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Double Hard is a Hip Hop brand that was founded and created in 2002 by Japanese producer DJ HAZIME. The brand has grown and gained immense recognition not only in the Japanese market but globally. It’s influence in music and fashion has ended up with the realization of cross-genre collaboration, like you see above. Now available @ Cap Collector. (via neweracaptalk.com)

After the dust has settled from Manny’s fight, HAT CLUB showcases some new colorways in their Filipino Flag 59Fifty hats. Recently a few styles have hit the stores and website, one being a two tone Black and Maroon cap. The other version is a two tone Black and Teal number. More color ways and styles continuing to drop, so keep checking HatClub.com for more original designs.(via strictlyfitteds.com)

Friday, May 15th HALL OF FAME will be dropping their new Triple H Band New Era 59Fifty fitted caps. Available in two color ways, this style had a vintage look with the band taping on the crown and the vintage Hall Of Fame signature on the back. Look for these in-store and online at www.halloffameltd.com

HALL OF FAME LTD.
449 N. Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 655-6002

Converse x UNDFTD 'Poorman's Weapon', which will be released May 16th as part of Undefeated's 'War Is Business' campaign. It's extremely limited. Details include an upper decked out in flight jacket nylon, property tags, removable logo patches and a fresh orange lining. The black version sold out in minutes, so the chances of grabbing the olive version are going to be harder than an Amy Winehouse rehab stint.( via snekerfreaker.com)

Possibly the most idiosyncratic indie brand to hit the sneaker scene in a long minute is Gourmet. Founded by Grey Lucci, Greg Johnson and Jon Buscemi (with a combined history working at adidas, Zoo York, Supreme, Stussy, Oliver Peoples, DC Shoes and SNAFU between them), Gourmet shoes are an inspired take on ye olde classics with unexpected design twists added for extra bite.

Gourmet footwear epitomizes duality and ingenuity by referencing iconic American causal shapes and remixing them in high-end fabrications. It combines technical and athletic elements like air technology and memory foam insoles that mingle with quality leather from a French tannery, hand-woven custom canvases, crinkled high gloss-patent and pig skin leather, or even pony feather. The excellent materials create the sleek identity classic products, which is absolutely more than a pair of footwear to people.

This Gourmet collection recently dropped at the Juice store and come courtesy of our mates at Clot.

JUICE STORE
2F A, 53 Patterson Street,
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.    
Tel: 28810173

NBA Star Lebron James and Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger "Get It On" in this funny commercial for Nike.

Celebrating five years in the game, Houston’s H-Town Summit is gearing up for a massive sizzling summer banger. With some of the most rare and finest sneaker collections on display, the bi-annual event hosts not only a swap meet but also celebrity performances, free giveaways and your chance to mingle with the strong Houston sneaker community. It all goes down 2nd August 2009 with further details in the flyer above. Hit up their website for more info.

Infamous artist Dave White has joined forces with Kid Robot to create the Sgt Robot. Inspired by his love of toy soldiers and making models as a child, these troops will emerge in stores early June.

For this year's Sneakerness event in Zürich, Nike invited the two Swiss artists and designers Grotesk and +41 to create an exclusive and unique pair of sneakers with NikeiD Bespoke. Two iconic shoes served as inspiration for the design - the Air Jordan 3 and the Air Jordan Sky High. The result, the NikeiD Bespoke designed by +41 and Grotesk, will be on display the first time ever during the Sneakerness on May 9th 2009 in Zürich.

The Story
Grotesk and +41 are both Swiss, living and working in two different countries. +41 is based in Lausanne, Switzerland and Grotesk in Brooklyn, USA. Independently they came up with the idea to refer to a vintage Air Jordan design, +41 to the Air Jordan Sky High and Grotesk to the Air Jordan 3. It’s the first time ever they work together. As they could not meet in person, both Philippe from +41 in Switzerland and Grotesk at the NikeiD Studio on 21 Mercer in New York City, collaborated online and created this Nike iD Bespoke sneaker.

