The Safari print has been given a silver finish for that extra stand out effect which pairs nicely with the pop of orange used on the outsole. This colorway is available now at select stockists including Renarts.
Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Eminem sat down with BBC Radio 1′s Zane Lowe to discuss everything involved in his latest work, The Marshall Mather LP 2. Beginning with a brief joke about peeing on the studio floor in an effort to upstage Kanye West’s interview, Slim Shady dives into the creative process of “Bad Guy,” working with Rick Rubin and much more. Enjoy the first part of the interview above and stay tuned for the rest.
Nothing quite compares to the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Photos taken by Daniel Goodman, highlighting Airows favorites like Karlie Kloss and Candice Swanepoel.
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Carrying a wallet sucks. No question. It’s big, bulky and full of bank, credit and debit cards and a swathe of stupid loyalty cards from that coffee place you’ll never go back to. The dream is to have everything in one simple card. Meet Coin: the smart bank card that keeps all your cards in one.
Coin is a regular-sized debit card that lets you store multiple cards at once. Everything from your business credit card through to your personal debit card can be logged on the Coin.
To get cards into the device, you simply plug a swipe-card reader into your iPhone or other iOS device (no word if it works with Android yet), give the card a description and the app transfers the data to the Coin via Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy.
The Coin then has all your cards programmed into it, and you simply press a little button on the digital card itself to switch between accounts. One assumes that when you select a card, it can reprogram the magnetic stripe at the top of the card to represent the data you scanned into your iPhone.
It also has a zone alarm, which means that if you put your card down or have it stolen and it gets too far away from you, your iPhone pushes you a notification saying it has gone out of range.
The only two issues I can really envisage with this right now is the fact that it relies on magnetic stripe technology, not chip-card or contactless payment tech which is often safer. The other issue is that you probably won’t be able to stick this into your ATM and pull cash out.
Other than that, it looks incredible, and I want one.
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Liam shreds faster than most, and his ability to do it with style is a testament to his skill on a board. There’s no better way to showcase his style and skill than with a raw run. No cutting. No camera magic. Just pure skateboarding. This might just be the rawest of all raw runs.
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A Murakami piece is instantly recognizable—brightly colored, high gloss, childlike, futuristic. As a young man, Murakami was obsessed with anime and manga, and those qualities infuse his work today. Having achieved cult status in his native Japan, he was tapped in 2002 by Marc Jacobs to design a line of handbags for Louis Vuitton. It remains the most successful fashion-art collaboration in history. In 2007, a retrospective, titled “© Murakami,” opened at L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and in 2010 he became only the third contemporary artist to have a solo exhibition at the Château de Versailles. His cultural currency is global and inclusive, encouraging young artists through his art fair, Geisai, as well as children and their imagination in his new feature film, Jellyfish Eyes. Murakami may call his style “superflat,” referring both to his technique and to postwar Japanese culture, but in the art world he’s a superhero.
Laura Brown: When did you know you’d become not just “big in Japan” but a huge voice in the cultural world?
Takashi Murakami: I actually feel like the phrase “big in Japan” is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan. In Japan I am famous in certain special circles—mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art. Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I’m more of an influential minority symbol.
LB: How do you use that voice now?
TM: In Japan I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking. And what is that way of thinking? Something that, in the West, is generally considered a given—that to create art, we must study history and from that context try to envision the future. In Japan the majority way of thinking is that art is, and should be experienced as is, and that any preconceived ideas will only get in the way.
LB: What inspired you to make Jellyfish Eyes? Why a “monster” movie?
TM: The inspiration was a manga called GeGeGe no Kitaro. When I was six it was the first manga I ever had my parents buy for me, and that experience accidentally formed the basis for the rest of my life. It was a completely chance encounter, so there’s nothing I can do to escape it.
LB: Who is your favorite creature, and why? If you were one of your creatures, which one would you be?
TM: That would be Oval—a pitiful creature who has no desire to be born into this world but is summoned anyway by scientists. In his surprise he reacts violently and is cast as a pariah, eventually being led back to the netherworld. Basically he is my self-portrait. Though I wouldn’t want to become him, this self-portrait, Oval, is my ultimate F.R.I.E.N.D.
LB: Jellyfish Eyes deals with how the younger generation communicates. How do you capture that?
TM: In fact, the children in the story are imbued with my own childhood memories. So in a sense I’ve set the landscape of the children of the ’60s within the everyday life of the present day.
LB: Considering all your accomplishments in 2-D (and you’ve called your style “superflat”), what inspired you to make a live-action film?
TM: In the past I was unable to create a narrative, so I’d given up becoming a filmmaker. But since then I’ve been a radio personality and given speeches, which means I’ve had a lot of opportunities to speak in front of others. In other words, the act of speaking has been a natural practice in the act of crafting a story; the tales I want to tell now come to me. However, I am still lacking in the grammar necessary to tell stories in a cinematic format— I hope to in the future.
LB: How was the experience of directing a film versus your usual artistic method? Which do you prefer?
TM: The breadth of collaboration required was a bit too much for me at first, but I had a supportive group of producers, and as we devoted time to clearing each point one by one, I grew to enjoy it. The world of film as a collective artwork expanded for me, and the production itself became its own drama, packed with emotions. I had so much fun, I could hardly contain myself.
