NEW YORK CITY.
NIKE.
NIKE+ FUEL BAND International Launch.

I dont usually like this american city but this time it was not that bad! Food was better because most of the time I did cook for myself and Ive taken time to chill in the BIG APPLE…

Here comes the very first day in pictures late arriving just the time to say hello to the new french team of MAN, long time friends Romain Bernardie James and Antoine Floch…

Then a cool dinner with longtime workmates and Nike influencers such as FRASER nike, ERROLSON acronym, GRACE director, BIANCA Bln, JESSICA, CARRIE, SIMON pig, HERON P…

end of the year.

hard work.

team work.

more than usual.

many things.

too many things actually coming up.

dont even know where to start.

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we’ve been produced lots of interesting video contents those days some by our own.

- ERIK PARKER studio interview

Erik PARKER is an amazing pop-artist. He is not really famous now. But be sure he gonna be soon. And he is also a great guy. I like the time he spent with us, open his studio and talking about his work. MERCI!

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Or with our friends of OFIVETV :

- PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH video interview

PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH At BLACKRAINBOW from OFIVE.TV on Vimeo.

- HUGUES LAWSON-BODY @colette video covering

HUGHES LAWSON ” DE JEUNES PARISIENS” from OFIVE.TV on Vimeo.

The work of HUGUES LAWSON-BODY on JEUNES PARISIENS is sick, he was working on it since the last 3 years. He shot probably ALL of the parisian urban tribes, not only the hiphop ones. It is a true photography of french teenagers style. A great book.

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Then we’ve been workin of the FALL/WINTER BLACKRAINBOW 4.1 Capsule Collection.

Its been a while we are producing our own clothes. Only 50 pieces max by items. Quality but not expensive.

My partner GREG is really doing a great creative job by twisting iconic clothing apparel with a street-culture or preppy twist. This collection is really small (only one tee-shirt, one shirt, one jacket, one varsity jacket) but we’ve really try to step up the quality. We’ve been dropping so many items who were not “good” enough (quality, fitting, etc…) Trying to keep only the best of them.

Anyway its already available at BLACKRAINBOW Paris or BLACKRAINBOW online shop.

Im even more excited by the 4.1 Varsity Jacket coming up in the next weeks.

#leather #savoir-faire #lourd (I do luv ashtags)

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We dont sleep!

www.bkrw.com

Bruno Debauché. 1964 – 2010.

Certaine personne vous marque plus que d’autres. Une époque, un groupe, une culture, une envie, une énergie. Nostalgie et tristesse.

Bruno Debauché created (not alone) an incredible bunch of printed magazines. (Ride On, Blast, Beach Brother, Spray, Flavor…).

He was a french icon of board culture and sportswear industry. His tragical death is reminding me not only the funny dude I use to love to trash talk with, but also all the people Ive met during the time we met. All the people who were working with him or around him…

Past… The years where Id learn my job, as a sportswear journalist…

His death is sad. Really.

Im a big mouth but today my lips are closed for real.

Im proud of this club. (paris running club)

That traffic-jam was a mess. But still : great atmosphere. Nice funny crazy people. And at the end you know what : we run. No matter what : we run.

Call it hype. Call it happy few. Call it whatever you want. But each week when you are at home or still workin in your office. By -4° celsius or under the rain we run paris!

A nice video made by Yannick DO from weareblind

One year ago, 8 young, fresh, and sexy frenchies pop-up in my office with an interesting project.

They are in their own niche.
They are in their own culture.

I dont necessarily share all the aspects and all the luv they show to it, but I respect their commitment to defend it and speak about it.
Call it PREPPY, call it SAVOIR-FAIRE, call it wateva it somewhere between HYPE, FASHION, HIGHFASHION, LUXURY, and CRAFTMANSHIP…

One year ago we decide to create together www.dejeunesgensmodernes.com

We’ve tried with my partner GREG to make them grew up and help them by giving them  some advices (mistakes we’ve learned from www.bkrw.com) and a more squarrel frame.
One year later they are still up and bring a big wave of freshness into the french and international fashion/preppy industry.

The website started as a blog like, only in french.
The website is becoming now more mature and is also translated in english (more in a digital magazine way).
We’ve just brought new features on the website the past week; go and check it out.

Im happy about those kids.

Im proud about this jeunes gens.
Im  an happy digital editor of  www.dejeunesgensmodernes.

Joyeux Anniversaire les jeunes gens modernes!

Lundi can be hard to start with sometimes…
Im not so into electro and french touch.
But that remix of HOUSE de RACKET is pretty sick specially the first part…

Enjoy happy monday!

