PUMA & Trapstar Bring The Noise to SA
by Stuart Hendricks Streetwear aficionados will be familiar with London-based label, Trapstar, and its edgy, urban aesthetic. Trapstar was created from underground, inner-city subculture, with design influences ranging from cinema, photography and music to contemporary art and military references. Their bold, graphic t-shirts and hoodies, tough leather biker jackets, and LDN-repping caps have become a firm favourite amongst the likes of Rihanna, Rita Ora, Iggy Azalea, A$AP Rocky and Cara Delevingne. The brand has truly become an ambassador for a new era of forward-thinking creative minds. To add an athletic edge to their non-conformist streetstyle character, Trapstar have partnered with PUMA to reinterpret Trapstar’s gritty silhouette and add a fresh, injection of athleisure that wouldn’t be out of place in London’s white-wall quarters. The Trapstar X Puma Autumn/Winter ‘16 teaser features the classic PUMA Disc amplified with the iconic ‘white noise’ graphic design of Trapstar. In turn, PUMA’s style has slinked its way into the Trapstar Leadcat. This football-inspired slide is set to become the elevated streetwear item of the year. Completing the teaser trio is the PUMA X Trapstar football jersey. Produced from the same soft, engineered jacquard, with dry-cell technology, as other football gear, the jersey is a tense clash of inspiration merging functional sportswear with underground attitude. Where you would expect a club emblem you’ll find the Trapstar shield The white noise print is incorporated as patch inserts, tying the jersey and the other items into a strong capsule range. The PUMA X Trapstar teaser collection will be available from 17 June 2016 at PUMA SELECT stores in Bree Street, Cape Town and Braamfontein, Johannesburg, as well as selected retailers....
Represent Photo’s: Barcelona v Sundowns
For those of us that never got to see the match last week, enjoy our photostory! Our man Adi represented – 2 hour traffic, stadium packed to (over) capacity and great football with an electric incredible energy- we certainly won’t be missing the next one. We can’t wait for 2010!!! See the photies here.. On Wednesday night I went with a group of six people to see Barcelona take on Mamelodi Sundowns at Loftus Versveld. I am normally very much of the opinion that watching sport on television is the way to go: better angles, no traffic and that kind of thing. Two reasons led to me saying yes to the invitation. Firstly, the friend who asked me is constantly organizing things from which I generally flake out and, secondly, Ronaldinho was going to be there. For me, and about 5,96 billion people, he is the ultimate footballer. The other 36 million is the population of Argentina who still think Maradona is the guy. FC Barcelona was recently rated as one of the top six club sides ever to play the game, according to a recent poll conducted on my couch. The others are Liverpool, Manchester United, AC Milan, Real Madrid and the legendary Norwood Eagles under-nine team of the late 1980’s. Couple this with the fact that, some-the-hell-how, Sundowns managed to get them to Pretoria fielding a first string side and you have the reason why I was willing to go bumper to bumper from Killarney all the way to the city of embassies, gravy trains and the mighty Blue Balls. With my friend Mario in the car we had ample time to figure out the following truths en route: everyone listens to 702, Jackie Selebi and Tony Yengeni are sinister fools, nobody invites me to poker anymore, and we need Winston Churchill to sort out the Taxi industry. Three members of our group have names ending in the letter O, and somewhere in this it was organized that we could park at the Italian Embassy, a Cape Dutch building two blocks from Loftus. From here we walked to the stadium. The game was a sellout – think Celine Dion, not Hansie Cronje. By 19:55, 60 000 spectators were crammed into 59 999 seats. Up to a thousand ticket holders weren’t allowed inside because it turns out that the officials tasked with gate control were making thousands of rand selling entry to non-ticket holders. Imagine how happy Frau Eva Schweinsteiger will be when she flies here to see her little Bastian play his last World Cup, only to find that her seat has been sold by the guy from...
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