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SNEAKER SCIENCE CLASS

Our type of class! Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is offering Sneakerology 101, a course on everything sneakers. From the rise in the 70’s to hip-hop, the class covers sneaker culture and design.

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THE BAND-AID LIMITED EDITION CONVERSE X DR ROMANELLI

These custom Chuck Taylor kicks are officially bananas! As this year marks the 100th anniversary of Converse, they commissioned 100 of the world's most creative minds to each design a special sneaker. Each shoe expresses the respective artist's unique commentary on HIV/AIDS and how it affects everyone. Created as part of the 1HUND(RED) humanitarian campaign, what makes these so appropo is the use of the band-aid as a metaphor for healing. Props to multimedia artist Darren Romanelli a.k.a. DRx for this great design! (195.00 €)
Cop them at: www.wesoldout.com
 

REPUBLICA EYE WEAR INTRODUCES SEVEN NEW SUNGLASS STYLES IN TIME FOR SPRING '08

With daylight saving officially in full effect and spring eleven days away, here are seven new sunglass style frames from República. Also, check out their first annual sale. Older frames are now $99.00 for a limited time. Lastly, word on the street is that there will be a República + Peralta Project + SOA collabo coming this summer...stay tuned.

SAMUEL JACKSON ROCKS REPUBLICA'S OSAKA FRAMES

P2050 + NEW ERA ARTICLE IN ADVERTISING AGE

THE XIP3: THE SWISS ARMY OF JACKETS FOR THE MACGYVER IN YOU

It's a jacket, no it's a a backpack, no it's a pillow, no it's the Xip3...
To judge for yourself visit: www.xip3.com

ASICS LAUNCHES MADE IN JAPAN CAMPAIGN WITH A 4.92 FOOT SNEAKER...GENIUS!

To celebrate its quirky Japanese roots Asics presents its Fabre74 Onitsuka model in the style of ad-idolatry: with a 1.5-meter (4.92/ft) sculpture of an Onitsuka Tiger sneaker made of warring elements of Japanese culture. This is part of Onitsuka's Made of Japan effort, which seeks to challenge ideas about the Japanese pop-world with, uh ... a hodgepodge of its icons.
The sculpture is a collabo between StrawberryFrog, LA-based artist Gary Baseman, and Dutch photographer Marcel Christ, and it will appear in print, online and at venues in London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and Zurich.

Peep the  video, it's quite artistically and culturally interesante!

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MONKEY MAGIC: THE FUTURE OF FASHION

Why would an Italian luxury brand team up with Japanese 'street' label A Bathing Ape? Because, says Susie Rushton, this mix of the urban and the über-luxe is the future of fashion. Source: www.news.independent.co.uk

For the global launch of what Fendi hopes will be the cult bag of 2007, the company decided to try out a new marketing approach. It chose Tokyo as the location and, instead of simply recreating its European ready-to-wear catwalk show in Japan as a way to create local buzz - as Chanel and Louis Vuitton have done in recent seasons - Fendi threw a hip-hop party. The event, staged in a purpose-built yellow marquee in the middle of the 1964 Olympic Stadium, targeted the hard-to-impress Tokyo fashion insiders. Headlining the night, Kanye West flew in to play a set for the crowd of 700. And who played host at the party? Neither Silvia Venturini Fendi nor Karl Lagerfeld - but Nigo, the 34-year-old entrepreneur behind A Bathing Ape, who has become a close friend of Venturini Fendi and the company CEO Michael Burke.

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TODAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY

Ever wonder who designs those crazy BAPE stores?

COLORS

Adidas is going color book crazy. Their temporary showroom off canal street quickly became an office favorite. Now they're doing video podcasts (vodcasts?) for the next seven weeks. Seven directors, seven weeks, seven adicolor hues. Check it here.