After touring LA, Sneaker Pimps will head to San Francisco for their next destination! The world largest sneaker show will be held at Mighty on July 22 starting at 8PM. There will be live DJs rocking the house and also live paintings by Dave White! Just check out the flyer for all the details!
After a few months of waiting, Bape has finally updated their bape.exe site with some news. You can download the .exe here and experience it for yourself
The newest issue of Ollie magazine has an advertising insert featuring Nigo and N.E.R.D. rocking the latest Bathing Ape gear! The Kaws collaboration continues as well as a new crossover with Marvel Comics. Check out all the pics featuring Nigo, Pharrell, Chad, and Shay in the freshest bape fashions. Thanks to K-Moto for sharing the images.
Go check out Slam X Hype for a really interesting article about Japanese fashion. It focuses on a vintage shop in Osaka called Buzz Love and also touches on the popular clothing line; A Bathing Ape. It’s written by a good friend of mine so check it out!
Freshness and El Kartel hosted a sneaker exhibition yesterday in Vancouver where Billy Li displayed over 400 pairs of his sneakers from his personal collection. The place was quite packed and a lot of sneakerheads showed up. Thank you for hosting this successful event and it was nice meeting up with Billy. Vital will be hosting another show this Friday displaying all of Billy’s Nike SBs so stay tune for more news on that!
The second installment of NORT’s Advertised Attitude just dropped. Firstly, it covered the reissue of the Nike Air 180. This time it features the recently retroed Nike Air Zoom Spiridion. The whole concept is similiar to UNDFTD’s billboard project. The location is not as sunny California but it’s in Berlin’s hippest district The Mitte.
Know1edge is by Julius Brian Siswojo from Hong Kong Causeway Bay’s skateshop ‘8Five2 shop’. Know1edge first started in 2004 with world famous artists helping design the clothing including Alyash Owerka (Fiberops), Eli Morgan Gesner (Zoo York), Peter Huynh (UXA), Eric Haze (Haze) and Arai (Hex Antistyle). Check out new clothing from Know1edge for this season at essense.
The Nike Blazer Stussys were released yesterday on July 16th! There were of course the usual line ups but in the end, congratulations to those who got their pair! From the look of the pictures at CT Forum, the material used is very nice. Even though the colors are not as outstanding as the other shoes in the Clerks pack, these are still definitely a nice sneaker.
These Bapestas are specially release for the re-opening of Bapexclusive in Aoyama, Japan which occured on July 16. Pictures from Kix Files via some magazine.
Kix Files has a new feature on the adidas Pro Model 1970 up on their site! The adidas Pro Model is a very nice shoe that captures the look and vintage feeling of the original Superstar high top.