Check out this video by VBS of two of the most important figures in skating in the 80’s and till now. The interview shows Mark Gonzales & Christian Hosoi talking about their early days in skating and how they came to know and respect each other. This interview is quite epic, which also has some old school footage and images of Hosoi and Gonzalez in their earlier skate years. The interview takes place during their joint art show at the Journal Gallery. This is truly a great piece of video interview so watch it now.
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Check out this video by VBS of two of the most important figures in skating in the 80’s and till now. The interview shows Mark Gonzales & Christian Hosoi talking about their early days in skating and how they came to know and respect each other. This interview is quite epic, which also has some old school footage and images of Hosoi and Gonzalez in their earlier skate years. The interview takes place during their joint art show at the Journal Gallery. This is truly a great piece of video interview so watch it now.
Vancouver based streetwear label Finale will be launching their Spring 2007 collection in a short while. Here is a sneak preview of what to expect for this season. They have taken inspiration from sneakers and music to create many sharp graphics and implemented them on a series of t-shirts. The five styles include the Betamaxxx, Punks Jump Up, Gotta Have Faith (Dreams), Femme Fatale, and Menage. Be sure to keep your radars set on this label as each season gets stronger and stronger. Check out the upcoming tees here.
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.
Image: Alternative Sneaker
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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The cross branding of Japanese beer maker Sapporo has extended far beyond the reaches of its image as strictly a beer maker. A few days ago we previewed part of the Sapporo x Ciano Farmer Collection more specifically the denim line. This line was created exclusively for the Sapporo Inspired Runway Show in Miami, May 4th. Now we present another look at the upcoming line involving outerwear and tops. There’s definitely a strong emphasis on Japanese inspired graphics which may be a theme that Sapporo intend to keep based on their heritage.
After seeing to what extent Sapporo has approached this new project, perhaps we met their hard luggage set with Zero Halliburton with a bit less surprise then is warranted due to the fact that they’ve done a lot of surprising in the past week here.These lasered aluminum pieces are certain to draw attention when you rip your Sapporo luggage off the carousel or when you take your laptop out to do some work, but most importantly you have the piece of mind have having your goods travel in safety.
Sapporo’s foray into the fashion industry has been nothing short of remarkable as they have already put together such as extensive collection in their first time at bat. It seems as though Sapporo is on their way to creating a sustainable brand outside of the beer industry.
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The Electro DJ & Producer super tandem of MSTRKRFT are at the center of an upcoming collaboration between Puma and jewelery designer Han Cholo. The gold mask pendant represents MSTRKRFT’s logo and will be produced just in time for this years blockbuster Coachella music festival at the end of the month. Rumored to be limited to only 10 pieces is it is doubtful this will make it to stores. Look for future Puma x Han Cholo projects in the future.
This upcoming Saturday, April 7th, GDFT is set to unveil their new collection of fitted caps. As always, each hat is themed after a particular colorway of some of the most recent releases and this effectively ends that exhaustible search to find that matching headwear some seek.
Images: GDFT
Although the Reebok Freestyle has been severely over-shadowed by the Air Force 1 this year as they both celebrate their 25th Anniversary, it would be rude to not give the Freestyle some whole heartedly deserved air-time especially given it is perhaps the world’s best selling female sneaker. Off the heels of their 25th Anniversary Pack comes these Easter themed sneakers, available in both low and hi’s.
images: The Clones
