12 Jan
Because you should be shredding the mountain, not your skull

If you’ve been to the Aspen lodge with Lloyd Christmas, or done a time-defying ski run worthy of a scene in Hot Tub Time Machine, you probably are in need of some proper head gear. Good, because the Osbe Proton Senior Ski Helmet is for serious hardcore snow athletes like yourself. Bragging points include: multi-impact resistant […]


Deus ex Machina, the bike and bike-stuff makers who brought us the likes of the Pegasus and the Gicleur know that you need a good pair of gloves for gripping onto your bike. The entire line of gloves are handcrafted in Japan and made from 100% Napa cowhide leather. Choose from three styles, the black straightforward Gripping Glove (below), […]


Supreme is known to slap a label onto just about anything. Now they’ve teamed up with the estate of the late artist/satanist H.R. Giger for a winter-aimed streetwear capsule collaboration. With Giger’s death this May just past, it is unsurprising that his art is finding new places for display — like on t-shirts, jackets and more. For with […]


Back in the 1800’s in the old days of New York, Hamilton Carthatt, in the midst of pursuing the American Dream the old-fashioned way, switched his focus from a furnishing business to a business with the sole focus of creating garments for railroad workers. Although Carhatt passed back in 1937, the company continues to thrive […]


13 Mar
A blue iteration of their iconic rain gear for Spring/Summer 2014

If you care to worship the cult of Alexander McQueen, the house has offered the latest iteration of their famed Skull umbrella. The signature Skull is rendered in a bold, bright azure resin for Spring/Summer 2014, and is probably the only reason you’ll pony up $565 for the otherwise quite traditional rain gear. A more detailed […]


We all have a car nut in our lives. Gear-brains. Petrolheads. You know the deal. Guys who like to strap on a helmet every Saturday morning and spend the first couple hours of the weekend slicing up asphalt on a beautiful mountain road. Dudes who walk straight to the car section at the bookstore, and […]


11 Jun
Clean & simple protective riding gear

Keep your motorcycle gear as clean and simple as your ride with the Gringo Helmet. Biltwell’s DOT approved protective gear eschews vents and trendy accoutrements to create a minimal design that features a seamless injection-molded ABS outer shell, shock-absorbing EPS inner shell and a contrast hand-diamond-stitched comfort liner with open-cell foam and brushed Lycra construction. Throw […]


24 Apr
The erstwhile King of skate gear continues 2 decades strong

Your feelings on Zoo York probably depend upon when you picked up your first skateboard. If it’s in the last 10 years, then Zoo York probably hovers somewhere around the brands you find in any given Pac-Sun retailer. But if you were skating in the 90s, there were few — if any — brands that […]