If you’re touching down in the bay for the weekend, don’t forget that Stussy San Francisco is hosting an opening for “Black is Beautiful” at their store on Haight street tomorrow night. Canadian artist Allister Lee’s show is a rad study of the black and white illustrated form. Full info after the jump.
San Francisco’s Western Edition has just dropped some new items for Fall/Holiday 09. The “Birdseye” tee and hoodie feature an aerial perspective line drawing of San Francisco while the “McCoy” tee and crew use old school jazz-era typography inspired by the pianist McCoy Tyner. Both styles are shippng to WE accounts now. More looks after the jump.
Just in time for hill bombing SF’s unusually balmy fall days, comes the first ever cruiser board from Western Edition. The Bay Cruiser board is meant to invoke all the joy of cruising San Francisco and is shipping right now to WE retailers worldwide.
Soccer might as well be an action sport. The players are all long-haired rogues who smoke, drink and slay like the rat pack and generally don’t give a shit about anything other than having fun. That’s why we like them. Check out these new Footie Scarves Official just dropped. Only 48 pieces per colorway went on sale on the Official site a minute ago and when they are gone, they’re gone. Peep the other colors after the jump.
The Bicycle Film Festival has been touring around the country this summer, but only in San Francisco did they put up a huge bike gap to flat. Shit is pretty gnarly, that one dude nails it though. Via TheComeUp.
Western Edition has just released their new deck series for Summer 2009, “Structure.” The Structure series is based on landmark architecture photos taken around San Francisco by skate photographer Ando. WE team members Jovontae Turner, John Igei, Brad Johnson, Nikhil Thayer, and Yoshiaki Toeda were all lucky enough to score one of these. Available worldwide now.
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Western Edition has announced that SF shredder Lavar McBride is joining their pro team and have dropped this little clip to commemorate the occasion. A full video part and pro model deck are already in the works. WE is grinding! For all things Western Edition go here.
Shikito, the streetwear icon from BSHIT, returns with this special limited-run edition with FTC Skate, one of the pre-eminent skateboarding shops in San Francisco. Featuring FTC’s colors, the FTC Skate edition Shikito is limited to 100 pieces and is available in late February at a handful of retailers.
More pics after the jump.