RIN TANAKA - MY FREEDAMN 10

This is the final and biggest chapter of this amazing collection about vintage fashion: My Freedamn ! It includes lots of great New Wave & Hardcore Punk fashions from the late 1970's to mid 1980's, Sports and Street fashion from brands such as Nike, Vision, Vans, etc... And early Hip Hop fashions. Everything that today's trendy youth who'd die for! Rin Tanaka proves once more he's the master for selecting vintage fashion worldwide, a future classic! Buy your own copy at Colette.

MILANO BLUES - SPREZZATURA AZZURRI

Tommy Ton shoots the man in blue for GQ. It's nice to see that you can be very stylish with just a little color. Call it "Sprezzatura Azzurri"

ALOHA - DOLBEAU

Thanks to the team of Dolbeau I received my Fast Eddie tie in time for the Bread & Butter, Berlin.

Eddie Akau was Hawaii’s pioneer of big wave surfing. Now I'am a fearless pioneer of the next big wave in neckwear: flat tipped, Hawaiian print goodness.

Prints, especially Hawaiian prints, are very big this summer. You know those loud Hawaiian shirts favoured by oversized, buffet-crushing, middle-American cruise ship passengers? These ties are not for them. They’re for you. Think less “Tommy Bahama” and more “Thomas Magnum, P.I.” Prints of luau girls, outrigger boats, hibiscus flowers - square-bottomed and printed by a renowned Japanese print company, Dolbeau’s Hawaiian print ties are a perfect complement to your summery, casual getup. Actually if anyone  should ask where you found your Hawaiian print tie, you could certainly give us a shout-out, but you could also tell them you won a swath of Magnum P.I.’s shirt in an arm-wrestling contest. It would make a great story, and that Magnum needs to be cut down a few notches anyway.

I shameless copied the text from the Dolbeau site, because I couldn't agree more ;-)

ALOHA

YOU'VE GOT MAIL

Today, I received my invitation from Gant Rugger @ the Bread & Butter fair, Berlin,. For the very first time Gant Rugger will present their collection at L.O.C.K. I think I'm just as curious as you are what they will bring for Spring Summer 2013, keep your posted!

SPREZZATURA ON WHEELS

The Fiat 500 turned 55 this year, was first produced in 1957, when the economy was booming. The idea was to give the new Italian middle-class a car that could be used everyday from the short daily commute to the longer family vacation. The Fiat 500 became the symbol of a stylish and cosmopolitan Italian lifestyle. A modern design, appealing colors, easiness in driving: the car was exactly what people needed. The truly affordable price also helped it become an extreme popular car. Even these days it's a very popular car under designers like Christopher Bastin of GANT Rugger (pic via rippedbackpocket)

FAR EAST PREPPY @ PITTI UOMO

What was invented @ the East Coast is made to perfection in the Far East. 

Far East Preppy all the way, man can we learn from them!

A CHERRY ON THE PITTI UOMO PIE

Round one is done, we can make ourselves up for round 2 - Bread & Butter, Berlin.

It's a wrap from the pictures we see on the net, coming season will be one with lots of double breasted blazers, load Hawaiian style print shirts and shorts and important colors are olive, red, all sorts of blue and gray and don't forget yellow and white.

(pics via the street fashion, Tommy Ton for GQ & Style.com, Furfur Mag. and Livin Cool).