Best Made Co. teams with Seil Marschall to create an Alpine Rucksack bag replete with European mountaineer design and function. Since 1896 Seil Marschall, a fourth generation family-owned business, has worked from Southern Germany near the Swiss Alps to create quality Alpine products. When traveling Germany Best Made Co. stumbled upon a Seil Marschall bag […]


5 Jul
Rally driver Jean Ragnotti races himself in different eras

If you’re a World Rally Championship fan, you may recognize former driver Jean Ragnotti in this video teaser made by French automaker Renault. The video features Ragnotti winding through a mountainous Alps roadway in a new concept car — the Renault Alpine A110-50 Supercar Concept we previewed last month — while a vintage livery-matching Renault […]


25 May
The French marque resurrects its Alpine Berlinette of the 1960s

Renault has finally unveiled the official images of the much whispered Alpine A110-50 Concept, a car which draws from the French marque’s famed Alpine Berlinette rally car of the 1960s. The Alpine A110-50 Concept stays true to its original with design cues like the half-domed headlamps and Alpine Blue livery, while updating its performance with […]


13 Feb
Austrian military truck tarps, tractor innertubes & vintage WWII canvases used to craft unique bag collection

When first introduced to Defy Bags we knew we were onto something special. Chris Tag, founder and mastermind behind the hand-crafted Chicago-based leather goods company, grew up in an industrial auto manufacturing town which fostered his appreciation for hard work and craftsmanship. Since launching his brand in 2008, Tag has crafted each product from mostly […]


12 Sep
Climb the Alps in ultra luxury footwear from Italy

F. LLI Giacometti, Marmolada is an Italian climbing brand started in 1890 in the foothills of the Dolomites. With a a rich history of crafting beautiful handmade hiking shoes, the brand has created these ostrich leather alpine climbing boots. Although the kneejerk tendency might be to scoff at the ostrich leather being used for actual climbing, […]


19 Aug
European + Japanese highly limited edition collaboration

European alpine specialists Moncler team up with Japanese label visvim for a top of the line Leather Mountain Boot. Based on a classic hiking boot silhouette — as with visvim’s own Serra boot — the highly limited edition collaboration comes in either black or dark brown waxed leather upper with several premium features. A Vibram […]


12 Apr
LIAS goes deep undercover at the Long Beach Formula D

It was supposed to be just another Tuesday. Do some laundry, write a little, get a haircut, and apply for non-existent jobs. That all changed when I woke up to an email from Charlie Meadows asking, “U wanna go Drifting today?” Ummm, huh? I had no idea what that meant. I thought he was cracking […]