Okay here we go again. For those of you who slept on jackets last year and came to us this year saying “can you please tell us when the best time to get Canada Goose would be for next year?”

Guess what?
Ding!!

The bell has rung and the time is NOW!!

Welcome to the start of another great season with Canada Goose.

FYI: We offer full risk and obligation free consultations. We will sit-down, consult and find you the perfect Canada Goose jacket that will suit your needs.

It’s what we do!

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Came across this in today’s Toronto Star. Huge props to our man Gregory Allen.

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Naked & Famous stake their claim in denim history with the world’s heaviest denim and their 32 oz model. Requiring some serious heavy-duty construction, the selvage denim model is sure to elicit bloodied and bruised thumbs just from the buttoning process. As the pictures show, the denim stands-up on its own and will be limited to somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 pairs.

Naked & Famous introduce a new range of leather goods in their forthcoming collection. Sourcing the talents of a Canadian artisan with an extensive background in Japanese-style leather-making, the accessories include wallets, card holders and lighter holders. Each vegetable-tanned piece is completely hand-made without the help of any machines. Made in Canada, the leather accessories offer another dynamic to the Canadian brand which has continually pushed the borders of denim.

Photography: Hypebeast

San Diego-based 9five Eyewear present the brand’s new 2010 Spring/Summer range, crafted out of premium, handmade acetate, complimented with a top-of-the-line CR-39 lens set. Featured in this new lineup are a wide array of classic styles, including the addition of several Smoke, Black & White variants.

The season’s first delivery just dropped at loop.

The Fall 2010 collection from Canadian brand Reigning Champ is almost here. With casual and simplistic aesthetics to their design, their quality and craftsmanship are arguably the greatest defining point of the brand. For this season we see a great mix of recycled fleece, an amazing varsity and tee’s as soft as butter.

Available soon at loop.

Freshjive’s rise from unruly, adolescent street wear label to legitimate fashion brand shows no signs of regression as the LA label continues to mature much like a fine wine. Continuing their commitment to debranding, the collection of button-down wovens, knits and outerwear is void of any labels, logos or branding elements.

Check out the Fall/Winter 2010 Collection below and keep posted for its in-store arrival late July early August.

Enitled “Sidelines”, this look book displays Mishka’s Holiday collection for 2010. Shot by Gillian Harrison, with a straight up new york style photographic aesthetic. The collection is complete with staples and some twists on the classic styles we have gotten to love from the brand. The focus on graphic T-shirts, check shirts and detailed hoodies should serve Mishka well, particularly as this winter is set be a cold one!

Photography: Gillian Harrison

Photography: Hypebeast

Naked & Famous look to push the boundaries of denim with their upcoming stainless steel jean. Integrating 10% 4 ply wire Riken stainless steel into the weave, surprisingly the feel is relatively the same as prototypical raw denim however the inclusion of stainless steel creates a much harder creasing jean.

Only 200 pairs will be made.

Photography: Hypebeast

Available at loop mid July.

Dee & Ricky, the New York based fashion design duo, have lent their trademark retro style to the latest edition to the G-Shock Family, the GA110DR-1A. This limited edition chronograph perfectly pairs an extra-large analog/digital with the Dee & Ricky design sensibility seen on fashion runways and metropolitan sidewalks worldwide.

The GA110DR-1A uses rudimentary building blocks as a starting point, the design draws on primary colors to mimic the appearance of a toy watch. Like the duo’s signature Lego®-based designs, all the details pop against the black backdrop. A never seen G-Shock technique combines contrasting LCDs, gear-shaped hands and other parts to create a distinct multidimensional effect exclusive to the GA110DR-1A. To further customize the timepiece, the Dee & Ricky logo appears on the band and the engraved backcase features the Dee & Ricky caricature.

“Better watch us like this Dee & Ricky G-Shock,” said Dee and Ricky Jackson.

