The latest entry on the ever informative Grants 1856 blog has proved quite a revelation to me today. For a start I didn’t realise that Elka have started…
Having recently spent some quality time working on an adidas Spezial project I’m fortunate/smug enough to already know just how ace the new Spezial collection, though having just…
Where would we be without brown suede shoes? I dread to think, I really do. Thank God that we live in a world where we have shops like…
In terms of denim it really doesn’t get any better than Japanese Kahara selvage, in fact it was this very material that so impressed Maria Erixon she decided to…
Seeing as it’s that exact time when the weather starts warming up a little and we start daring to venture outdoors for a bit only to get proper…
I once spent a prolonged period of time in France in my early 20’s. Not at the pleasure of the French Gendarmerie nor as part of some Nouveau-Georgian Grand Tour…
More tropical than a flamingo in a grass skirt, drinking a can of Lilt the tuktuk SS16 collection has arrived! Boasting equatorial modernist vibes amidst the pineapples and palm…
The brand first appeared in the early 1960s as the tennis division of Italian Ski-wear company L’Alpina Maglierie SporCve S.p.A which itself was formed back in 1946. To reflect the…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt9t7JDJbTg How ace are these caps? They’re part of New Era’s on-going Heritage Series which celebrates key moments in the brand’s 96 years of authentic sporting heritage.…
Parlez vous Français? No me neither but what I do know about France is that their food is good (they use garlic on everything), their woman are fast…
Batten down the borders, beautiful bits from Battenwear have just arrived on our shores, and as you’d expect from the brand from The Big Apple, everything’s looking ‘rosy’. Feeling in…
Here’s date for your diary hat fans: WEDNESDAY THE 2ND OF MARCH. Get it in your diaries because that’s when the ‘All City Weir’ hats will be…
The urge to call Norse Projects ‘Great Danes’ is overwhelming. I don’t think ever I’ve written about the Copenhagen brand without used that tired cliche. I might have…
“Strewth there’s a bloke down there with no strides on!” Everybody calm down, he’s just off out doing some cold water surfing, nothing to worry about just a…
The M670 is exactly what you want from a New Balance shoe isn’t it? A perfect combination of suede and mesh, a double comfy C-Cap midsole with a…
How was your weekend? Do any offending? Stop right there I don’t want to know. I was just trying to be clever and introduce Weekend Offender’s SS16 collection of…
As the gentrification of Manchester’s Northern Quarter continues, the previous inhabitants of that part of town are edged further towards the periphery. It’s probably a metaphor for society…
I put in a disappointingly brief appearance at the launch of this last night. Apparently there was free beer and French space rock, which sounds right up my…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQc_dQCLfrY&feature=youtu.be For their latest collection Levi’s skateboarding gives a nod to the blue collar workers of the San Francisco Barbary coastline during the mid-1800s. Which might not seem…
It’s a widely held notion in POPular-culture circles that the original is better than the sequel. We all know though, being the culture vultures we are, that this is…
If you google the word ‘Hikerdelia’ you’ll get loads of link to propermag so unless you’re new to our site/magazine then you’ll already know that we have a profound…