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Berlin Summer BBB Day 2, 3 and more bcktrckng

3 augusti, 2012 //

Day 2 of the summer tradeshow trip. No rest for the wicked. Up early to a breakfast meeting with Vans to talk about secret projects. And as it is impossible to get a cab after 9 me and Peter decided to walk back to our hotel.

A few appointments this day, and with my bag lost and the deadline on Nike spring 2013 we had to split up after the visit to Seek. I had so much fun at Seek that I forgot to take pictures… Not really. But I will tell you that the Our Legacy collection looked decent. Shoes were alright, and there are some really nice pieces of fashion in their clothing line. You can expect to find Our Legacy at Sneakersnstuff any day now.

After that I took refuge to the hotel lobby with my laptop to nail down the Nike sp13 order. There are some true iconic classics within the Nike Air Max range (for example a super nice vintage Nike Air Max 90 Infrared) that will be back and the question was how to fit in a really huge order of those besides the rest of the collection that also looked nice. I think I managed ok. And oh yeah, the Air Jordan 5 Retro will be back for spring 13. In white/blk/fire red. However, Nike changed the rules of Jordan to not letting us order as many as we would want. Not even near as many. So it will be mayhem when we release them this spring.

Done and happy I walked in to the Supra showroom. I think they get my vote for best showroom this time as well. Nice food. Good coffee. Nice people. Shuttle service. What more could you ask for? I know I told you this before. I’m not a skater. But I am also not a hater, and Supra has some nice shoes out.

After Supra we rolled on to the Opening Ceremony x Adidas Originals press event of whatever it was called. Met Umberto and Rachel and the rest of the Adi crew. I love my job. I get to hang out with fun people all the time. The Spring 13 collection is way better than the Fall 12 if you ask me. So much easier to wear. But the second delivery of Opening Ceremony x Adidas Originals fall 12 is not shabby either.

And on to the Wesc x SNS x Vice party. Apparently the party was held in Goebbels old bunker. And apparently it was raining as hell when we started. But never the less. Me and Jonas was up for 2 hours on the decks. And we had a lot of fun. Smart man as I am, I left my phone in a puddle to charge it.. so it was dead for a good 4-5 hours… so no epic pics. But we had an epic time though. Thanks for putting us on WeSC. Let’s do it again soon. Perhaps in a sunnier and warmer place?

Day 3 was more of a sum up. We looked through the OC x Adi collection again to place the orders, and then dinner with Otto to talk more secrets. There was a lot of secret talks this trip. Had the privilege to hang out with our Sneakersnstuff Malmö store manager Tuan for the rest of the afternoon as we both was going to Copenhagen.

Back home it was time for vacation with the family. And the summer of rain and cold was well on it’s way.

Wow – what a pretentious sum up. Well, for what it’s worth I’ve managed to get David ”shitballs” ”nowhitesauce” Wilson to start instagram.

: That mandatory fallos picture.

: We threw a party, yeah we threw a party

: No wonder they lost it. It was camouflaged

: I hear flowerprint is back in fashion?

: Careful there Supra – they might loose them camo shoes

: I think best showroom goes to Supra even this tradeshow. Good food, good people and so on

: Someone has been doing his push-ups. BEEFCAKE!

: It was a pressevent, but they would not allow me to take pictures of the clothes. Luckily they had a bunch of tennis rackets that I could take a picture of.

: Mr soon to head PR in the Americas. Good on ya Måns.

: Ground rule – if the drinks are free – you take 2. Always 2.

: Rookie of the year award. Only one drink

: I know this is Kalle and Måns. Not sure what they are up to though. But I do know Kalle scored 4 goals against Austria in the Innebandy World Cup 2004.

: Erik was allowed to take pics, so check out the Sneakersnstuff blog for pictures of OC x Adidas

: Our ”new” adi sales rep. We call him Skethöl. He has yet to master the sarcastic ways of the Sneakersnstuff crew. Meh öööö

: Random overview picture of the Opening Ceremony x Adidas event

: And David C Wilson was there. In the flesh so to speak

: I popped the tag of these for the party in ze bunker

: My only picture from the actual party. Note to self – don’t leave your phone to charge in a puddle on the ground.

: Phone got back to normal when I got back to the hotel. Picked up a cocoanut and a pineapple for Thomas

: Then checked in, ready to go back to the fam in Malmö

: The mandatory sechs kleine picture. And Otto

: Plotting and politicing with the adi boys

: Yes, we are doing billboards now. As you do

: The design of this is taken from the old Hammarby Basket jerseys of the 70ies.

