Wow… every time I go on these trips, I try to remind myself how intenced they can be. And every time I come home I am amazed over how intenced that trip was. So many people you know, all in one city – and you hook up with a lot of friends. And for me, just trying to be nice for 3 days in a row is very hard. Not really, but when you walk by one crap brand after another you sort of want to chew someones head of. And if you haven’t been there yet – be warned. The amount of crap all lined up at one place is mindblowing.

Some golden nuggets though. And as it takes a few days to get back on track, you will have to bare with me on the slow posting. Posting random funny pics is, believe it or not, not my actual job. But there will be some good stuff posted shortly. I am still debating with myself if I should post that picture of myself with my t-shirt tied up, showing my not-so-small-anymore belly… I think I might have been a bit drunk at that point. One part of me feel a bit embarressed over those pics. And one part don’t really care to much. And then there is the part that figures that a few peoples already have those pics somewhere – and stuff like that goes around… I might have to do some sort of a poll here to find out if you want to see that pic or not.

But now – without any further ado – day 1, pt 1.

As you may or may not have read on Sneaker Freaker Germany, Adidas will bring back the adidas Munchen this year. In a big way! Not only will you be able to line up for these Made in Germany Adidas Munchen when they are released through adidas consortium in very limited numbers in February.

As the Adidas Consortium Tabula Rasa Pack – these Made in Germany Adidas Munchen will be produced in only 500 pairs. And they will be made in the old adidas factory in Scheinfeld where me, Peter, Johan and Charlotte all went to visit last summer. And Otto and the crew went all out this time, even bringing back an 1 to 1 version of the original Adidas Munchen box.

Final release date is not yet decided, but keep your eyes open in february. Price is set to 229 euros/2299 sek (or 183 euros if you are ordering them from outside of the EU).

Time for that Bread&Butter tradeshow. Twice a year, streetwear stores from all over Europe (and some ”international”) all go to Berlin to look at Fall 2012. We usually go down there to drink beer, eat burgers at the Bird, mess around with Pontus and hang out with friends. I know it all sounds like hard work, but someone has to do it. Yes, we will stop by adidas Originals, NSW, Puma, CarharttConverse, Denim Demon, Wood Wood and all of them as well, but mostly drink beer, eat burgers and so on…

As we we’re expecting Elton last January, I haven’t been to the winter tradeshow for two years. So in order to try to create the right type of mood (what’s up Herbie!) here are some pics from the 2010 January Bread and Butter trip. More up to date war-story-pictures will follow this week. Stay tuned.

If you would have opened Saturday’s Göteborgsposten you would have found an article about Frctn store. I met that Carl dude at the WeSC 10 yrs dinner a few years ago. He had just started Streetfashion. He said something about it being a passion and a hobby. His real work was something about äppelpaj. There was beer at that party so I am not sure if I got it all right (feel free to correct me here Carl). Since then we have hooked up randomly whenever we go to Gothenburg.

That Ante fella has been here for a while. Among other things he is pushing Diamond Supply here in Sweden. He moved down to GBG for a couple of years ago and hooked up with Carl to open Frctn store. I think it is short for Fraction store. But I like to call it Freaking store.

I like when people follow their passion. Usually good things comes out when people do. So next time you are in GBG, make sure to visit these guys.

And I must say that I do like that grey and black New Era x SNS hat that Ante is wearing.

That good looking SNS x New Era Hat

Ante in that SNS hat

We went to see Converse Fall 2012 this morning. I was happy I had wrote the right day and time this time around. I like our Converse meetings. They are very uncomplicated. As is the inline collection. Spring 2012 did not give us many surprises, and neither did Fall 2012. Some nice improvements in the quality of the leathers. And some nice colors in the classic Converse All Star. The Converse Skate line looked good, and if you liked Converse Marimekko for fall 2011, but felt that they were a bit too crazy for you? Then you will like the more ”easy-to-wear” Marimekko All Star’s for fall 2012.

And by the way – we have the Converse All Star Hi Stars & Bars in stock right now. Get them while you can.

We went to see Adidas for fall 2012 today. As I had written the 11th instead of the 16th in the calendar I was happy to see that Putte and Kalle could see us at all. As usual we are not allowed to show you guys to many product pictures yet, but they did give me clearance to show you this. Just a few sneak peaks of Fall 2012. Among some of the highlights are adidas Superstar 80’s, adidas Campus 80’s, and the adidas Pro Shell. Also, the adidas clothes looks very good for fall 2012.

If you suddenly feel that itch for getting new adidas originals, you could either check out all our adidas on sale – or just browse through all the adidas originals that we have in stock right now.

My brother called me just before christmas. And he was all like ”dude, this D’angelo guy is really good”… To those of you who knows me, and who knows that me and my brother are not really into music in the same way, this is funny. Apparently he had heard Timbuktu playing D’angelo’s Chicken Grease on the radio and he was blown away.

Only a few weeks away now – the return of D’angelo – live @ Filadelfiakyrkan, Stockholm. Guessing it will not be as good as this one, but just to get a few hopes up:

D’angelo @Soultronics – Live @ Cirkus, Stockholm 8th of July 2000

So, how was your Christmas? Or as we say in Sweden – Good Continuation – or something like that. We had a calm and nice Christmas where we for the first time spent it together at home. We of course tricked Charlie to believe in Santa, and now we cannot serve porridge without getting the one word question ”presents?”. But on the other hand, what did Charlie get from Santa? Chickepox. I’ll give you another Swedish expression to describe what that experience has been like: No dance on roses.

But I hear it is better to catch it while you are young. So if you really feel like staying home for a couple of weeks feel free to stop by with your kids…

We started back in 1999. We were online 1999. We have been shipping orders worldwide since 1999. We still get questions like: ”are you guys legit?”

Now, if I had my doubts about someone or something being legit or not, I would not ask them. If they are not legit they would probably answer that they are legit anyway. But, for the record. We are legit. We are even 2 legit 2 quit

Ok, I’ll say it. I am not your average Vans dude. But I do like Carhartt. And I love getting nice sneakers! You would be surprised to know that does happen to often. Not trying to sound ungrateful or anything, but just saying. Some people think that since I work with sneakers I get sneakers for free…

But sometimes I do get sneakers for free. And that makes my day/week/month. I got these from Carhartt a while back, and even though I am yet to wear them, I still have to admit that they are really nice. Thank you Carhartt