LB: Would you ever want to make a film that was more rooted in reality?
TM: I have this idea for a sweet comedy about death. A middle-aged author of e-books, with middling sales, retreats deep into the mountains of Japan to build a grave for his recently deceased father. After getting scammed out of all of his money, he falls into despair, but for some unknown reason he is visited by a savior in the form of a middle-aged woman. And then his divorced wife from 10 years ago appears unexplainably too. Then this young woman with whom he spent a single night in a club many years ago is being treated for an incurable disease in the mountainside sanatorium, and she comes to him for emotional support. I’d love to do that story.
LB: One of your most famous collaborations was with Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton. Now that he has left the house, would you like to collaborate with him again?
TM: The credit for the success of the Louis Vuitton Multicolore project belongs to Marc Jacobs. He was the creative director, and I followed his direction. A single lifetime is not enough to express the gratitude I have to him for making it into a collaboration with such impact. If Marc were to ever call on me again, I would rally to the task in an instant.
LB: Is there another designer you would be interested in working with?
TM: Well, it’s not really a designer, but for the past 10 years, over 95 percent of the shoes I have worn have been Vans sneakers. So I’d like to try a collaboration with Vans sometime. Who knows?
LB: What’s your order at In-N-Out?
TM: Cheeseburger and fries. The problem whenever I come to America is that the hamburgers are so delicious, I end up eating one every two days and fattening myself into a round ball.
LB: What are your favorite and least favorite things about American culture?
TM: What I like about America is that when you strive to have the world’s best, you are surrounded by a mentality that gives you the best preparation for getting it, and it is possible to achieve the world’s highest standard in creative expression. And when you do reach the world’s highest standard in creative expression, people here will give you your proper due. I also like the fact that it is the most advanced nation in terms of its space program. What I don’t like is that America’s reality is built upon the theory that it must always be at war.
LB: What’s next? Can you give us any clues on your next project?
TM: Jellyfish Eyes … Part 2! I also feel like it’s about time I stirred things up in New York again, something I haven’t done in a while.
LB: What’s your fantasy project?
TM: Some form of a collaboration with J.J. Abrams.
UK retailer size? gets another world exclusive from Nike. The iconic Nike Huarache LE comes in a refreshing black/laser orange/fuchsia colorway. The neoprene-infused ’90s runner features a nice balance of solid and eye-popping colors on the upper, making it the perfect fall companion. The sneaker will be available in limited numbers as of November 15 from size?
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Legendary architect Zaha Hadid continues to roll out designs during an already prolific year, with the designer now unveiling her work for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Just one of a potential nine stadiums to be constructed in the country, this particular stadium is set for construction in Al Wakrah – the southernmost city hosting the soccer tournament. The facade of the stadium take cues from a dhow, a type of fishing boat frequently found in Al Wakrah’s harbors. The shape also takes Qatar’s blazing, arid climate into consideration, incorporating a curved roof with a mechanical air conditioning system to keep spectators and players cool. Construction for the stadiums is expected to begin as early as next year.
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The owner of the world’s largest collection of Nikes is Jordan Michael Geller.
Geller said it’s a coincidence his name is so close to the legendary Chicago Bulls player and the namesake of his favorite shoes.
He picked up his interest in Nikes from a father who ran marathons and had to buy every new pair of Nike Air Jordans the moment they arrived in stores. Jordan Geller adopted his father’s love for the shoes, too — so much so that he created a museum dedicated to them.
The ShoeZeum, Geller’s collection of 2,500 never-worn Nikes, opened Thursday in downtown Las Vegas. Ironically, the museum dedicated to athletic shoes sits in Neonopolis behind a fast-food restaurant named the Heart Attack Grill.
A sports memorabilia store also is planned for the center.
“I think this is a great place, especially across from the Toy Shack, which is all about rediscovering your childhood,” Jordan Geller said.
As a child, Jordan Geller accompanied his father to the shoe store.
“He would tell me all about the shoes,” Jordan Geller said.
Jordan Geller went to law school but never lost his passion for Nikes. He bought and sold them on Ebay, then used his profits to round out his collection. He said he has paid up to $7,100 for a single pair.
When Jordan Geller passed the bar and became an attorney in California, his bar number sealed his fate. It was 234523.
“Those were the three numbers Michael Jordan wore in his career,” he said. “It was almost like fate, a sign I needed to do this.”
Nike’s slogan is “Just Do It.” So Geller did.
The first ShoeZeum opened in San Diego last year.
“I thought it needed to be in Las Vegas, a place that had so many attractions,” he said. “I thought this would be a good place for more people to be able to see it.”
The ShoeZeum’s Facebook page has more than 7,800 followers. Although not affiliated with Nike, company executives have visited the display, Jordan Geller said, as has Ebay founder Meg Whitman.
The ShoeZeum is open from 4 p.m. to midnight daily. Admission costs $10 and buys visitors a peek at 23 shoe exhibits with themes such as music, movies and the Olympics. There are Nikes designed in honor of the 1980s Michael J. Fox movie “Teen Wolf” and Guinness Beer Nikes. Jordan Geller built the display cases for the 7,500-square-foot space.
His shoe collection is the largest in the world, certified by the Guinness Book of World Records.
As for Geller’s favorite pair, they are the only ones that have been worn — a game pair from Michael Jordan.
