NYC/Milan designer Adam Kimmel’s latest footwear release is a 100% cotton canvas mid-cut sneaker in a chukka boot style. The Italian made shoes feature a canvas navy upper, light blue laces, white rubber outsole and signature Kimmel  asterisk logo on the tongue label. Pick up the premium kicks for $340.

This is one of those things you discover on the internet that absolutely blows your mind. In one way it’s an amazing coup to be able to share stories and intimate details about figures in history that have mesmerized you throughout your life, and to be able to take an illuminating peek behind the stone […]

As the world prepares for the posthumous publication of David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel The Pale King, BBC reporter and professor Geoff Ward visits Wallaces birthplace in rural Illnois and interviews a coterie of his closest friends (agent Bonnie Nadell), family (sister Amy Wallace), contemporaries (Rick Moody and former roommate Mark Costello) and professional colleagues […]

The first Missoni vs. Converse All Star Hi Tops were a smash, and the second version went with a more texturized Chuck Taylor shoe. Now two new styles of the very exclusive collaboration are being introduced for 2011, again applying Missoni’s vibrant use of colors and horizontal stripes on space-dyed knits. The limited edition shoe […]

We’ve seen rings designed to look like Gotham City and tiny neighborhoods, and now comes a ring inspired by another architectural landmark in history: the pyramid. The bold three-finger ring let’s you rock the oft-imitated Pyramids of Giza look, and incorporates a sort of cartoonish effect via the thickly lined bricks done roughly in black. […]

Los Angeles via Brooklyn via Trinidad and Tobago MC Juakali has been lacing flows over bass-influenced tracks since his debut on Pinch’s Underwater Dancehall record in 2007. In that time the globetrotting lyricist has remained innovative across dub, reggae, dubstep, dancehall, bhangra, grime, electronic and experimental genres, always keeping the anchor of bass as the […]

The New York boutique of Japanese retailer Nepenthes commissioned the Arrow Moccasin Company to craft a double sole ring moccasin exclusively for them. The boutique excels in warm weather shoes (like their Spring Plimsoles) among other things, and these moccasins are no exception. The shoes are handcrafted of one seamless piece of leather in Hudson, […]

I don’t geek out too often, but when I do it’s like July 4th, Halloween and New Years in my soul. Before I saw the disaster that was the new Clash of the Titans I freaked (the original holds a special place in my heart), the trailer for the upcoming movie Hannah has me dancing […]