diesel store window, soho nyc, originally uploaded by ernest.borg9.

Paul Pope, an artist known his “slopily brilliant” style in comics and graphic novels, is emerging in the fashion design world. Last year, he did the store art for the SoHo (NY) Diesel store. (Pictured). Recently, he was hired by DKNY to design a line of jeans.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Mr. Pope and the charming urban stalwart of a label met to discuss the possibility of working together, and within 6 weeks, the project was underway.

Mr. Nipon was impressed by Mr. Pope’s wide-ranging creative interests and his pointed technical questions about the line.

Some tasks Mr. Pope worked on are tee shirt designs and patterns for hoodies.

Hypebeast, the street style blog with just the right balance of street to style, showed me these unbelievable Adidas Gazelles today:

They have a few other pairs, but this is my favorite.

Gazelles are the shoe that all of my soccer playing buddies from high school said were ”The Best Shoe Ever.”

And now they make them in pastel!

This weekend I bought a new looking pair of Seven’s for $45. I am so happy about this, as I was feeling a little down about my jeans selection recently. I do have a pair of Lucky’s that are just starting to feel like they are truly mine (in the way only jeans can). But Seven’s are pretty cool.

They are a little long, and I was thinking of getting them hemmed, but then somebody suggested I keep them long and wear them with heels. This is a good idea, since all my other jeans are short for my short legs.

So, questions:

1. What color wedges to get?

2. Since 96% of the time I don’t wear heels (currently), should I just get them hemmed?

Thanks, all.

P.S. I got them at the Junior League on Filmore

Puma is realeasing a “Fresh Prince of Bel Air”pack - shoes, watch, and bag. Awesome. That show was hysterical. How wonderfully daring of you, Puma Brand Sneakers.

First, the goods:

Now, the video - The intro does a good job of capturing the mood of the show. Here is the extended intro, which I’d never seen before, though it seems like there is only one extra scene:

Pretty good homage to this great television show from the 90’s. For more info, check out: EuKicks.

I was looking for a jacket to buy for my boyfriend today. I found these two at FCUK (French Connection UK) that I like. Either is most likely too expensive for my broke a**, but I like them anyway. I can’t decide which one I like better, but I am leaning toward the sprintz.

1. The Parker: (today’s price: $248):

2. The Sprintz - my current favorite (today’s price: $189)

Which do you like?

My grandmother, no longer with me on this earth, wore her cap to bed every night. She also could read your cards and tell your fortune, and wrote songs where creating the rhyme took precedent over making sense of the verse. I have often worn wool hats inside the house which makes my mother sigh that I remind her of her mother and thus, I infer, she isn’t sure of what to think of my hat. She wouldn’t wear it in the house, I also get out of this. This weekend I went skiing (and did not fall once thank you), and so last Friday, tramping through the rain, I stopped at Crossroads and found myself a new hat.

Crossroads, as you may know, is one of the greatest stores in San Francisco. I haven’t written about it yet, so perhaps I will do so tomorrow - I am trying to keep focused from post to post. Basically, it is a mix of used and new clothing, always in style and always reasonably priced.

At Crossroads (The one in the Filmore District) I got this hat by WeSC. WeSC stands for “We Are The Superlative Conspiracy” and they are one of these new types of clothing brands/art/activist groups. They feature on their website a pretty cool image of a bunch of cool looking people hanging out in the park, combined with collage-ish cutouts. Their top level links get you to their Spring Summer Collection (Its January!) and a list of activists - actually a portfolio of skaters, artist, musicians, and other folks who I guess endorse WeSC.

You might be trying to figure out if I am on the side or against WeSC - well, that is kind of what their name makes you ask as well so I will leave you guessing. I will say that the hat wasn’t expensive, and besides Crossroads there are plenty of places to get a good deal on their stuff. But here are the pictures of my new favorite piece of clothing: my wool WeSC cap. Love you Grandma Katie.

I hope this reaches the interested in time - the San Francisco Based Fashion Design House and Online Shop, Improperazzi, are showcasing their work tongiht at AsiaSF via the STILETTO party. As I have never been to AsiaSf, I will quote from the 7×7 website:

This SF landmark dishes up Cal-Asian cuisine along with gender-illusionist entertainment, shattering the conventional idea of “dinner and a show.”

I want to go RIGHT NOW. But I’ll have to wait for tonight.

STILETTO is the Friday/Saturday night party hosted by Andrew Parker where you can get your fill of photography, film, DJ action.

Finally, back to the fashion: Improperazzi is an edgy shop, on the street style end of the fashion spectrum. They have print tees for men and women, bags and hoodies. Their website is awesome. You should really look at it right now. It is made to look like a skeezy tabloid lying on the table at an even skeezier bar. Their clothes: A small collection, the tees are all printed or screened - skulls, scissors, Asian Flag inspired, repeating patterns. Many of the prints have a dark humor about them. The bags, from their site, look like regular bags that they spray painted with stencils. Only one hoodie, a big skull - I wasn’t as much of a fan as of the tees.

Check out the show tonight, or at least check out their striking website.

This past weeked I was helping my step daughter look for winter coats. She is looking for one with a faux fur hood - originally thinking white, but upon further consideration, probably a darker color.

I was showing her some Abercrombie jackets that I thought fit the bill - the Lexie and the Casey jackets, particularly.

Well, she was quite interested, but the more we talked, the more she got to talking about her personal style. She was saying - really politely because I could tell she was trying not to offend me (which, as an aside, I find hysterical and adorable) - that she likes to do the non-standard brand sometimes, and that her style is a little more funky and creative than her friends.

So awesome. I mean, as an adult on a budget, trying to look somewhat professional, with limited time to spare in my life, I can totally see the advantages of searching within mainstream brands - quick, consistent, easy.

But for a teenager working out her personal style, I am thrilled to see her going against the “brand loyalty” crowd. I think it is the sign of a independent-thinker, which I am looking forward to seeing develop.

More on the topic of cute backpockets of jeans…. Applebottoms is really the master of this. Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

Applebottoms is even smart enough to have an excellent selection of jeans for those of us who have got extra blessings in the booty department. See what I mean?

Check out this collection of the back pockets of jeans. Actually, the piece begins here.