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Style Daily Style & Design News: October 7, 2009

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Carhartt Europe is publishing graffiti historian Andrea Caputo’s new book, All City Writers. Reading! [Mash Kulture]

A $100,000 payout sounds good to us. Levi’s scavenger hunt on deck. Where the money buried at? [Selectism]

The Kindle drops in price and goes global. Yay? [Wired]

Louis Vuitton new 2009 Fall/Winter men’s sunglasses line. Millionaires to kill the glare, or something like that – we don’t speak French. [Solediction]

The third installment of Billionare Boy’s ClubSpace Beach” line hits the Ice Cream store this week. Still heavy on the Ray-gun logo, but the collection is more mature with key pieces like tweed jackets, ties, and scarves. [Hypebeast]

T-shirts/graphics game champ FUCT works with sweats connoisseur Champion. [Slamxhype]

October 7, 2009 | Permalink | Comment
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Style Street Detail: Freeballer

samNAME: Sam

AGE: 22

OCCUPATION: Educator

HOME BASE: Oakland, CA

GLASSES: Geoffrey Beene

SHIRT: Vintage

SHORTS: Champion

SHOES: Timberland

What are you saving up for the summer? A new skateboard.

What summer trends have you seen? J. Crew shorts with the whales on them.

What is your dream vacation? Eating fish tacos at the beach and then hitting up house shows in Tijuana.

What is the sneaker style you are rocking this season? Boat shoes or white Vans.

What is your summer drink? Miller High Life.

Vote on whether this week’s subject is “Stylin” or “Wildin” below…

July 9, 2009 | Permalink | 5 Comments
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Music The Unauthorized History Of Puppets In Hip Hop

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Whatchya wanna do? Wanna be a ballers? shotcallers? Brawlers? Well let Complex be the spoiler. The reality of hip hop is a sad one filled with guys who get their strings pulled, like Jimi Hendrix (no Pat Smear, my dear). And occasionally you can actually see their strings. Take for instance the awesomely creative new clip from Complex stalwart contributor Kanye West, which finds a styrofoam ‘Ye sucking wind in the Olympics (no Louganis) like a “Champion”. We keed, we keed.

But Kanye isn’t the first hip hopper to use a strung-up effigy of himself in a video. So for your viewing pleasure, and general edification, we’ve combed through the annals (grow up!) of hip hop to find the 5 greatest moments of puppetry in rap history. Go to school and peep Kanye’s latest below…

August 12, 2008 | Permalink | 6 Comments
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