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Sugar Cane Jeans for Eco-warriors!

One of the original Japanese denim brands, Sugar Cane has a deep root history in innovation based on style and materials.

‘ Sugar Cane ’ denim by traditional Japanese dyeing techniques by hand and not by machine. The first model ‘ Sugar Cane Awa ’ is made of sugar cane denim dyed by Awa indigo. Awa used to be one of the popular places producing indigo, located in the western part of Japan. The second model ‘ Sugar Cane Okinawa ’ is made of sugar cane fibre and indigo produced in the region of Okinawa, Japan. The third model ‘ Sugar Cane Hawaii ’ is made from sugar cane and indigo imported from Hawaii. ‘

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World Cup Jeans

Take a butchers at these World Cup Jeans.

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Genuine RMC Martin Ksohoh, limited edition super exclusive design, dark indigo raw denim jeans. Embroidered World Cup and Fifa football with milti-colour tsunami waves back pockets. Embroidered ticket pocket and belt loops. Vintage cut, house selvedge, raw denim. Five pocket, button fly, copper rivets, printed pocket cloth, red tab.

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RMC England Three Lion Jeans

Take a butchers at these beauties: RMC England Three Lion Jeans. Apparently these limited edition denim jeans are already trading 3 x retail and were limited to only 12 pairs. Perfect jeans for the 2014 World Cup year.

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Visit www.rmcjeans.com or call (UK) 01733 564077.

Massimo Osti – The Unpretentious Fashion Icon

It’s been argued throughout the Kitmeout Fashion Forum that the days of the Fashion persona are numbered. Many of the post-print generation are turned off by pretentious fashion designers trumpeting their name across clothes and magazines. One fashion king stands out though for his quiet genius and unpretentious style, Massimo Osti – the late, great fashion designer renown for unrivaled innovation.

Here’s one of many questions on the fashion forum: “What’s the consensus on Massimo Osti clothing? Can you still buy the brand? I know there was some talk of his son doing a collection under the Massimo Osti banner.”.

Small collection of genuine archive Massimo Osti available here >

Emporio Armani Underwear – a retrospective

In this retrospective we take a butchers at Giorgio Armani’s observation:

“Who better than Victoria Beckham to launch our new global Emporio Armani underwear campaign? Victoria is a style icon, a dynamic lady whose influence and recognition will add great excitement to the continued international growth of our Emporio Armani women’s underwear business.”

Does anyone believe that Georgy Porgy actually penned that comment? See full thread on the Fashion Forum, here >

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Discount Stone Island Jackets

Stone Island is one of the most popular brands on the Kitmeout Fashion Forum. Here is a bunch of threads going back over the years. See Here >

Take a butchers at the kind of comments: “It’s all part of the brand mystique that Stone Island in Italy and the Fourmarketing boys in the UK try to generate. Have to say they have done an incredible job over the past decade keeping Stone Island in the consciousness of it’s target audience and maintaining incredible and consistent sales. If they cannot get a grip on all the fakes and parallels coming into the UK they could find the brand in trouble in the very near future.”.

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CP Company made in Indonesia

Kitmeout was selling CP Company back in 2000 and has long been a big fan of the brand and its father Massimo Osti.

Here’s an interesting thread on the Kitmeout Fashion Forum:

“Any of you lot know if CP Company have started making gear in countries other than Italy. I have got quite a bit of CP stuff and are all made in Italy. But recently i purchased a S.I demins t shirt from stoneisland.co.uk and when it arrived i noticed it was made in Rumania (or to us Romania) then just a few days ago i purchased a body warmer off ebay and this was made in Indonesia. It’s got the spa tag with art number etc.. so it’s real but i’m not used to seeing CP and Stoney gear made elsewhere. Do any of you have clothes made in any of these countries.”

Take a butchers at the full thread here

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DJ Campbell, Red Monkey Jeans model

DJ Campbell, the Red Monkey model, is embroiled in a match-fixing allegations. Dudley Junior “D. J.” Campbell, who now plays for Championship side Blackburn, was one of six people arrested on Sunday. Over the years there’s been plenty of chatter about DJ and his association with RMC Red Monkey Company – Take a butchers here >

Here DJ is wearing RMC Jeans and Jhung Yuro trainers and is holding a Paul Smith Football.

Stone Island Jacket R.I.P.

Back in 2005 there was a thread on the Kitmeout forum which proposed Stone Island R.I.P. Take a butchers at the thread here.

