart1 | 08/14/2009 10:30 am

i want a echidna but wouldn't have the heart to keep one but they sure look cute.

posted by: devillawn | 08/12/2009 05:19 am

You should give me that over-sized sunglasses because i am a small, skinny girl. Mini me and Biggie sunglasses combined is the perfect match as MINI is the new big!!

posted by: Rybnik | 08/11/2009 07:46 am

I don't need them myself but still, I should have them because my social life has always been very hard and my own and only one friend is going to kill me with a spoon (One doesn't know what he can do with a spoon.) if I don't have them, besides I am French, everyone love the French. Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.