• DRx’s Surgical Special Edition

    December 28th, 2007 |

    Following the recent success of the Dr Romanelli release that celebrated Soph’s 8th year in business in Tokyo, the designer has followed this up with two more impressive designs of his famous Surgical Strike jackets that have really made a name for the Dr Romanelli. With the two jacket’s featuring authentic chain stitch of images that [...]

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  • Juxtapoz #84

    December 28th, 2007 |

    Juxtapoz ushers in the new year with fantastic comic book illustrator Tomer Hanuka on the front cover of their stand edition. Prominent features in this issue include Hip-hop intellect Aesop Rock, Mark Jenkins, Alex Steinweiss, Takashi Murakami and Three Tides Tattoo in Japan recently showcased here on Erik Brunetti’s Blog.

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  • I Have Pop Necklaces by Juse

    December 28th, 2007 |

    Juse the artist behind the cement sneakers that were found on the doorsteps of Undefeated and Daves Quality Meat that made a lot of noise a few years back has made a series of 10 scarves out of shoelaces especially. Juse has really enriched the sneaker culture when designing these scarves , a true piece [...]

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  • Undercover Free Burma Tee

    December 28th, 2007 |

    Following the horrific scenes in Burma recently Undercover’s Jun Takahashi along with Seiko Ito have designed a tee devoted to those Buddhist monks that were detained following peaceful demonstrations to the government. The proceeds from the tee will go to Democratic Voice of Burma and with a descent price tag this is a more than [...]

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  • Cool Hunting Best Of 2007

    December 27th, 2007 |

    As the year winds down to an end many people like to review the year , Cool Hunting have taken a distinctive look at many topics that effect our culture from photographers through to albums, desigers and more. Well worth a read as some of the picks will be of interest to you with some [...]

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  • Visvim Kodiak Jacket (Paclite)

    December 27th, 2007 |

    Visvim latest piece of there winter collection and more specifically the Paclite run is this Kodiak jacket, this great piece features all the fine detailing we have come to expect with Paclite item’s durable material, checkered lining and much more on this gore-tex jacket. This piece is available in three colours, black, navy and olive [...]

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  • Neighborhood x Fragment Down Jacket

    December 27th, 2007 |

    Neigborhood and Fragment have teamed up for a set of six down jackets that have just been released online at the honeyee store. The jackets are made from a lightweight, papery-feeling material called Tyvek that we’ve seen used by a few labels such as New Balance this year. The South American poncho-like bib pattern has [...]

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  • The Hideout Holiday Outlook

    December 27th, 2007 |

    Check The Hideout’s Outlook  for a list compiled by friends and family from across the globe of  all that’s fine this holiday season. Featured items include this very stylish stadium jacket by Japanese label Whereabout selected by TK from Silly Thing. Thanks to our friends at UrbanCamou for the spot.

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  • Beams T TV

    December 27th, 2007 |

    Japanese casual basics chain Beams has released a DVD of video art which is available for free to customers of its Beams T stores. You can check some clips from BTTV here at kurandofuruya’s YouTube page. We were caught in particular by this stunning sequence of light sculptures created by Kieph and Aysushi Sasaki. [...]

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  • VNGRD Rubbish Market

    December 27th, 2007 |

    For those of you who were not able to make it to VNGRD’s RUBBISH MARKET end year party/blow-out sale in Milan a week ago, here’s a look at an interesting tee they released coinciding with the event. More images on VNGRD’s Blog right here on SLAM.

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  • FALSE Webstore

    December 27th, 2007 |

    FALSE have launched their new web-store just in time for the coming new year. The site features a more secure shopping experience and has the entire Season 4 collection that we’ve showcased here over the past month plus a few good more. Check out the collection and the online store Here.