“G-Shock is pleased to collaborate with the fashion brand, Dee & Ricky,” said Shigenori Itoh, Vice President of Casio’s Timepiece Division. “As the first brand to customize the new G-Shock GA110 model, Dee & Ricky create a fusion of cutting edge G-Shock technology and fashion-forward style that will surely make this watch a collectors’ item.”

Remaining rooted in G-Shock technology, the Dee & Ricky X G-Shock is JIS Class Level I magnetic resistant to protect against the effects of magnetic fields often found in airport metal detectors. Additional GA110 features include shock resistance, 200M water resistance, Auto LED Light with Afterglow, 48 City World Time, 1/1000th Stopwatch with speed indicator, and 4 Daily Alarms and 1 Snooze Alarm, Auto Calendar and Hourly Time Signal.

Available at loop in July 2010,

About Dee & Ricky
Hailing from Staten Island, Dimitrious and Ricky Jackson are the 22-year-old twin brothers behind their eponymous accessories line Dee and Ricky. Completely self-taught, they picked up their design smarts watching their grandma behind her sewing machine and watching the fly stylish money makers run the streets and began customizing their own pieces in the 9th grade.

The brothers went on to create a hugely popular collection of Lego accessories, and while attending a function in the Hamptons in the summer of 2007 were spotted wearing the new designs by stylist Jason Preston. Preston in turn introduced them to designer Marc Jacobs, and a meeting at MJ HQ was quickly scheduled. Within days Dee and Ricky were hard at work designing a full range of Lego accessories for the Marc by Marc Jacobs spring ’08. Their signature belts and heart-shaped brooches are currently sold in boutiques across the globe including Colette in Paris and Kid Robot in New York and have been worn by an endless list of high-profile celebrities, the likes of Kanye West, Beyonce. Nigo Murakami and MIA.

LOS ANGELES — The love you take is equal to the love you make, and that is not a saying ever related to Kobe Bryant. He has struggled through the latter half of his life to make his own way, as a wingman refusing to attend college, as a scorer stubbornly dueling with Shaquille O’Neal for control of the ball, as a star who didn’t know how to be liked. Never did he imagine his savior would be Ron Artest.

“He trusted us and made us feel so good and he passed me the ball,” Artest said as he celebrated the Lakers’ 83-79 victory over the Celtics in Game 7 of the NBA Finals on Thursday, and his astonishing role in it. “He never passes me the ball! And he passed me the ball. Kobe passed me the ball, and I shot a three.”

He made that three to open a 79-73 lead with 1:01 remaining on a night when he scored 20 points to carry the Lakers. Artest needed 18 shots for those points on the same night when Bryant (26 points overall) was going 6-of-24 and committing four turnovers and missing all six of his threes. So here is the surprise twist to the Lakers’ anticipated 16th championship — Kobe Bryant was Mr. Nervous, and Ron Artest was Mr. Steady.

“I just wanted it so bad, I wanted it so, so bad,” Bryant said as he sat with his pretty young daughters, Natalia and Gianna, in their matching rhinestone Lakers dresses.

His struggles have defined Bryant in ways that Michael Jordan never experienced when he was on top, and that trend continued into this night. The Celtics were trapping him and deflecting his passes and forcing him into corners where he had no other choice but to launch impossible jumpers. For more than three quarters, the Celtics controlled Bryant and therefore controlled the game.

They were running their offense through Rajon Rondo to shoot 58.8 percent, while holding the Lakers to 14 points in the opening period. They led by nine going into the second quarter and by as many 13 in the third. They were cutting backdoor for layups and dunks — including several finished behind the defense by Kevin Garnett on lobs from Rondo — and their team defense was having a quicksand effect on the defending champs. The harder the Lakers tried, the more they sank behind.

“You feel the excitement, you feel the moment,” acknowledged Pau Gasol, who should never again be called soft after fighting through a 6-for-16 night to ultimately create 19 points, 18 rebounds, four assists and two blocks while controlling the paint at both ends. “You’re shooting the same way you would shoot in any other game, but the shot goes off a little different, probably because of that excitement, that tension, anxiety of wanting to do so well and wanting to make every shot.”

