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Holiday Shopping In Motion
The friend who can’t make up his mind. The one who won’t shut up about those sneakers. The one with great taste. Your mom. Yourself? It’s the holidays, and it’s time to find something for all of them. These are our suggestions–conveniently visualized in animated GIFs. Click through each category to shop our curated picks of the best gifts to give.
The Skaters-Turned-Bikers of the Pacific Northwest A Voyage into Nature, Velocity, and Subcultural Evolution The rainshadow effect of the Olympic Mountains makes Victoria the driest location on the coast of British Columbia, an area otherwise illustrious for its rainforests. Westerly winds circulate the rain-free summer heat, affording temperate days and nights — ideal conditions for life outside and in motion.
Expect More Everything From Luka Sabbat Hanging Out in Montreal with the Millennial Renaissance Man “On a scale of one to ten, how much did your neck hurt?” Mid-prep for a photo shoot, Luka Sabbat is quizzing a hair and makeup artist about his tattoos. Already thoroughly inked, the 19-year-old model/influencer raised between Paris, New York, and the internet is planning on having some work done on his neck when he can find the time. That will be easier said than done.
All Laced Up Get To Know the Shoes That Crept Out of the Music Underground The thick-soled creeper shoes may have been around since the end of the second world war, but it wasn’t until the likes of the crisply dressed Teddy Boys of the Fifties and the British punks of the Seventies that the style became forever and inseparably linked with underground music subculture. London punk kingpin Malcolm McLaren sold them from his Kings Road shop, along with one of his other most famous punk styles the bondage trouser. It’s these fashion details that separated the London punk look from the US brand of punk, and fans from around the world made their pilgrimage to West London to buy a pair of Creepers to copy it.