: Posting stickers just about everywhere with beefcake

: Three days, two nights later and I’m back at my inlaws apartment. Kids chillin with their cousin Alicia

: One of those rare dinners outside the house with no kids with my wife. And Hannes joined for a couple of beers and a laugh

: And with streetwearstore filter

: Thank you for taking me out to the golfcourse Johan – let’s do it again soon

: Actually played 18 holes with this guy before going to Berlin. That was also a treat. See you soon Tomas

: Other than that – I have just been enjoying the swedish summer with my kids

Etiketter adidas, Air Jordan, air jordan 5 retro, Air Max, Berlin, bread&butter, DJ, Family&Friends, Nike, nike air max, nike air max 90, nike air max 90 infrared, Opening Ceremony, Our Legacy, Seek, Sneakersnstuff, Supra, Tradeshow, Tuan, Vans, Vice, Wesc

Kategorier Family&Friends, Music, Sneakersnstuff, Travel, Uncategorized

Back in Berlin – Day 1 – Still back tracking…

27 juli, 2012 //

Tradeshow season is here, and it was time to head down to Berlin. Me and Tuan flew in from Copenhagen as my family stayed with the in-laws in Malmö. That could have started better I guess… my danish is a bit rusty at 7 in the morning. And well in Berlin it turns out that my bag was missing. Not sure how they even managed. They should have had about 15 bags, but only about 10 bags made it… And Charlotte, who flew in from Stockholm with Peter, Johan, Erik J and Thomas, also had her bag lost by Air Berlin…

So after filing the bags missing to the very German woman at that desk, we came into our hotel a bit later than expected. But after a steady breakfast at Oliv, things felt a little better. And then one Supra shuttle service (good service) to go to hell on earth… aka Bread & Butter. That tradeshow is the oposite of inspiration… Still, a lot of good people we know are there, so we kind of have to go. Besides, we had a few meetings booked.

First of was Asics, who told us that there would be no Asics for 2013… I mean, not for lifestyle anyway. All lifestyle products will be branded with Onitsuka Tiger. But the door was not completely shut for still releasing some LE’s from the GEL series. After that we bumped into big surf dude Magnus Wedhammar who is now at Converse in Boston. Magnus was our first apparel sales rep for Nike back in the days so we go way back and it was good to see him of course.

Then grabbed some invites for the party that we had with WeSC and Vice on the thursday and had a nice chit chat with the good people from Stockholms finest Skatewear brand. Danne Schön was still awake at this hour.

Well, showing face and chit chatting is very tiring, so we all decided to have lunch in the sun. And then on to the ”new” section. It was called fire department or something. Said hi to CP-Johan (Carhartt-Pointer) on the way, and then had some dried reindeer meat at Denim Demon who had showed up at BBB for the first time.

The main objective with Wednesday evening though, was to eat burgers at The Bird on Pontus’s expense. Not that it has to be on his expense, but it just is. And the best thing about going to The Bird, besides the killer burgers, is the fact that most of the good friends – and the reasons why you go to Berlin – are there too.

Oh snap – I forgot. We found David C Wilson somewhere between the Asics booth and meeting Wedhammar. He snuck me a ice cold Small Sake and I kept it in my pocket for 30 minutes. Small Sake is best enjoyed ice cold. But still. David C Wilson!

To sum up Day 1, we ended up at a Our Legacy/Rollerboys party somewhere… that was also fun. And for the record Viktor Tell could use a haircut. And you will find Our Legacy at Sneakersnstuff any day now.

: This is actually the day before day 1. (Day zero, as Nike would call it). I just wanted to show you guys Charlies t-shirt…

: Really dirty window on the train. But this was me leaving Malmö for Copenhagen and Berlin

: Got it, No Phones, No Radios and only straight arrows

: Talk about limited. I flew from Copenhagen, it took 45 minutes. There should have been about 15 bags on the plane. Only 10 of them made it. Mine did not…

: Sorry for not making it Woody, my bag got lost so I had to sort that itch out. Catch you soon, and happy birthday!

