French street artist Zevs created a series of dripping Louis Vuitton and Chanel logo paintings for his upcoming, must-see show at Art Statements Gallery in Hong Kong. The artist created these pieces on lacquer – the traditional chinese way – in collaboration with local craftsmen. Zevs also made a series of ceramics and paintings on metal. All these works will be presented in addition to a variety of his other signature liquidated logos. Opening Thursday, July 16th. (via Supernews)
We already showed you one Diamond Dobby Boardshort style in Quiksilver’s high end line: the Quiksilver Limited Collection, and now Quiksilver is leading the charge in boardshort innovation with a full line up of Diamond Dobby Technology infused shorts. The exclusive embossed diamond-patterned material virtually eliminates rashing and chafing, is ultra lightweight, has the perfect amount of stretch and dries twice as fast as the average boardshort. These super comfortable boardshorts are available now at Quiksilver.com.
Italian brand Camo has already impressed us at the last Bread & Butter tradeshow and this time we passed by again and really liked what we saw. The line is growing and continues to attract eyes with smart details and twists on their clothing. The Spring/Summer 2010 Collection consists of nice knitwear pieces, shorts, ties, pants, t-shirts and more. We definitely see the brand next to Wood Wood, Vibskov and such and hope to see them in more stores soon. The collection is made in Italy and thus high in quality.
Emerica gets together with artist and skateboarder Pontus ALV to collaborate on a sneaker. The sneakers comes in light grey colorway and features turquoise accents and lining. Pontus ALV is known to pay tribute to his father, who has already passed away. Thus the sneaker feature a picture of his father on the inner sole. The Emerica Tope Pontus ALV is now available at ripe.
Here it finally is. We have heard about this for a while and now we can finally show you pictures of the Takashi Murakami x Pharrell Williams x Jacob sculpture, which was made for the Art Basel fair this year. Murakami created a sculpture and Jacob the jeweler re-created some of Pharrell’s products of choice in premium metals and diamonds. The blinged out objects, including a Pepsi can, Ice Cream Sneakers, Cupcake, Doritos and a condom, have been placed in the mouth of the Takashi Murakami sculpture.
After already giving you some previews of the upcoming Nike SB Stefan Janoski sneakers from the launch event that took place in Los Angeles, we can show you today some more detailed images of the upcoming colorways of the shoe for Fall/Winter 2009.
The fusion of art and fashion. Here are brand new limited edition timepieces by Billy the Artist for the Swatch CreArt Collection launching today. Originated in 1986 with pieces designed by famed artist Keith Haring, this collection introduces a mainstream audience to the world of abstract creativity by giving consumers the opportunity to purchase “wearable” art. The watches can be purchased here
By now, most of you have seen the line-up of sneakers created by Kanye West for Louis Vuitton. Opinions vary on the outcome of the collection. We've always compared the line to what Louis Vuitton has done in the past with sneakers, and think the Kanye West collection beats those efforts by leaps and bounds. Just like in the regular sneaker game, some people like it more colorful, others like it more subtle, and this line-up offers something for both tastes. Personally, we prefer the tonal high tops. We also had the chance to field test them and can tell you that quality and fabrication are very much on point, as to be expected from Louis Vuitton.Having worked recently with Nike on the Air Yeezy, the LV collection is the second major sneaker project by Kanye West. Take a step back and think about what is happening here - we see collaborations all the time with boutiques, brands, artists and other creative fields. How many times can the colors and the materials on the same shoe silhouette be changed and still look new and different from the hundreds of releases we see every year? Kanye West got to design his very own silhouettes in both cases, probably the most impressive part about these projects.With the Kanye West x Louis Vuitton sneakers releasing worldwide in the coming weeks, we wanted to do something out of the ordinary with the footwear Louis Vuitton gladly lent us for this special shoot. We teamed up with German photographer Daniela Muller-Brunke to shine some new light onto the Kanye West x Louis Vuitton collection. To give you some background on the shoot, we used the iconic LV symbols and projected them in different colors onto the background of the sneaker, with the outcome being a psychedelic mix of fading colors. Hopefully you like it.
