We lowered all of our online retail prices ( due to the strength of the Yankee $$$ )… To mark the momentous occasion, we played around made some psychedelic looking images.
These kinda make me think of Garbage Pail Kids cards. Siiiiick! xxx
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Platform – our progressive multi-brand boutique will open in Vancouver, as a flagship location for Some Product and Le Monde Gris, as well as other international brands.
We have been working on every aspect of the shop for close to eight months. Interiors, branding, lighting…the list goes on and on. It was a challenging, but ultimately a very inspiring creative process, to design and conceptualize a unique and functional environment that emotionally engages with people.
The following images show the story behind our logo. Our outside sign, with a modified “Platform” typeface is being used throughout the majority of branding applications. Inside the space, as the main focal point of the shop, we chose to do a neon and hand written “Platform” that at once humanizes the brand, yet retains it’s singularity.
Beautiful neon work by 12Midnite at Smash Gallery.
We are soooo excited to finally release our brand new activewear line Some Product Active aka SPA. This luxury collection of styles and graphics geared for the ultimate in athletic wear chic and performance. Using only the highest quality high-tech Italian materials, this collection is entirely designed and ethically manufactured in Canada.
Here’s a sneak preview. The full collection will be available online starting on March 16, 2015.
Long boxing robe hoody $169, Ice bra $38, and Ice leggings $76
Dark funnel neck hoody $110 and Dark capris $70
Ice bra $38, and Ice leggings $76
Ice tank $39 and Ice shorts $54
Dark crop top $42 and Dark leggings $76
We will debut or CITY TRASH collection at Capsule Tradeshow in New York (February 22-24).
Location: Pier 94, 711 12th Avenue, New York, New York
Model: Willow
Hair + Make Up: Jette
Photos: Some Product
Much Love to all our friends and customers, today and everyday!
Happy Valentine’s Day XO <3 <3 <3
Martina + Reem are very much in our creative family. Aside from being absolutely lovely humans and frequent collaborators, they are some of the most talented and hardest working creatives around. We have also had the pleasure of working with them on a capsule collection featuring some of their more ethereal and abstract photography.
A beautiful editorial featuring many of the pieces from our collaboration was recently published by Tantalum Magazine.
http://tantalummag.com/current-issue/#/odessa/
Sex, colour and desire have never been expressed more beautifully then in a Guy Bourdin image. His photographs are visually striking and complicated, all in one. They tell a story without ever giving away the ending or providing a resolution. His visionary work, is really one of my great life long loves and influences.
An excellent exhibition of his work is currently on view at The Somerset House in London. If you are there, it’s an absolute must.
http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/guy-bourdin
Some new graphic work that will be slowly making it’s way into our new collections of leggings and tops… as well as wallpaper panels inside the change rooms of our brand new shop about to open in Vancouver called Platform.
It will be a progressive multi-brand boutique for men and women. More info to come soon! xo
Our dreams and nightmares are a constant source of pure unadulterated ideas filled with endless possibilities. These glimpses into our own psyches are a reminder of the massive creativity we posses. We just need to look.
This is the last project and post of 2014, but many years in the making: City Trash.
I originally had an idea of collecting trash from the major cultural (art, fashion, music etc.) capitals of the world and somehow compiling it into something tangible and new. The idea for the trash was to be “city specific”, meaning that a particular piece of trash, whatever it maybe, originated in that city. After choosing some of the cities, I decided to send emails to various friends or acquaintances living in these cities and asked them to start collecting. Amazingly, almost everyone I asked actually sent me gift packets of garbage. Some were great, some were very average. Over time I visited most of these cities and did a bit of collecting myself. Then the stuff sat around in boxes in bags. I had no idea what to do with it or maybe just too lazy to start.
Eventually, I had an opportunity to participate in a group show, where different designers created pieces of wallpaper curated by Jonathan and Anita from Rollout. I did the first collage piece using some of the trash sent to me from Paris. (Image below). At that time, I also decided to slightly break away from just sticking to only collected trash and add a few bits and pieces of more identifiable imagery from a particular city. I called the process “cheating”. However, I felt this imagery that was, by no means not all encompassing, helped to somehow ground the collages of actual trash. I chose these “cheat” items randomly from things I had around my house or studio. In one-way or another they all represented or reminded me of the city where they came from. These images are not meant to be “the last word” on the iconography or culture of a city, but rather and glimpse or the feel of a city in a particular time, thru a specific set of eyes and sensibilities.
Some Product produced a limited edition of the City Trash leggings and they will be released early in 2015. We have other interesting plans for these graphics as well as many new projects planned for the upcoming year. As always, Some Product – the brand, is a work in progress, and that’s how we like it.
These huge collages took a long time to collect, photograph, scan, mask out, clip and compile. A debt of gratitude to all who were involved and helped in this project in no particular order: Sabine, Chisa, Megan, Tyler, Natalia, Rene, Amy, Ann, Loraine, Yeni and Javi…
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
Happy New Years!
xoxo
