The much hyped collaboration between Crooks & Castles and Mosley Tribes will finally be released this week. The sunglasses are entitled, The Castellano, and have been worn by the likes’ of Jay-Z and Lamar Odom all over Los Angeles. Now these sunglasses will finally be making their debut this Wednesday at the Crooks & Castles’ flagship store on Fairfax. In addition to the release of the sunglasses, the Crooks and Mosley Tribes’ family will be hosting an event to celebrate the collaboration at Green Door featuring Clinton Sparks.

Crooks & Castles Flagship Store
8021 Melrose Ave | Map
Los Angeles, CA 90046

Release Date: July 2nd (Wednesday)

Crooks & Castles x Mosley Tribes - The Castellano
Green Door
1429 Ivar Avenue | Map
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Event Date: July 2nd (Wednesday) | 10 PM - 2 AM
RSVP: rsvp@crooksncastles.com

Much to the excitement of toy fanatics around the world Michael Lau will be exhibiting the new collection of Gardeners for CSBOOTH15 this coming weekend at Michael Gallery in Hong Kong. Looks like this series draws some inspiration from Stanley Kubrick’s films and Michael Jordan. The exhibition lasts only 2 days, and it is not to be missed if you are in Hong Kong.

Michael Gallery
11F, Lok’s Industrial Building
204 Tsat Tsz Mui Road
Quarry Bay
Hong Kong

T: +852 2811 3111
E: crazysmilesmail@yahoo.com
  
Exhibition Dates: July 5th and 6th (Saturday and Sunday)
Opening Hours: 3pm ~ 8pm

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Diamond Supply Co. is notorious for their historic collaborations. The latest is an exclusive tee shirt with Raekwon The Chef of the infamous Wu-Tang Clan. The tees come in two colorways; white and black, and they will begin to release this Saturday, June 28th at the Diamond Supply Co store in Los Angeles. Raekwon the Chef will be making an appearance and Power 106 will be in the mix. If you cant make it out to LA not to fear, a limited amount of the tees will also drop next week at the Diamond online store. Via: CtotheJL

Diamond Supply Co.
507 North Fairfax Avenue | Map
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Release Date: June 28th (Saturday)

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This past Saturday, June 21st, Converse celebrated their 1HUND(RED) Artists with an event held at Canvas in Malibu, CA. The event featured a showcase of original art and final product by artists, Agathe de Baillencourt #56, Andrew Mania #94, Camilla Engman- #3, Clare Corrigan #13, Colletivo Design #22, Ginger Jones #25, Jeremyville #30, Katie Hillier #93, Laura Trowbridge #31, Megan Whitmarsh #14, Michael Schall # 33, Rocky Dawuni #85, Ryan Lombardi #16, Steve Monti #58, Supakitch #40, The Canannes #81, Umbereen Qureshi #4, Warwick Kay/Orange Juice Design #17 and Yuko Yabuki #21. The attendees included Barry Diller, Dr. Romanelli and Steve Lippmann with Macy Gray’s DJ, Kiilu Grand provided the music.

Converse 1HUND(RED) Artists is an unprecedented global curation project designed to further support Converse’s partnership with (RED). Using Converse as a blank canvas, each artist, tasked with the creation of an original design, developed unique shoes that range from playful, graphic cartoon character images to designs that emphasize the importance of the (PRODUCT) RED mission to fight AIDS in Africa. 10% of the net wholesale price of these shoes goes to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Geneva, Switzerland).

Converse 1HUND(RED) Artists shoes are available now at Canvas and artist original artwork will be on display on the first floor gallery space through Monday, June 30th.

Canvas
23410 Civic Center Way
Malibu, CA 90265
www.canvasbg.com

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Starting this Friday, June 27th, Taiwan’s gallery space Museum of Tomorrow (MOT) will be hosting a capsule exhibition, featuring 5 of the most prominent Chinese artists in the contemporary art world. Titled Art for the Masses, the mini exhibit includes 5 vinyl figurines from Jing Yu (金釹) and Liu Ye (劉野), Zhou Chun Ya (周春芽), long with Zhou Tie Hai (周鐵海), the first Chinese artist to create crossover work with Louis Vuitton. The centerpiece of the exhibition would be the unique collaboration between New York-based artist KAWS and Yue Min Jun (岳敏君), who is known world wide for his “laughing” portraits. The demand for Yue’s works is so great in fact, one set the record as the most expensive auctioned contemporary Chinese art last year at Sotheby’s.

To commemorate this special exhibit, Museum of Tomorrow (MOT) created limited at 100 sets per design, each will retails for TW$300,000 (~US$10,000). The exhibition will last till Saturday, July 27th.

Exhibition Date: June 27th (Friday) - July 27th (Sunday)

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Dave White - Going Slightly Mad! - 40″ x 50″ Acrylic Ink on Artistico Paper

Artist Dave White been quite busy lately with new works, including this bold strokes of acrylic on canvas in tribute to the upcoming blockbuster, The Dark Knight . In the meantime, White will join the likes of Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, and more… for a special retrospective titled Amerikanische Kunst & Pop Art, in Galerie Wild of Frankfurt. The exhibition will debut on July 7th and last till October 15th. More information to come in the near future.

Galerie Wild
Kirchnerstraße 2 | Map
60311 Frankfurt, Germany

Exhibition Date: July 7th (Monday) - October 15th (Wednesday)

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For the unveiling of its latest addition to the New Balance M576 series, New Balance invited Freshness to the city of Shanghai, China for a VIP regional launch event. The special evening saw live performances by Chinese rock band Yuguo (羽果), China’s first b-boy team Caster Dance Studio, and among others.

With an increasing global interest on Chinese culture, the design team at New Balance decided to base the new 576 on themes and inspirations taken from masks - essential props/tools in Sichuanese Opera. Similar to its more familiar counterpart, Peking Opera (or Beijing Opera), this ancient craft of utilized masks to propagate a storyline. However, practitioners of Sichuanese Opera must perfect the illusion of Bian Lian (translated as “changing face”), a sleight-of-hand skill where dozens of masks are worn by the actors to achieve the changes of facial expression.

To replicate same depth of colors and dimensions of these masks on the New Balance M576. The designers went with a number of processes. Portion of the upper were embossed with traditional Chinese Opera graphics, while other parts were etched with modernize Chinese patterns. To further the complexity, sections of embroideries were added as well. The design team also didn’t skimp over the materials on this special collection, with the application of premium suede, patent leather, and much more.

The China Mask Collection will feature 3 styles - Jing, Mo, and Chou, each in its distinctive and vibrant colorways. A fourth style, the limited edition Wu Shuang (translated as “one of a kind”) will be the centerpiece of the collection with only 576 units available worldwide.

Expect the New Balance MT576 - China Mask Collection to roll out toward the end of the Beijing Olympic on August 23rd.

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