By Artist Meryl Smith. Materials: metal screen, paper mache, leather, gold paint, zipper. “I made Excessory Baggage for a group exhibition at The Honey Space, where 5 curators asked artists to create sculptures that fit the measurement requirements for international carry-on luggage.”
On friday august 22nd 2008 LEYP will start a expo in the Basement of sneaker store Subzero at Damrak 62, Amsterdam. The expo will run for 4 months and will have a different theme each month. With each month also a different workshop. Schedule:August Sneaker theme workshop, September designer toy theme workshop, October t-shirt theme workshop, November caps theme workshop. Also checkout the LEYP custom job for the talented Jill Scott.
Jeff Koons keeps on amazing with his non-art. Together with Ivana Porfiri (architecture) he created “Guilty”, a yacht for filthy rich art collector Dakis Joannou.
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A few months back, Hong Kong played host to one of its greatest fashion meets hip-hop events ever as the Bape Head Live Show 2008 rolled through the small but populous island city. With headlining acts including the Teriyaki Boyz (with Nigo DJing), N.E.R.D. and Kanye West all performing, the night was surely one to remember and really demonstrated the effect Bape has had combining elements of fashion and music together as one. In an interview with the newly launched THINK SiLLY online magazine, Nigo answers a series of questions regarding the event itself. One of the most interesting answers throughout the interview was the notion of bringing Bape Sta! Pro Wrestling to Hong Kong as a follow-up to the successful crowd showings of this 2008 Bape Head Live Show. Other answers relate to the tribute Bape will pay and future plans for European development. The interview can be seen over at THINK-SiLLY.com.
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The tease is ON as pictures of the Kanye West brand Pastelle have dripped their way into VMAN latest. With models including Rihanna and Lupe Fiasco.
For the first time ever, Dover Street Market in London offers the complete Comme Des Garcons Play collection in their online store including polos, t-shirts and longsleeves in a range of colors.
Chinese contemporary artist Dorophy Tang has teamed up with Lomography to give the Diana+ a special treatment. Dorophy Tang is a Chinese designer/illustrator whose work mixes traditional Chinese style influences and vintage elements. The Diana+ features a plastic lens that produces dreamlike photography with adjustable aperture for shooting wide angle imagery at a very low cost. The intricate designs on the camera are quite similar with the work she did for Adidas.
The female focused streetwear and style site Cultist has been Revamped, Restocked and Relaunched. Go girls, go check it out.
The random act of sneaker tossing over telephone lines in major cities around the world is has created a global phenomenon and debate. So why do people throw sneakers on telephone wires? From losing your virginity to gang funeral-rites to modern street art, sneaker tossing has spawned various myths both hilarious and sinister. It has also given rise to an online public desperate for an explanation. The Mystery of Flying Kicks will seek an answer to the mystery of flying-kicks once and for all. The filmmakers will be calling on the global public to help them solve this mystery and make the film. Using a SKYPE hotline anyone can phone in their sneaker tossing theories and stories. These recorded stories will form an audio video collage. You can also donate photographs, video or animation for the final film. This unique approach to making a film by gathering information and material on-line from the global public will make this a truly experimental documentary.
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Developed for the Solebox Asics Gel Lyte III sneaker that will be releasing in a weeks time, Solebox presents a matching windrunner jacket in collaboration with Asics. The upper panels of the jacket are made of a double layer with a purple mesh lining corresponding with the materials on the shoes. And just like the colorshift material on the uppers of the Solebox Gel Lyte III, the zippers will also change colour, from grey to purple, when exposed to sunlight. The jacket is limited to 100 pieces worldwide and will be released along with the sneaker on August 23rd.
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Alife has been dropping some heavy collaborations in the past, and now they team up with Italian sunglass manufacturer Retrosuperfuture to create a custom frame with matching custom lenses. A total of 480 pairs of ALIFE Super Sunglasses were produced in four colorways–red, blue, and purple– and limited to 80 pairs per color. These sunglasses wil be available August 23rd at Alife LA, Alife NYC, Alife Tokyo, Alife Vancouver, Alife at Colette, and finer Alife retailers.
Playtime forever! With this Amos x Bounty Hunter King Kun. Designed by James Jarvis and Hikaru. No info on price and availability.
Here we have a peak at the Comme des Garcons for H&M. It has become quite common practice for the more fashionable high street establishments to enlist the help of internationaly reknown designers to work on more “edgy” collections. When executed properly, such collaborations often result in pieces that we wouldn’t normally find on their racks, whilst also injecting a healthy dose of credibility at the same time. For the upcoming H&M store opening in Tokyo, the Swedish brand have managed to rope in Rei Kawakubo of Commes des Garcons to create this wonderful collection of garments - bringing a touch of high fashion to the high street.
Guess who`s back. The overkilled Japanese premium denim label, Evisu is returning with some massive noise. This time with some timepieces in collaboration with the Swiss, hence the name EVISUISSE. Each of the 12 timepieces is crafted by hand and are now on sale at Evisu retail locations around the globe and its official international online store. In Rotterdam the new and inproved Evisu brand will be available at our good neighbour Lokal Heroz.
This is another video of the song “Viva La Vida”, released by Coldplay. Directed by dutch master: Anton Corbijn. It’s a Tribute to the Depeche Mode video Enjoy the Silence.
Crooks & Castles are coming to the Gorilli Concept Store. Stay tuned for more, as there aint no such thing as halfway crooks, and the same goes for monkeys.
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We take a first look at the much anticipated Fall 2008 collection by Married To The Mob, which continues the evolution of the female streetwear Label as an all around lifestyle brand, with a distinctive bold and sexy female aesthetic that is really irresistible. The brand moves from a collection, that was dominated by t-shirts and hoodies to a full line, consisting of many cut & sew pieces, denim, accessories and a lot more. The collection is currently available at mttmnyc.com. And will soon drop at the Gorilli Concept Store in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Check out the new Nike Kicks Creator function that uses a Dunk High as template… Create, post, showoff…
