Phil Frost by Phil Frost, Pushead and Carlo McCormick
As artist drawing inspiration from an eclectic mix of cultural bits, Phil Frost’s simple beginnings on city walls would soon pan out into something vast and much more encompassing as he brings forth his iconic tribalistic style. The self-titled book Phil Frost is co-authored by Frost himself as well as artist Pushead and journalist Carlo McCormick, creates a one stop guide to Frost’s work beginning in the early 90s. Available for sale through Amazon.
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As artist drawing inspiration from an eclectic mix of cultural bits, Phil Frost’s simple beginnings on city walls would soon pan out into something vast and much more encompassing as he brings forth his iconic tribalistic style. The self-titled book Phil Frost is co-authored by Frost himself as well as artist Pushead and journalist Carlo McCormick, creates a one stop guide to Frost’s work beginning in the early 90s. Available for sale through Amazon.
Select pieces from Head Porter Plus have begun hitting stores. Based on the lookbook witnessed a few days ago, the collection embodies a very apparent summer theme in mind with free flowing prints and light weight shirts. Two pieces out of the collection include Chambray shirts and the Border tee.
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This past week in Paris, Italian store Slam Jam displayed a series of upcoming collections from the likes of Gourmet, PAM, WoodWood and the relatively unknown collection of footwear Be Positive. With the foundation of the shoe beginning with your average dose of sneaker representing the sole and midsole, the upper quickly reflects a much more refined and mature upper as witnessed by the several models. Interesting to see what else Be Positive has racked up in future collections.
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With an upcoming anniversary slated to be celebrated next month, pictures and information regarding an UNDFTD, Medicom Toy and Converse project has surfaced. Although most of the information pertains to next month’s release including 100% and 400% Bearbricks, the fate of the Converse All Star is yet to be determined. Definitely stay tuned for more details as they become available.
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Puma’s most popular lifestyle running model is making an appearance in this most recent upcoming Yo! MTV Raps collection. Although not the most flashiest Yo! MTV Raps x Puma to come through the ranks, this particular RS100 represents the whole concept quite well with a tonal leopard print and pink highlights.
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Something that perhaps has to be explained a few times whenever its brought up, Carhartt’s streetwear division has brought forth a new dynamic to the popular workwear staple. In the land of vinyl and cartoons, Rocco & Al run Rocco’s Diner next door to Carhartt’s Detroit headquarters. Two versions are available, a general release color version and a black and white version.
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On the retail front, member’s only CELUX represents a lifestyle store whose stock of products was the quintessence of rarity and luxury with many brands offering exclusive CELUX designed products for the boutique. Having said that, CELUX will shut down shop later this year with a last run of products in collaboration with Fred Perry being created by various creative agencies such as Staple Design (NY), Libertine (NY), Duckie Brown (NY), Chatav Ectabit (NY), HTC (LA), Conrad Leach (UK), A Love Movement (LA), Suzukike (Japan), Jean Diadem (Japan), and Green (Japan). Here’s a specific look at Staple Design’s offering inspired by Elton John track, “Goodbye The Yellow Brick Road”. A black and white version are both limited to a three shirt run.
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The Comme des Garcons Guerilla Store concept is where CDG would open a store in a city for a specific duration of time and after that time’s up, it would close down, forever. After opening stores in places like Hong Kong, Warsaw, Singapore, Beirut and Athens, Comme des Garcons has decided to hit Los Angeles. As usual, the store’s hard to find but once you find it, you’ll be offered an opportunity to purchase some exclusive CDG items that you won’t be able to find else where.
Comme des Garcons Los Angeles Guerilla Store
125 West 4th Street
Suite #106
Los Angeles, CA 90013
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Estate Los Angeles brings back their E Class of fine fitteds with the Quilted series. Each Estate hat is hand made in Los Angeles, using all US made materials for construction. The Quilteds feature a fleece lining to keep your head warm as the winter season comes to an end. Available now at all Estate LA dealers and online at becomefitted.com.
Finally questions have been answered about the mysterious Kermit the Frog x Supreme posters in New York and LA. On March 3rd, there will be a photography exhibition in Paris at Colette showcasing shots of Kermit the Frog wearing a Supreme tee shot by the photographer Terry Richardson. This is pretty awesome if you ask us so don’t miss out on the show if you’re in Paris. Nylon will have an interview with Terry Richardson next week so keep checking Nylong for that as well.
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Last night, Converse held a launch party for Dr. Romanelli’s new Converse (RED) shoe in Los Angeles. The new shoe was made with (PRODUCT) RED which is a program to help fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis. Inspired by the (PRODUCT) RED project, Dr. Romanelli went out to create a band-aid motif Chuck Taylor. According to Supertouch, Dr. Romanelli said:
“The 1HUND(RED) Artists project really motivated me to create something unique and I choose the band-aids as a fix for positive change.”
Aside from the unveiling of Dr. Romanelli’s sneaker, a high octane exhibition included other artist created footwear and artworks including Hiroshi Fujiwara (Japan), Jeremyville (Australia), Michael White for Dondi White (USA), Colletivo Design (Brazil), Grandpeople (Norway), Mike Schall
(USA), Supakitch (France) and UPSO (USA).
In addition, Lupe Fiasco was there at the party for some live performances. For those who missed out, you can check out the party pictures at Supertouch. The sneakers itself go on sale at the beginning of this month at the nation’s leading sneaker stores, Undefeated and Dave’s Quality Meats with 10% of net whole price going towards Geneva’s The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
