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This season, Battenwear presents a Made in Japan capsule collection of essential pieces made using Japanese fabrics and sewing tables. Caiza takes a closer look and writes about his love for Battenwear.

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Harmony Paris

Friday April 16th, 2021

Harmony is a sophisticated vibe dreamed up by somebody who grew up on streetwear and never decided to follow a given path but followed his own vision. With the attitude of Lady Di in a letterman jacket, sports heroes like David Beckham, James Gandolfini flipping the bird at some paparazzo or Jude Law in »The Talented Mr. Ripley«

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Barbour White Label Spring/Summer ’21

Thursday March 11th, 2021

Barbour White Label combines well over a century’s worth of traditional heritage and modern, slim fit silhouettes crafted using the same authentic construction that prides all Barbour garments. For their Spring/Summer ‘21 collection, Barbour’s renowned craftsmanship meets a refined Japanese sensibility.

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New Brand: Levi’s Vintage Clothing

Monday March 8th, 2021

Levi’s Vintage Clothing selectively recreates, reimagines and reinvigorates historical classics from the Levi Strauss & Co. archive into contemporary context. This season’s »Loose Fix« collection revels in the loved-up, ecstatic, mid-to-late 80s acid house explosion inspired by the house and techno sounds of the Chicago and Detroit underground that infiltrated Manchester clubs in the mid-80s.

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New Brand: Gramicci

Thursday January 14th, 2021

Some of us fondly remember the days before the label »streetwear« was plastered on everything some non-talented guy wanted to sell. Those are the days of Gramicci. The textbook evolution of what we are wearing today goes like this: Surfwear became Clubwear. Clubwear became Streetwear. Read Caiza’s musings about one of our newest brands at HHV and note down his personal recommendations.

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Functionality and Safety – Into Nature with adidas TERREX

Wednesday December 9th, 2020

Ernie Beckmann takes a look at the origin and the products of the adidas TERREX line. The adidas outdoor segment started back in the 1970s and none other than Reinhold Messner helped adidas to develop the first untypically super-light and therefore very fast hiking boot, which he was to wear on his first ascent of Mount Everest. Since then, the TERREX collections offer everything that makes outdoor enthusiasts and fashion nerds alike happy.

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»Noasobi« and the Affluence of Nature – In Conversation With Lisa Yamai of Snow Peak

Friday December 4th, 2020

To get a better understanding of the Snow Peak ethos, Adrian Bianco sat down with Lisa Yamai, CEO of Snow Peak, and discussed how outdoor gear can be fashionable, her role in the Yamai legacy and how we all could learn from the Japanese principle of »Noasobi« – the art of coexisting with nature outside while embracing one’s own nature within.

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HHV Classics Collection

Thursday October 29th, 2020

Made in Portugal from 100% GOTS-approved organic cotton from controlled ecological cultivation, the HHV Classics Collection consists of timeless classics that don’t follow any trends or hypes. Each product is the best version of itself – durable, well-made basics that can find a place in any wardrobe.

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New Brand: Danner

Wednesday October 28th, 2020

Charles Danner had a vision: making shoes for all those who want to go new, undiscovered paths. The perfect shoes for adventurers. That’s why he founded his own company, Danner Boots, in 1932 in the little logging town of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, USA. Because solid footwear doesn’t need a fancy name.

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New Brand: Sun Buddies

Friday May 22nd, 2020

What do Ingmar Bergman, Stüssy and Dover Street Market have in common? Swedish eyewear brand Sun Buddies proves that pop culture and design language from past decades absolutely meet the current zeitgeist.