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Neighborhood Savage 7/C Shirt

Posted on 06 October 2008

The latest addition to Neighborhood’s expert denim ranks is this well executed Savage 7/C Shirt. Featuring all the patching, embroidery and stitching that resembles all the finest releases from the Japanese label while their is the denim splatter which we saw on the recent chino.

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Undercover Spring/Summer 2009 ‘Grace’ Collection

Posted on 06 October 2008

Undercover have unveiled their Spring/Summer collection for next year in France, the collection entitled ‘Grace’ is proof of the labels evolution. Jun Takahashi maintains the same philosophy and aesthetic which is widely renown the exhibition has been put together with the same distinction. While each and every single exhibition from Undercover has that same feel like you are walking into the basement of their store in Aoyama, Tokyo.

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Undercover x Silly Thing “The New Mutation” New Colors

Posted on 06 October 2008

The project between Undercover and Silly Thing, which has culminated in the very popular ‘Jack Purcell’ inspired sneaker has seen two new colors added. Having already seen black and a deep purple, now with gold and a interesting shade of red this promises to be an interesting release.

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Nike x LaDanian Tomlinson 1World Air Force 1

Posted on 06 October 2008

San Diego Chargers back and number 21 LaDainian Tomlinson is the latest new to pull together an impressive pair of Air Force 1’s for the Nike 1World collection. The sneaker has San Diego written all over it with its subtle white upper and light blue accents culminating in a very exciting release. Marked for October 17, there will be 100 pairs set to release a week prior strictly in San Diego on Sunday, October 12th and will be split between Blends and The Attic. Each retailer will receive 21 signed pairs as well as a pair of tickets to the Chargers vs. Patriots game that night.

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Jeremy Scott For Adidas

Posted on 06 October 2008

Having already seen the Metro Attitude from this electric collaboration between Jeremy Scott and adidas. The entire line up is as crazy as the gold silhouette we saw with the wings last week, featuring some interesting colors, patterns and adaptations I am really liking the oversized tongue on the Forum. This will most definitely be one collection to look out for summer next year.

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“Jeremy Loves Ksubi” 2009 Collection

Posted on 06 October 2008

Jeremy Scott has once again teamed up with Ksubi on his much loved “Jeremy Loves Ksubi” Collection, actually for the fifth time. Stepping out along side Jeremy Scott’s ‘Let Them Eat Gas’ Spring/Summer collection, Scott provided some great florals and hearts on some simple cuts. In addition there is a great run of sunglasses to go with the epic garments, definitely something to look forward to next March.

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Everything is FALSE Website Launch

Posted on 06 October 2008

FALSE have launched their new website Everything is FALSE. A clean minimal site built on the ever popular Wordpress engine. The site functions as a 1 stop depot of interconnectivity to all of FALSE and it’s sub brands. Various news, updates, features, spotlights and personal blog sections for each of the FALSE duo’s thoughts are homed in nicely weighted sections. You will also find a list of exciting new projects revealed in their very early stage.

With the RSS / iphone generation in full swing it would be a matter of time before similar entities adopt this complete interconnected way of things.

Wolfgang Voigt aka Gas Book and CD

Posted on 06 October 2008

Softcover book/photographic art catalogue with exclusive audio compact disc included, 128 pages in full-color, shrink-wrapped together. For the first time ever, Wolfgang Voigt aka Gas presents the visual aspect of the comprehensive Gas project in print. It is not meant to be a monolithic retrospective of his visual work, but it features a broad spectrum of photographic images taken between 1995 and 1998, showing many different moods and perspectives of Wolfgang Voigt’s cosmos. What they all have in common is the mystical focus and seemingly, the blurring of boundaries between lightness and darkness, happiness and depression, kitsch and art, pixels and leaves. With the enclosed CD, Voigt has opened his treasure chest and presents some well-selected, rare jewels from the very early days (and nights). (more…)

Dzine’s ‘The Beautiful Struggle’ Exhibition Zine

Posted on 06 October 2008

Dzine’s “the Beautiful Struggle” exhibition at Deitch has created a lot of talk here on SLAMXHYPE and to boast the exhibition a zine has been produced featuring a collection of shot’s captured by Chicago based photographer Andreas Larsson. The zine focuses on photos of Dzine’s new paintings, some work in progress photos from the studio, and photos and portraits from car and low rider bike shows that the work is inspired by.

