Category Archives: Fashion

Vending Machine Fashion

By Chungaiz | Published: June 4, 2009

Springwise has a good link to vending machine shoes catering to the late night tired feet too much heel girls market. Nice. Onistuka had a vending machine for shoes in Carnaby Street a while back. UniQlo have made much of their vending machine Tshirts. Convenience fashion is clearly in.

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Evolution of Nike Jordan (and the ads)

By Chungaiz | Published: June 3, 2009

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video It’s gotta be the shoes.

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Original Jams by Converse – US6.5 anyone?

By Chungaiz | Published: May 1, 2009

Man, I wish I didnt have any toes. How cool are these shoes? Original Jams by Converse on ebay right now! Apparently TheScrapBook slept on the recent re-release of the Original Jams by Converse series back in Febuary this year, but you can check out those reissues at Hypebeast etc.

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Rapha x Timothy Everest

By Chungaiz | Published: April 30, 2009

Cycling’s big at the moment, and rightly so. You can check our bike section on TheScrapBook to see how passionate we are about it, aesthetically as much as practically. It is one of the best forms of transport and exercise in a recession, and furthermore, the raw, pure, unfiltered fixed gear cycling is perfect for [...]

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Gucci’s New Direction – Surrealist Celebrity Directors

By Chungaiz | Published: April 22, 2009

Chris Cunningham: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video David Lynch: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Gucci‘s taking a new direction in their marketing it seems – having used David Lynch to direct their first of the new campaign, they’ve now employed Chris [...]

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Nixon’s The Player in Rubber

By Chungaiz | Published: March 18, 2009

Nixon’s most famous and celebrated watch, The Player, is having limited release in coloured rubber on the 15th of each month for the enxt 4 months. Previously, I’d say that the most coveted version would have been their ceramic all white version, but at $1,400 it was a little out of price range! The Rubber [...]

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Insane Downhill Skating – Giveashitability by Adam Kimmel

By Chungaiz | Published: March 12, 2009

Adam Kimmel presents: Claremont HD from adam kimmel on Vimeo. Shot by Ari Marcopoulos, I’d seen this video a while ago, but only now realised that it was in fact a promo for Adam Kimmel’s clothing. Maybe I was too excited by the actual footage – two guys racing on an insanely fast downhill [...]

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Tie Your Scarf

By Chungaiz | Published: March 10, 2009

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Bit late in the season for my favourite type of scarf – the chunky big buggers – but if you’re a skinny scarf man (or woman) the video above makes a nice change from the “doubled, round the neck and through the loop” [...]

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Martin Clothing

By Andy | Published: March 10, 2009

The talented Mike Martin from SF has just launched a clothing line called Martin Clothing. Will post more when i get more details. Looks really interesting, Mike, we look forward to seeing more!

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Playboy and the American Body Mass Index (BMI)

By Chungaiz | Published: February 18, 2009

Wired has looked at the stats for every centerfold from December 1953 (Marilyn Monroe) to January 2009 (Dasha Astafieva), and then calculated each woman’s body-mass index, comparing them to the corresponding avergage BMI of American Women. A clear trend emerged: While real American women have steadily eaten their way up the BMI slope — [...]