It’s Noel Gallagher, promoting his Adidas collaboration. He seems quite excited about it.
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Caught outside Heidi Klum’s Halloween bash at Lavo, Russell Simmons costume doesn’t look that different from something he might wear on the street (give or take a few decades) but style is style. If you’re an old-school hip-hop legend, Adidas and chains are always going to look pretty good on you. And we’d guess he didn’t have to do too much digging to find the right ones.
As for a blow-by-blow of each item…we’d start here.
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This is the latest installment of The World Cup According to Kempt™, our series on the stuff that really matters at this summer’s tournament in South Africa (kicks off June 11).
A couple of months ago, we got our hands (and our feet) on the official 2010 World Cup ball from Adidas, the Jabulani (it means “to celebrate” in Zulu). Playing with it in a modest 5v5 scrimmage, the ball felt surprisingly cheap and plastic-y. It slipped off our feet. In short, we thought it sucked. We couldn’t believe it was the ball they were going to be using in the World Cup. As it turns out, we weren’t the only ones with this opinion.
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Adidas’ Rod Laver has seen a lot of different variations over the year, but the latest version is enough to catch our eye. It seems like furriness is having quite a renaissance in the sneaker world. If you count these Vans, that makes for just one shy of a trend. We’re guessing Spike Jonze has something to do with it…
Frivolous Kitchen Shot of the Year: We boldly defy the internet’s Megan Fox boycott. [Just Jared]
Building Bridges: Finally, this silly war between Adidas and Puma comes to a close. Hopefully someone gets a Nobel Peace Prize out of this. [Neatorama]
Dropping Math: A gentleman scientist’s guide to stocking the bar. [Lifehacker]
Just Watch It: Nike enlists David Fincher for one of the most amazing 90 seconds of video we’ve ever seen. Can we nominate Guillermo del Toro for the next UnderArmor spot? [Thompson on Hollywood]
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Porter’s bags have been a favorite of workwear aficionados for a while, but their first sneaker collab just landed in stores as part of Adidas’ F/W ’09 shipment, and it’s got a lot of the same panache that makes their duffels worth picking up. The stitching looks familiar, and so do the Samba-esque stripes, but the master stroke is the zipper that runs up from the heel. Maybe they lost their shoehorn?
Street art has always been a bit too politically prickly to fit in with the web 2.0 crowd…but that’s no reason to stop trying. After all, populism is populism, and if street artists managed to make nice with auction houses, who’s to say they can’t fit a few iPhones into their repertoire?
Adidas’s new Urban Art Guide (via NotCot) is one of the first tries, and it handles it as well as could be hoped…at least, if you live in Berlin.
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Quiksilver isn’t the only line with a forward-thinking label coming along for the ride. Adidas has managed to pull the same move without going to the bother of actually producing any shoes, or even designing shoes could possibly be produced. After all, why go to the trouble of putting together samples when all you really need are a few shiny pictures to send around the blogosphere?
Vagant let us know about this promotion, which comes courtesy of German sneakerhead Fritz Träumer. There’s the ultra-green sneaker, the Kraftwerk-inspired sneaker, and a few more, but we couldn’t help wondering…weren’t you supposed to put these on your feet at some point?
Duty Free: Paul Smith takes off at
unlike some.
[Vogue
UK]
Rabbit, Run: Furry chic makes its unsettling debut at Tokyo Fashion Week. [Boing Boing]
“Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red”: Nike goes
all Neo-plasticist
on us with the Piet Mondrian Dunk Lows. [
Goose Steps: The Cut hashes out this whole
thing. [NYMag]
Repeat Performance: Daniel Craig, star of *Lara
Croft: Tomb Raider* and
other stuff, wins GQ‘s best-dressed award for the second
year straight. [
UK]
Signing Out: Portfolio‘s fashion blogger
Lauren Goldstein Crowe waves a “Peace the Fork Out” to the rest of the
linkable world. [Portfolio]
Pig-malion: The classiest classy guy in the world of
high class wants to play Henry Higgins to Ashley “The Governator”
DuprĂ©’s Eliza Doolittle, though we suspect she’s already had her
elocution lessons if you know what we mean. No? Us either. [
Big Top: David Coleman snuggles up to our favorite
dandy fabulist and his long, thick hat. [
American ApparelShe Was a Young American: Come for the impassioned
defense of American Apparel mastermind Dov Charney. Stay for the
sexpolitative photography. [
Fancy a Game of Footy?: Solid unisex, yes unisex,
kicks from Jonathan Saunders and Goa. [
Report]
Francophila: French women – now more sexual than
ever. C’est Magnifique! [
Changing Seasons: In Spring, a young man’s fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of seersucker. [
Suitable Wardrobe]
Our Girl Friday: It’s been a long workweek. Don’t you
think you deserve two minutes of Rachel Bilson being impossibly cute?
[Nylon]
Sex Change: The TMagazine site has switched
over from women’s fashions and a shot of Natalie Portman to a George
Clooney pic and menswear stores, which is pretty much an even trade.
[The Moment]
Unintelligent Design: A sartorial history of the
cinematic caveman. [
Caught Red Handed:
Colin Farrell tried to steal someone else’s model girlfriend because,
hey, why not? [
Courtly Love: Our favorite low-tops ever go back to
their roots. [
Nau
Green Man: Nau co-founder Ian Yolles explains
fashionable sustainability. [PSFK]
Not So Horny: “Vivid colors, flowing silk ribbons,
and glittering bits of mirrors.” And you thought Vikings looked like
this, silly goose. [Eurekaltert]
Incoming!: Suface2Air’s Spring/Summer 08 available
now. [Word is Bomb]
The Boom Bip: The perfect footwear for the Ed Lover
Dance. [Hypebeast]
The Barn Jacket: Seems we’re not the only ones with a
fetish for waxed cotton. [A Suitable Wardrobe]
Def Junk: Russell Simmons officially launches his
already launched hip-hop-on-the-back-nine fashion brand. It will suck.
[Celebrity Brands]
How To Pronounce Comme des Garçons: Don’t blow this
one. [Robby Wells]
International Champion: According to the Nielsen
company Gucci is the most desired fashion line in the world. Tom Ford
commemorates the success of his former employer by rolling over in his
sable-covered bed and snoring. [Bloomberg]
High Kicks: Adidas has their Yohji Yamamoto. Now Puma
has their Hussein Chalayan. [Fashion Week Daily]
Hang The DJ: Dear Elle UK, hitting “play” on iTunes
does not count as “branching out.” [ElleUK]
The ink flies again as even more brands and designers become new pals. As you were metabolizing turkey, Italian denim domo Diesel shook hands with Germany’s Adidas, American institution Levi’s partnered with Nike’s Jordan line and H+M survivors Viktor + Rolf teamed up with luggage maker Samsonite. According to our calculations, this latest round of cross-market collaborations means we’ll only have to wait a year or so before there’s a Marc Jacobs section in every Uniqlo, a Starbucks in every Herm‚à ö¬Æs and a Crazy Robertson in every Foot Locker.
