One of our favorites, Head Porter has just released a new camera bag in their classic “Black Beauty” series. We have seen smaller cases from them before for point and shoots but this one seems to be more fitting for DSLR cameras. The Black Beauty series is distinguishable because it usually is, black, sometimes being quilted as well. Now available at Head Porter Tokyo.

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Swatch are due to release their latest Artist Series of Watches, featuring Gary Card, David Benedek & Carrie Munden. Swatch have been long time supporters of their artist series, for as long as I can remember, but this current line up shows a move towards contemporary design when they release exclusively at colette on February 15th.

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This CLS 25L Slashed Shell Sack by Porter is a continuation in the longstanding relationship between the 2 Japanese brands, and one of their finest products yet. The highly technical approach to the design, alongside the mix of materials and detailing bring the monotone pack to life.

The Bag is available online at ARKkaban.

Thanks to HB for the heads up.

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The Neighborhood webstore has offered some really interesting items in recent times and this latest piece is no exception. Teaming up with Porter, the project has seen an indigo denim tote bag com to fruition utilizing each labels traditional branding. With the construction bolstering the usual quality we associate with Porter, the piece is finished off with a black canvas base.

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Geneviève Gauckler, huge favourite here at SLAMXHYPE and an artist who has a hugely impressive resume has teamed up with two renowned names from Japan in Medicom Toy and Porter. Not for the first time have these three come together, Geneviève Gauckler this time riding the summer bumbag trend, offers you a range of printed wallet with a strong Japanese influence with her art work, here is a look at a Schedule Note Book 4 from the collection.

Available now from colette.

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Decode: Digital Design Sensations showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations. The exhibition includes works by established international artists and designers such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin, Troika and Karsten Schmidt. The exhibition features both existing works and new commissions created especially for the exhibition.

Decode is a collaboration between the V&A and onedotzero, a contemporary arts organisation operating internationally with a remit to promote innovation across all forms of moving image and interactive arts.

The exhibition explores three themes: Code presents pieces that use computer code to create new works and looks at how code can be programmed to create constantly fluid and ever-changing works. Interactivity looks at works that are directly influenced by the viewer. Visitors will be invited to interact with and contribute to the development of the exhibits. Network focuses on works that comment on and utilise the digital traces left behind by everyday communications and looks at how advanced technologies and the internet have enabled new types of social interaction and mediums of self-expression.

Decode will be on display in The Porter Gallery. Exhibits can also be found on the V&A Exhibition Road façade, in the Grand Entrance, John Madejski Garden and South Kensington tunnel, at the bottom of the stairs to the National Art Library (Staircase L), as well as in the Science Museum.

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I must add a small disclaimer before I write this post. I have recently became a Gucci Mane supporter after a recent interview he gave before his latest incarceration bid. His story, frighteningly genuine and yet relatable, spoke to me and I quickly found myself scrambling to catch up on the music the man has feverously put out in between his “rehabilitation” stints.

Now the music, the man behind Mad Decent and avid support of Gucci Mane, Diplo, surely wasn’t going to let the recent work of Gucci go by the wayside as he went up north for a bit. With help from a interesting support cast including Flying Lotus, Zomby, Memory Tapes, and EMYND, the “Best of  the Cold War Mixtapes” was brought to life, as some of Gucci’s work was given a new sound bringing his name into even more household. While others might not appreciate the re-workings, as a new Gucci listener they work for me and hearing Flying Lotus’ interpretation of anything isn’t a bad look. Listen, decide for yourself, and Free Gucci BURRR.

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Nikon and Porter have teamed up once again, this time to create a durable and spacious carry case for the camera brand’s D3000 and D7000 products.  Created from hard wearing, rip-proof Cordura, with waterproof zippers  its designed to keep your camera safe and at 275 × 175 × 125mm it offers enough room to carry those important accessories too.

Available for 24,000 Yen from January 23rd at Nikon.

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Baxter of California are quickly becoming a favourite amongst followers of our newly sartorial culture, since their collaboration with Porter. The Grooming Products company have added a German-made Double Edge Safety Razor to their collection of fine products. The vintage style of razor promotes safer shaving and less skin irritation and is available now at BaxterOfCalifornia.com for US$60.

Given I have just started shaving again after a 2 year hiatus, and I’m declaring 2010 the year of no beards, this is good timing, and a chance to test drive, stay tuned for a review on my blog.

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My favorite camera GR Digital and my favorite crew Stussy design have collaboration.
Since the most of photo in my book, “West Americanized Tour” published by Stussy, were taken by GR1s=film camera,
I approached Ricoh to find people who made that camera to let them know how this camera made my life change.
And they welcomed me and listen to me and found interest in me and supported me.
I am using this camera every single day for years in anywhere in the world.
So I am glad about the fact I could have relationship with them.

And then, It was natural for me to introduce my other supporter Paul and Rob (stussy, made my book) to them.
That was about April of 08′ or something.

Huge Company Ricoh and Stussy met each other there and BOoooM!!!!

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Release date : 30th of January / 500 limited

And also,,,,,,,,,,,,.

There are exhibition that my photo made it in tomorrow.
If you are in Tokyo and have time and you can read this, please come by.

