The Lauren t-shirt, featuring a photo I shot of Wiskazz.  Shouldn’t be hard to figure out why I like this one so much:

The OE Lines t-shirt – I dig it in all colorways, but this yellow/black combo was inspired by the old-school Orchard Street logo tees (shout-out Greig!) and features the B-Boy-style iron-on Old English we initially introduced 5 years ago with the REMIX series.

and the Civil Disobedience t-shirt, which features one of my favorite Thoreau quotes on — you guessed it — CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.

Favorite new shoe selections go to this Riley High-Top and the navy Johnson Mid-Top:

I don’t really wear hats anymore but if I did, I’d take it back to the mesh-backs like the Gem snap and any of our hats with the “heather grey” twill like the Palms:

Can never have enough black pullovers and this is my favorite selection from our Grateful Dead collaboration: Steal Your Face.

And this summer (well, like every summer for as long as I can remember), it’s all about black tees and black shorts.  We’ve got the classic black shorts down to a science with the Lilys.

Season after the next, our Phoenix sunglasses get better and better.  The Ivory Tortoise colorway and the Brown Tortoise / Black tho!

Plus while I’m cruisin’ the Online Shop, why not pick up this Van Styles print?  An 11 x 14 “Heat:”

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The Hundreds Summer 2013 Eyewear collection unveils five new renditions of our signature Phoenix frames­­ – two new tortoise shell (tan tortoise and brown tortoise) and three new colorblocked (black/grey, navy/yellow and brown tortoise/black) offerings. All sunglasses in the line feature high-quality cellulose acetate frames and lenses made from scratch-resistant cast CR-39 material. Other highlights include The Hundreds Slant Logos emblazoned onto the front of each arm and 100% UV protection from UVA, UVB and UVC rays.

Chinatown is probably the most misunderstood borough of Los Angeles.  Established in 1938, the neighborhood has played home to iconic Jack Nicholson scenes and classic skateboarding ads, hipster hangouts and the city’s better dim sum, but unlike other underappreciated corners of downtown that have been gradually getting their shine over the years, Chinatown maintains the mystery.

That’s all about to see a dramatic shake-up with Chego moving in, another Roy Choi restaurant that is as popular with the foodies as it is with the locals.  Heralded by Los Angeles Magazine’s cover as Chef of the Year and voted best new chef of 2010 by Food & Wine, Roy’s probably a name you’ve familiarized yourself with – he owns a few other spots: A-Frame, Sunny Spot – but is probably most celebrated for creating KogiBBQ, which not only kicked off the Korean taco craze but more importantly, ignited the nationwide food truck phenomenon.

Roy is a good friend of The Hundreds – I think our success and brand notoriety runs parallel in more ways than one. I know the Internet played a huge part in getting KogiBBQ off the ground as it did with us.  And Roy is all about producing quality product behind strategic branding, all the while educating his customer and paying respects to the surrounding community.

Which is why he invited us down – downtown to Chinatown – to not only get a taste of Chego, but also the vibrant and culturally lush expanse of the community:

Like I said, we’re in Chinatown.

Hoan Kiem’s only got a couple things on the menu, but that’s how you know they do it well!

Pho 79 is historically a cornerstone of Chinatown. New owners, new name, new sign. Well, sorta:

Yang Chow is where you’ll usually find us. I’d say it’s the best Chinese food in Los Angeles proper (not including SGV or Monterey Park).  The slippery shrimpin’ is big pimpin’:

Chef Lupe of Hop Woo. Roy calls him the Iron Chef of Chinatown:

He takes us into the vault.  P.S. I used to be vegan:

Chef Lupe hooks it up. On the strength:

Lived here forever and had no idea to stop by the Phoenix Bakery for the best almond cookies:

Ginseng in the membrane:

…and we loop back to Chego.  So Chego used to reside over on my side of town in West Los Angeles, but Roy uprooted the rice-bowl restaurant and planted it here in Chinatown.  Seems like it’s never not been here though, which was Roy’s intent.

I didn’t know this but apparently Flickr played an instrumental role in Roy’s and Kogi BBQ’s success, so the film camera hangs at the foot of Chego as a tribute:

Thanks, Roy!

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and in case you missed it, here was our video piece with Travis for our collaboration together:

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Since they hit the streets in 2011, they’ve been protested and heckled by squeamish folks who don’t find their subversive promotion amusing. Buuuuut that’s their loss. This is the ultimate gourmet-breakfast-dispensed-from-a-truck experience, and it’s worth the wait. When I asked Alvin to tell me the sluttiest thing about eggslut, he replied “The whore hours. I don’t think any trucks are up getting ready at 3am like we are.”

