From left to right: Daniel and Harry – all apparel and footwear by Nike; Cosmo – all apparel and footwear by Adidas; John wears Nike; Gabriel, Billy and Twiggy wear Adidas.
We got a bunch of good-looking boys, dressed half in Adidas and half in Nike and got them to play football against each other for a fashion shoot. They were pretty good for fashion people.
Like loads of other good fashion designers, 25-year-old American Ryan Noon went to London’s Central Saint Martins. He’s also put some designs together for Nike and art tranny dad Grayson Perry. Ryan also says he didn’t do very much in 2008 because he entered a “black hole”. What freelancer hasn’t? Read more »
Nike Sporstwear, Nike’s high-end clothing line, has got London’s Cassette Playa and Dutch art guy Parra to do a rivals collection. Some of it is already out, and the remainder goes on sale at the end of the month. Cassette Playa’s varsity jackets, tees and technical apparel totally defeat Parra’s stuff. But he probably doesn’t mind that, because he’s come over all liberal and Dutch, and in a touchingly, old-fashioned way, has dedicated his stuff to the sports teams that lose (which is hardly the Nike philosophy). Read more »
Finally someone’s fucking an Asian dude. Maybe now we’ll have one less Virginia Tech meltdown.
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Not to get all history's mysteries today, but did you know the Soviet Army commissioned their own Sid in the late 70s? Unfortunately nobody thought to convert the heroin from English- to Russian-junkie measures and the project went bankrupt in less than a month.
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