I also perceived that some of Karmaloop’s strategy, the discount codes and sales and all that stuff was really good for Karmaloop, for driving volume, but I felt like it was bad for the culture of streetwear. I thought it hurt the stores, who at the time were really important. They ...
David Rodriguez, co-founder of The Tipping Point, knows Houston isn’t the first city that comes to mind when people think of streetwear stores. Rodriguez says the city’s first shop was Active Athlete, which has been open since 1988 and primarily served the hood with Air Jordans. Then th...
The popular Taiwanese streetwear brand Stay Real opened their first shop in Japan last week. The new Stay Real Harajuku shop is located in the heart of Tokyo’s most famous fashion neighborhood, only minutes from other well-known streetwear stores including Neighborhood, Supreme, Undefeated, and ...
“Their logo reminded me of how we went to army surplus stores to get iron-on felt Old English letters on our back. Where we put on our crew, our neighborhood, or our love for our old lady. They captured that era in modern times and it never goes out of style,” says Los Angeles...
me they were opening a hat store on Fairfax, so I was like, “Oh, we’re going to have two hat stores on the same block? That’s kind of weird.” I was trying to figure out what to do with the space. Rent was so cheap that eventually I was like, “I might as well open a...