For cheesy updates (see what I did there?), eggslut hours and locations, follow them on twitter, and be sure to check our blog next week for the video interview with eggslut co-founders, Alvin and Jeffrey.

words by Jane Helpern
photos by Zach Marshall

It’s been a hot minute since we waved au revoir to the last of our The Hundreds X Bromance stock. Fortunately for our French following (and those willing to fork over the extra di-dough for incurred shipping rates), Club 75’s got the international exclusive to the ­­­hard (scratch that, virtually impossible)-to-come-by capsule collection.  To celebrate the occasion, we stole Bromance brainchild Louis Brodinski away from his busy schedule and hit him with a lightning speed round of rapid-fire questions. The Hundreds X Bromance is currently available through Club 75’s Online Shop… Read on to get the inside scoop on the collab, as well as what it takes to be part of the Bromance crew. Where do we sign up?

Can you tell us about your recent project with The Hundreds?

Recently, The Hundreds released a collaboration collection we did together between the brand and my record label, Bromance Records. Thanks to Hassan Rahim and Guillaume Berg for helping me on this one.

What’s the significance of “90026” and “75010”? We see it pop up at random throughout the collection.

90026 is the Echo Park postcode in LA, because I used to live there for a while. I’m back in Paris now, 75010, the 10th District, where our office is!

The entire line is black. Is black your favorite color / Do you abide by the code “all black everything” when you’re getting dressed in the morning?

Are we considering black as a color? I’m definitely “all black everything,” but sometimes when it’s sunny I’m wearing a white T-shirt… that’s not that much ahah!

Who’s a part of the Bromance fam? And can we join?

The family is getting pretty big… from Manu Barron, my manager and associate on Bromance; Guillaume, Ed & Elena, our team in Paris; all the artists, Monsieur Monsieur, Club Cheval, Panteros 666, Louisahhh, Pipes, G. Vump, and of course Gesaffelstein.

Send me good music and I will join you guys to the team!

What inspired the name Bromance?

The fact that we are always spending time together, and our relations are far more than a working/friend relationship. The only word that can describe it was a Bromance, so I didn’t hesitate that much. And after all, it starts the same as Brodinski!

What inspires you creatively? Musically?

Pretty much everything, from travelling to pure art… I’m looking for inspiration all the time. People are also inspiring, so I love meeting and working with them.

Any plans to play a show in the US in the near future?

Yes! Next week in New York, Detroit and San Diego. Then I will come back for Hard Summer in August! Excited!!

Any last words?

Loved working with The Hundreds! Long life to the brand, and thank you for the opportunity!

words by Olivia Stiglich
photos by Dimitri Coste

Inspiration is everywhere.  And inspiration is everyone.

Whenever I get asked that question in interviews – “Where do you find inspiration?” – I always have trouble with it.  Inspiration isn’t something you necessarily go out there and seek; if you’re prone to it, and open, it always finds you.  And for me, it resides most viscerally and shines the utmost brilliance within people.  I’ve been inspired by parking lot attendants to world-class artists, 3-year-olds to rockstar chefs.  And then I’m totally inspired by photographers like Amanda Demme.

In this life, she’s a photographer and a mother, and widow of famed director Ted Demme.  But in the several existences prior, she was a music supervisor (Garden State, Mean Girls), a manager (Cypress Hill, House of Pain, DJ AM), club impresario (Teddy’s, Tropicana), director, graphic designer… Demme is a woman of many hats.  (No, really, as in she also makes hats).

One of which she wears today.  It’s broad and masculine, and the brim swoops far and low like a shade tree casting the rest of Amanda Demme in obscurity.  She prefers that nowadays – the mystery and the cloaked intrigue.  She did enough of the publicity tour in one of those previous lives, the Hollywood life.

I’m not sure if she was always like this, but she seems to cling onto the past, particularly a history that was never necessarily hers. Demme’s just drawn to old things, artifacts, and preserved decay.  Her studio is not so much a museum as a frozen excerpt of a sad and distant time.  It also seeps into her work, the subjects lost and forlorn, imbued with this dank and heavy tone.  I tell Amanda that I just can’t see her work as photography, but rather a sort of painting.  She’s not documenting as much as creating a situation and an emotion.  She’s framing that window into the subject’s life, but she also puts that person in that situation and fabricates their impression.  From a club doorgirl in the past to a photographing storyteller in the present, I remark that it’s as if she’s playing God.

“No,” she flatly denies.  ”I’m more like the Devil.”

Amanda Demme didn’t pick up a camera until three years ago.  In that time, she has found love and a new life in it.  And become quite remarkably good, recognized, and respected for her photography.  Her solo exhibition is currently on display at the Obsolete Gallery in Venice.

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video by Zach Marshall

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