55DSL x Alex Fakso "Fast or Die" Collection

55DSL and prominent skate photographer Alex Fakso have collaborated to create 6 amazing tees with pictures and graphics taken from the Fakso’s photographic project - “Fast or Die”.

Fast or Die is Alex Fakso’s new photographic project, which comes to life after five years of travelling around the world, from London to the US, and as far as Russia and Japan. Metropolitan narratives immortalized in 60 shots: portraits of people running, taking the subway, sleeping on docks, sneaking into tunnels. This time Fakso expands his view beyond graffiti and tracks a robust framework of the metropolitan scenario embracing the people who inhabit it. Images of ordinary people, common people plunged into the underground chaos : Fast or Die is a powerful photo strip describing the world through the subways - a report of the contemporary underground

Fast or Die will be available together with tees in selected 55DSL stores worldwide on the e-shop, www.damianieditore.it, and on www.fakso.com.

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Carhartt Brand Book No. 5

The latest edition of Carhartt's Brand Book features the Spring/Summer 2011 collection in focus, presents the latest news, stories behind the brand and current projects. It includes an editorial photo shoot with Jamie xx from the British band The xx, followed by an extended interview. A large retrospective honours all artists who have participated in our illus¬tration campaigns until today. The exclusive photo shoot by Shauna T. from P.A.M. highlights our Women Spring/Summer collection. Furthermore you will find interviews with Grotesk, Raphael Zarka and the architects Fred Naulin and Marianne Le Ster.

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Vans Off The Wall: 1966 - Movie + Special 100 Page Book

Here’s a goody news for all the Vans aficionados. The skate shoe brand presents a full length movie, DVD packaging that includes a 100 page book photos from the making of 1966 by Percy Dean, and a 21 track music compilation. This first ever skate movie from Vans entitled VANS OFF THE WALL: 1966 has been in production for the past 12 months and was shot in various countries across the globe that features sections from the most respected and talented skaters in the European arena today. To check out the trailer and further information, visit vans.eu/1966.

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The First Kenzo Book

Kenzo, along with Rizzoli International Publications, publishes its first exhaustive book which presents the brand aesthetic covering diversity and universal culture. A visual dialogue between two great designers, this extraordinary collectible takes the readers back from Kenzo Takada's earlier sketches down to the current offerings by Antonio Marras, who has been in the fashion house since 2003.

Narrated by worldwide known authors from domains as diverse as art, fashion, literature and spectacle, this publication is an invitation on a voyage of discovery and exchange to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the brand and enter the new decade in a spirit of fantasy and freedom... Introduction by Francesco Bonami with essays by Olivier Saillard, Bradley Quinn and Ryoko Sekiguchi and Antonio Marras in conversation with Bartabas and Catherine Ormen.

The book features details like the romantic textiles, and pop-ups for which the Kenzo’s fashion collection invitations are known. Available in two distinct versions at Kenzo boutiques, "Standard" edition comes with hardback fabric cover printed in 3 different patterns, while "Deluxe" edition comes with hardback beige canvas cover, a special sleeve in transparent acetate printed with a Kenzo pattern, and a bag in a patchwork of different fabrics.

Modart Book No. 1

Moving on to a new publication, Modart shifts to producing a book that is a first step to their new era transformation. With 250+ pages featuring the best of Modart magazine, readers will get an overview of what they have printed and thought, with experimental, action-based and almost Folk Art practices that are becoming a source of artists worldwide. Order here.

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