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Educate yourself in these quarantine days: Caiza has watched and reviewed the 5 most popular Hip-Hop documentaries available on Netflix. Featuring history, culture, beef & business, this is anything but your average lesson.

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COOLumn #001

Wednesday March 25th, 2020

Introducing Yannick & Sebi: Self-proclaimed (or denying) connoisseurs of rap, clothes and pop culture, here to deliver juicy discussions, bold hypotheses and pure entertainment on a regular basis.

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Recap: Robert Winter (Prod. By) – Release Event

Wednesday March 11th, 2020

Last Friday we celebrated the launch of photographer Robert Winter’s book project “(Prod.by)”and the accompanying vinyl compilation at the HHV store. Check out some snapshots of this illustrious gathering.

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journal.wav No 6 – Shot by R.Winter

Tuesday March 10th, 2020

V.Raeter a.k.a. our inhouse creative head Martin has compiled a musical homage to the Hi-Hat Club on the occasion of the release of (Prod.by), the first book by photographer Robert Winter. Beats for days.

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PJ Morton: From New Orleans to the Bretagne

Monday January 20th, 2020

The question »Do you know this man?« next to a photo of PJ Morton could lead to many overwhelmed faces. That’s about to change. Because the Grammy Award winning artist is promoting his third album on a world tour and in addition surprises with a collaboration with French headwear brand BÉTON CIRÉ.

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Recap: Yung Hurn Meet & Greet at the HHV Store

Tuesday November 12th, 2019

To celebrate the release of his new album »Y«, the current pride and joy of German rap Yung Hurn, dropped by the HHV Store for a meet & greet with his fans.

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Questlove’s »Mixtape Potluck«

Saturday October 12th, 2019

From the bucket drummer at the street corner to a world-renowned connaisseur of music and culinary delights in 30 exciting years: Questlove’s life at the pulse of time.

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Kummer – How much is your outfit?«

Thursday October 10th, 2019

Life is super nice, where you wear your shoes. Life isn’t so nice where they sew your shoes.

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journal.wav No 5 – Wasser Fall Edit

Wednesday September 25th, 2019

journal.wav No 5 Wasser Fall Edit Water is dynamic. Water is hard. Water is soft. Water is life. H2O otherwise KO. DJ Wasser (a.k.a. Milan from our buying team) delivers a…

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Hood Movies

Wednesday August 21st, 2019

Have you ever seen NEW JERSEY DRIVE? Those Carhartt Outfits? I could fill books with just romanticizing about the aesthetics of hood movies, especially the clothing style, but instead of doing so I filtered out six movies that really stand out.

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Stranger Collaboration Things

Friday August 9th, 2019

Ok, I get it. A collaboration creates hype, and in the best case, both sides win something. But there are moments that signal change, peak points, over-saturation, or even perversion.

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journal.wav No 4 – Welcome to Discoland!

Friday July 26th, 2019

Disco music is a performance of joie de vivre, escapism and excess. We’ve put together the perfect homage playlist for you to enjoy, chill & dance to.

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The Unisex Conversation

Friday June 14th, 2019

Don’t pink it, don’t shrink it. Streetwear doesn’t have to be repainted to please women. It doesn’t need to be cut differently either. Streetwear is as gender neutral as a cosy grey hoodie.

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Recap: HHV x Schindelhauer Launch Event

Thursday June 13th, 2019

We had a party to celebrate last Thursday at the HHV Store: The launch of the limited HHV x Schindelhauer “Jacob” Bike. Check out our recap.

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journal.wav No 3 – Blinded by The Night

Tuesday June 4th, 2019

Our head of artistic design, creative director, photographer, illustrator, all-round talent and old hand here at HHV, Martin a.k.a. V.Raeter has put together a superb playlist inspired by cycling through the city at night.

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journal.wav No 2 – Spring Feels

Sunday April 21st, 2019

The second edition of our HHV journal.wav radio is the perfect soundtrack for those lazy spring days.

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Recap: Fela Kuti x Carhartt WIP Launch Event

Thursday April 11th, 2019

We got together with the good people from J.A.W. Family and Carhartt WIP to celebrate the release of the Fela Kuti x Carhartt WIP collection and the premiere of the film »One Day Go Be One Day« by Akinola Davies.

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Clothing as Canvas – From CANTWO to Keith Haring

Friday April 5th, 2019

Especially graffiti and the resulting »street art« is the go-to choice when it comes to fashion collabs. And one of the OGs in the field of graffiti, even if people tend to forget him in that particular context, is Keith Haring.

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journal.wav No 1 – Fela Kuti Edition

Wednesday April 3rd, 2019

Eli Pavel’s NTS Fela Kuti radio show will get you in the right mood for tonight’s Fela Kuti x Carhartt WIP release event. Powered by J.A.W. Family.

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Fela Kuti x Carhartt WIP

Tuesday April 2nd, 2019

Carhartt WIP dedicates the most extensive musical tribute collection to date to Fela Kuti, reflecting the spirit of this exceptional artist with iconic designs and details.

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»It’s a Big Book!«

Friday March 22nd, 2019

Admittedly a certain amount of madness is required for creating 650 pages full of interesting stories of the last 15 years and taking 5 years to perfect each and every page.