Hello again. It’s been a while since we last put anything up here, but I guess we’ve been busy with other things. Personally I spent most of December eating and drinking.
So last week Karl and I went to fashion weeks in Paris and Berlin respectively.
BBB was crazy as always. Funny how tens of thousands of people will gather for these things and tell each other how much they don’t like being there. However, although trade shows by definition are uninteresting, it was good to catch up with old friends and meet a few new people as well.
And that Tempelhof Airport is just incredible.

Photo by Fliegender – it looks a lot better without the massive branding.

While in Berlin I stayed with Jon, who had these beautiful vintage hand stitched pillow cases hanging on his wall:

I SLEPT AND DREAMED THAT LIFE WAS BEAUTY

I WOKE AND FOUND THAT LIFE WAS DUTY

Oh and I finally got a chance to experience the infamous Panorama Bar. Hard to explain, but also crazy.

And so now I’m back in a snow-filled Copenhagen making my 2-year old daughter do drawings on my phone.

If you own an iPhone you should check out this nice little app called Bloom by Peter Chilvers and Brian Eno.

By the way i just read this interesting interview with the Eno in The Guardian.

Eno on the decline of record sales: “It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you’d be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history’s moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber.”

Brian SS

To present the new shoe we did with Nike, we recently did an all night shoot with Danish photographer Thomas Skou.
To get the full story on this project please go to Beinghunted.

The shoe is available December 11 at all Wood Wood stores.

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Head Porter is one of those brands, where everyone at the store get excited when new shipments arrive. This time is certainly no different.

As always quality and design is equally on point.

Now available on-line here and here.

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Some sneaker news that is actually interesting:

ADIDAS TO LAUNCH 1 EURO SHOE

German sports brand Adidas is planning to make “one-euro shoes” to offer to people who can’t afford to buy shoes, with pilot production to begin next year in Bangladesh.

The project has been inspired by Nobel Peace Prize winner Huhammad Yunus, who suggested the social business project to the company.

Yunus is the pioneer of micro-loans, which help the poor start their own businesses. Adidas said that the €1 price tag (equivalent to 89p) was more of a concept and that the final price of the shoes might be slightly higher.

The sports brand has agreed to make the shoes on a non-profit basis, selling them at no more than the cost of materials and manufacture.

It is not known if the shoes will have the Adidas three-stripes label on them, or be sold under some other group brand. Runau said it had been suggested the shoes not be branded at all, but this was being studied. ‘We’re just at the beginning,’ he said.

The Adidas move matches that by other multinational companies eager to show social responsibility, such as drug companies offering low-cost medicines in poor nations or technology companies trying to develop the ‘$100-laptop’.

It is not known if the trainers will be unbranded or feature the Adidas three-stripes label.

Last year Adidas was criticised for the amount it allegedly paid workers at its Chinese factories.

Its move to produce the shoes in Bangladesh will create jobs for the country’s garment workers who are some of the poorest paid in the world.

Lifted from Cream

Casio G-Shock // WW edition.
Only 15 pcs made.
Available this thursday November 16 at Wood Wood Berlin.

A lot more at Internet Archaeology. I love this stuff.

Brian SS

Expanding further into cyberspace: http://twitter.com/LOGLIFE

Thanks Nike.

BSS

Also if you ever come to Kreuzberg, I can recommend the excellent Motto store.

Located in an old print shop Motto offers a selection of great art, design and culture magazines you have new seen or heard about before. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to have a proper look, but I will definitely be back.

BRIAN SS

Last week we took a quick trip to Berlin and I finally got an opportunity to visit the amazing Edsor Kronen tie company in Kreuzberg. Edsor makes two collections a year with about 1500 designs, all made in house by Günther H. Stelly.

Herr Stelly is the previous CEO or Geschäftsführung of the company but has recently passed on the title to his son Jan-Henrik who was kind enough to give us a tour.
This year marks Edsor’s 100th anniversary and you really feel the historic atmosphere when you walk around the factory. This place is truly a place of another time.

Wood Wood’s Laust and Jan-Henrik discussing future projects and house coats.

The showroom.

Everything is made from 100% pure silk in Como, Italy.

Laust flipping through the current collection sample book.

Frau Hartmann.

The always stylish Jan-Henrik in front of the vintage fabric rolls.
Thanks a lot for opening your doors to us.

BRIAN SS