Monday, June 30, 2008

More Cake

We love this clever historical take on who's runnin New York.

We Run New Amsterdam tee $36

Friday, June 27, 2008

Hot night out in Chicago, literally

It was hotter than Hades yesterday in the Chi which made for a perfect night to gallery hop. After stopping by Lynette Astaire's exhibition at Marwen, we headed over to Phaiz for the "It's Pop It's Art" show that is on a world tour. The group show featured work that expressed specific music lyrics through various mediums. Notice any familiar faces?

Classic gallery crowd


Shala made even cool people dance


Mo B. has good taste in women


Clayton of "Everyone is Famous" takes a quick break from shooting


Mike Love showing love


CT stuntin with friends


Performance artist Elisa Garza, Funsho and a Shrink intern


"Because I'm Hollywood..."


Madrid, Sadie and gang

Saturday, June 21, 2008

New Cake now available


Cake Lazy Girl T-shirt $36

Friday, June 20, 2008

Do it for the kids.

Last night was the annual Rock the Kids fundraiser at Debonair Social Club. I think it was a good turnout. Hope they made lots of money.

Sadie, the event's awesome coordinator


CT, Ron Sager, creator of Fluxcore Magazine


"Don't call me hipster" hipsters


Dude in the blue hat was randomly jacking up women


There was a point when fanny pack girl was making love to girl in yellow.


Kenny rocking that new Cake shit

Sneak Peak! New Cake Summer 2008


There's nothing like going into your office and finding a box of new gear.
New Cake shirts, Lazy Girl(the one with the polaroids) and We Run New Amsterdam delivered yesterday morning. These will be for sale this week for a wopping $36 bucks.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Much Thanks

Do people even do shoutouts anymore? Well, we would like to say thanks to The Finest Living, Lipped Jeans and Female Sneaker Fiend for the lovely write-ups. Links to the right!
Peace

Sunday, June 15, 2008

As you know, Shrink is all about stepping out of the box

And this goes for restaurants too. So we tried this new Korean joint, Crisp, because we heard they had great chicken and traditional Korean staples like Bi Bim Bop. Bottom line, it was a fun, inexpensive dinner, chill environment and one of the few reasons to eat in Lincoln Park. Warning! No alcohol though. Don't forget your flask.



Wednesday, June 11, 2008

How lame can you be

The Dice shirt by EIO below was boot-legged, robbed, stolen whatever you want to call it by Just Jeans. This is almost a tradition to steal designs in the streetwear industry but damn. They could have tweaked it just a little. And yes we have the original. This is what EIO had to say,
"Hi, We are Eio Clothing, a small streetwear brand from the uk that has built up a cult status for individuality and creativity. We just wanted to bring to your attention one of our designs that has been blatantly ripped of by the Just Jeans Company (Australia). As you can see from the images the only difference is they have changed our logo for theirs (even the models show an uncanny resemblance)! Unfortunately i can’t link directly to the tee on their site since it is no longer up there.
The Dice tee has been a classic for us. We released it 2 seasons before Just Jeans. They are a huge company with about 300 stores across Oz. We don’t know if they knew about this directly or if it was just some low life on their design team. Anyway glad a blog like yours exists to at least have some come back."


Click the link to see how well Just Jeans steals courtesy of Hide Your Arms
http://hideyourarms.com/2008/06/03/eio-clothing-got-ripped-big-time/

We let it pile up for weeks so....

Today was laundry day for us. Check out the old-school cart and everything. Yeah, really working hard with the CS mag and green tea latte.



Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Because we love all things smart.......

We wanted to share this trailer from Chicago's own Reggie-Know. For those that don't know, the man behind Dem Dare and those famous "Obey Your Thirst" commercials. A perfect combination of anime and 90's hip-hop. Pay attention or you'll miss an intricate detail!


Tuesday, June 3, 2008

We'll miss you Yves

Just wanted to take a moment to say goodbye to Yves Saint Laurent. He was one of the first designers to use black runway models and made haute couture approachable for everyone with his Rive Gauche line. There would be no casual chic without him. Show homage!
My Zimbio
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