: Thank you for the lift Supra. This is one of the better and probably easiest way to make your customers feel spoiled

: Viktor was happy for his Donersnstuff tee. Who shouldn’t be? And also a great idea to take this picture against the sun

: Good to see Magnus Wedhammar from Converse. He was our first Nike apparel sales rep when we started. And also good to see Johan – ceo of Asics/Onitsuka Tiger in scandinavia

: Johan looking very happy, and Peter representing Small Sake.

: I had to take a picture of a happy J-bawls as well… so you don’t think he walkes around with a frown all the time

: World record holder in peaking early – Danne Schön of WeSC.

: What? You didn’t think Jesus cared about streetwear?

: Personally, I like my sake ice cold. Luke warm sake that has been in my pocked for 45 minutes is not as tasty. Still – look for small sake to hit a Systembolag near you very soon.

: Danne, Danielle and Hanna repping the Donersnstuff tee. I wonder if Danielle still reads my posts…

: I good photographer would have had focus on the Footish guys looking for Jesus. A genius would focus on the SC in the WeSC logo in the back….

: You might think it’s a Yeezy line, but no. They are serving Curry Wurst…

: J-bawls and Erik J was doing a great job of taking pictures all over. They have already posted most of them on the sneakersnstuff blog

: The legendary David Charles Wilson! I shared room with him and Thomas. David always looks angry at photos, and does not like white sauce on his doner kebab

: Oskar and Anton of Denim Demon drove down from Stockholm. On their way down, Oskar instagramed a picture of this reindeer on the side of the road and called it a Vägren. He later questioned my judgement for not commenting on that picture, but only liking it… I did like the pic Oskar

: Not sure if you all got the joke Vägren though. Reindeer in Swedish is ren. And road is väg. And the side of the road is vägren. So it is a classic Gothenburg joke… Leif Loket style. Shout out to Denim Devils

: Even though I must say that my photographic skills has gotten way better since the last trade show – the trade show itself is still 99% crap. I think that is why people tend to drink a lot at these shows…

: So, I had to try to make the most out if it by ordering Tuan to make the same face as the girl on the picture

: And I also made him stand like the model on the pics… thanks for being such a good sport Tuan. #Beefcake3000

: Supreme – superdry… what’s the difference?

: Not sure why adidas still have their booth at BBB, or what they are trying to acheive by having it.. But it is always good to meet the guys from adi

: Those Poodle shoes comes with a pair of sunglasses… on the actual poodle. Of course…

: Started to miss my kids… had to merge two pictures of them to have as background on my phone

: Mikkel of Converse and Micael from Vice are taking their Amish look very serious.

: I was only allowed to post this picture of Matt Sleep if I referred to him by his MC-name: Young Adonis.

: The back of Johan Stringberg and the front of Johan Unden. And Magnus Senke in the back. Maybe not an epic picture, but hey – there is more to life than just epic

: Thank you Happy Rabbit for doing the Bird!! So glad I made it this time. Still not sure what happened to Pontus gold fronts…

: I asked Stringberg to take a pic of me and David. Look how happy I look! Even David looks a bit happy in this pic. Possibly the happiest I’ve seen him #nowhitesauce

: Stringberg also took this stunning picture of me… You can tell I am in the shape of my life…

: I SAID: DO YOU KNOW IF THERE IS A GOOD BARBER ANYWHERE IN BERLIN?

: Shotsbricka – alla måste dricka! Mikkel and FWD maxin and relaxin

Etiketter air berlin, Asics, BBB, Berlin, bread&butter, Converse, david c wilson, denim demon, Nike, onitsuka tiger, Pontus, Small Sake, The Bird, Wesc

Kategorier Sneakers, Sneakersnstuff, Travel

Hold the phone! There is a WeSC / Vice / Sneakersnstuff party on Thursday!

3 juli, 2012 //

I realize that posting here once every second month is not really getting me more followers. But, as you might have guessed from the amount of text in my posts, I am not doing this to get more followers…

And yes yes yes, I know I’ve promised you pics and backtracks and what not. But here is the deal: it is time for Berlin tomorrow. And you know what that means. So there is no way I will be able to catch up on 3 months missed posts. I will do some eventually, because I have some really funny pics I want to share.

But right now I have something more important to tell you. As you might have noticed – the WeSC stocks has gone through the roof (not really but still) and is up 25% past week. And going back one week, that is exactly when rumors about a certain collaborative party in Berlin on Thursday the 5th started to afloat.

