Quiet Life summer look books

Summer has officially arrived here in the UK, and to celebrate this fact we have been checking out how creative some Quiet Life retailers have been getting with  their own online look books for summer. Kixbox's look book has even been featured on Hype Beast. Here are a select few images from Summer look books by Flat Spot, Minerva street wear & Kixbox. 

COMUNE // OFFSET VIDEO PREMIERE RECAP PART 1

COMUNE’s OFFSET skate video premiered last Saturday at the notorious Kung Pao Kitty, located on Hollywood Blvd. and Wilcox. We converted the raw industrial space into a “Dada Wasteland”, complete with psychedelic lighting, video, fog machine, and Corey Smith’s “Personal Pyramids” of all shapes and sizes. Check out the full story.

Doors to the event space opened at 8, and by 10 it was completely packed with standing room only. The Offset video premiered at 10:30 to a crowd of anxious viewers. Everyone was hyped on the new video, the skating, and visuals. All of which compounded what can only be described as a trippy video experience.

Once the video was over, and the applause subsided, Los Angeles’s own Green & Wood performed a mind-bending heavy set of stoner metal. Green and Wood is fronted by legendary skater Ethan Fowler and includes COMUNE/Drop City contributor Magdalena Wosinska.

It’s not a party unless the cops show up, and that is exactly what happened. Apparently half of Hollywood could hear Green & Woods’ Orange stacks blaring. Luckily the band had made it though most of their set before Hollywood’s finest officially shut us down.

The party goers thirsts’ were quenched by Pabst Blue Ribbons, Zico Coconut Water and delicious Peligroso Margaritas.

COMUNE Skateboarding Contributors include:

JORDAN SANCHEZ

AL PARTANEN

NIAL FREDERICKSON

JOSH MURPHY

JOSEPH LOPEZ

OFFSET // Directed and Edited by Jordan Minardi and Noel Sinclair Boyt

Thanks to everyone who made it out to celebrate the launch of OFFSET. Hope you all had as much fun as we did!

See more Green & Wood here: www.greenandwood.com

Photos: Mike Selsky

Jag Lever feat in Gentle Fawn Embellish dress

Gentle Fawn's facebook page came across Jag Lever's sweet blog featuring a lifestyle photo shoot with the Gentle Fawn Embellish dress from Spring Summer 2012. www.jaglever.com/post/23304072620

This can also be viewed through the Internationally infamous Lookbook.nu web site too. 

COMUNE RUN TO THE RIVER // VIDEO

COMUNE friends and employees took a weekend camping trip to Parker AZ to hang out by the Colorado River. It was wild weekend of bikes, beers, and a million people cruising by on Jet Skis and macho speed boats. Check out this fun little shakey Dad cam video by COMUNE/Drop City contributor Alice Davis.

BLK Pine Workshop summer collection

We are excited and happy to share the details of the current BLK Pine Workshop summer collection. Blk Pine is brought to you by the brainchild behind the amazing Maiden Noir brand and also the mens wear product director of Stussy & Stussy Deluxe. Here is a brand and product description straight from Blk Pine-

BLK PINE is a creative workshop based in Seattle with a desire to preserve the tradition of producing quality goods manufactured within the USA. Our products are rooted in classic silhouettes, but constructed meticulously with edited simplicity and longevity in mind. Our products are individually hand crafted by artisans with a ong history of American production.

All of our bags and personal accessories are made in the USA using the highest quality materials including heavyweight duck canvas, waxed canvas, vintage wools, canvas webbing, military spec nylon webbing, hardware and vegetable tanned natural leathers. The bags are intended to wear naturally and develop character with use over time.

Blk Pine Workshop have really stepped it up a gear for the release of their new Autumn Winter 12 collection with more premium and dead stock fabrics. Here is a sneak peak.

The Quiet Life quick strike across the internet

The Quiet Life released their summer quick strike ltd exclusives to only two online stores earlier this week. The exclusives consisted of 5 panel caps & contrast pocket t shirts.

Two limited exclusive 5 panel cap and contrast pocket t packs and the amazing stand alone 'Mountain' 5 panel cap caused histeria across the internet. Release took place on tuesday afternoon and with in a few hours the infamous 'Mountain' 5 panel cap had sold out on both urbanindustry.co.uk & flatspot.com (image above courtesy of flatspot). Several hours later on the west coast in the US, Quiet Life also released their stock of the Mountain 5 panel cap and again with in a couple of hours it sold out.

The 'Native' pack consists of an all over native style dead stock fabric 5 panel cap and a contrast pocket t using the same dead stock fabric. The 'Denim Herringbone' pack consists of an all over premium denim herringbone fabric 5 panel cap and a contrast t using the same premium fabric. The limited Native & Denim Herringbone 5 panel caps & contrast t shirts can be found exclusively on flatspot.com & urbanindustry.co.uk or if you are in London there is a store carrying the Premium Denim Herringbone pack.

The crew at Daily Street have also backed Quiet Life with an awesome article on their famous web site - www.thedailystreet.co.uk/2012/05/the-quiet-life-summer-quickstrike/ 

COMUNE // RUN TO THE RIVER!

COMUNE friends and family recently took a trip to Parker Arizona to get out of the city and camp for a few days by the Colorado River. We had an amazing trip. Check out some of the photos.

We took the day off work on Friday and assembled at the COMUNE office in downtown LA. As soon as everyone arrived and got their gear in order we navigated out of LA and hit the open road. The weather was perfect and we made great time riding out to the desert. We stopped at the famous Dinosaurs in Cabazon and had lunch at the dinner. After a quick rest and gas up we hit the road. We encountered a couple technical difficulties with bikes breaking down and a flat tire but it wouldn’t be a ride without a couple of breakdowns.

We arrived at our campsite in Parker Arizona in the evening just in time to witness a legendary Arizona sunset on the River. Macho speed boats roared by our site as well as the occasional jet skier buzzing around. We broke out the grill and immediately started making dinner. Burgers, hot dogs, chips and all kinds of camp food where quickly devoured by our hungry crew. There was no shortage of ice cold PBR’s which quenched our thirst and led to a debaucherous evening at camp. There was a speedboat bar down the shore from our camp that we stopped by and had some drinks. The locals were having a great time and everyone was being wild. Crusty old biker dudes were crushing beers and telling stories about the old days. Ladies of all ages, shapes, and sizes were dumping em’ out and generally not giving a f%@K about what anyone thought. River culture has no shortage of characters and we met quite a few.

The next day we shook off our hang overs, relaxed and swam in the river all day. A few of us enjoyed a helmet free ride 90 miles South to Laughlin, AZ for the famous motorcycle rally. COMUNE/Drop City contributor Magda Wosinska went along for the ride to Laughlin and shot some photos we’ll be dropping soon. Highlights include a rope swing and a naked midnight motorcycle ride!

Our road weary, sunburnt travelers got back late Sunday night and we all had a hell of a time. Hope you can come along for the next ride this June to King’s Canyon! See ya!

Type & images taken from thecomune.com Photos: Mike Selsky