After San Diego, we flew up to Utah then down to Vegas for the whole following week. We went with the Demon crew. I hadn’t been to Vegas for exactly one year since SIA last year. Wednesday night, Skullcandy flew Snoop Dogg in to town for a special concert/party at the Palms. We had a great view.
Demon’s booth was right across from Billabong, so their old buddy Marius Otterstad dropped by. Here’s a shot of his new tattoo, the Viking’s sword points to his home town in Norway:
During day 2 of ASR, We decided to check out the Agenda trade show, which takes place simultaneously with ASR. Agenda is quite sick. They send black limos over to the front of the convention center where ASR is going on, kidnap us ASR attendees, and whisk us away to their show. In the limo I talked to a sales guy for another company who told me, “Agenda started as a sort of protest for the boutique skate brands who didn’t fit in with the ASR circus, but now it’s basically for all the companies who think they’re too cool for ASR.” He was right, they really were too cool for ASR. We saw some really innovative design and super-cool product at
Agenda, and it seems like much more actual work was getting done there. Two thumbs up for Agenda.
Eye-popping, day-glo fashion. Stephen Sprouse was a fashion designer and artist credited with pioneering the 1980s mix of “uptown sophistication in clothing with a downtown punk and pop sensibility”. He was an assistant to Halston, spent time at Andy Warhol’s Factory, designed stage outfits for Debbie Harry and created his own lines. For Fall 2006, Marc Jacobs utilized Sprouse’s 1987 graffiti leopard images for handbags, shoes, and scarves for Louis Vuitton, which sold-out instantly. A book on the career of Stephen Sprouse,
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