Since 1989, the Obey street art campaign has become an important urban phenomenon, subconsciously touching those well aware of their environment.

Through the vision of Shepard Fairey, Obey has evolved into one of the most controversial yet influential symbols of the 21st century. Derived from a pop-culture athlete in the eighties, the Obey icon has been bombed in developed and rural cities around the world. Its ambiguous idea immediately sparks philosophical discussion and ultimately motivates the inner-person through active participation.

With the help of Mike Ternosky and Erin Wignall, Obey Clothing continues to spread Shepard’s message through sportswear fashion and one-of-a-kind accessories. Each piece designed is cleverly thought out, attracting all genres and ages, reminding them of the days when “style” was a one syllable word. Obey Tees, sweats, vintage track jackets, belts, wallets and military inspired jackets and caps are examples of what we are known for.

Background
Julius Brian Siswojo started skateboarding in 1988 and since then, it’s been an integral part of his lifestyle in Hong Kong. His influence has spread the growth of skateboarding through extensive media exposure, and through various skateboard related events. As the chairman of ‘All Hong Kong Skateboards Associations’ and one of the founders of ‘Hong Kong Federation of Extreme sports,’ he continues to promote Skateboarding and Street fashion lifestyle.

8FIVE2 Distribution
In 1999, Brian started his company “8FIVE2 Distribution.” Through this, he was able to introduce for the first time such popular brands from the U.S and Japan such as Alphanumeric, Alien Workshop/Habitat/Seek/Reflex, Elwood/Aesthetics, and many more.

8FIVE2SHOP
In the year 2000, Brian was hired by Alphanumeric to be their Asia Sales & Marketing Director. After a successful year at Alphanumeric, Brian expanded his business to open the first high end street fashion/ skateboard shop called 8FIVE2SHOP. Known for it’s authenticity, clean image, and it’s great location in the heart of Hong Kong’s shopping area, 8FIVE2SHOP quickly gained popularity not only among the local media but, worldwide.

Many of the top skateboarders have passed through this shop such as Eric Koston, Tim O’Connor, Brian Wenning, Stefan Janoski, etc… In fact the shop has been mentioned in worldwide media such as Evilmonito.com, Skateboarder Magazine, Skateboard Mag, 411 video magazine, Lodown magazine, Complex, Sneaker Freaker, Streetwear Internationl, Street Jack (Japan), Ollie (Japan), etc… Carrying such sought out brands such as Alien Workshop/Habitat/Reflex/Seek, DGK/Gold Wheels/Organika/Expedition One/Gold Rims, Real/Krooked/Anti Hero/Thunder/Spifire, Independent, Venture, Thrasher, Listen, FTC/Western Edition as their skateboard brands and also Fiberops, Haze, UXA, NIKE SB, Cr8tive Recreation, Adidas Coastal, RBK DGK, Sperry Top Siders, Hex Antistyle, Crooks & Castle, In4mation, Irons, Under Crown, Mike 23, Fuct, The Hundreds, Fucking Awesome, etc…

With this, Brian has taken a large role in building these brands in Hong Kong, through effective media attention which has led to the expansion of the street fashion scene in Hong Kong.

‘All the Cream, None of the Crop’
From Nylon Guys magazine:

“We don’t review things we haven’t seen, bought, or used, and we don’t hype things that we don’t love. We keep it honest and that’s why our readers trust us,” explains Garrett Shane Bryant, founder of CrownDozen.com.

Bryant and his team of writers - most of whom are friends from his rural Kentucky home - have generated a content-rich site, hellbent on discovering the newest and next in art and culture. CrownDozen.com features interviews with comic-makers, artists, and illustrators - among them husband-and-wife illustration team Kozyndan and illustrator/painter Jeff Soto - and offers product reviews, event updates, and “Twelves,” the site’s amusing cache of Top 12 lists.

“Not everyone can or will buy $400 trainers,” says Bryant. “We’re just normal folk into cool shit and we like to tell you about it.” True dat.

–Julie Gerstein for Nylon Magazine

RETREAT - A fresh and innovative U.K clothing brand, which was formed in 2004 by graphic designer and DJ, Paul Sudron aka Paul Sid.

Retreat aims to bring a little more of our own feeling of individualism, and to focus on the design and the aesthetic of what we are trying to achieve.

