WAYWT
not a great look.
obey
mhi
surface to air
julian red
vans
alot of work today at the store, trying to get people buying online.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Righteo
I've had two bad days, nothing really bad has happened at all, they have just been bad days. I'm not completely sure why but it just has overall not been very fun these days. Perhaps it's the oppressive heat, or something I just can't put my finger on it. Hell I haven't been creative in entirely too long and I haven't even listened to much music at all. I just do not feel right or well today or yesterday, I think my sleep from last night plays a part in todays sentiment.
Fuck.
Hell I even forgot to post a waywt. I will do it shortly.
2:43am...
and I can not sleep, I do not know why, its truly depressing. I wish I had something worthwhile to say but I realize I have never said anything worthwhile in this blog, oh well. I am not feeling particularly motivated at this time for some reason, I have not drawn nor worked in Illustrator in well over a week now. I've hit some sort of brick wall it sucks. I do not know of any better way of explaining how I feel right now.
Maybe I will fall asleep soon, by the way this entry has taken me just over two minutes to complete.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Holy Damn Its Hot Out
Ok so its like 94 outside its insane.
I need to figure out which should I buy for the shop Imperial or try again with Nudie. I'm leaning towards Imperial, hmm. I wish it wasnt so goddamn hot out. I keep hearing the new Interpol is good, I like some of their stuff but never wanted to be an Interpol fan for some reason, I dunno I might have to check it out.
WAYWT
Incredibly hot out today, holy crap.
flying coffin
mhi
surface to air
julian red cali
vans
apparently i still look like dave grohl.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Monday, June 25, 2007
WAYWT Night Version
went and walked around the city tonight, which is nice and quiet on a monday. oh yea there is apparently a toesucker loose in the city, weird shit i know
aNYthing
surface to air
apc
vans
Barney's Being Sold
" Istithmar Makes Deal to Buy Barneys for $825M
BY VICKI M. YOUNG
June 25, 2007
NEW YORK — Jones Apparel Group Inc. on Friday finally made public what Wall Street knew all week, that it was selling its wholly-owned subsidiary Barneys New York Inc. for $825 million in cash, subject to purchase price adjustments, to an affiliate of Istithmar, a Dubai-based private equity investment house, in a deal that will close in the third quarter.
Jones is also looking at the possibility of using some of the proceeds in the form of a “significant return of capital to shareholders,” according to Peter Boneparth, president and CEO of Jones, in a conference call to Wall Street analysts Friday afternoon.
Boneparth thanked the contribution of Barneys’ employees and its management team under Howard Socol. Looking at how well the company has done since Jones acquired it in 2004 for $397.5 million till the present is a “testament to their capabilities,” the CEO said. The company will have a net gain from the sale of Barneys of approximately $290.0 million. Due to certain tax benefits, Boneparth said that the company will have net cash proceeds after taxes and transaction expenses of approximately $770.0 million.
“We see in Barneys a very nice growth asset. From our perspective...the asset required more capital investment to grow, [with the] operating margin not likely to approach [that of] our wholesale business as we go forward,” Boneparth said.
After exiting some moderate businesses and divesting itself of the luxury arena, Jones will be left with “where we started,” and the sale of Barneys will give the apparel giant additional financial flexibility to continue investing in its power legacy brands, Boneparth explained to Wall Street analysts. He emphasized that the choices the company has made has been been with the focus on doing everything to return capital to shareholders.
“We didn’t buy [Barneys] with the intent to sell it, but this is a great opportunity for shareholder return,” Boneparth said.
Under the terms of the purchase agreement, Jones can consider unsolicited proposals from third parties to acquire Barneys, but such proposal would have to be made by July 22, 2007 and all due diligence and negotiations with a third party would have to be completed by August 11, 2007. The purchase agreement also allows Jones to consider proposals from third parties to acquire all of Jones, which would include Barneys. Jones said that under this circumstance, due diligence and negotiations would also have to be completed by August 11, 2007.
Should either scenario come up, Jones said it would be required to pay a termination fee prior to terminating its agreement with Istithmar, which would be $20.6 million if Jones terminates the Istithmar agreement on or prior to July 22, 2007 and $22.7 million if Jones terminates after July 22, 2007.
Executives at Istithmar could not be reached for comment.
Marc Cooper, a managing director at investment banking firm Peter J. Solomon Co, which was the financial advisor to Istithmar, said, “Istithmar has been a client of ours for some time. We worked with them in acquiring Loehmann’s. Istithmar has a keen interest in retail and loves the luxury space. They
bought Loehmann’s because it is discount luxury.”
He said that Howard Socol, CEO of Barneys, will stay on, as will his
management team.
