ALAKAZAM! - Mini Season 5.5

Japanese/British label, ALAKAZAM!, had just released a mini season, playfully named 5.5, after season 5 dropped a while back. This mini collection’s tees continue to be influenced by horror B movies, mythical references, surrealism and punk-pop culture. The founders’ styles thread the fine line of dark humor, but leans more towards the funny than the dreadful. For those who find ALAKAZAM’s styles familiar, founder Will Sweeney has a long standing relationship with Undercover’s Jun Takahashi, Silas, James Jarvis and Susumu Mukai. Mini Season 5.5 just dropped online at Haven, so check the collection out for some new graphic tees.

LACOSTE - Paris Pack - Imatra

To tide us through woes of changing weather, we are constantly searching for material that will cool us in heat and keep warm in the cold. While canvas is one of the key materials for summer shoes, Lacoste had found something better in their new Paris Pack. The summer Paris Pack from Lacoste features weaved straw uppers on their iconic Imatra shoes. The shoes come in two colorways of striped grey canvas with straw and striped red straw on straw. Both shoes feature the small crocodile logo on the side panel. The insoles are also lined in straw as well for maximum heat ventilation. These are now available online through FLAUGE. Just remember to wear something else in the rain.

Nike - Dunk High Nylon - Fall 2009

The Nike Dunk High Nylon was originally released as a Quickstrike from Nike in the Fall of 2008 and now almost nearly a year later, the sneaker giant has released a similar colorway in th same Nylon treatment from the year before. The upper features the use of a soft nylon material in a off White/Silver, the Swoosh is Red, and the laces are Blue. You can pick these up now at select Nike Sportswear retailers including Standard.

Gourmet x UNDFTD - Epi Leather Sneakers

Gourmet has collaborated with fellow Los Angeles based brand, UNDFTD, on a new pair of epi leather high top sneakers that feature an embossed UNDFTD Strike Logo on the upper. The shoe’s entire upper uses a premium epi leather, the same leather that you may have seen before on various luxury goods such as Louis Vuitton accessories. The shoes have no release date at the moment, but stay tuned for more information. via Hypebeast

Nike - Dunk-Hi - “Homer Simpson”

Since the world’s most popular towering blue-haired stunner, Marge Simpson, had played muse to Nike and produced the Nike “Marge Simpson” Dunk-Hi SB, it seems only natural that her husband join her on the sneaker side eventually. Nike just released the “Homer Simpson” Dunk-Hi in Simpson’s Voltage Yellow skin color paired with Midnight Blue accents. The leather and suede uppers are perforated for extra ventilation and pulled together with orange laces. These are now available online at Ltd. If you have a Marge, it’s time to get her a Homer.

Nike Terminator Low Blue/White-Maize Gradient

Three new colors of the Terminator Low have dropped and I don’t remember, but I feel like someone successfully predicted this happening in July. Anyway, while I’m not a huge Terminator fan, these have pretty clean looks, with a major focus being gradient fading on two of them, while the other sports a black and white upper with intense Magic Eye-like multi-colored dots on the side panel. The gradient pairs feature a white/red-silver upper on the first, with white-to-red gradient fading, while the second pair is a insignia blue/white-electrolime with blue-to-maize gradient fading

Nike SB August Releases

The monthly Nike SB releases are hitting again, and they’re look pretty nice. The Nike SB August releases include the Nike SB Dunk Low “Anchorman,” Nike SB Dunk Mid “Green Bay Packers,” Nike SB Bruin blue/white, Nike SB Zoom Classic grey/black-lime, and two different pairs of Zoom P-Rod III’s, the white/black and the black/red with quasi-safari print.

Air Max 1 Spring 2010 Releases

With Air Max 1 having made a big return in 2009, it seems logical Nike would have some nice colorways for 2010 and beyond. Lo and behold, they do. These are the Spring 2010 Air Max 1 releases, all sporting white synthetic, grey leather in the center, and each with different-colored leather above the midsole. Many more pictures after the jump.

Air Jordan 1 High Strap Black-Black-Voltage Yellow

Yet another Air Jordan 1 release for the fall has popped up, these ones basically just a yellowized version of the black/black-orion blue pair we saw a couple of days ago. The shoes sport a black/black upper with a voltage yellow midsole and accents. Unlike the black/orion blue pair and it’s textured upper however, the AJ1 black/volt sports one material over the upper, but with a patent leather Swoosh. The Air Jordan 1 High Strap black/voltage yellow release is in November. Stay tuned for more Air Jordan 1’s coming soon. Picture gallery after the jump.

