Check this…

The Royal Mint have just produced a very contemporary and exciting design for the new collection of coins entering the UK economy at some stage…

The creation is the final product of Matthew Dent, a graphic designer who won a national design competition in 2005. The coins have the Shield of the Royal Army on them as per usual, but on the new coins they are split strategically into 6 different pieces, with the 7th coin carrying the entire shield…

The coins look sweet…Matthew Dent…RISE salutes you

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Stussy Deluxe is Stussy’s take on high end streetwear…catering for street heads that have grown up both age and style wise. Nick Bower, takes the classic street silhouettes such as military uniforms and sportswear and integrates that with premium materials, embroidery and cutting. On Friday Stussy Deluxe will be launching its very own website where the whole Spring ‘08 collection can be seen. Make sure to check out the new website at

www.stussydeluxe.com.

T-dub

THE RISE COLLECTIONS 2008. 


Click on the logos below to get a lowdown on the collections.

For all you BAPE fans out there, you will know that before today when finding A Bathing Ape’s website online you were met with having to download something, and if you managed that then you were shown a lot of very confusing japanese…

Well today the new Bape website went live, and it has a glorious English language option in the top left, to go with the Japanese option for those wanting to brush up on their Kanji, Hiraugana and Katakana. On the new website you can find product, listen to some of Nigo’s beats and other music that’s on there…and generally get more familiar with the life of BAPE

www.bape.com

Bape has been around for nearly 15 years, and to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of Bape the brand has released a series of 15th Anniversary tees. These limited edition tees will also come in a pretty sweet Camo tin box adding to the feel of it being a collector’s item

…so go have a look and see what you think of one of, if not THE leading Japanese streetwear brand of the moment.

T-dub

breakthrough?

We have been trying to set up the RSS feed, and sort it out as its been giving us a few problems…or more to the point…we may have been giving it some problems…

hopefully it will all be sorted out soon…

So we here at RISE are throwing down blogs at a rate of knots…so we thought we’d start this intense blogging period by laying down the basics of blogging…

Defenition: BLOG. Short for “web log”. A publication of personal thoughts, experiences, and web links.

So we’re gonna be throwing a lot of information at you, so check back regularly to see special online deals, previews of new stuff, snaps of shoots…and much much more.

Today we’ve done a small photo-shoot previewing the the summer’s collection, and we’ve thrown up the pics.
Check out the gallery for the rest of them…

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In the coming days…weeks…months…years we will be bringing you a taste things kicking off in the Streetwear world. Whether its info on the upcoming Adidas Skate designed by Mark Gonzales, or details of BAPE’s tees consisting of a reinterpretation of award winning film The Godfather, or anything else that catches our eye here at RISE Worldwide…

Our feelers are officially out…and we want to let you know what RISE is thinking…

T-dub

Undercover Laboratories

Jun Takahashi was born in 1969 in Kiryu, Gunma prefecture in Japan. In 1988 he attended Bunka Academy of Fashion where he was tight with iconic Japanese streetwear designer Nigo (A Bathing Ape). Jun began showing his collections in Tokyo in 1994, Paris in 2002 and recieved many local fashion prizes for his work…

His latest collection is entitled “But beautiful: partly Parasitic, Partly Stuffed.”

This is Jun’s Undercover design studio and showroom in Harajuku Japan…its pretty incredible. It was designed by Klein Dytham architects

Just a note to announce the first RISE store - just opened in Polzeath, North Cornwall at Easter. We have been working hard to get the shop sorted and have just managed to get it sorted for the holidays. If you are in the area - drop into the shop located at the Tubestation, just opposite Polzeath beach.Below are a few pics.

Check out the Store Gallery link at the top to see more.

More to come!!

Ranui