FASHION: Memoirs of Niagara Falls Circa 1988

GUCCI SP09 footwear
As discussed here, for the most part things such as braided rat-tails, timber wolf tees, and anything with shredded fabric acts as a portal to another time. A time when gimp and snap-on bracelets were all the rage. When we still believed the fights between Hulk Hogan and Randy ‘MachoMan’ Savage were REAL! When it was actually COOL to be a bleached blond, mullet-haired, die-hard rock fan (instead of just a scenester costume). Those times…they may have been the BEST times.

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FASHION: F@%k Cinderella, Pocahontas Got Her Shoe Jacked By Visvim

VISVIM FALL/WINTER COLLECTION
This summer’s must-have shoe for chicks, was the gladiator sandal. While most girls were busy fighting for the last pair of size 8′s, the cooler girls were skipping the Roman era and kicking it up an ancestorial notch, by heading straight for the Columbus era: moccasin sandals.

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SNEAKERS: Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Bapestas

BAPESTAS: They’re a party in a (shoe)box!
The latest sneakers to be released from the Spring/Summer Bapesta collection are a party waiting to explode…all over you feet! BAPE slapped a neon sole on a confetti patterned base, and “tada!”, a new Bapesta was born. Being fans of the occasional party, as well as confetti, and even moreso confetti covered cupcakes…naturally, we’re fans of these kicks. Currently available at all BAPE stores, these sneakers come in a black or white colourway, and thanks to the multicolour dots, they’ll match your gear no matter what clown-suit your sporting.

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SNEAKERS: Summer has blossomed in the land of the bathing apes

Bape has released its version of the classic summertime shoe:

This recent addition to the Bapesta brood, is the ultimate white sneaker, incorporating just a ‘dash’ of colour with a logo shaped cut-out featuring Milo and friends. Go get your own pair at the Bapexclusive store in Aoyama, Japan.

Even More News Tit-Bits

May Stuff…

It’s summertime and the living is easy, fish are jumping and the cotton is being knit, woven and sculpted into a variety of summer must-have items that have the kids ditching the ice cream truck and saving up their pennies for something useful like College. In which case, I hope some cooler kid comes along and steals that money in order to cop themselves something in the list below:

“Wants and Needs” make us Wet and Hard

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More News Tit-Bits

• BAPE brand turns 15 years old this year, and what better to celebrate this occasion with than a bunch of boringass T-Shirts?! Be sure to grab one of these 15th Anniversary tees to kick off this fashion snoozefest! Like seriously…you think they would’ve made a minor effort to impress us on this most joyous of occasions. Check out, these Zzzz-inducing tees in all their yawning glory:

• Tokidoki’s makin moves via your feet! Yep, they’ve sealed the deal for yet another collabo, this time with Japanese sport shoe co. Onitsuka Tiger. This pretty little marriage will have us seeing in tokidokitechnicolour for two years begining in May 2008, with a promise of two shoe collections. Take a look:

• I, HATE MY K-SWISS…I-HATE-MY-K-SWISS…..but, I do happen to like these kicks, probably because they’re a collab with London-based Oki-Ni. I feel like if I wore these sneakers I’d be like a geometric chameleon, able to blend into any geometrically shaped background…or at the very least I’d be able to kick ass at Tetris.

• KAWS’ most prominent quality, other than his great work of course, is his ability to express a concise message…and we got this one LOUD AND CLEAR…

FUCK DEATH!!! …and we couldn’t agree more. Stupid death, always getting in the way of life…always showing up at the worst time, ruining everyone’s fun! I’d like to meet whoever came up with the “brilliant” idea of death anyway, what a genius! What’s that?…You say “God” came up with death?…You say without death the earth would be an overpopulated crater of a world, disease ridden and unfit for rats and cockroaches, let alone humans? Well look at the bright side Mr.Negative, at least we’d have all eternity to try to make it better.

Tokidoki Tokipoke-me

Tokidoki Tokipoke-me

What’s the next best thing to actually BEING Japanese??? Being inspired by Japanese culture! And these days, we’ve all been touched by a little Japanese inspiration! Just look at Gwen Stefani! (good thing someone invented the word inspiration, otherwise we may have been using the word ‘wannabe’…which wouldn’t be entirely incorrect!)

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