Cooper said that when Jones Apparel Group was up for sale last year, Istithmar had then expressed an interest in acquiring Barneys, but that Jones was not interested at the time in selling individual assets. The parties continued discussions on and off, with Istithmar expressing its interest in acquiring Barneys, Cooper said. "
courtesy of dnr
Yesterday
Yesterday I worked, a little bit. Jake came up from DC to hang out which was awesome, showed him the store walked over to Ubiq which had a sick huuuge Sex Pistols Bearbrick in the window. Then we walked back over to Washington Square sat around for a little bit had wine and I went home. Kibbler and Jake came by the apartment a little later on and we all shot the shit for a while it was cool then we got pizza. I sound like a little girl, fuck I don't care. Kibbler said Carolyn and I act married, and thats ok with us. We got up at like 7:30 this morning so she could get the train, now I'm waiting for gay UPS to come pick up this Hellz Bellz RA, and I should email my Skull Denim PO out shouldn't I. OK well I will.
Balls.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
TRK + FLD Bags
So Bryan from TRK+FLD Bags came to me this morning asked me which bag I would like, and he gave it to me. I suggest you check out TRK+FLD bags, Bryan's company from here in Philadelphia. All the bags are designed by Bryan and are made of Sunbrella material so it will be waterproof and UV resistant, meaning shit won't fade. Check out the site for more info.
TRK+FLD
WAYWT
fucking awesome
mhi
surface to air
julian red cali
vans
Here's a pick of the back pack I dig it, it's just big enough to fit my laptop and basically any other shit I need. 
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Julian Red California
So these are some super close ups of my Cali's I love the color of them and everything I've had them since 10/15/06, they took a couple month break during the holidays for repairs and bringing other jeans into the rotation. So yeah thats that. Very insightful I know, I need to be creative, I have an ad and a postcard to design.
Zen
Hung out with Kibbler yesterday night. It was cool we just chilled at the apartment super laid back dude, hes going to do photo work for the store.
Phil and I are working out plans for a trunk/trade show here in Philly for the fall should be good we are looking to have 30+ vendors, food, drinks, music and the what not I'll post more news when I have it.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Deleted My Picture
Took a WAYWT picture... I deleted it by accident. Oh well.
The National is so good.
It's fucking beautiful out today.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Wow
Holy shit I'm bored.
How is Old City such a fucking ghost town?!?! It does not make sense.
Looking over some look books today to pass the time, again Fremont damn super nice I'll post some shots later, Morphine Generation surprisingly tasteful and generally pretty nice.
Nike Japan executives came in today, all of them rocking Fenom x Levis denim and Goodenough UK tees, those Fenoms look way better in person than in photo thats for sure.
Oh well at least its super nice out, I think I'll walk around for a while when I leave.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Womens Lines
So I've narrowed it down:
Mike & Chris: albeit gets a little pricey
Helmet Of The Will: cool prints and nice cotton
Fremont: good stuff.
WAYWT
boring today...as usual
fred perry
surface to air
julian red
vans
running around philly for a bit today then back to the apt. for some more scouring for womens' lines for the store.
Monday, June 18, 2007
A Women's Line
I've spend a large part of the day looking for some cool mid range women's clothing lines for Deep Sleep, we need at least one more line.... I'll find something worthwhile.
WAYWT
boring day today running an errand or two and doing a little work from the apartment.
i should update some stuff today.
apolis
surface to air
apc
vans
Night Pictures
Went out side for a little while tonight many of these still need to see some time in photoshop for touching up colors and what not but here's some stuff i thought was cool.
WAYWT
wondered around for a bit tonight
j.lindberg
surface to air
julian red
vans
...i look fucking possessed.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Friday, June 15, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
NY TIMES Japanese Denim Article
Check out this article very cool about Japanese denim, a very interesting read.
read it here.
Weird Weather
Its fucking weird out, chilly and overcast feels more like early April then June today. I dunno I guess its kinda nice to have a break from heat and humidity but still it is summer come on. New FHI fall was ordered for the store some cool stuff, personal favorite:
I Get Bored...
...and review shit, like places I've been so far I'm still just working on DC and Philly. I'll add some Baltimore, NYC, Boston, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, New Jersey, and more soon. Check it out here:
Yelp.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Battles - Mirrored
Ok so this cd is fucking weird... putting it gently. I'm totally fucking digging it so many weird things working so well together its well weird. I'll go further into it later.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
WAYWT
In case you do not know what WAYWT means its from superfuture, it means what are you wearing today, I'll update on here because I think very highly of my self... right.
*Fred Perry
*Surface To Air Paris
*Julian Red
*Vans
Nasty
It's a nasty day here in Philly crazy rain and humidity.
Still looking for a serving job.
New Johnny Cupcakes came into day at work cool shit.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Current Work:
Currently I have been working on a new tee shirt design for my friends in the band Cutlery. The band has just wrapped up the loose ends on their new record entitled "Americans In Love Pt. I", and from what I've heard it is incredible to say the least. I ask you to check out their myspace, as well as check out this preliminary design.
Boredom Has Lead Me Here
Well I'm sitting in my apartment in Philadelphia, bored. So I've started a blog where I will talk about whatever the hell I want. Most likely it will be about fashion, art, and music, we'll see how it goes.
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