Co-incidence? I think not…

I any case – I know you all have a busy schedule in Berlin – but you know you usually end up at the WeSC party anyway so… here is yet another reason.

More information to follow shortly (and by information I mean that the public has requested me and Capitan Jonas Wiehager to entertain in the VIP-room with music and cheers (and by public demand I mean myself – I actually asked to do it (it will be fun and it might help me not to drink way too much))).

So – come on down ya’ll

So – what are you doning on thursday?

Etiketter BBB, Berlin, Party, party in berlin, Sneakersnstuff, SNS, Vice, Wesc

Kategorier Me, Music, Sneakersnstuff, Travel

Berlin Bread&Butter Day 2 – Pt. 2

30 januari, 2012 //

Ok, on to that rowdy evening of January the 19th. It all started calm enough. We hooked up with the Carhartt and Pointer people of Scandinavia in the hotel lobby. The Toft brothers Ed and Brian of Hanon were there as well. And Sundance and Sjöbusen from Footish. Since I didn’t want to walk anywhere in the rain we got a few cabs to take us to the Pointer Dinner @ Soho House Berlin… About 500 meters from our hotel… And after wandering around in the lobby for a while, they directed us to the dinner room on 2nd floor. John from Footpatrol and another bloke from Size? were there already – as were a few other known and unknown faces.

For those of you who don’t know we have a traditional burger dinner at The Bird every BBB. Well, I make it sound like it is our dinner – but it is really Pontus and Happy Rabbit’s dinner. This year we were invited to the Pointer dinner a few weeks before Pontus invited us – for that same day… I am still bummed that we missed that Bird dinner.

But, no shadow shall fall on the Pointer dinner. Food was grade A – and company was… well… I was sitting next to Brian all evening. And when he have had a few beers, I can’t understand a Scottish word he’s saying. No – I’m just kidding Brian – It was a treat to sit next to you, and thank you for laughing at my jokes. I’ll see you and Ed in Vegas. We will eat nothing but Nobu – I know you love that place.

Another thing about the Pointer dinner. The waitress was really good at topping up my glass. Gave me a good foundation for the evening. When dinner was done – or, maybe even a little while before the dinner was done we headed out. Options were: The Bird for 2nd dinner, Adidas Originals Party or the WeSC party. The WeSC party is usually where everyone end up. And it is usually the rowdiest party. Last summer I ended up walking home, drunk as a skunk in pouring rain…. not a sober decision.

Anyways, it turned out everybody left The Bird to go to the Adi party. But, time was running out so we took a cab to the WeSC party instead and figured that the people we knew at the adidas party would come to the WeSC party anyway. And if you were Swedish, the WeSC party was the place to go to. Most, if not all people were there. Lots of friends, expected and unexpected. Most unexpected to me must have been Aziz. And most expected… I don’t know – except for WeSC people – Jonas perhaps?

Well – and so it begun. Or kept on rather. Beer after beer, drink after drink. Before you know it, you are standing on the floor with your t-shirt tied up to show your belly (and thank you to all of you who has sent me pictures of this to remind me). One pocket inside out. Flipping the bird to Johan’s camera. Dancing butt-cheek to butt-cheek with David. Telling Greger that I say Wäsk and not Ui Ess See about 15 times (he still didn’t promise me any trip to LA or anything this time… might have to hook up with him later on to squeeze some kind of undeliverable promise out of him), and oh yeah – I even think I gave Johnnyballe a lap dance and some girl from the Shelta crew gave me a wedge. It was like a anti-alcohol commercial.

In my own defense I would say that I wasn’t really that drunk – I was just trying to uplift the spirit of the party. And I think I did a good job in that area. However, judging by the pics below I might have been a bit drunk after all.

: This is what we would call – the calm before the storm. I also have to give credit to my Iphone flash for making Charlie’s eyes look scary

: I think Ed and Brian were a bit worried to be confused with working for SNS, so they changed from their grey sweatshirts

: Classic gothenburgare in english

: I would love to tell you who these people are. But I have no clue. Food was good though

: Now, these blokes I do know. That’s John Brotherhood from Foot Patrol, and Pete.

: And these lovely curls belong to Brian Toft from Hanon. Nice guy, very into sheep and golf.

: Food was great. And the tiramisu was ok. But I am spoiled with my wife’s tiramisu. She makes a killer one, and compared to hers… no.

