Interview: Todd Barket of Unionmade

Our talk with the SF-based menswear shop's co-founder, and brand director Spencer Lemon, on the importance of timeless classics like Converse

Advertorial content: A major player in the world of menswear retail, San Francisco’s Unionmade has been outfitting the Bay Area’s growing population of sharp dressers since 2009. By specializing in a classic, casual West Coast aesthetic, the ever-growing boutique has blossomed along with the quality-over-quantity-driven Americana movement that’s consumed men’s fashion in recent years. However closely tied they two may be, co-founder Todd Barket will …

Converse + Maison Martin Margiela

A coat of paint turns street style icons into a high-end fashion collaboration

Sneaker brand Converse—the longtime staple—has just unveiled the latest First String collaboration. This time, for their luxe limited edition collaboration, experimental Parisian fashion house Maison Martin Margiela takes a fresh approach to the iconic Chuck Taylor All Star and Jack Purcell lines by way of white-washing. This first time collaboration, “perfectly embodies each brand’s spirit of individuality and self-expression unifying Converse and Margiela’s conviction of …

No Mas + Pilgrim Surf + Supply

Reproduction jerseys from the preeminant 1963 US Surfboard Championship held in Huntington Beach, CA

Since 2005, CH has kept an eye on Brooklyn’s heritage sports-culture clothing brand No Mas, during which time they reintroduced Mohammad Ali’s famous boxing robe and founded their very own print publication Victory Journal. Most recently they collaborated with Williamsburg’s Pilgrim Surf + Supply to shed light on the 1963 US Championships of Surfing in Huntington Beach, CA. That year, famed surf photography pioneer Ron …