He was speaking for himself as well as for Bryant. Maybe that was a new thing for Gasol, to be able to relate to his famously difficult teammate. But then he had to know how much this series meant to Bryant. As much as Kobe insisted over the last fortnight that he didn’t care about beating the Celtics, on behalf of the Lakers’ franchise and to avenge his own Finals’ Game 6 loss at Boston by 39 points exactly two years ago to this very same night — as much as he claimed to not care, no one believed him.

“I was lying to you guys,” Bryant told reporters. “When you’re in the moment, you have to suppress that because if you get caught up in the hype of it all, you don’t really play your best basketball. But you guys know what a student I am of the game. I know every series that the Lakers have played in, and I know every Celtics series, I know every statistic. It meant the world to me, but I couldn’t focus on that. I had to focus on playing.”

This has been a miserable year for Bryant, who promised to spend the summer ahead dealing — whether by surgery or rest and rehab — with his broken right index finger, which was wrapped in tape all season, and his swollen knee that was drained before the conference finals against Phoenix.

“I’m obviously going to have to look at the knee and figure some things out,” he said. “I can’t play a whole entire season the way it is now. Same thing with the finger. Without the tape, I can’t grip a basketball.

“What drove me nuts and made this even sweeter was everybody kept talking about, ‘He’s old, he’s old.’ I was hurt. I drained my knee, and all of a sudden reeling off 30-point games and everybody said how young I looked. I was hurt.”

The lessons of Bryant’s self-imposed problems over the years have taught him how to fight. Is there a more ruthless combatant in basketball? Since their Finals loss two years ago, the Lakers have conformed to his personality by learning to do whatever needs to be done. In this case, that meant instantly trying to correct their mistakes by following up their missed shots for 23 offensive rebounds and a crucial 53-40 rebounding advantage overall. Had the court been filled with water, they would have been splashing around their board like sharks fighting over supper.

Of course, the Celtics badly missed 6-foot-10 center Kendrick Perkins, sidelined by a knee injury in Game 6; but for 29 minutes, the Lakers had to do without 7-foot center Andrew Bynum, limited to six rebounds and two points by his own torn meniscus. They dominated the most important category of this Finals thanks to Gasol, whose 18 rebounds included nine offensive tallies, and the 6-6 Bryant, who contributed 15 rebounds.

“I had to do something,” Bryant said.

And now for a few words about Artest. May we have a show of hands from everyone who believed he would be the death of the Lakers when they signed him last July? He was brought in to neutralize the best scorers, and with the help of trapping teammates, Paul Pierce was indeed held to 5-of-15 shooting in Game 7. But Artest astounded everyone, himself included, by going a combined 13-for-29 for 35 points in Games 6 and 7, elimination games for his team.

“Ron Artest was the most valuable player tonight,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said proudly, for he helped turn Artest into a productive member of the community. “He brought life to our team, he brought life to the crowd.”

“I’ve got to thank my doctor,” Artest said of his psychiatrist. “She would come and help me relax in these moments, because usually I’m not good at these moments, and I know that about myself. I needed some type of way to relax during these moments. I missed a couple threes that I was wide open that I wish I would have went down, and I trusted everything she told me as far as relaxing. And bam! The big three goes in.”

Jackson has now won 11 championships, more than any franchise other than the Lakers and Celtics. The Lakers now stand one title short of the league record, Boston’s 17, and they have a peaking team that could win at least one or two more. They won this one, in part, from the familiar formula of a big three by Derek Fisher midway through the fourth that tied the score at 64-64, making everything seem easier for L.A. on its way to scoring 22 of the final 37 points.

Yet what defined the Lakers in this Game 7 was a series of advances that have been under way since 2008 — Gasol’s toughness, and their team defense that held Boston to 19 field goals in the final three quarters, and Artest’s reliability, and Bryant’s need to rely on others. The last was fulfilled when he decided to not do it by himself and left it up to Artest to finish what they started at training camp last fall.

And so now Bryant was left to reflect on his fifth title, which equals the achievement of fellow Laker Magic Johnson and leaves him one short of Jordan’s six with more years still to be contested. What does this latest championship mean to him?