: This is actually Brians great great grand dad. From what I’m told this guy decends straight from Mel Gibson

: Johan was trying to instruct me to take a picture of this in a special way. But I was already out of control and did not manage to complete the task.

: I am with you on this one JB – but it all ends now. Or after Vegas..

: Abbe showed up to the WeSC party in studs. Danne Schön had to squeeze him very hard every time he passed by.

: Smoking indoors… sucks. Still. This might be Danne before he went to sleep. It might be some other dude. Hard to tell. Not sure why I uploaded this…

: Ah, blurry pictures of random people drinking. This is a speciality of mine

: See, I couldn’t have been that drunk. I made it upstairs. I tried to get the DJ to play Forever Young with Alphaville. He didn’t have it… In Germany… wtf..

: Drucken means drunk in Swedish. And I was drucken. Think this sign was at the kebab place. Not sure

: Ah graffiti, that has become very popular these days….

: This was not the way out. Very good picture.

: And they send us Media Mark. They should have sent us Mix Markt. I think that would work

: Still having fun, even in the rain and way way too late

: Wow, great picture. I am glad I saved this one

: Not sure if you are still looking at these pictures. They are just here as a symbol of the mood that evening…

: Back at the hotel, I remember thinking how weird it was to come home about 1 hour after my kids probably woke up…

Etiketter BBB, Friends, Pointer, Travel, Wesc

Kategorier Travel

Berlin Bread&Butter – Day 1 – Pt 2

25 januari, 2012 //

So, Day 1 – Pt 2 will take us from Berlin Mitte to the Bread&Butter tradeshow. I think they have about 9 hallways. And you enter in the middle, and that is where you will find adidas originals. So far so good. But sometimes adidas feels a bit all over the place. To me it does not make sense to be showing classic retro styles like Superstar, Pro Shell and such in a plastic futuristic environment. But that’s just me I guess. But if any of you decision makers at adidas read this – next year, you can do what you do at Bread&Butter, but also show the more classic styles in a low key booth at Capsule or something. Just saying..

Anyways, as we had seen most of the adidas fall 2012 we did not really have much to do there. But it was nice to run in to Rachel and Josefin (what’s up girls!) and also glad, but a bit surprised to run into Ben Preuss in the adidas booth. He have moved on to Holden, and their stuff with Stussy looks really good. Don’t be suprised if you will find that at sneakersnstuff later on this year.

Besides that we had someone to hunt down the new Adi’s Archive line for Fall 2012 as they didn’t have any samples in the Sweden Showroom. Don’t think I’m allowed to show them yet, but adidas Milano and adidas Oregon looked really good. After that, the heat in the adidas booth was just too much so we had to leave. And I am talking about that ordinary heat. Not that american hiphop-lingo heat as in really nice stuff. Btw – Jeremy Scott is still crazy, but not as crazy as the price of some of those adidas originals x Jeremy Scott stuff they showed.

And after walking through 3 gigantic hallways filled to the roof with crap like Uggz, Crocs, Roland, Smiley and whatnot, we finally end up in the far end hallway. That one is better. I would say they have limit in that hallway to only about 40% crap. Here we said hello to New Balance who showed us some heat – as in the American hiphop-lingo meaning of the word. Nothing out of the ordinary, but made in UK 576 or made in USA 998 is really good. Not sure if I’m allowed to show you these pics either… but as you probably can find them online already I think I might just go ahead anyway.

After New Balance we strolled around the crap section and stopped by in some of the nicer brands booths. Finally ending up in the WeSC booth. Nice people in there as usual, but I was really looking for Greger. It is something of a routine to get him to promise you something that someone else can not deliver. And I also really wanted to tell him that I will always say wäsk, and not Vi S C. But I had a chance to tell him that in Day 2.

Puma served alcohol, so me and Charlie had a (and this a is very important here) sex on the beach. After that, some of the crap brands started to look way better. Quick stop for a 20 euro sibylla burger lunch and then say hi to Vans where we also hustled up some tickets to that evening’s party. Then walk through 3-4 more hallways with crap to end up in the far end of the old airport. As we were running out of time we only stopped by the Carhartt booth real quick to say hi to Johan. Carhartt showed some really nice stuff as well.

Wow – I just realized that this is far more text than even I bare to read…. sorry about that. I wanna say it won’t happen again, but I tend to do alot of rambling lately. So it will probably happen again. But I will leave you with this for now, and deliver Day 1 – Pt 3 tomorrow.