COMUNE // DROP CITY TEES BY ADAM HARTEAU – SS13

A Spring & Summer 2013 feature on a couple of Drop City Contributors Adam Harteau’s latest graphic tees. 

Adam Harteau’s work influenced a large majority of our current pieces for Spring & Summer 2013. We referenced his work numerous times during the development of our collection and really wanted to mimic the adventurous essence you feel when in the presence of his work. So without hesitation we produced three of his art pieces into our graphic tee collection for Spring and Summer 2013.

Thanks Adam.

www.adamharteau.com

The Quiet Life Autumn 12 dropping soon

We know the sun is coming out for summer this weekend, but want to get everyone hyped on the new Quiet Life autumn 12 collection we will be delivering into stores around the first week in august. The new Quiet Life collection consists of super strong cut and sew styles, contrast dead stock fabric pocket t shirts, printed graphic and photo t shirts, and of course an amazing selection of 5 panel & snapback hats mixing printed fabrics and dead stock fabrics. Here are some behind the scenes shots of the new Quiet Life autumn 12 look book forthcoming.

The Quiet Life Camera Club photo series t's Spring 12

The Quiet Life has a sub project, called The Camera Club, that runs inline with the integrity of the brand. Camera club is a web site where anyone is able to upload photos of any kind. The web site is curated by a guest photographer which then edits the uploads to produce a fine array of images.
With every new Quiet Life collection the Camera Club plays an integral part, inspiring a line of amazing photo printed t shirts. Here is a selection of the camera club photo prints for Spring 12, available in stores and online now. Also followed by a selection of photos from the Camera Club web site.

http://www.thequietlife.com/camera_club/

COMUNE Spring 12 delivers into stores

The mild temperatures are here and Spring is trying to kick Winter out. Perfect timing for COMUNE to launch their new Spring 12 collection into stores across the country. Graphic, typography and Drop City artist t shirts have been in stores for a short time with re orders going out already. Now the its time for the new Spring cut and sew. From plaid, stripe, oxford cotton woven's to light weight knitted henley's, washed cotton chino's, treated denim and tailored shorts. This is a collection that places COMUNE at the for front for the new season. Be sure to check your local independent online and street stores.
www.thecomune.com

SPRING 12 COMUNE, GENTLE FAWN & QUIET LIFE DROPPING NOW

It may be about to snow around the UK, but we are super excited to release into stores the new Spring 12 collections from COMUNE, Gentle Fawn & The Quiet Life.
COMUNE Spring 12 t shirt delivery into stores now. www.thecomune.com

Gentle Fawn Spring 12 cut and sew delivery into stores now. www.gentlefawn.com
The Quiet Life Spring 12 contrast pocket t's, 5 panel caps & snap back caps delivering into stores very soon. www.thequietlife.com

FRONT MAGAZINE X COMUNE, INSIGHT + THE QUIET LIFE

Back to back media coverage over the last couple of weeks. This time up is some fantastic product placement in Front magazine for our menswear brands COMUNE, Insight & The Quiet Life. The nice guys @ Front magazine have featured 5 t shirts none the less - COMUNE Drop City AKUY1 photo t, Insight garage artist t, Insight Dope t, The Quiet Life Joy t, The Quiet Life Fox t.

www.thecomune.com

www.insight51.com

www.thequietlife.com

HYPEBEAST X COMUNE SPRING 10 COLLECTION

The guys @ Hypebeast, leaders in fashion/street wear blogging, have just posted a new article and photo shoot around COMUNE's fresh new Spring 10 collection. Be sure to check it out.

 http://hypebeast.com/2010/02/comune-2010-spring-collection/

DEADLY SERIOUS SPRING SUMMER 2010 LOOK BOOK

We are getting our arse into gear this new year and coming up with a comprehensive look book for Spring Summer 2010. Outlining everything that we have going on @ Deadly Serious Distribution. Stay tuned....

THE QUIET LIFE OFFICE

We had the opportunity to hang out with Andy mueller (the man behind The Quiet Life), @ his Lakaii/The Quiet Life Office in Torrence L.A. Andy is such an enthusiastic guy and you can really see where his imagination comes from. In between creating the new Quiet Life collection, Andy had already produced the new Lakaii footwear catalogue, and was finishing off the cd/album sleeve and cover for Weezer's new album. This guy never stops! Then Andy proceeded to tell me how well he had been selling images of his friend Spike Jonze. "'Where the wild things are' has been blowing up, and every man and his dog found out I know Spike. So e mails have been coming from all over Europe requesting photos of him" nice work if you can get it!

Heres the set of prints of Spike, amongst Andy's other work.

Some of Andy's graphics on some Girl skate decks.

A small collection of some of Andy's camera's and artwork, needless to say he likes Holga's!

It was the end of the day on the friday before Christmas, everone else in the Girl/Chocolate offices had long gone, yet Andy was more than happy to hang around to talk about The Quiet Life. One thing I have learnt in the short time I have known Andy is to make sure you have enough time to talk. Unfortunately I had been running late and only spent a couple of hours chatting colours for The Quiet Life, Hollywood friends, music, cameras and hard drives! Andy has so many good ideas and so much to say, I will make sure that I save at least a day for our next meeting. One thing I am sure of from our meeting is that the new Quiet Life Winter 10 collection is going to be amazing!

www.thequietlife.com

COMUNE DROP CITY

COMUNE has an amazing collective of artists under their Drop City label.
Here is an insight into one of the Drop City artists Shelby Menzel.


