Hypebeast Feature: Essentials – HomeRoom

by L.A. Ruano, August 29, 2008

Gian Altomari – Designer | Online Store Manager | Intern Slapper

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Track Bike
A must have in San Francisco, where gasoline is $5.00 a gallon and a standard donation to the homeless is about $2.00 a pop, anything less and you can be sure your fancy new Kenwood Stereo won’t be there when you get back to the car. Locking your bike in strange places is an unspoken sport in SF, hanging from trees, stoplights, the neighbors second story window, it says a lot about your personality and is definitely a creative outlet as far as I’m concerned.

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Hats
The best hair product invented since the comb. Adjustable, 5 panels, fitteds, snap backs, any style really. Put on your head, walk out the door and definitely no gel required. (Do people still wear gel?)

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Kimchee
My girlfriends Korean, which basically makes me Korean, meaning that my diet consists of, but not limited to, fermented cabbage, dried squid, and other incredibly spicy foods that will last long past the printed expiration date, usually till some time in 2012. I buy it by the case and find my self eating it every day, non stop. By the time you read this I’ve probably died of colon cancer.

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Chuck Taylors
The ketchup, of fashion, goes good with everything. Worn chucks are the best, they are my only pair of shoes, and i make it known. They’ve been with me everywhere, and will continue to be until the day they fail me (like my interns) and bury them in the backyard with the rest (sneakers not interns).

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My Intern
Oscar deemed himself worthy in his first week: filing papers, emptying my trash, and so on. But the following weeks were a non stop downward spiral. Apparently, he found out how to use Wordpress and since then Oscar started a popular blog, (All work and No pay). I literally have to hand cuff him to the desk to keep him focused, if not he’d be pawning off unreleased tee samples to groupies, in exchange for nude booty shots on his BlackBerry.
(true story).

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