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Liam Gallagher x adidas Padiham SPZL

https://eukicks.com/2019/08/28/liam-gallagher-x-adidas-padiham-spzl/

The sneaker is launching this week (30th of August) and END has the sneaker listed on their Launches platform. Also, find them at other adidas Spezial dealers like Hanon. The release will also be available on adidas.com on the release date.

 

 

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3 hours ago, Vesper said:

Liam Gallagher x adidas Padiham SPZL

https://eukicks.com/2019/08/28/liam-gallagher-x-adidas-padiham-spzl/

The sneaker is launching this week (30th of August) and END has the sneaker listed on their Launches platform. Also, find them at other adidas Spezial dealers like Hanon. The release will also be available on adidas.com on the release date.

 

 

I bought a pair of Padiham at Christmas I've only worn them a few times wore them down the pub last week and they cut my toe so I'm a bit pissed off. I also spilt fish on my Hamburgs once I wasn't happy. These will have gone in a couple of hours if you look on Ebay Vesper there already on sale all the staff get first dibs and make a killing it's a proper rip off.

 

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

Just had a look at the Adidas Padiham NG sold out everywhere already up to £300 on ebay. These are coming out soon I'm very tempted.

https://www.consortium.co.uk/adidas-originals-stadt-real-purple-shock-yellow-gold-metallic-ee5727.html

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This Is Your Last Chance to Try One of the Highest-Rated Beers Ever

https://gearpatrol.com/2019/08/29/founders-cbs-bourbon-barrel-beer-final-release/

The bourbon barrel-aged Canadian Breakfast Stout (CBS) from Founders Brewing is one of the top-ranked beers in the world — it has a 100 rating on both RateBeer and Beer Advocate. Announced in a press release, the Michigan brewery says this fall will be the last time it’s released.

“This will be the last year I plan on making CBS, so get it while you can,” Brewmaster Jeremy Kosmicki said in a press release.

CBS was first released in bottles in 2011, and for years it was an extremely rare beer to find. The imperial stout is brewed with a blend of coffee and imported chocolates, then aged in bourbon barrels that previously housed pure Michigan maple syrup. In December of 2018, CBS was added as a regular to Founders’s Barrel-Aged Series and released in 750mL bottles. The final release, available only in 12oz bottles, is slated for November 1.

 

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Angelo Trofa Looked to the 90s For Klarna’s VAR Football Kit

https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/klarna-angelo-trofa-var/

CCTV. Big Brother. Russian constructivist beings. They all made it onto football kit designer Angelo Trofa’s mood board for a kit honoring football’s most controversial new addition: the video assistant referee.

For the casual footy fans not dialed in on the sport’s drama, VAR is an official sitting in a room reviewing decisions made by the head referee with the help of video footage of the game from all angles. It’s no wonder a dystopian slant seeped into Trofa’s brainwaves before he scrapped them for something a bit less paranoid.

Looking at the jersey now as it enters into production, it’s hard to imagine what it would’ve looked like had he gone down that route because the end result is everything but dystopian. Slathered in the pink hue of Klarna — the Swedish “buy now, pay later” digital payment provider — Trofa’s latest kit is a worthy addition to the expansive design portfolio he’s amassed since producing the five-volume ‘Football Strip Concept’ publication that launched his career in football fashion. And, for the British-Italian graphic designer whose somewhat confusingly been called the “present-day Godfather” of conceptual kit design despite his youthful age, the brief posed by Klarna was a welcome challenge after years of perfecting his skill for storytelling through sportswear. It is, after all, no easy feat to translate both Klarna’s position as the VAR of online shopping and the act of pausing and rewinding football footage in a booth into a beautiful kit worth wearing on and off the pitch.

Drawing on camera lenses and the VHS tape buttons we mashed through our childhood, his vision for the VAR x Klarna jersey is a throwback to the glory days of the loud, geometric print-heavy kits that dominated football stadiums throughout the 1990s. As the Klarna x VAR kit drops, we caught up with Trofa to talk about his “godfather” status, creating his first kits on Microsoft Paint, and how he turned South American crests and VHS tapes into a must-have kit design.

You’ve been called “the godfather of conceptual kit design” before. What do you think of that?

Angelo Trofa: It’s become a bit of a running joke amongst my friends. I can’t remember who it was that wrote that [but it’s] not something that I go around calling myself. Some people would get offended by it, but I find it quite funny.

It’s a nice compliment. Maybe it just means that, despite being so young, you’ve tapped into something that really resonates with people who like football kits.

Yeah, definitely. I mean, I’ve been publishing concept kits through Blogger and Twitter and Instagram [for 10 years]. There’s just quite a lot of people doing it now, but this niche football kit community has really blown up in the last few years.

How did you create your first kit design?

The very first… I started doing it on Microsoft Paint as a kid.

Yeah? Wow.

