Arrived Taipei City last night, and just in time for today’s “East vs West” Basketball Game hosted by Phantaci & Nike. East and West represent the 2 main districts in Taipei City. Each of the 2 teams were comprised by memebers of streetwear brands in its respective district. So, members of Phantaci, KenLu.Net, UnderPeace would be in the East Team. While on the West Team, has guys from VEIL, Remix, Overkill, Subcrew, Mania, SMG, etc. It was just for fun, most of the audience were from the different brands, this wasn’t opened to the public.

Sam and Frankie were there as well. Sam represented his Subcrew, played on our West Team.

Jukai represented VEIL. He played real hard~~ He tried, put it that way~

Group photo!!

adFunture will be back in Taipei for another exhibition next weekend. It has been some time since “adFunture Taipei 2006″, and a solo exhibit feels very different than those toy conventions like the beloved Taipei Toy Fest. After 5 years since the last solo, this time around we rounded up our friends from the Taiwan streetwear scene, and put together the “YOKA Taiwan Series”. A series that involved 12 clothing labels, and each designed their own variant of our YOKA panda. This series will be available at the opening event of our exhibition. Besides this new series, visitors to the exhibit, titled “We are One Human Race”, will also see something big and related to the title. Go see for yourself!

adFunture Taipei Exhibition 2011
“We are One Human Race”

Exhibition Opening:
May 20th, 2011 – June 30th, 2011

Venue:
VEIL Taipei Store
2F., No.4, Ln. 96, Kunming St., Wanhua Dist., Taipei City 108, Taiwan

Thanks to our friends:
Revelator
Overkill
Remix Taipei
PHANTACi
BRAiNCHiLD
Provider
Machi
Mania
Hometown
B-Side
Saint of Rock
VEIL

http://www.adfunture.com
http://www.veil.hk

The recent earthquakes in Japan have left many people homeless and families ruined. This is a dark time for humans, no matter which country you are from, this is not a Japan problem, but a humanity crisis. Is time like this we all need to join hands and help those in need. No one is an outsider in this matter.

A charity project started by Japanese design team DEVILROBOTS, “Help Japan” T-Shirt is now a 20-brands collaboration effort to raise funds to help the folks in need in JP after the earthquake. Hong Kong brand VEIL, along with fellow street labels such as Remix, Overkill, Mania, SMG, Phantaci are just some of the entities supporting this great cause.

This charity sale will go on in Taiwan. Support it if you have that opportunity. If not, pls find other ways to donate to Japan Red Cross.

Just random products I like recently.

G-Shock FROGMAN. Professional divers love this model. I just love its shape and color~

Boots by our friend Jose in Taipei. His streetwear brand B-Side works with Bridge Footwear recently on this exclusive model. Pretty cool.


OVERKILL Inc, button-down shirt. Can’t go wrong with a good skull. OVK’s quality is always above par as well.


Speaking of Taipei brands, REMIX TAIPEI worked with NEW ERA again this season on a few designs of 59Fifty. Black on black is always gold, I wear this alot this month, alot~ I’m now waiting for our shipment of New Era, quite excited about getting ours done up.


Nike Dunk Denim Pack. Just simply good looks. I’m a Dunk guy.


BAPE x New Era. I rarely buy BAPE, but I like wearing 59Fifty, and this seems like a classic design, I gave in. There was alot of talk about the new ownership of BAPE. While I’m no expert in terms of finance, I do believe that a publicly traded company won’t buy out a losing company for no good reasons or good planning. We’ll just have to wait and see how I.T plays this hand. Looking forward to it though.


Kick things up a notch, let’s go luxury with this Bottega Venta woven bangle. I’m a sucka for woven-look designs, (Nike Woven Chukka included), I like this bangle alot, the quality is there, so is the price, of course. Like I said, I’m a sucka…..

For those who haven’t visited Taipei City or understood the streetwear scene, Taipei scene is basically divided into 2 districts; East Side and West Side. In the East Side, you have BAPE, CSL (carries Visvim, Neighborhood, Sophnet, etc), Phantaci (Nike Tier-0 account) and INVINCIBLE Store (New Balance, OF, Resonate, Undefeated, Revelator, HUF, realmadHectic, etc). West Side being Shi-Men District (Shi-Men Ding), you have your Taiwanese street labels such as B-Side, Provider, C&S, TAKI, and these 2 Taiwanese giants; REMIX and OVERKILL.

Both REMIX and OVERKILL are dominant forces in the TW scene in terms of local brands, and it is so great to see these two working together on a collabo piece. The use of the New Era empire cap 505 cut is a sign that they are trying to think outside of the box, when everyone who is anyone was making their 5950, they went with this lesser use model. The short tongue is making a come-back? Some would say the “WEST” on the side panel might mean West Coast Style, since REMIX seems to go down that route, but to my understanding, OVERKILL is not doing West Coast Style, so, I think (and this is no proven) the WEST meant West Side of the TW scene. Both flagship stores of REMIX and OVERKILL are on the same street (America Street) in Shi-Men. If I’m correct, is quite meaningful.

I love both of these crews, so, big up to both of them. Eric, Kenju, Jess, Tian-Wei, very cool stuff, boyz!