Housse De Racket - Dans l’Avion (Leno Lovecraft Remix) by Housse De Racket

Bonus track that incredible JORDAN movie
One of the best one Ive seen so far about his greatness!

This is it tonite will stand the 2010 NBA PLAYOFF FINAL.

Boston vs Los Angeles. Celtics vs Lakers. Its a classic! Its gonna be sick. 12th final with this two iconic franchise. Go C’s!

Let’s celebrate with the NBA TOP10 VIDEO of the most amazin CELTICS vs LAKERS final actions.

Speaking about THE GAME. Anotha GAME, Anotha PLAYER (lol) The very nice guyz from THEGOODIEBAG just did a very nice and long interview about ME, MYSELF, AND I… Between NBA PLAYOFFS (too long and too many commercials) you should have a look ovathere! MERCI LA FAMILLE!

http://thegoodiebag.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/interview-jay-smith-bkrw/

PS : This ITW was made last winter… So I were into a COLD MODE… lol

I love unexpected good thing. PXA x Amsterdam was a pure blast week-end.

FIRST FRIDAY NIGHT. We discover THEGOLDENPUSSY x BBB cribs! (thanks Joey!)

Indra is in the house!

Berlin x SOTO is in the House : Phil and Lars (Danish Dick!)

CANDY Girls Team

Duki x K1X Team

Will x BKRW BBall Team

The Amsterdam Bosses : Joey x BBB and YOUNG C. (you did it men!)

Premier diner de famille!

(to be continued)…

The last two weeks have been intense both in PARIS and BERLIN…

I’ve been to BERLIN first for BBB… It was a great week. Berlin is such an amazin city with really nice peeps. I know it could sound cheezy but it is true. Since BKRW BasketBall Tournament we’ve made last summer with NIKE at PIGALLE we are building strong links with the guyz ovathere. They don’t know how to play basketball but they’ve got nice girls… So that’s why we like them! lol

(those following pictures were taken the night before the TRUE CITY party, we were all at KUCHI restaurant featuring PIGALLE, LEVI MAESTRO, BKRW, HIGHSNOBIETY team, NIXON girls, PX crew…)

Then the whole streetculture families move to PARIS for the fashion week tradeshows :  (capsule), rendez-vous or private show-room (CROOKS, VISVIM…) Thanks to BESTREET for the invitation…

Dennis x the most CROOKS man!

Cris x In paris you look soooo handsome boy! I luv ur style!

We were really more than happy to finally welcome everybody in our office. Thanks to all those who’ve been passed by and stop for our BrunchKRW last sunday! Check more cool pics here too! (thanks colormegooodgirls)

PIGALLE chillin in our CAVE x OFFICE…

BLACK RAINBOW crew (Clems “LoverBoy” & Ben “HaterBoy”) and GREG.

Jason x Jeff x SELECTISM (sorry David dont have a proper shot of ya!)

Jeff STAPLE the new parisian boy, and a sweet CALIFORNIA GIRLS named MALVINA!

the young gunz! THE TWINMASTIC and BRYAN… Newbies, rookies but definitely worth to follow…

Nico x STPL my favorite model!

UNCLE FATS x PHILIPPE Annex x MARJO COOOOOLOOOORRRRRRRmegoooood! (wtf how come I dont have any SANDRINE pic?)

MDOT blurry…

(ps : on those last pictures, everybody looks tired come BBB + TRUE CITY party + PIGALLE party… in less than 5 days… everyday was tired!)

And now Im fukin happy everybody is finally leavin back and let us work properly! lol

I miss u guyz! snif snif!

BKRW and GROOVE DELUXE team up (again) to celebrate 2010 new year.

We’ve done together a special HOUSE CLASSIC MIXTAPE, with a mix made by DJ SOS and UNCLE T (thanks to GREG bkrw selecta).

Download it here.

House singles are not exactly my huge music passion, but actually this 90’s selecta is kinda cool. Let me know what you think about it.

A great mixtape about great HOUSE 90’s singles.

1-Adeva “i thank you”
2-Master at work “to be in love”
3-Robert owens “be your friend”
4-Masters at work “deep inside”
5-Jaydee “plastic dream”
6-Armand Van Helden “the funk phenomenal”
7-Jungle brothers “i’ll house you”
8-Inner city “good life”
9-Crystal waters “gypsy woman”
10-Juliet roberts “caught in the middle”
11-Robyn s “you’ve got to show me love”
12-S-express “theme from s-express”

DOWNLOAD HOUSE CLASSIC mixtape HERE.