“Just got one more than Shaq,” he said, and he grinned back at the laughter that filled the room. “You can take that to the bank. You know how I am. I don’t forget anything.”

Some things change. Others never do.

Read more: HERE

Shad and K’naan Team Up for Fall Canadian Tour.

Hip-hop faves Shad (pictured) and K’naan have blown the minds of more than a few Canadian hip-hop fans by announcing that they’ll team up this fall for a five-date tour through some of Canada’s major cities.

Shad is on his own headlining tour of small-town Ontario at the moment and will appear at a number of Canadian festivals later this summer, while K’naan is prepping for a number of Canadian festival appearances on the West coast before embarking upon a headlining tour through Europe. The two will join up in Vancouver in September and will trek through Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg on the way to their final show in Toronto on October 1.

In case you haven’t yet picked it up, Shad is the cover star of Exclaim!’s June issue and is supporting his new album, TSOL. K’naan, who recently took some heat over his controversial partnership with Coca-Cola, graced the cover of Exclaim! in February 2009.

Shad & K’naan Tour dates:

9/25 Vancouver, BC – Malkin Bowl
9/27 Calgary, AB – MacEwan Hall
9/28 Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Event Centre
9/29 Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre
10/1 Toronto, ON – Kool Haus %

Source: Stephen Carlick – Exclaim!

We often like to introduce you to the people making our favorite produce. Angelo is one of the people making Supreme one of our favorite brands. Photography, art direction and marketing are his specialties, but ‘whatever it takes’ feels like a better job title.
As popular as Supreme is in our world, there aren’t many names that you can tie directly to the brand, without personally knowing them. The tightly knit family works hard to keep things cohesive and at the highest quality possible, from the collection, to the last look book to the marketing and collaborations. We wanted to dig a little deeper to find out more about the process behind the scenes of one our times most special brands.

Angelo Baque is one of those guys you’ve probably seen around different blogs, maybe in London or Paris, but most likely New York. He lives and breathes New York, and so does Supreme – so it only makes sense he’s one of the guys keeping the brand on point season after season. Photography, art direction and marketing are Angelo’s specialties, but ‘whatever it takes’ feels like a better job title.

You’ve grown up in different boroughs around New York, but always in New York. Does that make you feel like more of an insider or outsider in today’s global ‘scene’?

Without a doubt it makes me feel like an insider. Not to come across as a jaded or asshole New Yorker but everything starts here and trickles down to the rest of the world. All eyes are on NY when it comes to fashion, art and music. Being born and raised in NY always gives me a sense that I have an extra step.

Read the full interview here

Writer
—Ryan Willms

Photographer
—Rafael Rios

Source: Inventory Magazine

Check out the amazing work of Holly Norris

American Able’ intends to, through spoof, reveal the ways in which women with disabilities are invisible in advertising and mass media. I chose American Apparel not just for their notable style, but also for their claims that many of their models are just ‘every day’ women who are employees, friends and fans of the company. However, these women fit particular body types. Their campaigns are highly sexualized and feature women who are generally thin, and who appear to be able-bodied. Women with disabilities go unrepresented, not only in American Apparel advertising, but also in most of popular culture. Rarely, if ever, are women with disabilities portrayed in anything other than an asexual manner, for ‘disabled’ bodies are largely perceived as ‘undesirable.’ In a society where sexuality is created and performed over and over within popular culture, the invisibility of women with disabilities in many ways denies them the right to sexuality, particularly within a public context.

Too often, the pervasive influence of imagery in mass media goes unexamined, consumed en masse by the public. However, this imagery has real, oppressive effects on people who are continuously ‘othered’ by society. The model, Jes Sachse, and I intend to reveal these stories by placing her in a position where women with disabilities are typically excluded.

This work is part of a group exhibit for CONTACT 2010 and will be showing on over 270 digital screens in 50 Toronto Transit Commission stations on May 6, 11, 22 and 31.

More details about the show can be found here:

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Her website is here