Cool Hunting
| 08 July 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Adidas Carlo Gruber
by Josh Rubin
Back in the 70s adidas had a brief, yet fruitful affair with a ski instructor named Carlo Gruber. Their love children, inspired by Austrian high fashion ski wear, were chic garments that looked hot on the slopes, in the lodge and over the runways. As love children often do, they unfortunately disappeared from the scene rather quickly.
This Fall adidas will reintroduce the line called Carlo Gruber, recreating a large portion of the original garments and augmenting with a few new items in the inspired style. By early August we'll see apparel, acessories, snow boots and of course sneakers. In two words this line is fucking fabulous! Makes me yearn for Gståad.
Among the items for a new millennium are sneakers with built in striped socks. Just when I thought I'd seen it all-- built in socks. Practicalities aside, these are lots of fun. As you'd expect, they're being made in a limited run and will only be sold in select stores.
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Shin Tanaka's Paper AF1s @ Vacant Chi
by Ami Kealoha
Opening July 25th, the Chicago branch of Vacant presents the U.S. debut of paper Air Force Ones created by graffiti artist/web designer/sneaker head/funny man Shin Tanaka.
We've teamed up with Vacant on this one to include a selection of reader designed Cool Hunting AF1s. So download this template, tweak it out and send it to us by 22 July at paperAF1 [at] coolhunting [dot] com. Our favorite designs will be made in to little paper sneakers and included in the exhibit.
BICA is beyond Brooklyn
by Ranjani Gopalarathinam
The Brooklyn Institute of Contemporary Art's branding goes, "Beyond Boundaries" and last Thursday's opening event (called "Living for the City") proved no exception to that. It was totally refreshing to see art works from all over the globe (literally) and such a diverse crowd of people chilling (sweating actually - no A/C!) and checking out young, old, emerging, and veteran painters, photographers, sculptors, and sound artists from India, Japan, Ethiopia, Spain, Mexico, and more. The work is colorful, conscious, and pleasant to ponder. Veteran curators and founders Trevor Schoonamker and Isolde Brielmaier culled the idea to open a new space for contemporary art in Brooklyn after witnessing the explosion in the creative community in the burgeoning borough. That said, many of these works are smarter and more relevant than anything I've seen in some of Manhattan's blue chip galleries for quite some time. (Not calling anyone out. Not yet.) And for the record, BICA isn't trying to compete - it doesn't have to. For more information visit the BICA web site; the opening show is up at Jack Shainman Gallery In Chelsea through August 5. BICA's projected opening date in Brooklyn is 2007.
