13 Jun
Classic designs inspire Australian brand's handmade shades

With cues from classic shades of yonder year, Australian brand Ksubi has introduced their Summer 2011 Eyewear Collection that provides a wide range of frame styles. With a variety of details on each piece of the collection, the brand manages to make each one stand out, giving them their own unique look and feel. You […]


7 Jun
Platers Flat silhouette gets a luxury exotic sheen

Known for his subtle, understated vision of shoe design, Christian Louboutin takes his classic oxford style Platers Flat shoe and crafts them out of luxurious black stingray skin. Seeing as it’s Louboutin, however, exotic skins aren’t quite enough so he cast them with a metallic sheen. Featuring minimal stitching and complementary black leather sole, the […]


1 Jun
PDS gets their Donkey Kong on for Autumn Winter 2011

For their Autumn Winter 2011 collection Passarella Death Squad have just released a new 3-pack collection of retro arcade-inspired tshirts. Merging the classic 1980s 8-bit games with Passarella’s always sexy bevy of undressed women, the three new tshirts (How high can you get?, Sidestepper, The cave of monsters) are all made in London out of […]


26 May
Venice Beach's clean and simple cycle solution

Venice Beach manufacturer LINUS uses French and Italian bicycle designs of the 1950s and ’60s as inspiration for their simple and dependable city bikes. As bike culture grows evermore from LA to Portland and Denver to NYC, new companies seem to crop up everywhere, but few have put as much thought and personality into the […]


19 May
The analog classic gets a super wide-angle update

After a quarter century locking down an entire film-centric photographic subculture, Lomo is upgrading its classic Lomo LC-A camera. The analog film camera — yes, film — gets updated with a super wideangle Minigon glass 17mm lens (as opposed to the LC-A’s 32mm lens), perfect to elevate your study of lomography to the next level. […]


18 May
Limited edition homage to classic Matra Bagheera model

Last month we brought you Super Motor Company Scooters, a new retro-styled scooter manufacturer founded by Dutch cousins fueled with a passion for speed and love for old motorcycles.  Our standards were quite high since we had just come from testing the mx650 reviewed here. Now Super Motor has teamed up with Parisian boutique extraordinaire […]


17 May
Stylist Robert Verdi's combines two classics

Unotre brings us stylist Robert Verdi’s latest creation, an inspired conflation of vintage Hermès silk scarves and Vans classic slip-ons. Verdi takes the bold and bright graphics which the house of Hermès was built on and applies it to the timeless sneaker, creating headturning shoes to wear to this weekend’s BBQ. Nice one. via Highsnob


11 May
Psssst... it has something to do with partying... till you puke...

Everyone’s favorite Party Ambassador Andrew W.K. has collaborated with LA promoter, illustrator and DJ extraordinaire Franki Chan on a mixtape for his Check Yo Ponytail! series. The 70-minute Party Tips mix was recorded at Diplo and Switch’s Major Lazer studios by Franki Chan and Greg from Acid Girls, and is a powerhouse set of party […]