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More London Games Lifestyle…

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

My Brit homey Mr.Blister sent me a kite telling me that the Olympics were in Londontown again after the 1924 Olympiad. The 1948 Summer Games was the return of the Olympics to England.

Knowing Ralph Lauren’s asPirations like I do I thought I’d look thru some of the flicks from the 1948 Olympics to see if he cribbed some of his graphic details from the outfits worn during that time.

Sure enough Ralph Lauren found inspiration from Dutch sprinter Fanny Blankers-Koen’s (also known as ‘the Flying Housewife’) bib numbers.

The 1992 plates series is one of the indisputable GOATs for lifestyle collectors. The tee shirts, rugbys and button downs fetch several hundred dollars apiece. The windbreaker jackets are my favorites.

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Chariots Of Fire Lifestyle…

Friday, April 20th, 2012

Polo Ralph Lauren’s aspirations for combining the imagined gentility of European and American nostalgia will reach its logical zenith at the 2012 London Olympiad.

Taking the design cues from the flapper days of the 1920s and coincidentally the last time the Olympics were played in London (1924), the ultimate Americana fashion label will be supplying the uniforms for the USA athletes.

The newsboy caps are pretty dope but the sickest I.T. in this series might be the sunglasses.

Of course there are sweatshirts and short sleeved knits on tap which are must cops for all of us intent on living the ‘Lo lifestyle.

This run isn’t matching the intensity of the 1992 games series of clothing which remains top acquisition status on most collector’s holy grail lists. Still, there are pieces in this run that will rep the lifestyle for you in years to come.

I wonder if the Dan and Dave ‘Chariots Of Fire’ tees will be retro’d for these Summer Games?

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SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Friday, April 20th, 2012

The most anticipated Air Jordan release for me this year is the ‘Olympic’ VI retros dropping to coincide with the Londontown Olympiad.

First of all, the VI is the shoe which Jordan rocked for his first championship run so that right there should end all arguments, but the white and navy leather rocks so hard with so much of my lifestyle program it’s not even funny.