Yeah, there used to be those clip art sports players, so I started drawing in the kit, but it all started as a kid. I was obsessed with comic books and superheroes and I always used to redesign their kits and their costumes. I got into sports quite late; I was more into the superhero stuff until I started looking at [athletes] as the real-life equivalent of superheroes.

I can’t remember the very first design, but I like coming at it from a different angle. There was a Scottish team called Hearts and I thought, how funny would it be if you literally give them a football kit that’s covered in love hearts? It’d be quite funny to see a burly Scottish guy covered in hearts.

 

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Northern lights here in Sweden

 

 

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Coquilles St.-Jacques

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All Of London's New Michelin Stars
- Plus All The Old Ones, Of Course -

 

ALL THE MICHELIN STAR RESTAURANTS IN LONDON 2019/2020

Last Updated: 8th October 2019

Open an article on Michelin starred restaurants in London with a joke about tyres that doesn’t fall flat…

No pressure.

We’ve checked the results for this year, collated the new stars with the new Stars, and the old guard who let their guard down, and added them all into our master list of honoured restaurants…

https://thenudge.com/features/michelin-star-restaurants-in-london/

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NIKE  GTS '16 Textile Sail/Electric Green

https://www.sneakerdistrict.com/sneakers/nike/gts-16-textile-sailelectric-green

 

NIKE Womens's Air Max 98 LX Phantom/ Phantom-black

https://www.sneakerdistrict.com/sneakers/nike/womenss-air-max-98-lx-phantom-phantom-black

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RIPNDIP LONDON POP UP THIS WEEKEND

 

RIPNDIP LONDON POP UP

59 Greek Street, Soho, London W1D 3DZ, UK

October 11th-13th

3 Days Only 

11am to 7pm (11:00-19:00)

All Items Below Will Be Available At The Pop Up!

Ripndip London Pop Up Exclusives, New Fall 19 Apparel & Accessories, And Ripndip Ice Cream Collection

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Dr. Martens

NEW: Poisonous florals

https://www.drmartens.com/uk/en_gb/c/floral-boots-and-shoes?text=floral

 

 

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An exclusive Preview of 14 Hills

https://thenudge.com/london-restaurants/14-hills/

14 Hills | 14th-floor Aldgate restaurant

D&D have really reached new heights with their latest restaurant.

Because while their other joints (including Michelin Starred Angler and the elegant German Gymnasium) have uniformly impressed… this one’s going to be on the 14th floor of Aldgate skyscraper 120 Fenchurch Street, cutting the ribbon on the 11th of November.

It’ll be a sizeable affair, taking up around 9,200 square feet of space directly below the public roof gardens that crown the entire building. The designers have previously dressed up restaurants & bars at The Berkeley and Savoy hotels, and more recently the restaurant Wild Ink at Hudson Yards in New York. And it looks like they’ve taken inspiration from those roof gardens, with actual mature trees, shrubs, and large pergolas planted inside the restaurant.

In short, it’ll basically be one big, indoor garden looking out over the Thames, Tower Bridge, The Shard, and other assorted iconic landmarks.

The food is going to be overseen by Executive chef Thomas Piat, whose CV includes stints at Bar Boulud at the Mandarin Oriental, and most recently the acclaimed JÒIA par Hélène Darroze in Paris. The aim is for an all-day menu of modern British food cooked with “French flair”, including Saturday brunches and Sunday roasts. And beyond that, there’ll be a dedicated cocktail bar, and an extensive wine list curated by the team of house sommeliers, keen to pick a range of “always interesting” wines.

The best part is that you’re going to be checking it – and those views – out before anyone else, at a Nudge Members Preview night. You’ll get in there on November 1st (a full 10 days before the official opening) with a welcome cocktail on arrival, plus 50% off the food bill.

Which should leave you on a high.

 

NOTE: The Nudge preview of 14 Hills takes place on the 1st of November. You and your guest(s) will all receive a welcome cocktail, and 50% off the food bill. Tables can be booked for both lunch and dinner for up to 4 people, and can be done so by using the password in the locked box below.

14 Hills | 120 Fenchurch St, EC3M 5BA

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Want to get a taste of D&D’s other joints? Try on Madison for size…

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Clear alcohols are for rich women on diets.

 

 

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England dethrone New Zealand to reach Rugby World Cup final

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/oct/26/england-new-zealand-rugby-world-cup-semi-final-match-report

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first loss at the WC for the All Blacks in 12 years

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Get in Springboks!!!!!!!!

I feel sorry for all my English mates, but i have a soft spot for the SA team. I am so happy for them, Kolisi lifting the trophy was such a great and emotional moment.

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4 hours ago, BlueSunshine said:

Get in Springboks!!!!!!!!

I feel sorry for all my English mates, but i have a soft spot for the SA team. I am so happy for them, Kolisi lifting the trophy was such a great and emotional moment.