Journal Standard gives us their take on a classic piece. Their new hooded varsity jacket comes with a premium wool body, leather sleeves and further leather accents on the pockets. The added hood is not only functional, but also looks really good and they even added some characteristics of the classic duffle coat. The slim fit and toggle fasteners make this a definite stand out!

I gave a sneak preview of this collection a few months back. Here is one of the stand-out pieces from the WTAPS Fall/Winter 2008 collection has been released - the ACNE Lamb Leather Stud Jacket. The blue lamb leather field jacket comes with lots of customization, including studs on the sleeves and on the back, as well as numerous prints and zippers. Can you say fresh?!

The latest product to release out of the Visvim Fall/Winter 2008 collection, is the popular Serra Hiker Boot. This season it comes in light blue, yellow, purple and black. These are haaaaard!

Japanese design/style icon Hiroshi Fujiwara gets immortalized via his own vinyl toy. We get a first look at the upcoming Fragment Design x Hiroshi Fujiwara x adFunture Vinyl Figure. This figure is part of a set of 5, each limited to 250 pieces worldwide. The figure is dressed from top to bottom in Fragment Design gear, including Fenom Denim, t-shirt, Kangol hat and Nike sneakers. The figure will be released on December 20th.

Gold is a watch color that fills the head with thoughts of a classic time in Monaco and beyond where money flowed like cognac from a river. Dior Homme brings it all back with this spectacular Chiffre Rouge 103 Gold Automatic made with diamonds and sapphires. Old school complements the new with it’s yellow gold band, face and featuring a Tachymeter scale on dial. Available now in a limited edition run. I’ve found my next watch!

Designed in 1935, and produced today by Cassina, the Utrecht Armchair is built of a steel frame polyurethane foam and polyester padding. A little more comfortable than Rietveld’s more explicit De Stijl designs, these armchairs still grow from the same interest in planes and points. As such, you get a pretty good indication of how earlier ideals fold into later works.

via Selectism

nicekicks.com recently interviewed my homie, Eddie Cruz. For those of you who don’t know, Eddie is co-founder of Undefeated and the man behind Union (LA), Stussy (LA), Supreme (LA) and much of the spark behind L.A.’s streetwear scene. Read more here.

Based in Hong Kong, Evan Roth is the co-founder of Graffiti Research Lab and F.A.T. (Free Art & Technology), a R&D lab for the public domain.

Over the last five years, he has been pairing typefaces with music to create stunning portraits through a process he refers to as typographic illustration. After selecting a font, he layers thousands of letters on top of one another until a face emerges.

Evan was recently commissioned to make a video for a new Jay-Z song for RED & the Global Fund to Fight AIDS in Africa. The song, “Brooklyn (Go Hard)” produced by Kanye West and featuring Santogold, provides the background beats while the letters “Brooklyn” fall into place, creating an image of Jay-Z himself.

via Limite Magazine

Porsche’s new Panamera Gran Turismo may be reminiscent of the automaker’s sports cars, but it is “much more than a blown-up 911,” says Michael Mauer, chief designer at Porsche. From the outside, the Panamera’s looks are unmistakably Porsche, with its visible exhaust tips and V-shaped seams along the hood and rear window tapering in the rear. The automaker says it wanted to make the four-door look as sporty as the 911 - it has succeeded. Haaaaaard!!

I just went down to our warehouse today and picked up some of our latest batch of Hot Air goods just in time for the Holiday season. We will be shipping to select retail stores beginning next week, you can cop them at such shops as; King and Duck, MAJOR, and The Closet