IN THE EARLY 1960’S A MAN BY THE NAME OF BUCKMINSTER FULLER (1895_1983) WAS KNOWN FOR DESIGNING GEODESIC DOMES, WHICH USED MINIMAL RESOURCES WHILE CREATING A MAXIMUM INTERIOR SPACE. HE WAS AN INVENTOR, POET, PHILOSOPHER, MATHEMATICIAN, ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER. FULLER URGED PEOPLE TO THINK GLOBALLY AND ACT CONSCIENTIOUSLY TO BETTER MANKIND THROUGH A “DESIGN REVOLUTION”. HIS LEGACY HAS INSPIRED ARTISTS, ENGINEERS AND THINKERS AROUND THE WORLD.
IN 1965 AN ARTIST COMMUNE IN COLORADO KNOWN AS DROP CITY WAS CREATED USING MANY OF BUCKMINSTER FULLER’S ARCHITECTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL IDEALS. DROP CITY WAS TO FUNCTION IN A “SYNERGETIC” INTERACTION BETWEEN PEERS TO CREATE EXPERIMENTAL ARTISTIC INNOVATION.


COMUNE HAS LAUNCHED ITS’ OWN “DROP CITY” GALLERY. HOUSED IN A STRUCTURE OF RECYCLED STEEL SHIPPING CONTAINERS, THE SPACE IS INSPIRED BY THE ORIGINAL DROP CITY ARTIST COMMUNE IN THE EARLY 60’S, AND BRAINCHILD OF COMUNE ART DIRECTOR, COREY SMITH.
DROP CITY WAS INTRODUCED TO ATTRACT LIKE–MINDED CREATIVE PEOPLE TO THE COMUNE ARTIST COMMUNITY AND COLLABOARTE ON SPECIAL PROJECTS THROUGH COMUNE’S CLOTHING BRAND. WITH PARTICIPATING ARTISTS INCLUDING HUNTER LONGE, JASON LEE PARRY, NOAH AND NATHAN RICE, SHELBY MENZEL, JIMMY FONTAINE AND GARETH STEHR OVER TIME DROP CITY WILL CONTINUE TO EVOLVE ITS’ COMMUNITY, CREATIVE PLATFORM AND INFLUENCE.

COMUNE DROP CITY T SHIRT RE STOCK

We have just received word that we will be shipping a re stock on the super fast selling COMUNE Drop City t shirts - JLEE1 t (just want my childhood back) & RGOR1 t (bear photo t). Check your nearest stockists very soon.

SKATER JAMIE THOMAS JOINS INSIGHT

Insight proudly welcomes Jamie Thomas to the team.

As a skateboarding icon with over 15 years as a professional skateboarder Insight is proud to have Jamie along for the ride.

Thomas will work closely with Insight designers to develop a personally inspired and tailored capsule collection to be released early 2010.

Look for footage of Jamie in the Insight short film, Repeat After Me; I am Free, launching this Friday November 13th, 2009 via www.insight51.com

Jamie can also be seen wearing Insight in Chris Cole's Battle Commander currently featured on the Berrics as well as Zero's soon to be released video 'Strange World'.

He is also sponsored by; ZERO skateboards, FALLEN footwear, THUNDER trucks and MOB griptape.

Go to http://www.insight51.com/content/skate-riders/jamie-thomas/ to see more on Jamie and a teaser for 'Repeat After Me; I Am Free.

THE QUIET LIFE CAMERA CLUB, PHOTO OF THE MOMENT

The Quiet Life camera club is growing from strength to strength, surely there will be a new issue of the Camera Club book due soon?! Here is the photo of the moment by SCHNEIDER NICOLAS, be sure to check out more on the Quiet Lifes Camera Club web site.

And some more.......

                             

CLUB MEMBER: CAMERON PETERS

CLUB MEMBER: JAMES WESTON

www.thequietlife.com/camera_club/

FRONT MAG X COMUNE G STER DROP CITY T

Our friends @ Front magazine have given us pride of place with a feature on the current COMUNE Drop City - G STER t 'Morrisey Ripper'. Be sure to check a copy at your news stand now.

www.thecomune.com

COMUNE Drop City JLEE1 t Restock

After popular demand by you people and our COMUNE retailers, we will be receiving a re-stock of the sold out JLEE1 t shirt. The JLEE1 t shirt is a photo print t of a homeless guy in L.A. holding a sign saying 'i want my childhood back'. This has proved to be the fastest selling t shirt for a lot of retailers, and we have already restocked some stores once. Be sure to catch this one!

COMUNE WINTER IN STORES NOW

We finished picking + packing yesterday to make sure the new COMUNE Winter/Holiday collection would be in stores today for the weekend. Amazing new cut and sew shirts, jackets, hoods and super strong graphic t's. On top of this is the new Drop City artist t shirt line, be sure to grab one before they sell out.

COMUNE - Thomas ls shirt

COMUNE - Kingsley jacket

COMUNE - Drop City, Ray Gordon t