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Acronym Fall/Winter 2008 Collection

Posted on 06 October 2008

It looks to me as though Acronym have worked very hard to grow and evolve their clean aesthetic with the addition of some great new items for their Fall/Winter 2008 collection we first saw last week. Amongst the new pieces is a great leather jacket, the L-J11 Leather Windstopper Jacket which maintains the high tech look along with all the detailing we are used to from Acronym. Another noteworthy addition is the knitwear, very clean and simple with a crewneack and turtle neck in some very nice shades featuring marino wool. In addition there is a wide range of accessories with messengers, a back pack, pouches, scarves, beanie.
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Five Minutes With Steven Daily

Posted on 04 October 2008

LA native Steven Daily has given his time to answer our customary questions. Artist slash illustrator, Daily has a resume to envy having put together two children's book's with Writer artist  Roman Dirge, "It ate billy on christmas", With dark horse publishing, and "Peter the pirate squid" with slg graphics. He also boast as a Bloc 28 artist for disney, while his roots are in graffiti Daily put that aside in 2004 and has shown in galleries around the world. Having worked on many mediums over the years Daily has confessed to being completely obsessed with secret society's and conspiracy theory's.

Nike Sportswear 3×3: The Windrunner Shorts Interview with Chris Robinson

Posted on 02 October 2008

As we continue our look at Nike Sportswear's 3×3: The Windrunner Shorts, film makers, we spoke with founder of Robot Films, Chris Robinson. Most famous for his role in some of the best known music videos and commercials, Robinson, along with Adam Weissman, and Todd James, was asked to make a series of 3 short films to promote The Windrunner. Slam X Hype's Yevgeniy sat down with Chris Robinson to find out more.

Five Minutes With Jarrett Reynolds

Posted on 30 September 2008

Jarrett Reynolds, Nike's Global Design Director of NSW Apparel has played a pivotal role in the success we have seen recently from Nike Sportswear. Having enjoyed some of Jarrett's recent work like Nike Sportswear project with Loopwheeler and the Flywire Windrunner it was great to fire our customery questions his way and get some really interesting answers. Check out a more indepth interview with Jarrett in the issue 1 of 'The New Order'.

Keiichi Nitta’s “100K” Exhibition

Posted on 29 September 2008

Keiichi Nitta opened his latest exhibition entitled "100K" at the White Factory in Naka-Meguro, Tokyo over the weekend. A great collection of images which captured the Keiichi mimicking the likes of Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe and other iconic figures with his very distinctive approach. In addition to the photography on show there was also a collaboration project featuring American Apparel and Keiichi Nitta which culminated in a series of tees. In addition there was a great film on show featuring the coming together of the artworks. Take a closer look over the page, as well as our recent interview with Keiichi.

Introducing “Jeff McMillan”

Posted on 28 September 2008

We at SlamxHype will be presenting a new Sunday series of Top Stories that will introduce someone or something we are currently into, be it a fashion label, designer, store, design team, or in this case, an artist. There are so many people and entities in general doing great things, so we thought of this new feature to help shed some light on some of these fantastic talents. The first edition of our “Introducing” series features an artist by the name of Jeff McMillan. I met Jeff a while back in Los Angeles at the L.A. launch event for Converse’s 1HUND(RED) series. and we kept in touch ever since as I was genuinely interested in staying posted on his art career. When we decided to do this new weekly feature, Jeff immediately came to mind, so here is the first installment of “Introducing” series.

Nike Sportswear 3×3: The Windrunner Shorts Interview with Todd James

Posted on 26 September 2008

Continuing our interviews with the three directors of the recent ‘Nike Sportswear at The Montalbán presents Cinema Tuesdays 3 x 3: The Windrunner Shorts’ series of short films Slam X Hype’s Yevgeniy Shukhman caught up with Todd James aka REAS, having already talked with Adam Weissman. Having directed a three part series with the main character "Mr Windrunner" evolved from his recent Lightning Bolt which appeared on a Windrunner which hit stores in August, REAS has lived up to his highly acclaimed reputation.

Comme des Garcons Guerrilla Store +1 213 Fall Arrivals

Posted on 25 September 2008

The Comme des Garcons Guerrilla Store in Downtown Los Angeles has received their Fall shipment and I must say that the delivery is extremely solid and probably one of the better shipments received at the location. An amazing array of pieces for Men and Women have hit the store, as well as a large assortment of fragrances and wallets, but for now, we are going to focus on the Men's items. A large contingency from multiple Comme des Garcons lines are well represented here with highlights from Junya Watanabe Man, Comme des Garcons Homme, and Comme des Garcons Homme Plus, and Comme des Garcons Homme Plus Evergreen. A must see for any fans of CdG! Please check inside for the images and stay tuned to SlamxHype and Any One Girl for the Women's arrivals, wallets and fragrances.

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Justice “A Cross The Universe” Documentary Film

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