Deliveries have heated up a little bit here at the store. Shipments from Staple, WESC and Nike have all landed with more coming from Nike and Creative Recreation. First up are three new shoes to show you from Nike. This shipment marks the first of Fall deliveries from the sportswear giant, and with that comes a new box. Enough of that, on to the shoes. Our eyes from this shipment are on the style that has taken 2008 by storm: The Structure Triax. ‘08 marked the first year for this shoe to be retroed and the response has been great.
Nike - Air Structure Triax 91, Silver Green Black ($105)
Next is a great Blazer Mid - this style has been making a lot of headway this year for those a little weary of the Dunks. Just a really solid, simple colorway (notice the blue logo contrast on the tongue):
Nike - Blazer Mid, Grey Red Black ($85)
Finally, here is a shoe that it scheduled to arrive later this evening. It’s a classic Dunk low; perfect for wearing with shorts on a lazy Sunday:
Nike - Dunk Low Classic, Gray White ($75)
Give us a call at the shop to hold a pair (especially if you are a less common size!), cause we hate to disappoint.
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I think we all know by now that Rick Klotz is no stranger to controversy.
After beefing with streetwear brands and rockstars, he’s under fire from a new, more complicated, entity: The Jewish Defense League. Rick, and his veteran L.A.-based apparel brand Freshjive, produced a couple t-shirts this season that have been intensely scrutinized by certain members of the Jewish community.
I’m not gonna weigh in any of my own opinions here (You can read Rick’s personal defense and reasoning behind his artistic choices on the Freshjive blog), but the ultra-controversial terrorist group The JDL certainly voiced theirs this afternoon on Fairfax in front of Rick’s store Reserve, storming up and down the sidewalk with picket signs, bullhorns, and an artillery of verbal warfare.
Shelley Rubin is the current chairman of the JDL. Her husband, Irv Rubin, ran the JDL for 15 years before being imprisoned for planning a terror attack against an Arab-American Congressman and 2 attacks on a Muslim mosque here in L.A. He ended up “killing himself” in jail (read: being tossed 18 feet over a railing by other inmates), leaving his lil’ firecracker Shelley in charge.
Shelley showed up with her son and a collective of angry extremist Right-Wing Jews, belligerently claiming Rick hates Jews, support Muslims, and is gay. The ironic part being that Rick himself is Jewish and has done more than anyone else on the block in terms of enlightening the streetwear kids on Judaism through apparel and literature, and preserving Fairfax’s historic Jewish community. (The other parts about supporting Muslims is not necessarily a bad thing, last time I checked. And the Rick being gay thing, it would explain a lot, buuut I don’t think that’s so accurate either.)
You gotta read up on the JDL. Shelley’s late husband and the JDL allegedly provided Eazy-E protection from Suge Knight back in the early ’90s, as well as indirectly being involved with Death Row’s inception. I know, weird but true.
At one point, Shelley just started wrecking shop on everybody. Somehow, she got into it with Reza (The Arab Parrot). C’mon Shelley, you’ve taken on the Soviets and the FBI, but we all know this is a losing battle.
