The Material Girl line of young women’s apparel and accessories available at Macy’s is getting a big boost from the star this Thursday, April 25 with a pop-up exhibition (lasting all of 2 hours) at Macy’s Century City location in Los Angeles, CA. According to Madonna as told to WWD, “The pop-up exhibit at Macy’s […]
AGENDA Trade Show announced today another key hire in its ever-expanding team of industry experts with the addition of WeSC and RVCA marketing veteran Jim Shubin. According to Agenda: Shubin brings more than 20 years of experience in action sports and fashion to his new role as Director of Endemic Relations for AGENDA. Working […]
Burton’s launched an interesting archival story in a two-part series that traces the 30-year history of their most iconic graphics and boards. The difficult task was wisely curated by Todd Kohlman (TK), Burton’s resident archivist who was challenged to select his top 13 boards. The results are not only cool graphics, but a unique retrospective […]
It’s always an honor to be named as the official apparel brand of a country’s Olympic team. H&M announced today, April 17, 2013, that it will be the official brand for the Swedish athletes for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Sochi 2014, and the Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro 2016. The […]
Often a leader in the marketplace of action sports and lifestyle brands, the next step of the Volcom journey includes progressive plans to incorporate an Environmental Profit and Loss (EP&L) policy with their parent company Kering. On April 8, 2013, Volcom announced yet another new feature to their brand amid the transition to a new […]
We were waiting for at least one hologram inspired by last year’s Tupac from the dead, but this year at Coachella, Weekend 1, from April 12-14, 2013, it was all about the new breed of indie-folk rockers mixed with major headliners, EDM, and of course, the latest in festival fashion. The Stone Roses, Yeah Yeah […]
A unique space created at Project MVMNT trade show last winter was a new area of curated top female designers and brands called Street Hearts. Located on a wide black platform and placed right in the middle of the streetwear section, Street Hearts captured the attention of buyers and media, but also the other menswear […]
The sad saga of surf brand Billabong looks like it’s finally coming to some sort of conclusion with its buyer’s bidding wars ending. On April 8, 2013, The Australian reported that Billabong was in talks to be acquired by Sycamore Partners and Paul Naude, who was the former President, for US$297.9 million. Sycamore Partners were […]
The Street Issue theme of Antidote magazine’s latest upcoming issue provides a unique look at how the streets of urban landscapes and the people in various environments continue to inspire art, photography and fashion these days. With the explosion of streetwear blogs, streetart Tumblr’s and any number of designer blogs, sites, and lookbooks, fashion […]
MOCAtv from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, continues to pump-out creative video vignettes featuring unique angles on topics discussed among leading-edge artists for the some time now. Their latest features Shepard Fairey as he discusses in less than 2 and a half minutes, how he was inspired by an old-school Bell Logo marketing […]