Fila goes high-class with their release of the Made in Italy Original Tennis Sneaker model. For this collection, Fila will release three types of pairs. There will be a black/titanium version, a brown/opal/lava version, and a natural/opal/brown version. As you can see, some of the sneakers contain ostrich and snakeskin type material, truly making it a higher class model for the Fila brand.
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Godwin is a new label that just debuted their products for the Spring 2007 season. According to it’s creative director and founder Pel, “GODWIN is a street inspired brand that addresses the need for full cut and sew collections.” For their Spring 2007 range, Godwin has come out with a very impressive selection of selvedge denim, assorted colored hoodies, short sleeve button down shirts, and tees. There’s even a Godwin character figure for this season. You can check them all out now at their site.
The Hundreds has just provided a look at Fairfax neighbor Twelve Bar’s upcoming range of tee’s dropping later this year. The “Anarchy” tee is definitely an interesting design. Stay tuned for more details!
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The Converse Conversations Collection is a direct tribute to Converse’s 1940’s magazine by the same name. The pack consists of two Converse All-Stars as well as a Weapon model. This Weapon featured here was designed by Yukinori Dehara. This pack will start shipping in the middle of April in limited quantities and will include the mini-magazine… you guessed it “Conversations”.
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The United States is set to receive it’s first North American Evisu flagship store this summer in New York’s SOHO district. This new store will give it’s shoppers the ability to acquire products never before available directly to the US public. Much like the Evisu stores in Japan, this new store will provide demonstrations of Evisu’s trademark Gullwing paintings on denim as well as give customers the chance to personalize their own denim.
Although this stores purpose is obviously a retailer first and foremost, it can also be considered an ever evolving gallery of Asian culture as well. There are plans to do exhibitions promoting various Asian artists with inaugural artist being large scale oil painter Simon Birch of Hong Kong. Concluding the list of interactive features is a proposed screening area to give some customers their first taste of Japanese films.
Evisu
92 Greene St.
New York, NY 10012
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