Surprise, surprise: this week´s Edgy Friday comes on a Saturday. Guess you won´t mind. On the list today: shoes, a sound system and accessories.
For all “white kids who want to look poor” (can´t get that quote from one of the FUBU guys out of my head), here´s the Nike SB Blazer (via CtotheJL) in colours that aren´t really colours. Brown and beige and some army-ish green. In order to make it look reggae, Grant Taylor decided to put a Rasta flag on the tongue.
For those who rate classic German product design and who got some extra money to burn in their pockets, I got the redux version of the “Dieter Rams Audio 1″ (cia Club45):
The ReBraun is an MP3 jukebox that’s upgraded with wireless capabilities. The model is based based on the Braun “Audio 1 Kompaktanlage” designed by Dieter Rams in 1962, which was a milestone in post-war German design. It features digital data, mixed multimedia and is programmed with the VVVV Multipurpose Toolkit. The vintage case is made from aluminium, acrylic, steel, and liquid crystal.
And for those who do not only want to act but look like adult children, too, BBC got the “Deep Space” ties in their range for spring/summer 2009.
Looks like I haven´t shown the video above even though it has been out there for almost two months now. Well, shame on me. It´s the German don of good mainstream music, Peter Fox, with his tune “Schwarz Zu Blau” (“Black to Blue”). The video shows off some Berlin street art and the single release features a version with Tanya Stephens.
Let´s stay in Berlin for the next two chunks of news: a) Lodown magazine has relaunched its website and even though I don´t really get why they couldn´t manage to establish a proper permalink structure, comments and shit, I still think it´s a major step in the right direction. b) Style and the Family Tunes magazine got a new face as well and has become a quarterly. The goal is to “escape the bits and pieces mentality of the web” with the new format and let the website do the dirt.
In other news, two websites promising to be “the future of style and fashion” on the internets, popped up and are searching for an audience: Stylecaster – “the world’s first personal style discovery platform” – and Lexposure – “the leading networking and information website for the fashion and creative scene”. We´ll see if they can live up to their claims. Whatever happens though, it´s good to see the Hype side of the HypeDiss concept being back in place.
Should I, for some reason, ever forget why we started this clothing label, please force me to stare at the picture above (via Dancehall.Mobi) for at least half a day…. (no disrespect, Degree – love your music, but the shirts…)
I’m a person who investigate, I said “What do they know in Germany?” and they told me, your Glen Brown album. So I had to get the CD, listen to it, write lyrics, study, done all a that, until eventually, it came back eventually.
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