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This Friday morning at both The Hundreds LA and The Hundreds SF, you’ll find the release of the Jun Cha Collection. Here’s your first look at some select pieces from the special collection that’ll drop at both locations.
Enlisted as a contributor to the 1HUND(RED) project, Keith Hufnagel and Hanni El Khatib, worked with Converse designers to create the Huf version of the Converse Skidgrip, a shoe from the Converse archives that originally debuted in the 1980s. “We wanted to reference the skate and surf vibe of the 1980s and the Skidgrip was a great, authentic foundation.” Keeping the styling clean and simple Huf gave it monochromatic black canvas uppers with a repeat “H” pattern on outer and lining that subtly references vintage skate graphics and type.
As a contributor to 1HUND(RED), a percentage of the net wholesale price of the shoe will go to help fight AIDS in Africa, giving consumers an opportunity to become agents of change and offering a way to turn design into power.
The Huf for Converse 1HUND(RED) Artists Skidgrip hi shoe is available in a high-top, black canvas version. The shoe launches globally on October 3rd 2009 and will be available at both Huf locations in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Shoes will retail for $75 and will be available in sizes 3.5 - 13.
Black Scale has release their Fall 2009 Lookbook. Fresh new t-shirt designs, a varsity jacket and new fitted caps. Full look after the jump!
Benny Gold was asked to work on the Mash collaboration with Cinelli. Pictured is a new colorway for a 2010 spring release. The frame is getting debuted this week at the interbike tradeshow and is covered in custom paint and frame stickers are meant to resemble the shape of the Mash lighting bolt.
Upper Playground recently announced a collaborative project with Montana Colors to create artist series Hardcore cans by four artists. The third MTN x UP Limited Edition artist can in the series features the collaborative work of El Mac and Retna.
Each of these artists has developed his own distinctive style and technique; Retna is renowned especially for his bold calligraphic brushwork, and Mac for his uniquely stylized painting of lifelike faces and figures; El Mac uses spraypaint and Retna uses spraypaint and acrylic for paintings; oil, acrylic, enamel, pencil, and other mediums on paper, canvas, and wood.
The MTN x UP El Mac/Retna Limited Edition artist can and Alianza are available now in limited quantities and will be sold at Upper Playground retail stores and online on the Upper Playground web store.
