BLENDS and Oakley are throwing an event together called ‘Retrospectacle’ which will be going down on July 10th from 7 to 10 P.M. at BLENDS in Los Angeles.
Oakley will be displaying a bunch of new pieces from a new lineup of a newly developed artist series program. But the main event of the night will come when they present a very unique Oakley Frogskins limited edition piece (pictured above) which was designed by the crew at BLENDS. The colorway was inspired by the original gradient coloring on the Oakley iridium lens. Only 20 of these babies will be born so if you get one, go sell it on ebay in a year or so and I am sure you will come up with some nice cash.
Nike just released the new P Rod 2 which comes in black/lava/white. Paul Rodriguez must be pretty stoked on life right now because these are some ill looking kicks. Oh wait, P Rod is stoked on life because he pulls all kinds of chicks and has deep pockets. Well regardless, thanks for the shoes. These are already popping up in shops all over.
Altamont, the skate clothing brand created by Andrew Reynolds, Mark Foster, and Patrick O’Dell, is introducing a nice collection of artist collabo t-shirts. They hooked up with some dope artists to knock these shirts out, including Neckface, Ricky Powell, Alyasha Owerka-Moore, J.Lorenzi, French and FOS.
2008 is the year of the collabo and Altamont is taking advantage. For more info on these Tees go to altamontapparel.com
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Lil’ Wayne, closed the BET awards show a few nights ago in Kr3w TK Craze Jacket and the Chad Muska Skytop’s. Action sports and rapstars are slowly starting to mesh like a ham sandwich. First Lil’ Jon and now Lil’ Wayne? Who is next, Lil’ Scrappy?
Oakley, New Era and Almost Skateboards are partnering up to launch a collection of products dedicated to Greg Lutzka. How rad is that? The press release states that it’s called the “Good Livin’” collection and all three companies used the same colorways and design inspiration for the project.
What stands out to me are the limited edition Oakley Frogskins shades that are white frames with purple lenses. Man are these things going to fly off the shelves! If anyone from Oakley is reading this, please send us some love. You can view these new Frogskins in detail after the jump.
I know we are a bit late on this but it’s still a worthy post. Alkaline Trio and Nike have collabo’d to bring you a very unique kick. The shoe is called the Heart and Sole Air Zoom Cush and will be produced with a limited run of messenger bags to be released on June 27th.
Nike is still continuing to dominate the market despite all the haters out there that don’t feel like Nike should be involved in the action sports industry. They are doing some pretty rad things and as far as I am concerned, progressing more than any other company in the industry right now.
Burton just released a line of headphones, dubbed the ear nuggets, ear goggles, and Yo Muffs which are strangely reminiscent of Skullcandy designs. Of course they are priced well below the Skullcandy prices even though their driver sizes are up there with Skullcandy’s. They come in a variety of colors and can be found at store.burton.com or at any Burton Flagship store
New York City based streetwear line whose motto is: forget everyone and listen to yourself just released their Summer 08 lookbook. They’ve named the collection the Black Palms collection and the theme is ‘Party while you’re still living.’ The flipbook style lookbook showcases a couple dozen new styles in a Jersey-set party…not the typical line sheet you get from most clothing companies. You can check out the new styles at www.10deep.com/SUMMER08PREVIEW
Kr3w and Supra are expanding outside of the skateboarding market and tapping into the fashion industry with their brand new NS lines which stands for ‘Non Skate’. The NS lines will feature more sophistication and fashion-centric goods, as well as less logo placement.
I think this is a good move for Kr3w as it allows them to target all the really steezy kids that don’t skate but are super into fashion. You will continue to see more and more brands doing this sort of thing as it means more coins in the piggy bank.
The word is, this line is going to drop sometime in september. You can catch a few sneak peaks at the product below:
Spy has been churning out some exciting color schemes for their Richelle womens’ sunglass series. Sure to stand out, they offer just the right combo of ‘here I am’ meets little old lady. I personally am waiting for my pair of lasered green w/ yellow to arrive in the mail.
These are my 3 personal faves, but of course, they supply the typical black and tortoise shell for the more subtle fashionistas… but even those have a bit of twist.