Nike FCRB 3/4 Sleeve Football Shirts

The Fragment + Nike collaboration has really been yielding some cool results lately and while I can’t say I’m a huge fan of the decision to go with a 3/4 length sleeve on this one, the shirt itself really does have a great look, both classic and contemporary at once. Coming in three colors—black, navy, heather grey—the shirt uses a very simple aesthetic, merely saying “Bristol” on the chest and featuring a “21″ on the back. The shirt definitely has a lot in common with the FCRB v-necks from a week ago, but it’s still unique enough to stand on it’s own. they have these now at 21 Mercer. More pictures after the jump.

Civil War Cannon Tee from Emperial Nation

A t-shirt company whose slogan is “clothing inspired by history” is a company after my own heart, because history is a pretty awesome thing. Plus, I used to be really into the Civil War, so this tee is somewhat of a double winner. It’s also a really cool design, so that helps too I guess (pfff, who cares about designs?). I’m diggin’ the foil and hot pink outline on the cannon, it somewhat of an interesting take on a machine made to destroy things.

If you want to add this one to your closet it will hit your wallet for $39.00. Check out their other tees as well for some more historical awesomeness.

Horn Player from Ubiquity at 80’s Purple

Sticking with yesterday’s theme of music, here’s a sweet shirt from Ubiquity, conveniently for sale at 80’s Purple. I say conveniently because 80’s Purple was also kind enough to offer me a coupon code for 25% off all t-shirts (minus sale ones)–that was pretty nice of them. Just use code troundup to get the discount.

I dig the division of the shirt, with the blank space above and vertical lines below–it looks great. The horn player himself also looks pretty rad. You can pick it up for $22 ($16.5 with the coupon) at 80’s Purple.

P.S. Check out the other Ubiquity shirt I featured awhile back–it’s still just as awesome as it was back then.

Nike WMNS Air Max 90 – Purple/Black

The 3rd generation Air Max 90 is designed for maximum impact cushioning. The sole is engineered to absorb the force from repetitive pounding cause by playing sports and everyday life that can weaken the body. The Women’s Air Max 90 released a black and white colorway with purple accents. The base is constructed in white mesh with black leather ovelay and mudguard. It has purple lining and laces, with a fading accent on the heel of the midsole. The Nike logos and midsole are in white while the outsole is purple. Now that purple is in this summer, these shoes will be great accessories helping you get that beach body, pounding the pavements with your purple shorts and shirts while listening to purple rain in your i-pod!

Vans Chukka Low – 2009 Fall Collection Preview

Vans has begun introducing more styles but still providing that comfortably classic feel on its shoes. Vans is providing a line up for this year’s Fall 2009 collection. Aside from the CA 46 colorways, they plan on releasing a set of Chukka Lows which is a derivative of its original Vans Chukka Boot except the top portion chopped off. Simple color pallet is the main focus for this particular 2009 Fall collection. Enjoy this preview of the 6 Vans Fall 2009 Chukka Lows releases.

Reebok Top Down “Basquiat” Pack Fall 2009

For Reebok’s Fall 2009 Collection, they have decided to use the art and work of renowned artist Basquiat to two Top Down high top sneakers. They have created 2 colorways both featuring colorful, wild and playful all over designs on the upper part of the shoe. The first shoe is basically blue in color while the other one is white based. You can now get them on selected retailers for $99 – $115.

Asics GEL Lyte Speed

Here are some new unreleased colorways of the Asics GEL Lyte Speed by sneaker designer Ronnie Fieg. The new collection features three new colorways: lime green & blue with white, blue & orange with black/white, as well as a red & yellow with black. No available info yet as to its release date. Check us out again for more updates.

Nike Air Max 90 Huarache Red-White

In time for the end of summer, these red hot joints hit stores early next month. The Air Max 90 Current Hurache

red-white, an eye-catching colorway of the Air Max 90/Air Huarache hybrid sport a tonal red upper with a little white around the air unit, on the flywire and over the outsole. Like other Air Max Hurarache, the shoe is made up of a combination of materials including that current mesh. The Air Max 90 Current Huarache red-white releases in August. More pictures after the jump.

