As part of their Black Label collection, Bape just released these new black Roadstas. They come completely in black with smart use of patent leather on the upper. These will be released on June 21st only at Bapeclusive for 16,590 Yen.
As part of their Black Label collection, Bape just released these new black Roadstas. They come completely in black with smart use of patent leather on the upper. These will be released on June 21st only at Bapeclusive for 16,590 Yen.
In a way the success story of UK born, electronic, big beat musician Quentin Leo Cook aka Fatboy Slim is a bit of an anomaly. At age 44 he is sort of long in the tooth for a pop star, that’s even in his late 90s peak of popularity. Sonically, he doesn’t have much of an allegiance to any musical genre, making him extremely hard to classify which is a nightmare for marketing purposes. He combines the blare of Burt Bacharach early 60s brass instruments, experimental 80s electronic drum thumps, emphatic 90s dance music and intricate Hip Hop record cuts and scratches. All of this is arguably genius to dance music enthusiasts and vintage record connoisseurs but bewildering to the MTV crowd who prefer their pop straight forward. Fatboy Slim’s infectious songs aside, it is his wildly inventive and innovative music videos that have made him a house hold name.
Fatboy Slim’s video for “Praise You” is a hilarious clip featuring director Spike Jonze leading what seems to be a rhythmically challenged dance troupe in front of a confused live audience. The award winning video for “Weapon of Choice” has veteran actor Christopher Walken energetically dancing through a hotel lobby and then literally flying from wall to wall. Fatboy Slim now hooks up with veteran New Wave musician David Byrne of Talking Heads fame to form the super group, Bridge Port Authority (BPA). While Byrnes’ expertise can be felt in their first single “Toe Jam” featuring Dizze Rascal, the video is vintage Fatboy Slim. It features feathered haired 70s era swingers striping down to their birthday suits and playing musical art with their censor bars. While the video shows no actually nudity it still may not be safe for work, unless your boss is into that kind of thing.
Today is a great day for all the Bape fans out there as they keep pumping out great, new products. Here we’re showing you their newest, very Converse-like shoe release. The shoe comes in lo and high, with 3 colorways for each including stripes, light blue, and navy blue. These Bapestas are designed with great details such as the band of tiny Bapesta logos that surrounds the front sole of the shoe and the stylized Bapesta lettering on the side.
New York based brand, 3sixteen, has just released their 2008 summer lookbook online. The lookbook showcases all their new t-shirts from the collection, “A Time to Kill.” The photographs are very artistically done with a sepia overtone, and it’s consistent with 3sixteen’s usual darker themes. It’s great to see the evolution of the New Royalty as they keep taking their brand higher and higher.
In what was definitely a pleasant surprise on our end, HYPEBEAST has made it into the online pages of respected publication Time Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2008. The feature itself outlines a short-list of best websites from info & gossip, health, handy tools to hobbies and interests. Each site also has the ability to be rated by readers. However, at the end of the day, big thanks to all our readers. If you get a chance rate HYPEBEAST over at Time Magazine.
Before we promised to give you a better look at “The Paramount” dunk, so here is the follow-up. Striving to make a dressy-looking dunk, SBTG and Lazy cleverly use black, Gucci selvage denim to cover the upper and leave a red/green lining along the mid-sole. It also features a snake skin Swoosh and a white bottom sole with black stitching. This pair of Dunks is truly a masterpiece with all the right textural details and color combination.
As part of their 2008 Summer collection, Bape came out with some nice, plain flip flops. They come in black, red, blue, and brown, all with gold Bapesta logos printed in different sizes. Rock these to the beach and summer BBQs to attract all the right attention.
For the summertimes, Asics came out with three new colorways for the Asics Gel Lyte III. One comes in light blue and yellow, very reminiscent of Golden State Nuggets team colors, while the other comes in an offbeat purple/green combo. The third one is more basic with red and black accents on a white shoe. All three will be released very soon at select boutiques and footlocker stores.
Popular UK street artist and magician Dynamo has hopped on board as the latest face for adidas’ Superstar campaign including a short film. The premise of the film features Dynamo traveling to Miami as he stuns and wows pedestrians with his magic, all incorporating the iconic adidas Superstar. A series of videos are available for viewing now over at adidas.com/superstar.
Back in 2002 under the watchful eye and direction of SUCKADELIC, graf artists EASE and JK5 (who recently collaborated with Mishka) did extensive work on an AT-AT toy by Hasbro. The AT-AT walker was originally seen in George Lucas’ The Empire Strikes Back. The tags surrounding the toy are all done in the fictional alphabet system Aurebesh which was seen extensively in the Star Wars series. The AT-AT toy is among the pieces being auctioned off at Christie’s Graf-At auction featuring numerous graffiti related artifacts and works.
Source: Gizmodo
A new pack has been released for one of Nike’s newer lifestyle models, the Talache 1. The primary material used on these are referenced in the name as canvas is the dominant feature. The Talache mid-sole is marked by the use of leather and Air Zoom cushioning rounds out the package. These shoes are available now at the atmos-tokyo online store.
