Today, May 14th at 1234 Bloor St. W, from 6-9pm.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
She's so cool...
Even on the other side of the globe... girls like to take pictures of themselves with their bikes. This chick must own a bike shop or something because she has a seemingly endless supply of cute bikes to take pictures of herself with.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Yet another reason to stop by Drunk in the Trunk...
Thursday May 14th at 1234 Bloor St. W, from 6-9pm, come and try on Big Red's Bike Riding Hood - and show Mr. Wolf who's boss!!!
Bonjour Montreal
I've been in Montreal since Sunday for the 5th World Environmental Education Congress. I'm here for a nice little mini-vacation. (That kinda shows what level eco-nerd I am.)
I'm not alone, I'm here with my sweet heart... my bike! VIA makes it supper easy for you to take on the train. You can just hand it to the baggage guys, but they recommend you put in in their free bike boxes- you have to remove your pedals and handle bars to fit it in, and I actually went out and bough my very own 13 and 15 mm wrenches to do this!
(I didn't bring my camera, so I googled "montreal bike lanes" and somehow google gave me this photo... FAIL)
Montreal is a bike friendly city, with a well established bike-line system laid by bike activists back in the 70's. THANK YOU GUYS! I'm on Rene-Lavesque, which has amazing double bike lanes that have concrete barriers on each side. It feels strange being so safe on a road. For bicyclists in Toronto in 30 years, I promise to be a more proactive bike activist.
Montreal also loves bike style, and this week's edition of THE HOUR has a tattooed, fashionably punky babe on the cover, promoting BIXI Bikes. Something tells me the stylist of this shoot saw photos of our show. Now, my bike is supper happy I didn't know about this before I came to Montreal, or I may not have brought her on the trip. When I learned about this I couldn't believe it- as of today, Montreal has 3,000 high-tech bikes ready for shared city use. They are one of the most well built, indistructable bikes with encased chains and nitrogen filled tires. Day membership passes only cost $5. Year memberships are $78. There is a station right outside my hotel, and I salivated over them last night.
Congratulations on kicking Toronto's butt Montreal!
And now... one of my favorite French/Montreal/Bike videos...
I'm not alone, I'm here with my sweet heart... my bike! VIA makes it supper easy for you to take on the train. You can just hand it to the baggage guys, but they recommend you put in in their free bike boxes- you have to remove your pedals and handle bars to fit it in, and I actually went out and bough my very own 13 and 15 mm wrenches to do this!
(I didn't bring my camera, so I googled "montreal bike lanes" and somehow google gave me this photo... FAIL)Montreal is a bike friendly city, with a well established bike-line system laid by bike activists back in the 70's. THANK YOU GUYS! I'm on Rene-Lavesque, which has amazing double bike lanes that have concrete barriers on each side. It feels strange being so safe on a road. For bicyclists in Toronto in 30 years, I promise to be a more proactive bike activist.
Montreal also loves bike style, and this week's edition of THE HOUR has a tattooed, fashionably punky babe on the cover, promoting BIXI Bikes. Something tells me the stylist of this shoot saw photos of our show. Now, my bike is supper happy I didn't know about this before I came to Montreal, or I may not have brought her on the trip. When I learned about this I couldn't believe it- as of today, Montreal has 3,000 high-tech bikes ready for shared city use. They are one of the most well built, indistructable bikes with encased chains and nitrogen filled tires. Day membership passes only cost $5. Year memberships are $78. There is a station right outside my hotel, and I salivated over them last night.
Congratulations on kicking Toronto's butt Montreal!
And now... one of my favorite French/Montreal/Bike videos...
Bike Gang Instruction Manual: Lesson #195 - Matching Jackets
...and reason number one to visit 1234 Bloor St. W on Thursday night!!! Come pick up your Deadly Nightshades biking jacket and get 20% off retail price! Drunk in the Trunk starts at 6pm and goes until 9pm.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Media Round-Up
So, our show at [FAT] got lots of love!!! Here is a recap:
Toronto Street Fashion loved us. Editor Rachel was a huge part in developing the documentary "A Night Out With the Deadly Nightshades" with director George Browne that debuted at [FAT] last year.
Final Fashion loved the high energy show. Danielle then swung by our trunk show to show off a rad new cut!
I Want- I Got loved our colour scheme and use of man meat.
The Torontoist gave us two shout outs, pre-show and post-show.
Blog TO showed some of their favorite styles here.
Experience TO thought we had the right amount of attitude!
As mentioned previously, MONDO thinks we're rad, and we think it right back. DJ Daniel Wilson gave us a shout out too! He DJed for the Fashion Show Down at Vintage 69, and I think GirlTalk needs to start worrying- he's got some skills!
I just discovered this amazing bike blog outta OZ, - Double Oh Two. We rock his world, and after reading his blog he totally rocks mine.
That's all for now folks! If you find anything else, send it my way!
Toronto Street Fashion loved us. Editor Rachel was a huge part in developing the documentary "A Night Out With the Deadly Nightshades" with director George Browne that debuted at [FAT] last year.
Final Fashion loved the high energy show. Danielle then swung by our trunk show to show off a rad new cut!
I Want- I Got loved our colour scheme and use of man meat.
The Torontoist gave us two shout outs, pre-show and post-show.
Blog TO showed some of their favorite styles here.
Experience TO thought we had the right amount of attitude!
As mentioned previously, MONDO thinks we're rad, and we think it right back. DJ Daniel Wilson gave us a shout out too! He DJed for the Fashion Show Down at Vintage 69, and I think GirlTalk needs to start worrying- he's got some skills!
I just discovered this amazing bike blog outta OZ, - Double Oh Two. We rock his world, and after reading his blog he totally rocks mine.
That's all for now folks! If you find anything else, send it my way!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Everybody say "Andrea Crews"!!
So we all have those moments when we see something or hear something and we just have to find out more. But so often those things that grab you start to look a bit flat the more you google. THIS IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I STARTED LOOKING INTO ANDREA CREWS.
I found all this remade craziness the other day, and you know how remade gets me all worked up, so clearly I was pumped.
It turns out that Andrea Crews is a performance art crew / fashion collective/ studio-store-art space / garbage activists / completely amazing. They are from france (of course) and their mission is to revalue disgarded clothes into innovative fashion statements, with the higher intention of giving ethical alternatives to the fashion industries inherent wastefullness. They often show collections by making outragious videos, and are active in the international art scene.
One of their resent shows had around 25 'models' playing musical chairs while another lay face down in the middle of the circle!!!!!
Here is how they describe themselves : "it touches everything, fashion, art, music, likes partying and gets wet without complex." Franglais. Delicious.
I think I'm in love.
GO AND CHECK THEM OUT.
nam
Nightshades at 69 Vintage's "An Old Fashioned Fashion Throwdown"
Many thanks to Paul Sergeant for taking pics!!!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)