This was the period when Burberry was at the height of its chav fame, the days before the American from Indianapolis, Angela Ahrendts, pulled Burberry away from the brink.

History has proven the question over Stone Island’s longevity was inaccurate and that the fashion visionary Massimo Osti’s legacy was far greater than the pigeon hole people were trying to put Stone Island into. The brand has gone from strength to strength and deservedly so.

GOLA Trainers, a true British Great!

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Over 5 years ago Kitmeout paid homage to the Great British sports brand, GOLA. We at Kitmeout rate the brand above its sporting heritage peers. Take a butchers at the shout on Kitmeout back in 2007:

Gola Trainers are a true British classic in every conceivable way. The brand is indelibly printed in the consciousness of every sports mad Brit on the planet and today this classic brand is set to shares its history, style and innovation with the rest of the globe — luckly old globe!

Original shout here

Fred Perry – Brand of the Week

With nearly 8k views Fred Perry grabs the interest on Kitmeout. Worth a butchers HERE.

The iconic brand which synonymous with English sporting elegance.

Fred Perry is the only brand that’s consistently been sought out by youth subculture after youth subculture from the 1950s right up to today. Fred Perry has updated the attitude and styling of two key musical movements: the mid-60s guitar bands, and the post-punk scene of the early-80s. These periods shared a similar sharp, slimmed down silhouette including small collars, narrow ties, and slim, flat-front trousers.

The collections main influence is the look and silhouette of the sixties, a decade dominated by youth when British subcultures influenced the world’s fashion and music industry.

Frederick Perry, was born in Stockport in 1909 but moved down South while he was still at school and fell in love with table tennis. He practiced his ping pong every night, eventually becoming world champion at the tender age of 18. He then promptly retired from the game and got busy with his latest obsession, lawn tennis.

Unfortunately his style did not go down too well with the snobbish tennis heirarchy. His habit of changing his clothes mid-game to stay looking fresh, leaping over the net at the end of each match and dating a string of actresses and models caused major problems for this working class playboy. They were especially displeased when he went on to win Wimbledon three times in a row.

After the third victory he decided to move to America and become a pro at the Beverley Hills Tennis Club, giving lessons to Charlie Chaplin, David Niven, Errol Flynn and the Marx Brothers whilst establishing himself on the Hollywood party circuit.

In the late 40s Fred was approached by Tibby Wegner, an Austrian footballer who had invented a novel anti-perspirant device worn around the wrist. Fred made a few changes and the sweatband was born.

Tibby’s next idea was to produce a sports shirt which was to be made from white knitted cotton pique with short sleeves and buttons down the front. Launched at Wimbledon in 1952, the Fred Perry polo shirt was an immediate success.

It was only available in white until the late 50s when unwittingly, the company had also produced the perfect accompaniment to the fledgling Mod movement whose were quick to pick up on the shirt’s suitability for their nocturnal activities. It was stylish, top button fastened under an SB3 or mohair suit, and durable enough to wear all night and still look fresh in the morning. It was the shirt of choice for diverse groups of lads throughout the 60s and 70s, ranging from the skinheads to the Northern Soul scene and Manchester’s very own “Perry Boys”.

Soon, after pressure from its streetwear fans, the company was receiving requests from stockists to add tipping to the collars and sleeves. The Fred Perry shirt instantly became the first crossover brand from sportswear to streetwear.

It started one of the most enduring and affectionate relationships between British youth culture and a sportswear brand. As British street fashion and music influenced the rest of the world, the Fred Perry shirt was noticed, adopted and worn in numerous countries around the globe.

The laurel logo (based on the old Wimbledon symbol) was stitched into the fabric of the shirt instead of merely ironed on (as was the case with the crocodile logo of the competing Lacoste brand).
One thing remains constant. The original slim fit cotton piqué shirt is still made in England to the same shape, using the same fabric as it was when the Fred Perry shirt was first launched, way back in 1952.

When, in the 1990s, British street fashion turned against the giant designer labels and sought something with far more substance and heritage, it was the Fred Perry shirt they turned to. The label represented something of depth and quality within the new sound-bite superficial world that other labels had tried to create.

How many pairs of trainers?

The thread starts: “how many pairs of trainers do you own? i currently have 14 pairs.” Take a butchers here!

And 50 Comments later, ends here: “Both of them are New balance, which has a great synergy with the Yoropiko brand, although not an actual collab like the previous Yoropiko/NB project. I got these for the Black Dragons………”.