RICOH Photo Exhibition “SNAPS”

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Rick Owens is without a doubt one of the most important people in fashion, and any creative arts for that matter, of our era. He has singlehandedly changed the way we look at fashion and given us an insight into his philosophy like no other. His vision is clear, and his message direct. When I interviewed the Paris based designer earlier in the year for The New Order Issue 2, I starred a way from his private life, and for that matter his path to today, in this extract Owens explains.

Extract below from Paris-La

“I had always lived on Southern California. I grew up in Porterville, which is next to Bakersfield. I went to LA to go to college at Parsons, but I didn’t graduate; I was an art school drop-out. I studied fine arts there for two years, but it was too expensive and I didn’t really see a real job ahead. So I went to a two-year program at a trade college learning how to pattern-make with all these Korean ladies – not glamorous. I didn’t grow up in the industry, like Marc Jacobs at Halston and I ended up working for knock-off companies in L.A. I just knocked off patterns for years.”

“It’s funny, Rick always just wanted to have a modest company, and to be independent and comfortable. He just wanted to keep doing what he thought was right. But it would be disingenuous if I said he wasn’t ambitious. In the beginning, I remember him seeking out the best stores he could find while protecting his identity. He didn’t do many fashion spreads. So he worked with just one store in LA, Charles Gallay. He doesn’t do clothes anymore, but he was a fashion pioneer back then. He was the first to carry Versace, Montana, Mugler—all the really extreme stuff. He was the biggest buyer in the world of Margiela’s first season. Rick showed his clothes to him first. Gallay bought them. And he prepaid.”

“I was operating on a real fringe back then. In those days, I was a part of the wicked Hollywood Boulevard hustler bar world. I hung around people like Goddess Bunny, a dwarf friend of mine, and Mr. Beanbag in super sleazy, crystal, tranny hustler bars just off Hollywood Boulevard, a couple of blocks from my studio. Some were involved in the arts and the punk rock scene, people like Glenda. He now has a Born-Again Christian country band, but he does songs like “Hot, Born-Again and Horny.” It’s all really sexual Christian stuff. It’s really funny. He’s a total pervert, one of the most extreme people I know. Then there’s Vaginal Davis. She was around every once in a while. They all fit into my aesthetic of broken idealism. That was my milieu, they were my friends. I call them my ‘baroque pearls’.”

“Michèle Lamy and I met through my boyfriend – one of her best friends. So it’s true that I’m bisexual. It’s supposed to be the other way around, isn’t it? People are against bisexuality. It’s either shit or get off the pot. It would be great if things were that black and white, but life is all about ambiguities, and sometimes you have to make up the rules as you go along. I was introduced to her so I could get a job as a patternmaker. She had a sportswear company. I worked for her for two years, but I could never really understand her because she has a really thick French accent. Then it just kind of happened and I really can’t imagine having a relationship with anyone else. It’s been almost fifteen years. God, who knows what that would be in fag years?”

“And soon she became the restaurateur that people know her as. That’s probably why we have a comfortable relationship: because I need a lot of alone time, but she’s super gregarious. It was perfect because she basically had a party every night and was very consumed by it, while I had privacy. In a way, Michèle and I had the perfect life. Money was tight, but we had a great lifestyle. We had a decent car, had enough to go away on the weekends, and ate the most glamorous dinners every night. And then the Italians contacted me.”

“You know Rick, he’s always been pretty point-blanc about not being conceptual. He says instead that his main concept is that the conceptual is unnecessary, and never a replacement for the minimal and the straight-forward. When explaining it, he compares a William-Adolphe Bouguereau painting with a Brancusi sculpture. Rick Owens is the Brancusi sculpture, you know: just a slab of metal on a hunk of wood, but I guess it’s about the right piece of metal and the perfect gesture.”

“I try to make clothes the way Lou Reed does music – with minimal chord changes,” Owens writes. “It’s about a worn, softened feeling. It’s about an elegance tinged with the barbaric, the sloppiness of something dragging and the luxury of not caring.”

“People are always surprised, you know, as we responded to a global recession with relentless expansion. It just worked out that way. Believe me, there was no master plan but once we saw how well the Paris store was working, we got into a retail fever. For a lot of designers their reward is the walk down the runway, but for me it’s about selling. I’m not that extroverted and I have a very ascetic life now. I like the idea of the line being in stores. I’m more pragmatic. It’s not about the glory for me. Also, I know that my stuff is not very flamboyant or fashiony. It’s almost monotonous. I see fashion as something more permanent, like art or architecture. Designers used to be like that, but not anymore.

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Gallery 1950 will provide a vocal point on the first day of business this coming January. With the trend in Japan to create something unique in celebration of the New Year Gallery 1950 have teamed up with Original Fake and Porter. The outcome is most impressive with a reversible souviner jacket from Original Fake and with Porter providing the canvas on a tote bag and wallet.

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Porter and B Yoshida have collaborated once again, this time on a capsule collection of bags. Including a backpack, messenger, tote, and 2 duffel bags, the collection is highlighted by the use of a muted material and set of colourways, with the added detailing of the fused seams so popular of late. The bags are all simple and classic enough to be on our wish list, the construction and detailing just an added bonus.

Available now at Beams.

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