i·mag·i·na·tion - Fashion

Triumvir - Shadaloo Crime Syndicate Tee II

nospam@example.com (Lewe) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:14:00 +0100

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This is the second spin of the Crime Syndicate Tee from the Triumvir X Capcom collaboration effort. This shirt was initially released at the comic convention in San Diego in very small numbers and just very few of these have been openly available to purchase trough the Triumvir webstore a while ago.

The fortunate guy I am, I have been able to get my hands on this and I am pretty proud of it. I am not sure if I like this one or the black one better, because both of them are pretty rad.

I am pretty excited about the upcoming pieces of this collaboration and I am pretty sure that there are few items to come that I'll just have to obtain.

Triumvir - Shadaloo Crime Syndicate Tee

nospam@example.com (Lewe) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:46:00 +0100

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Okay, so where were we? Seems like I lost track of things again. Anyways - what you see above is the first of three shirts that arrived on my doorstep from Triumvir about two weeks ago.

A shirt that I'd normally wouldn't have bought if it wasn't for my affiliation with Triumvir. I really hate backprints, especially the small frontprint - huge backprint combination gives me the heebie-jeebies. Now I like what Triumvir put together with Capcom and I think it's important to keep their idea behind designing this shirt in mind. It's ment for members of the "crime syndicate" and as long as I can remember gang/group/club tees and pullovers always featured a huge logo-like backprint in combination with the identical small print on the front, so it does make sense after all I guess.

I count myself lucky to have gotten my hands on this beauty as it was a very limited run and is of course long gone and sold out today.

Clae - Russel Sneaker

nospam@example.com (Lewe) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:49:00 +0100

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What you see above is a Clae sneaker I found and bought in the store of a dear friend last weekend on my trip tp Berlin. His store is called Kickback Berlin, make sure to pay it a visit!
I bought the sneaker by total coincidence, I just saw it and fell in love with the colorway. Once I tried them there was no turning back and I am looking forward to rock these regularly now.

I am wondering how they'll hold up, but time will tell...

Supreme - Monaco Tee

nospam@example.com (Lewe) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:20:00 +0100

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I've never been a huge fan of Supreme and I never really understood the hype around it. It can't be about quality that's for sure, I mean their quality is alright I guess but certainly not worth the hundreds of dollars that are so often paid on the after market.
Whenvever I come by a Supreme shirt that I really like and that I can get for the retail price I tend to buy it, but that's about it. I once bought a $100+ Supreme/Neighborhood shirt on ebay and it turned out to be a fake, so I've been avoiding ebay in terms of Supreme ever since. That's actually something I can only recommend to all of you - unless your 100% certain, don't ever buy any Supreme gear on ebay, there's just too many fakes around. I see $5 fakes going for $150 on ebay day by day.

So I've been to Berlin last weekend and that's where I picked up the lovely shirt pictured above. After a long time this is my first Supreme shirt again, the last one I got probably a year ago and that one actually was a present from a good friend of mine.

False - Faux Militare

nospam@example.com (Lewe) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:04:00 +0100

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Last but not least here is the third (one, two) of the False shirts that I ordered and received last week. This is probably my favourite print of the bunch.
Meanwhile I had the chance to wash all three of them and as it turns out the print held up very well, which is always very nice to see. As previously mentioned they still (even after washing) priobably are the largest shirts I have in my size, so if you ever thought of buying one of those sweeties be advised to either try them beforehand (which you probably won't be able to) or just size down a size to ensure that they'll fit just like the rest of shirts in your wardrobe.

False - The Cool Tee

nospam@example.com (Lewe) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:46:00 +0100

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Pictured above you see the second (here is the first) of three False Tees that arrived at my doorstep last week. I remember reading about the announcement of this tee a while back and right from the start I was pretty sure that I'd probably never be able to get my hands on this.
So you can guess that I was pretty amazed finding it on sale the other day. What makes this shirt so special is the fact that it's a collaboration effort between the False Crew and rapper Lupe Fiasco who came together and designed this in support of Fiasco's latest album release called "The Cool" - hence the print.

Here is a small tidbit about the people behind False and their vision:

Hand-screening and Hand-finishing their garments since 2005, creative couple Le Messie & Amanda Scully have built their independent art fashion brand from the ground up through good old fashion blood, sweat, passion and tears. Growing from a small project to what it is today the creators continue to believe in their hands-on artistic qualities continuing to make each and every design by hand, bringing real life to the garments themselves. Each and every FALSE garment is individually hand-screened and hand-finished using no hand-silkscreen machines but just a simple wooden silk-screen placed free-hand, a high quality cotton combed tee, squeegee and paint. Not your average independent street wear fashion brand. FALSE brings a sophisticated artistic movement on a ground level with each participant being a walking canvas.

False - Hell Cat Tee

nospam@example.com (Lewe) — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:46:33 +0200

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Here is yet another try to bring a bit of life back to this weblog, I added a new category too - 'fashion', we'll see if I manage to bring a little bit of attention to it.
What you see above is a Certificate of Authenticity that came with a batch of False Tees I ordered just two days ago and that arrived yesterday. I have to admit that I didn't even knew that they were available in Germany and I have to say it was a little bit ironic and typical that they even were reduced by 50%. Oh well, lucky me immediately ordered three of them as I always wanted to give them a try anyways.

This is the first of the three shirts, I can't say much of them yet expect that I am not entirely sold on their quality so far and that they sure are a bit on the larger side, I probably could have sized down and they still would have fit well enough. But to set all that in stone they'll have to be washed first.

Other than that I'm already in love with them - simple, clean, straight forward.