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Street Fashion at your fingertips
Specializing in contemporary street fashion is online apparel outlet Bazaar Adriatic which carries noted designers such as Harjuku Lovers, tokidoki, cardboard robot and Doe just to name a few.
What is BazaarAdriatic?
Bazaar Adriatic is the place for "no-hype" fashion. The teams of buyers that have chosen each piece on here are actually seasoned professionals in the fashion or music industry. This site has been created to offer the best of up and coming fashion and music styles that take shape from the streets, clubs, dive bars, and inspiring garage artists that have an ever lasting effect on society.
Here we believe that fashion, music, and art are part of an unending parallel that takes shape in each of us everyday. As this site takes shape in our lives, we hope that it will do the same for you.
Apart from the large selection of apparel and accessories, be sure to check out BA's great collection of 12" vinyl albums available in their Music section. Very smooth.
Link: Bazaar Adriatic
Limited Tees
Some great Tee shirt designs to be found over at online UK outfit Concrete Hermit.
Check it.
Link: Concrete Hermit
Wind me up !
Another addition to the i-pod accessory craze is cable winder TETRAN. As well as being a wire manager, it's also a squeezable stress reliever.
Link: TETRAN
not your momma's apparel
Based in Signal Hill-California, Oddica is an online apparel company that has put great emphasis into promoting the artists and designers who've colalborated on a wide range of T-shirts.
The focal point of our company is our Artists. How they interpret a particular idea, and how that idea looks on a shirt, determines whether a customer is going to buy, plain and simple. Our job is to stay behind the curtain and seamlessly deliver the Artist's vision to our customers.
Apart from the mainstay line of t-shirts, regular contributors Joshua Smith (Hydro74) and Brian Jaramillo (beejay) are collaborating on the inaugural Year in T-Shirts book. Items included will be the top 10 T-shirts of the year, top 10 artists of the year and profiles on a number of designers and brands.
As well the group is working on a kids line for the immediate future simply titled, Oddica Kids.
Link: Oddica
New eco-chic apparel for urban surfer girls
In an era of values-based consumerism, companies are going for integrated marketing, where aesthetics and integrity go hand-in-hand. High-end fashion companies are going green and green clothing companies are targeting hipsters. On par with this blurring of boundaries, Ailin surfwear company has just launched out of the fashion-mecca of Manhattan, hoping to present a line that brings urban sophistication to an outdoorsy industry.
Link: Ailin
Personal — July 20, 2005
Posted by Anthony
My t-shirt is cooler than your t-shirt
How's this for a cool company: some guy named Jake wins a t-shirt contest in London. Jake thinks t-shirt contests are cool. Jake hooks up with some other guy named Jacob to create a funky website called Threadless. The two Jakes then run a perpetual t-shirt design contest with cash prizes given to the contest winners. In addition to that, they make up limited-editions of your shirt design which are made available in their catalog for all of us to buy. Cool huh?
Featured at right is Sweet Creep by Philip van Bruchem.
Link: Threadless
Personal — July 1, 2005
Posted by Anthony
For a good time.
The recent post about Sport Utility Furniture got me thinking about skating again and the other day when I was at the local grocer, I picked up a copy of Transworld Skateboarding to try and get back in touch with my skating past (ha, who am I kidding). Anyhow, flipping through the pages, I came across the Nixon Rotolog watch.
What a cool watch! The Rotolog's case and band are machined from stainless steel with walnut wood inlays. It's also available in leather but c'mon, we all know the walnut is way cooler, brah ;-) My only bitch about the watch is the Nixon logo that's on the face. A logoless face would be much cleaner. I would prefer a slightly wider dial window with the logo on the dial. Ah, walnut and steel, so hot right now (ok, that'll be the last time I say "so hot right now" in a post).
Link: Nixon
Personal — March 11, 2005
Posted by James
An updated site tells you where you can get 'em
People seem to be flipping out about where to find those fresh and funky Pumas by our favorite Frenchman, Philippe Starck.
Well, we have some answers... a new website lets you play with the creepy dood shown at right, sweetly tells you how couples come togethere, features a downloadable monkey mask as well as info on how to have a monkey party, AND provides a listing of stores worldwide where you can find the shoes.
Link: Starck Puma
Reference: Starck does Puma (Land+Living)
Line of shoes by master of design Philippe Starck
Starck's theory of evolution... he forgot the part about the pocket-lining-monkeys.
This shoe collection is modern because it includes all the technology we now know... but without having to show it - because we don't need to show it!
These shoes are based not on design, not on showing off, not on more and more and more features, but on showing less and less and less. It means more technology, more intelligence, but less styling. This is the secret of the product of tomorrow.
Starck, you so crazy.
Quick Link: Starck Puma (without sized window)
Designer: Philippe Starck
Tote bags made from recycled plastic milk crates
Two size are available (basic and laptop) in a range of milk crate colors. We dig it.
Link: Thingsmatter
Via: Archinect
Personal — May 12, 2004
Posted by Anthony
Suitable accessory. har har
A level is one of those items that's always a part of our weekend projects. I don't think I'd want to make it part of my formal evening projects, but if I did, I think these cufflinks are just the way I'd do it.
"Real working level cufflinks in a rhodium plated silver setting. Available with green or blue liquid. Great for anyone in construction or engineering."
Link: Cufflinks.com
Personal — May 6, 2004
Posted by Anthony
Minimal in design, big on style.
"The 'Slim' is Acme Made's new bag/sleeve hybrid designed specifically for Apple PowerBooks, iBooks and other high end laptops including Sony, Dell, Toshiba, HP and Gateway. The streamlined design allows the Slim to be inserted into another bag or carried with or without its removable shoulder strap."
Link: Acme Bags
