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Releasing Thursday, acclaimed tattoo artist Mister Cartoon has joined forces with Born X Raised to create an exclusive capsule collection. An artist with a storied history, Cartoon first began airbrushing T-shirts and lowrider cars before adopting the “Fineline” tattoo art style that helped shoot him into fame. With stars such as Dr. Dre, Beyoncé, and 50 cent donning his work on their skin, he’s gained a worldwide following from his tattooing endeavors along with his work in other media as well.
Hailing from Los Angeles, Cartoon is the perfect match for Born X Raised, a label founded on the fundamental aspects that give LA its unique energy. A longtime friend of the founders, this familial collaboration has long been awaited, making it all the more exciting that it’s now happening.
Including items such as E-Z UP tents, custom candy painted coolers, picnic blankets, and BBQ aprons, the collection provides everything you’d need for a tailgate. The collection releases Thursday, July 28th at 12 noon PST on bornxraised.com.
Yesterday, the elusive, edgy, and elegant brainchild of Ye and Gap brand that is Yeezy Gap became available for the first time in a physical store.
To purchase the collection, and shop for a selection of Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga styles, head to the Gap Times Square Flagship.
Staying on-brand, the Gap TSQ Flagship store has been broken down and built back up for the event, emanating beautiful and austere aesthetics inspired by the Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga ethos and vision that focuses on “utilitarian design”.
Additionally, enhancing this anything-but-traditional brick-and-mortar experience, the store has installed a life-size version of the Yeezy Gap video game released yesterday — also available on the brand site.
This a large scale experience, and we’ve been waiting for it. Will we see you there?
Find the official announcement video on Yeezy's debut Instagram account, and take look inside the store, below.
This is KAWAIINO, the brainchild of Jess Cuevas and Sakura Bready, an amalgamation of inspiration and style pulled from their respective cultures.
The office-exclusive editorial beautifully articulates what it means to write a love letter to one's experience, culture, and community — drawing on Latinx and Japanese Kawaii culture and style, paying homage by using plushies to accessorize looks made up of designer Willy Chavarria's impeccable work. Shot by Anthony Treviño in The City of Angels, this special takes the idea of a "melting pot" and offers us a picture of the many wear-able mediums that phrase can be applied to.
Now, we are honored to invite you to go on an exclusive journey with us, through the inclusive world of KAWAIINO.
For more from the shoot, check out the KAWAIINO film below.
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The specific brand of all-out creative energy seeping out of Hebru Brantley is difficult to put into one box, so I'm not even going to try. It's not like I have to, anyway — take one look at his new Adidas capsule (or, better yet, wear a pair on your feet), and you'll get an adequate sense of what I mean. These days, though, Brantley isn't super far removed from the full-throttle ethos surfaced by his kicks. As it turns out, he's just as unfittable into one box as the looks he's serving your soles with: on top of the Adidas collection, he's got a debut monograph release to look forward to, and an upcoming art exhibition here in New York City. Below, Brantley links with office to talk fashion, creativity, and the road ahead.
You have a ton of creative energy. What made you want to channel it into sneakers?
Sneakers are a passion of mine - I have always loved sneakers. I grew up in the Jordan era in Chicago, to me that was the birthplace of the hypebeast movement and of sneaker and basketball culture. Anytime I can enter that space and add a bit of creativity to the conversation, it is something that I look forward to.
You're known for taking an afrofuturist approach to art. Is that a knack you always had, or something that grew as you did more creative work?
It’s a knack I’ve always had, but the only thing that grew is a better understanding of what Afrofuturism is and how that defines my work.
You're gearing up for your first monograph release — how does that feel?
It feels amazing and like it was a long time coming. I’ve always been a fan of books, coffee table art, and different literature, so to be able to have my own feels great. It will also allow people to get a deeper look into my creative process over the years, and access to works that they’re unfamiliar with, so it’s really exciting.
Can you tell me about your upcoming exhibition? How are you preparing for the show, and what do you want consumers to get out of it?
The exhibition in New York [in September 2022] is very unique to me in the way that it doesn’t lean on familiar imagery. I’m exploring a very new space, but a very familiar conversation when it comes to my work. The show is an exploration into the conversation around what survival means and the perception of the black body. So, again, I’m straying away from my conventional aesthetics which is exciting on one hand because it feels new, but a bit frightening on the other hand, also because it’s so new. I never have a preconceived idea of what I want people to take away from my work. That is a very personal conversation between the work and the consumer.
What do you want people to feel when they put on a shoe from your new collection?
That they’re fresh, you know? That joy of rocking a new pair of sneakers, that feeling of putting together an outfit - t-shirt, pair of pants, and a fresh pair of sneakers. First day of school vibes - one of the great small joys of life is cracking a new box open of a pair of kicks!
More shows, more art, more creative, more more more. Stay tuned.
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