Aside from creating some of the most technologically advanced and respected automobiles in the world, BMW has debuted their latest innovation, the GINA Light Visionary Model. The dynamic model enables a car’s structure to shape and change and reflects an all new way of thinking and approach to the automotive world. The GINA acronym is based around geometry and N for infinite changes which has become embodied as a BMW company wide philosophy to pushing the envelope. The GINA Light Visionary Model’s concept of a skin in a non fixed/ non metal form offers numerous benefits including less energy intensive production. Definitely an interesting concept to see make its way into the general marketplace.
Thursday, June 12th marks the latest collection of exclusive The Hundreds Rosewood collection items for the summer season. The collection is restricted to The Hundreds’ two flagship stores located in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
In an unexpected move between Puma and Sneaker Freaker, a part two to their Blaze of Glory collaboration was revealed in Sneaker Freaker’s Issue 12. Here’s an in-depth look at the follow-up black colorways. The Blaze of Glory features neoprene booties, Trinomic cushioning units and soles, common traits with the all too familiar Disc Blaze. Look for these to hit hanon shop in the upcoming weeks.
London based label Second Son have been around since 2005 and have steadily been gaining momentum and building their range of clean designs and British humor. They have just dropped their new collection; the theme for this collection is “Ignorance is Bliss””, and this new drop features their first foray into the world of Denim. They have produced a redline selvedge denim in Indigo and Black and only 100 pairs of each colour were produced. For the new look book they enrolled a close friend by the name of Nash Money to do the modeling, which led to some funny results. This new collection has landed at various stockists worldwide, including Ryouki, Division East and Fresh Cotton.
Lacoste has been continually celebrating its 75th anniversary with cool concepts and exclusive shoes, and now here comes another one. The Stealth Pack includes 5 different styles from the Lacoste family – Dot, Ardeur, Cabestan, Missouri, and Tennis 91. All the shoes come in black and white, and feature embossed original 1933 croc branding that’s exclusive to this pack. Hitting Lacoste retailers in July.
New York-based brand, Acapulco Gold, just released some New Eras for 2008 summer. Both caps come in black camo pattern, one with blue logo and the other with red. With AG’s simple and clean logo, these caps will be good for all summer occasions. Now available at Boundless NY.
