Showing posts with label Hungry Dragon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hungry Dragon. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

obsessive

UC.503B.Curry
Caught Hannibal Rising on Sunday, not too bad of a movie. Lacking in excitement in most parts, i'd wish they'd play up on the gore or thrill factor like "Silence". Heck, i was disappointed with only a hint of incest from Gong Li's Lady Murasaki character [can't be helped, i'm a perv]
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Followed up with an evening stop at the SoleObsession meetup. Gotta show some love [no homo] for the 'old timers'. Borne from the memories of summits and gatherings of yesteryear, its truly nice to have a pure gathering of sorts without the pretext of hype. Sure we still get the odds and ends of youthful hype: "er, can i just pop by to get the event tee?" and "what limited edition NB shoes are in the lucky draw?"
The tee helps to ease off the organising [since its individually run] and the shoes, well, true its used for advertising and enticing, but its simply giving up what we could spare. But thats prolly the way it goes with NB kicks, love em or hate em, its not gonna go on ebay.

The comings and goings - props to the Streething crew for showing support. Met Ben as well, still remember him from the days of Skool @ FEP. And the Bape-sponsored dude was in nbhd - a rarity! haha

[Left]:Anthony [Leftfoot], Mandeep [LimitedEdt], Eugene [the brain] cooking up more evil concoctions. [Right]: former hype-king, the real guru-guru of UC, Skinner and nobody acting cute [no homo]

[Left]: The NB spread [by the ever so humble Ant]-i so need those microzine's and FOPS. [Right]: hTm's are always welcome, but i'm lovin' the Orchard Streets and Junya x Nike vintage joints

[Left]:tennis balls and londons. [Right]: so-rare-it-hurts Clydes-Green "cash money" is gem
There were some cute chicks as well, props for turning up.

"The big cheese" aka "big kahuna" aka "da boss" aka "Mr A" spotting some short short skirts, whereupon being questioned for the photo-taking, deftly turned the attention to the hot hot kicks on display instead. hahahaha!

Mr Oderus doing the soapbox honours. Not only were kicks given away, we had crates of duty-free beer to boot! Beat that!
All in, it was a laid-back affair and i for one would hope there's more of summits and less of hype-meets. Props!
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dragon

Not only were the hungry dragons on the prowl, so were these! Widely mistaken for the HK-collab, unfortunately on a wider distribution, these have their selling points. They also feature the oil-leather and detailed stitching, however, they lack the individually numbered tag [hence the much much larger production nr's]. Saving grace is the "new balance" heel tab logo translated into Chinese characters. Thats prolly really the few times you're gonna see the trademarked logo font-type being "tweaked"!
pic courtesy of Skinner @ Leftfoot store, Singapore
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undercover A/W 07


Jun Takahashi's Undercover A/W 07 is reviewed on style.com"
A couple of pretty straight forward, pull-on essentials, but that "brains" carry-bag is much too sick - a must get for fans.
I'd say a pretty simple collection and that's easily digested and for the masses. But what's with the Jay McCarroll headphones/earmuffs effect?
Speaking of which, Jay's collection does give lots to think about when compared to above...

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let's hear it for the ladies
Its int'l womens day [3rd Mar], so what better way to commemorate than moving on to my fave part of blogging... :)
Keely & Avril for Arena
Dope issue this month with a double whammy:

Avril drop it like its hot on the cover,

Keeley brings the goods as usual
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JLH

Jennifer Love and her Hewitts do not disappoint at the post-Oscar party
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superfine Vic popping
Check out Vic in her Superfine's

still eye-poppingly hot devil of a bod:


i'm totally pooped, hitting the sack real soon
Laters

Friday, February 09, 2007

New Balance 574 Hungry Dragon

NB pulls out the stops yet again. Check out the launch of the Asia Pacific exclusive of the NB 574 "hungry dragon". As part of the push into the lifestyle market as well as an affirmation of the label's heritage in performance and design, the launch is the first regional media event [with more to come]


Designed by Andrew Nyssen, the same guy who brought you the fantastic SuperTeam33 "fish" series last month, the Hungry Dragon series will be limited to only 574 pairs per colorway of NB's famous classic model 574.


Three colorways will be released: Garden Green, Blackberry Wine Purple and Midnite Black. Each pair uses high quality oiled leather, and features a stunning fire breathing dragon embroidery that stretches prominently from the medial to lateral side of the shoe. It also features a gold-print insole[!]


Check out the finely detailed stitching and embossing of the dragon's "scales" from the different angles of the shoe. The completely full-leathered shoe complements the overall luxury look.

Tongue tag detail

Last but not least, the look is finished off with the centennial NB logo on the tongue tag. And to make the pair even more coveted than it already is, each pair is individually numbered on the reverse side of the tag.

The collection will drop in the following countries within Asia Pacific: , Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan. Each pair will be launched separately each week, and be housed in a specially designed box featuring the Hungry Dragon graphic.
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Simultaneous region Release dates: Garden Green [March 7th], Blackberry wine Purple [March 14th] & Midnite Black [March 21st]

As part of the media launch of the Hungry Dragon in HK, New Balance collaborated with Eric Kot's RMC label [RedMonkeyCompany Jeans] and their new ultra-luxury Yoropiko collection by RMC designer Martin.

57+4 pairs of the special collab denim were produced, and features the dragon motif in typical RMC/Yoropiko style lavishness. 50 pairs will be put up for ebay auction to benefit Unicef. Details will be announced at a later date [check back here]
*edit: 1 set will be available in Singapore-viewing pair to be shown in SoleObsession summit

You can check out some excellent event photos from SneakerFreaker.
Drop dates will be announced for each country very soon, wait for it!