Stone Island: it's all about the product

A VOYAGE INTO STONE ISLAND_EPISODE 3 - "THE PRODUCT" - THE PASSION OF STONE ISLAND from Stone Island on Vimeo.


You might not be partial to Stone Island unless you like to spend Saturday afternoons shouting at football teams and screwing up opposing fans, but there's no denying the passion that goes into producing the gear.

Metal, heat reflective, colour changing, space-age fabrics, you name it, Stone Island has tried to make jackets out of it. They have to be the most innovative, ground breaking brand to come out of Italy.

This is the third video to focus on the brand, which means I've missed one somewhere along the line.

All the same, the chance to get an insight into what makes Andrea Moro, the label's head of product, tick, has to be worth a post.

Adidas denim: pictures speak a thousand swear words

As usual that style sucker Adidas is trying to get its claws into another thing it thinks it is missing out on, and as usual it totally misses the point.

This time that lumbering abortion of a sportswear brand has turned its attention to denim, with predictable consequences.

As usual the video is the best thing about it.

Stick to what you know, making tracksuits.

Baby Milo: life after death

Baby milo might as well have sounded his last grunt after Nigo sold out to Hong Kong based IT Limited last month as far as many of you are concerned.

But while Bape might be the clothes brand equivalent of a remote controlled car these days, at least Milo's death won't be entirely in vain.

Because in the name of art and research, Kaws has disected him.

Apparently it turned out he didn't have a heart. That had already been sold.

Girls Friday: coasting

Nice eyebrows, shame about the strides

Kanye West Devil in a New Dress: cleaned out through the front door

Ah, bling. Here today gone tomorrow. I expect there's a message in this Kanye West video for Devil in a New Dress. Something like 'be careful who you lend your keys to'.

Or if you fancy thinking a little deeper, maybe this is a comment on the state of the world economy, how we've all been robbed blind while our backs were turned. And now we're going to PAY.

I'm sure Kanye  wouldn't be thinking in quite such political terms.

Merry New Years

Hope you have a ...

... New year.
I would write more but I can't.

Girls Friday lite news

Word is that I will have a broadband connection at home by the 21st. That will be more or less a month to the day since I lost it when I moved. During that month I have rediscovered life without Ebay and the blogging has been done on an opportunistic and batch basis. Like now. Here are a few girls for Friday. I would find you more, but time is precious.