Nike Air 1/2 Cent Metallic Silver/Black

With the Air 1/2 Cent black/silver having recently released to glowing reviews and mass success, good news is on the way. The inverse colorway of that shoe—the Nike Air 1/2 Cent metallic silver/black—will drop in September. This one sports black synthetic material and metallic silver foam on the upper as well as a black and silver outsole and silver Swoosh. It’s of course finished off with a silhouette of Lil Penny on the heal. I suppose this must solidify Penny Hardaway as one of the footwear legends from basketball, as basically all of his shoes are pretty hot. More pictures after the jump.

Air Jordan Fusion 13 (aka AJF 13)

Jordan Brand is back in the Innovation Kitchen with the AJF series, now fusing the Air Jordan 13 and the Air Force 1 Mid to create the Air Jordan Fusion 13, or AJF 13 (or AJF XIII, I suppose). I don’t necessarily think the Air Jordan 13 is among the classics of that line to begin with, and this doesn’t really improve my opinion of it. Is it cop-worthy and I’m just being to true to the originals? The AJF 13 is dropping toward the end of 2009.

Nike Sportswear Fall/Holiday Line: Remixed Jackets

Keeping the Nike Sportwear Fall/Holiday Line going, here we have the remixed jackets. These include Loopwheeler Rivalry AW77’s, Loopwheeler Rivarly Windrunners, standard Windrunners, Eugene track jackets, Stadium jackets and M51 parkas. While some of these are normal styles we’ve seen in the past, several are new and, well … remixed styles, combing two or three popular concepts into one piece to create a unique new look. Like the rest of the NSW Fall/Holiday line, the Nike Sportswear remixed jackets are out now and over the next several weeks. The rest of the pictures after the jump; they’re worth checking out. There are like 50.

Nike SB Paul Rodriguez III Sport Red

While we wait for the Nike SB Zoom Paul Rodriguez III to drop, we keep seeing more and more colorways. The most recent should get folks amped, as it really has the look of a proper skate shoe with the red suede and textured nylon as well as the fat silhouette characteristic of the Zoom P-Rod series (as well as most SB performance kicks, save those rad Stefan Janokis). The first Zoom Paul Rodriguez III (P-Rod III) release will be August 8th, although I think various shops have put them up early, with these dropping right around then. Picture gallery after the jump.

Air Jordan 1 High Strap Black/Black-Orion Blue

The Air Jordan 1 Retros just keep coming, but as long as they look like this I have a feeling there won’t be any complaints.The Air Jordan 1 High Strap black/black-orion blue sports an all black, textured nylon upper intermixed with a smooth toebox and side panel, and orion blue on the accents, strap and midsole. Finally the shoe sports metal-capped bungee laces, rather than the flat laces that tend to be the norm on AJ1’s. The Air Jordan 1 High Strap black/black-orion blue release date is in November. And if you’re digging this Air Jordan 1, check out the similar-but-different-enough-to-cop-both Air Jordan 1 High Strap Black/Black-Orion Blue Several more pictures after the jump.

GI Joe + Nike: Zoom Sharkalaid Storm Shadow

As they did for Transformers, Nike has collaborated with Hasbro to create the Nike GI Joe Pack, in time for the movie “GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra.” First in the series is the Storm Shadow Sharkalaid, a white Sharkalaid with black straps and red accents, including the Cobra logo on the tongue. We know there will be three shoes in this set, which of course begs the question: Is Snake Eyes next? More pictures after the jump.

Mighty Crown + Nike Dynasty High Premium

The Nike Dynasty High is set to make a big return in 2010 as a part of the Nike Sportswear line. The shoe was originally released as a basketball shoe in 1981 and has a sort of Dunk High/Terminator feel. And while you will have to wait at least six months to get your hands on the general releases, a super-limited Mighty Crown + Nike collaboration will yield the Mighty Crown Nike Dynasty High Premium a little earlier.

The Mighty Crown Dynasty High, the third shoe created through a joint effort between Nike and the Japanese music group, sports premium materials throughout including perforated and snakeskin leather, studded ankle strap and glittery ankle padding. The Mighty Crown Nike Dynasty High is finished off with a patterned black midsole and red outsole as well as an extended tongue tag emblazoned with a Mighty Crown.

While the shoe is undeniably dope, it was unfortunately created in very limited amounts for the 15th annual Yokohama Reggae Festival. They could get a wider release around the time of the festival on September 5th, but it’s no sure thing. Stick with NB for details.