The Sneaker
With tons of possibilities when creating a Nike iD Bespoke they decided to take an honest and simple design approach. This in many ways is sympathetic of the existing design elements: One example is the 3 red laces rings referring to those of the AJ3. The shoe itself is well balanced just right with a choice of colors that are very subtle. Both designers felt strongly that they wanted to design a shoe more classical, more elegant and referential to what they would really like to wear, going deep into the design detail using simplicity without using and abusing the many colors and materials that are available.

About +41
+41 and the graphic design agency //DIY have been both set up by three graduate students from the “écal” (école cantonale d'art de Lausanne) - Philippe Cuendet, Laurence Jaccottet and Ivan Liechti. +41 is //DIY’s fashion brand which was set up in 2001, its name is a reference to the international dialling code of Switzerland, in an attempt to establish a solid Swiss identity. The brand explores new ways to combine easily wearable clothes and printed and embroidered visuals derived from their graphic worlds. Since 2001, their clothes are distributed in selected shops around the world. Always on the lookout for new ideas, the Swiss studio is working on what we call “the graphic design in the expanded field”, their qualifications englobe: graphic design, art direction, photography, illustration, music, fashion design, chocolate and video. +41&//DIY had the opportunity to work for and in collaboration with numerous prestigious brands or designers such as: Nike, Apple, Colette, Etnies +, Fairtilizer, Channel 4, Flammarion, Playstation, Red Bull, Yale University Art Gallery, Centre Culturel Suisse de Paris, GAS, Domestic, Big Game, Reine&Roi, Delvaux, SO_ME, Resfest.

About Grotesk
Grotesk is a Swiss graphic artist living in Brooklyn. In the last decade he has developed a passion for folk Art, street photography, hand painted signs, vintage sport graphics, old school hip hop and urban anthropolog. His Client list includes: Nike, Also Known As, Staple, Alife, 5 Boro, Hellz Bellz, Irak NY, Stussy, Sixpack, Goliath Harlem, 2k, Uniqlo, Fifty24SF, Carhartt Europe, Zoo York, and many more.

About NikeiD Bespoke
NikeiD Bespoke is a new and innovative by appointment design experience offering consumers the opportunity to work one-on-one with Nike design consultants to customize select Nike footwear styles. Globally exclusive to 21 Mercer, Nike Sportswear’s first stand-alone retail space located in SoHo, New York, it is the natural evolution of Nike’s personalization and customization offering, first brought to consumers with NikeiD.com in 1999.
NikeiD Bespoke takes individual design to new heights with an unparalleled, creative individual design experience. It provides consumers with the greatest design freedom ever offered by NikeiD. Launching with the iconic Air Force 1 sneaker, consumers will be able to create a unique design by customizing up to 31 parts of the shoe, including the base, overlay, accent, lining, stitching, outsole, laces and deubré. Consumers will also be able to choose from 82 premium, iconic materials and colour options.
The Air Force 1 material options were meticulously selected to represent Nike’s heritage and innovation through the perspective of Nike Sportswear. Exclusive options include iconic Nike material prints Elephant and Safari – a design first used in 1987 by Tinker Hatfield who utilized two naturally occurring patterns on his Nike Air Safari running shoe and Nike Air Assault basketball shoe. Additional premium options include premium full grain suede, nubuck and leathers, Italian full grain patent leather, premium denim and reflective synthetic leathers. (via sneakerfreaker.com)

Check out the new Jordan Fusions coming out September.

We’ve come to find out that the early pictures of the Air Jordan 4 (IV) Fusion - Bred Colorway were actually samples. Here we feature new pictures of the final product. They sport a 100% black nubuck upper along with fire red and grey accents. One of the biggest differences between this pair and the samples is the sole, which sports a translucent midsole and a red/grey outsole as opposed to being wrapped in leather as on the sample. They are slated to hit retailers in mid-September, but can be purchased now at Marquee Sole for $179.

Via KicksOnFire.com

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