On August 28th, 2009 (7-10pm) CLAE look to open their first pop-up installation within the walls of Stussy Los Angeles. The popular footwear company will offer up their many styles of contemporary sneaker choices for a limited time. Aside from sounds from Dam Funk and Selector jD, the event will feature a live painting installation from West One. If you’re in the area, be sure to roll through.
Stussy LA
112 South La Brea Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036
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New York City-based Amongst Friends have unveiled their Fall/Winter 2009 ‘Playing Through’ collection. The drop is a great mix between casual and class, with a solid selection of t-shirts alongside warmer elements such as a down vest accented with genuine lamb’s skin.
The Apesta Hi Duck is a canvas high top sneaker. It comes in a grey colorway, with white sole and URSUS branding on the mid-sole and the heel. The sneaker is now available at Cliff Edge.
Nike Sportswear collaboration with Hiroshi Fujiwara’s fragment Design. This time they worked on the All Court Premium Leather. It comes in black and white premium leathers with an embossed Swoosh and fragment logo placement on the heel.
This bach--that's New Zealander for 'cabin'--was designed for extreme conditions of Australasia, including severe heat, winds, and torrential downpours. Built with strong Cor-Ten steel in lieu of galvanized mild steel, it is not a temporary structure by any means—the Habode was even rated for a grade 5 storm (cyclone) by New Zealand engineers.
Like other prefab homes, the Habode boasts dramatic reductions in both building costs and waiting times. Manufactured by International Housing Solutions, it uses a patented 'fold-out' system that packages a home, ships it, and can be positioned on its 20-timber-pile foundation within eight hours. Its customizable features include extra decking, sunshades, roof racks, a chimney flu, solar water heating, and a wind turbine.
The F430's successor, called Ferrari 458 Italia, it will be launched in Frankfurt next month. Maranello has finally revealed the mid-engined V8 replacement for the Ferrari F430.
Benny Gold has released some of his Japan exclusive product in his online store, making it available for worldwide followers of the brand. The colorways of the keychains, skate wax, t-shirts and glider plane candles are exclusive to the online store and not available anywhere else. Each product is limited to 79 pieces, which stands for the gold periodic number.
“Scharf took the iconic Nathan George Horwitt-designed, Bauhaus-inspired Museum Watch and illustrated the dials with his signature aesthetic. There are six watches in all that were produced in limited runs. There are 25 limited edition box sets that will retail at Movado stores for $3,495, starting next month. In addition, 100 limited edition pieces of each style will be sold for $695.”
The signature shoe of several time world tennis champion, and still legendary George ‘Rod’ Laver, the adidas Rod Laver has been a mainstay for the brand, and now a central part of the Originals range since its 1970 launch. The key to its success? Utter simplicity. In line with court decorum and regulations of the era, the famous 3-Stripes were shorn for this shoe, and the purity of the Rod Laver set something of a standard for sneaker design – the move to pare down the corporate identity and let the silhouette do the talking is a landmark move too.
Beyond favourite colour combinations like the traditional white and green, the material mix of leather and mesh kept things breathable and lightweight without compromising looks. This bare bones approach gave the shoe an ageless quality. A follow-up, wider, chunkier in the sole and with added midsole and heel branding became another icon and a worldwide Summer standard, notably deified in NYC as the timeless hot weather choice.
Almost forty years after the original design’s introduction, it’s back in a tweaked form, retaining its iconic classicism for an ambitious adidas Originals Consortium project. Nine global Consortium partners, each famed for their innovative approach to retail, were given the Rod Laver to rework with their choice of colours, fabrics and more for release in extremely limited numbers at Consortium stores throughout August and September 2009.
