Here Exit gives you a first look at the forthcoming adidas collaboration collection with Italian scooter maker Vespa. Inspired by the 50s and 60s, adidas presents a sneaker and apparel collection. The stand-out piece in the collection will be the Vespa Gran Lusso sneaker, heavily influenced by the scooter brand and its history.
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Recently we’ve seen a growing amount of faux leather holdalls making their way onto the high-end market. It’s not a movement we endorse, as faux leather looks and feels terrible in comparison to the real thing. These Mulberry holdalls use heavy grain leather which beautifully ages with wear, leaving a bag that looks better the more you use it. It’s also the perfect size for airport hand luggage restrictions and thus makes a chic and stylish travel bag.
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We’re very big fans of Paul Smith at Exit and we love these trademark Miller brogues that have been available in various hues for several seasons now and Smith’s SS09 collection looks to carry on the tradition. Miller is Paul Smith Mainline leather gentlemen’s brogue with sky blue dip dyed washed uppers. They are crafted on a classic Oxford brogue pattern, on a slim fashion last. The soles are trimmed right to the edge of the upper to give a more casual look. Part of the Dip-Dye range, the uppers of these shoes have been immersed in dyes and tumbled in large wooden drums to dye the upper leather, the lining and the stitching for intense colour. These brogues feature fabric window inserts on the inside lining and painted check insoles. The soles themselves are made with Blake Rapid construction and the bases have been hand painted and hammered.
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I love this new look from Ralph Lauren for the gentleman who prefers the neutral shades of leather over the classic brown and tans. A refined gentlemen’s briefcase, crafted for durability and style in luxurious calfskin with gleaming silver accoutrements.
It is a very sturdy expandable construction with three interior compartments and a middle compartment that is ideal for laptop storage making it perfect for my daily commute into the Exit office.
Adidas have just launched their new Originals website. In line with their 60th anniversary celebration, the website now features a fascinating interactive timeline of the brand. You also get to have a first look at new product and the various adidas lookbooks of the season.
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15 years ago friends and collaborators Nigo (A Bathing Ape) and Jun Takahashi (Undercover) opened a tiny shop in Harajuku Tokyo called NOWHERE. It was Undercover’s first ever dedicated retail space. The space also had Nigo’s picks of US vintage wear. During that first year Nigo also launched A Bathing Ape in NOWHERE.
For Spring 2009 Nowhere have created a shop-in-shop at Dover Street Market. The London store, operated by Comme des Garcons, recreated the original store front of the Nowhere store.
NOWHERE is now open for a limited period of time in the Basement of DSM selling A Bathing Ape products and exclusive products made by Nigo and Jun together under the NOWHERE name.
