Friday signals our latest round of HYPEBEAST Weekly Staff Picks. This weeks choices brought to you by Kevin, Eugene, Season and Jason include Medicom Toy’s latest updates of Bearbricks, Jason solidifying the notion his unhealthy love for pants that roll up, the King of Spring Skateboard Showdown Recap and the Visvim Folk Bear Foot FBT Shaman. Check the breakdowns after the jump.
The Visvim E-Cat line of messenger bags originally presented some slight proportion issues when first released due to the overwhelming size of the bag. However, the scaled down Ballistic E-Cat 18 features a more user friendly bag which created a better look then the aforementioned OG release. Like the backpacks seen last week, the E-Cat 18 follows a similar trend with set color combos. Available now at Re In Force
Here is the “Japanese City” Pack from Nike which includes the Osaka Dunk, Fukuoaka Dunk, Nagoya Dunk, and Tokyo Dunk, each representing a landmark feature of the Japanese city they’re named after. In terms of color, all the shoes are definitely on the bright and flashy side with the exception of Tokyo Dunk, simply black and white. However, the Tokyo Dunk stands out with its black leather and white fur, inspired by a giant panda. The Osaka Dunk, with red/white stripes and blue linings, represents the food of Osaka and its icon, a drumming doll.
The Fukuoaka Dunk pays tribute to its festival and shrines, with multicolored patent leather and asymmetrical pairings. The Nagoya Dunk is completely covered in gold patent leather with mint green accents, referring to its famous Gold Dolphin. With meaningful and eye-catching designs, the shoes make up for a great release for all the Dunk fans out there.
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PUMA and No Mas have been teaming up in 2008 with releases of the PUMA X No Mas First Round LA and LE (Boston) to further celebrate last year’s exhibition of “The Lottery”. This month, the PUMA First Round is inspired by the city of Seattle.
Highlights of the PUMA x No Mas First Round Seattle include a green and yellow colorway with a white on white leather with embroidered lottery balls, three sets of laces with “No Mas” branding on the lace tips and the outsole.
A very limited number of pairs will drop exclusively at GOODS Seattle on Wednesday, April 30th.
For Hideout’s 10th anniversary, they teamed up with Porter to create a messenger bag. Inspired by the traditional bags carried by newspaper boys, this bag has a very modern look with Hideout’s motto written on top, “My Karma Drives Over my Dogma.” It comes in black with beige writing and ivory with black writing. With high quality materials such as 100% canvas cotton and waterproof lining, this is a bag worthy of Hideout’s 10th anniversary. Available soon at Hideout and Honeyee.