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  • Nike Dunk ‘Be True’ Interview – Paul Mittleman

    December 27th, 2007 |

    Here at SlamxHype we present another of our exclusive interviews that preview the Nike’s ‘Be True’ project, which looks at the Dunk as an iconic shoe in the history of Nike, Basketball, Skateboarding and Sneaker Cultures. This time I had the pleasure to talk to Stussy Creative Director Paul Mittleman. Paul has long been plying his trade whether it be as a DJ, Artist, Designer and has had a truely inspirational influence on Stussy and more specifically the collaborations with Nike which has seen a handful of Dunks designed. Check out the interview and see what this truely genuine legend has to say about the Nike Dunk and its impact. Many more interviews to follow.

     

    Name: Paul Mittleman

    Age: 40

    Occupation: Stussy Creative Director

    Where you’re from: New York City

    Where you’re at : Los Angeles

    How was the Dunk originally perceived when it was released?

    It’s interesting to think of it in terms of sampling because the greatest part of music at least early hip hop music, was the idea of the sample but if you figure the way the dunk became sampled because its even an interesting position that Nike took on that shoe, they designed the shoe but the colors where kind of sampled in a way you could argue because they were used by the college teams so the colors of the shoes were given to the shoes.   No one sat there with this board of like… I mean Michigan had to be blue and gold. Arizona had to be black and gold. Syracuse had to be orange and white. Those were kind of positive in the relationship between Nike and college basketball which I think was kind of interesting because I don’t think it ever happened before.   It wasn’t like a bunch of designers there with Pantones.  I think that’s kind of almost like an interesting error.

    How do you think its now perceived?

    The dunk spans so many different genders, race, economics, sport, like guys wear them, girls wear them, uptown dudes wear them, skaters wear them, hip hop kids wear them.   No other shoe hits every mark. You’ll see some 40 year old dude, well I’m a 40 year old dude, but some 40 year old dude will be at Starbucks and have his pair. Or then you’ll get a chick that’s like 19 with hers, or some Bboy kind of guy running… it’s a lot of people for a style of shoe.   I mean the Air Force 1 doesn’t go there, none of the running shoes go there.  I don’t think anyone can find a shoe that has such a demographic.   If someone can I welcome the challenge to discuss it.

     

    Once a company reaches a certain size, how can it ‘remain true?’

    Nike’s had a pretty good run working with authentic companies and keeping the people that work for them in the forefront of culture as well as having a really good infrastructure to keep the background going. And Stussy has a similar mechanism.   I don’t want to say its church and state but it’s definitely a difference between creativity and commerce.  In this corporate world its good to be somewhat organic and just throw out the cards on the table and have some fun.

    Which Dunk is your favorite?

    My favorite dunk of all time is still the Michigan one.  I’ve never really thought that anything that anyone’s done has been any better than the first (ones).   I thought that the Haze one was good, I think Futura’s done a good one.  I actually like the Stussy ones just because they were a bit more minimal.   There’s a bit of a blur with all of them but you know there’s been a lot.  I think what’s interesting is that out of all the dunks they become like a canvas, its almost like a blank t-shirt, you give it to someone and they do their thing to it and I think its kind of interesting that over and over again people make different decisions on these basic panels.

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  • SVG ARCHIVES BY NEIGHBORHOOD

    December 27th, 2007 |

    The SVG Archives Collection play a huge role in the Harajuku scene and are ofcourse highly respected like Rats and W)Taps, perhaps because its rarely seen on the internet and there is less hype than  some of the pther labels in Japan. These two latest items will go on sale in the new year so [...]

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  • HTC Jewellery

    December 27th, 2007 |

    HTC which means Hollywood Trading Company have a huge following especially in Japan with fine leather belts, jewellery and accessories inspired by the 1930’s to 50’s. Zip Stevenson owner and designer of HTC was born in New York and now resides in Los Angeles after helping establishing a vintage denim boutique by the name of [...]

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  • OriginalFake X CLOT Featuring Shu Qi

    December 27th, 2007 |

    CLOT as part of their Fantasy Series, has teamed up with Kaws’ label Original Fake and Taiwanese actress Shu Qi to produce a print that features an exotic Shu with the Kaws Bendy character.
    The offerings from Original Fake does not stop there, the store which has its sale well under way will close for the [...]

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