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In the autumn/winter season 2011 the British shoe label Clarks Originals meets the land of the rising sun. The Japanese premium fleece manufacturer Loopwheeler is giving the Clarks Original classics Desert Boot and Wallabee a minimalist two-tone makeover with suede and Loopwheeler fabric, which is the brand's hallmark.

Ela Holscher, the Düsseldorf advocate of avant-garde fashion and supporter of young, creative talents, is bringing back her reopened ELA selected clothing store, this time in a new location in Düsseldorf’s Unterbilk district.

The premier address for streetwear in the net: the Frontlineshop. With its comprehensive range of well-established and lesser-known labels, literally every taste is catered for. But it all started off with music.

It sounds like a plotline from a Hollywood thriller: five as yet unidentified sneakerheads - the Shadow Society - got together at a conspirational meeting with the explicit aim of bringing the Puma classic 'Suede' into its purest form, in terms of material, colour and branding, after numerous releases over the last four decades.

With the second 'Go Forth Social Media Challenge' jeans legend Levi's is supporting the small South African children's aid organisation Thanda that takes care of HIV/Aids orphans.

To mark their collaboration with the Californian New Pop Art artist David Buckingham the premium line of the US-American denim label Wrangler is presenting an innovative short interactive film on their own website. Split up into six sequences, the film is about one day in the life of the artist, who is played by 80s model icon and Madonna’s ex-boyfriend Tony Ward.

After a break of almost 30 years legendary group The Specials are embarking on a major European tour once again! Reason enough for the long-established, casual British label Fred Perry to enter into a collaboration with the ska band. In the late seventies and early eighties The Specials channelled the rude boy look with black and white suits, loafers and pork pie hats.