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The final installment of ‘TRIGUN.’
From ‘Jujutsu Kaisen: The Culling Game,’ ‘MF Ghost’ to the second season of ‘Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End,’ this season is stacked for sure.
The underground holds down the Rolling Loud 2026 lineup, Lexa Gates’ ‘I Am’ album art exhibition, and, at long last, A$AP Rocky’s ‘Don’t Be Dumb.’
Rocky continues to expand ‘Don’t Be Dumb,’ along with a myriad of new project announcements from Don Toliver, fakemink, Foggieraw, James Blake, and a new supergroup from Denzel Curry.
Selected pieces from Vancouver based label Wings + Horns is anticipated to start hitting retailers in the upcoming weeks. Among the releases are an all-black high-top zipper sneaker. The contemporary styled sneaker utilizes the same leather seen on products from Gucci. Set to hit Roden Gray in two weeks.
New York based artist Neckface opened his “Death Becomes You” exhibition in Melbourne this past January 24th. The show features some amazing framed water colour works, acrylic panels, incredible tin masks, and even some custom Vans Chukkas. Hosted by Schwipe at the Don’t Come gallery, the exhibition will run until February 16th, 2008. If your in town, do yourself a favour and check it out.
Don’t Come Gallery
Royal Arcade 314
Little Collins St.
Melbourne, Australia
It’s been awhile since the original debut G-Shock from Casio 25 years ago, but the timeless design and functionality have still made it relevant today. At the recent Agenda trade show, In4mation debuted an upcoming bright and glossy G-Shock. In4mation has been making big waves of late with not only the debut of their own in-house collection as well as collaborations with Etnies & Sal Barbier. Stay tuned for more release details.
Source: Yoshi via CTOTHEJL
Typical skateboard deck graphics are screen printed or heat transferred. Alphanumeric went a step further and used a new hi gloss treatment giving the deck an amazing shine effect. Coupled with Alphanumeric’s subtle logo hits and timeless aesthetic, the end product is nothing short of incredible. If this technique has been used before we haven’t seen it, and no this isn’t a slick deck! Available this spring with the re-launch of Alphanumeric.
With the upcoming celebration of Chinese New Year on the horizon, a special bag was designed to accompany the purchase of Nike’s Chinese New Year hoodies. The “Year of the Rat” motif is based on the mouse wheel with gold accents. The bags will be handed out free of charge.
Source: Sam Jellymon
Lifestyle retail space 10 Corso Como is set to open a new shop in the South Korean capital of Seoul. With a large roster of high end labels and design orientated lifestyle products, the retail space is a great opening for the South Korean market. 10 Corso Como presently has locations in Japan and Italy. No word yet on an opening date.
Source: High Snobiety via designboom
A new hoodie has been released as part of the Afro Samurai x XLarge collection. The previous releases included a t-shirt featuring an Afro Samurai graphic and a figure. Afro Samurai is a popular manga (comic book) turned anime series featuring Samuel L. Jackson as the lead character. The hoodie is available now at STLESS.
Last weekend, The Bright tradeshow took place in Frankfurt, Germany. At the show, Nike SB showed off some of their upcoming sneakers for 2008. From the pictures, it looks like there will be the regular fare of the Dunks however there seems to be a high version of the P-Rod II coming out as well. We can’t wait to see more picture of that shoe.
Source: Swipe, Dunkbar
The Carnival of Venice is a yearly festival which celebrates the wearing of masks. The first recorded Carnival took place in 1268 and has been banned over the century. In the late 1970’s the Carnival was revived and has been going on ever since. The Carnival takes place from January 25th to February 5th. Adidas has taken this chance to come out with a sneaker dedicated to this event. Utilizing the Micropacer model, Adidas has created a black colorway sneaker using leather, nylon and suede for the upper. This Adidas Carnival of Venice Micropacer is now available at Overkill Berlin.
The 150 year old brand, Levi’s, is known for their denim but recently they have ventured into “Challenging Sports” with their Levi’s FLU collection. This line is created in conjunction with Takahiro Okazawa (CLS, CYCLE) and Ewan Reynolds (Playford).
For the first delivery of Levi’s FLU ‘08 Spring/Summer collection, they will be releasing a Mountain Sprong Jacket. This jacket is highly waterproof with water proof zippers and pocket. In addition it features a reflective dot pattern which makes it both functional and visually appealing. The jacket is now available at Elesco for 34,650 Yen.
Elesco
6-4-6 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Tel: 03-6804-6973
Source: Honeyee
We’re probably only in the first phase of the Nike Dunk Be True campaign and we’ve already seen a ton of news coming from Nike. Here’s the latest news where Nike has created a really cool Dunk Locker for the seven pairs of the “Be True to Your School” Dunks. Unfortunately, unless you’re really close with Nike, you probably won’t be able to get one of these but there’s hope. Rumor has it that these will be given away as a lucky draw at one of the Dunk events in South East Asia.
Source: Royalefam, Streething
2008 marks the 10th anniversary of the London boutique The Hideout and so to celebrate this event, The Hideout will be working with some friends and partners on some collaboration products. The first one is a messenger bag with Japanese luggage maker, Porter. The messenger bag is “styled after a traditional Newsboy bag in canvas with triple-stitch construction and stud rivets, but with modern features from a contemporary Porter bag. The shop motto ‘MY KARMA DRIVES OVER MY DOGMA’ is chain stitched on the front.”
Source: Andrew Bunney