Current focus lies on some raw t-shirt designs featuring both graphics and more abstract motifs and more recently sweatshirt designs for the autumn/winter collection.

Current focus lies on some raw t-shirt designs featuring both graphics and more abstract motifs and more recently sweatshirt designs for the autumn/winter collection and our upcoming spring/summer 2007 collection.

RETREAT FROM ALL EVIL!!!

Although we sell clothes, It is not about fashion for us, Lowercase Industry sits firmly and happily on the underground, Our product will never sit in every shop or store you come across, we wouldn’t want them to. Instead, we aim to provide Limited run art based products for people that appreciate unique things.

When it comes to our art prints, we always try and make them as screen prints if possible, we like things that have been made by humans putting paint on a surface, not churned out of a computer printer in the thousands.
Its the same with our shirts, we have sourced suppliers that screen print each shirt by hand, ensuring that every print we get is spot on. We also try to ensure our shirts are sweatshop free, its not something we want on our conscience. It costs us a bit more sure, but we reckon its well worth it.

We like to make things that feel special, we want our shirts to be your favourite shirt that you want to wear all the time.

Giving upcoming artists a stage to be seen on is important to us, with guest artist tees and featured bands in our sounds section, we try to give something back to the scene that we love.

subdivision is a premium street wear boutique in vancouver. we specialize in exclusive and limtied edtition products from the best streetwear labels acorss the globe.

our site will show all our latest prodcts and we do mail orders. please sign up for the mailing list on our site and u will get all the updates from us.

brannds we carry. fiberops, in4mation, acapulco gold, staple, crooks, rogue status, cosby, surface 2 air addict, reason, mighty healthy, hellz bellz, answer, knowledge, nsbq, name ribbon, anx, 3sixteen guilty rotherhood, and many more.

info: unit 2306 water st. vancouver. bc. v6b 1b6
ph: 604-662-8518
email: info@subdivisioninc.com

High Snobiety is one of the internet’s leading resources when it comes to the latest news and information about sneakers and streetwear. Created in March 2005 , High Snobiety delivers the freshest news on streetwear, sneakers and a lot more. The site is frequently updated, several times a day.

The news include features on outstanding people, stores as well as products.

Besides their news section High Snobiety also has a shopping guide. The guide helps visitors find stores with the latest collections or information about new store openings. It definitely saves a lot of time instead of scouring each known store for an update on a new collection or whatnot.

For those who want to check sneaker and streetwear related events, they can find updates on the latest events with the help of David’s site. There is a page dedicated just for that, so there is no longer an excuse for missing another event again.

But with the sheer amount of daily updates, it can be quite a hassle for people to visit the website every time only to check for updates. Good thing David has provided two alternative ways they can get their updates. One is by subscribing to the site’s newsletter and the other is by subscribing to the RSS feed. Either way, this makes staying up to date a snap. Sounds good? Check out more of High Snobiety at www.highsnobiety.com.

Le Bouclard means “shop” in parisian slang language. Le Bouclard is a shop with selected brands.

We stock sporty chic brands (Final home, +41), limited edition sneakers (Etnies+, Adidas Tradition issue…), for men and women. Le Bouclard is also a workshop where Artysm (craftsmanship men brand) is created and produced.
Welcome at Le Bouclard.

Cartel Goods is a premier US-based Streetwear store that carries brands such as IRAK NY, Crooks and Castles, Diamond Supply Co., Maharishi, Staple Design, The Hundreds, Rockers NYC, Mighty Healthy and many others.

The site includes both a robust collection of gear - and - a blog designated to cover the Cartel Goods World. The site updates bi-quarterly - and - also creates limited runs of collaborative goods with the site’s existing brands. The site was designed by 530 Medialab out of Long Beach CA.

Cash Crop Clothing is one of the most innovative brands on the market. Through extraordinary graphics and unique design Cash Crop Clothing displays a fresh face in today’s cookie cutter world.

Our goal is to bring quality clothing, products and accessories to all lifestyles. As we continue to grow and push the envelope you will see fashion and function in a distinct line of more exclusive less widely produced pieces. We support individuality and expression and hope to portray all of these things. We have a full line of both men and women’s clothing. We manufacture skateboard wax; bags, hats, t-shirts, pants, shorts, sunglasses, socks, watches, shoes and many more cut and sew pieces. Look for Cash Crop Clothing as a staple to lead the future of lifestyle apparel.