Fake Stone Island

Over the past decade plus there’s been a lot of chatter about fake Stone Island gear. Take a butchers:

A Question about Fake Stone Island Jackets

A Question about Parallel Imports and associated Fakes

Has the net helped proliferate the production and sale of snide SI? Probably no more than any other top brand but if you know the right spots down Roman Road market you can find a boat load to then throw up on our favourite cyber-fence, ebay.com

Rodd & Gunn

With football season around the corner, long Sunday afternoons, late Monday nights and plenty of geezer-time are in the forecast. Make sure to stock up on fall favorites to look casual without looking like a “merchant banker”. Rodd & Gunn takes its inspiration from a balanced “work hard/play hard” lifestyle, incorporating its love of sports, staying true to its values of quality and authenticity, all while capturing an energetic, casual attitude. Worth a butchers!

Stone Island 30 Clothing video tour

An amazing walkthrough over the 2.000 square metre of STONE ISLAND 30, the brand 30th anniversary exhibition, held in June 2012 at Stazione Leopolda in Florence.

The exhibition has been thoroughly filmed and photographed to turn it from physical to digital experience, with the intent of render timeless a temporary event. The first Stone Island 30 years of wealth in research and experimentation are now fully available online with photos, films and captions.An invaluable opportunity for fa ns, students and would to be designers to enquire into the history of sportswear and into the painstaking fabric and treatment research that has made Stone Island inimitable.

Stone Island Jacket – 30th Anniversary Special

30/30 JACKET 30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL 5715 4TTY2

The 30/30 jacket is a cross section of the state of the art of Stone lsland. A testament to three decades of exploration and development. Two pieces in one, the jacket shell and jacket liner, both reversible, which assume different features in 30 ways of use. They can be worn, together or alone, in a total of 10 different ways and in 3 different states: Normal, Ice and Reflective.

The hooded jacket shell is in RUBBERISED SATIN PRISMATIC COVER.

Jacket in Raso Gommato: cotton satin, military fabric, with a polyurerhane coating, waterproof and windproof. It is a glossy, transparent and finely grooved film that provides a three-dimensional prismatic effect that refracts light, amplifying the effects of the bi-colour double dyeing. The addition of a special agent to the dyeing recipe makes the garment antidrop. Inside, the jacket liner in THERMO REFLECTIVE, a thermo-sensitive and reflective fabric. A nylon substrate, bonded both with glass microspheres that enable the fabric’s refractivity as well as the microencapsulated pigments that change the passage of light are incorporated, and therefore the colour of the material changes as a function of temperature.

Internal WOOL KNIT with nylon sleeves.

Stone Island – London Event

Worth a butchers! Here are the pictures of the STONE ISLAND ARCHIVIO ’982–’012 event, that has been held yesterday at the London Store in Brewer Street.

David Beckham, the original FASHBALL Player

David Beckham, Football’s Fashion King, fronts Esquire’s September edition. Photography by Josh Olins, the look follows the tried and tested “moody motion”.

David Beckham is the archetype for Football and Fashion synergy, or as abbreviated here at Kitmeout the original FASHBALL Player!

Stone Island Jacket and Clothing Exhibit

Is 30 years something to shout about for a fashion brand OR is it something to fear? Is fashion corroded with age or…? Time will tell. Anyway, definitely worth a butchers this.

Stone Island with Fondazione Pitti Discovery presents:

STONE ISLAND 30
an exhibition of thirty years of history, research and experimentation under the patronage of the Comune di Firenze Stazione Leopolda, Firenze on the occasion of Pitti Immagine Uomo n°82

20th June to 7th July 2012

From June 20th to July 1st
11.00 am – 07.00 pm
From July 4th to 7th
12.00 pm – 11 pm
Closed on Monday and Tuesday
Free Entrance

Stone Island , German Flagship Shop

The first German flagship store has opened in Sylt, a charming island and exclusive tourist destination on the North Sea. An important milestone, just few weeks after the London Opening.
The interior design of the 80 m2 surface area, will host home the Stone Island, Stone Island Shadow Project and Stone Island Junior collections.

Stone Island Sylt
C.-P.-Hansen Allee 1
25980 Keitum / Sylt

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Stone Island Jacket, Mussola Prismatica

A result of the purest Stone Island research, Mussola Prismatica is an exclusive fabric with a considerable visual impact. Engineered by bonding an extremely light cotton muslin to a glossy, transparent, finely grooved polyurethane film. Specific double dye formulas enable colour capture on the light textile base, resulting in the intense and deep tones of this composite material. Subtle bicolour effects on seams define the architecture of the piece. Windproof and water resistant.