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MOSCHINO loves DISARONNO

Just two weeks ago we hosted the exclusive MOSCHINO loves DISARONNO bottle launch in Berlin. With cotton candy and popcorn we surely had a great time with our guests at Villa Elisabeth. Thanks for showing up and if you missed it, make sure to pass by next time!

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Wine and dine

If you´re into wine and live in Germany you should definitely check out GEILEWEINE.DE where you can get just the right wine for every occasion.

A short while ago we hosted an intimate Geile Weine 3-course dinner in Berlin introducing selected wines as well as the owners and the idea behind the project to a handpicked group of guests.

Check out some impressions of the evening:

The devil´s in the details

Great hosts and the proud founders of GEILEWEINE.DE: Kolja, Michael and Sedat

Wining and dining

and first orders made...

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Converse x Maison Martin Margiela Launch impressions

Check out some pics of the Converse x Maison Martin Margiela Launch we hosted in Berlin last Friday.

Thanks everyone for joining  and making this such an amazing night!

Let´s take a ride!

The installation by Neulant van Exel triggered:

Utter amazement,

A social media frenzy (well, maybe "frenzy" is a tad bit exaggerated),

... and true affection

Converse x MMM maccarons!

The venue: Erich Honeckers former garage!

One love to our guests:

And the shoes are sold exclusively at Soto btw.

Thanks for the support with beverages to Fritz Kola, Carlsberg, Thomas Henry and Our Berlin.

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Converse x Maison Martin Margiela Launch

Team BAM presents the Converse x Maison Martin Margiela Launch in Berlin this Friday, 20th of September.

Super thrilled to do this!

Casey in full effect! Hand-made in Berlin.

Looking forward to see you all there:

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Copenhagen Fashion Week & Gothenburg

Last round of fashion week madness: Copenhagen.

Always good to be in that lovely city and see old friends again. The Copenhagen International Fashion Fair and the Gallery tradeshow are doing a great job each season to put together a great array of brands and invite buyers and press from all over the world.

You&Me:

Team COMMON pretending to focus:

We bump into this guy all over the world: Mr. Marcus Paul.

At the new HAN showroom...

... where David always gets REALLY excited.

These guys: Silas and Jacob from SOULLAND pulling it off season after season, year after year. Much respect.

The guys hosted a seated dinner with a 5-course menu for 90 invited guests showcasing their new collection video which was insanely well produced!

Heidizzle keeping it real for us:

Our go-to-girl Heidizzle and my man Abiri:

My man Emanuel and the Goodhood guys:

Seems like the Danish all have new showrooms all of a sudden: NORSE PROJECTS.

Waffles on a stick!

Oscar and Emil from Bang & Olufsen showing some SOTO and Highsnobiety love:

Those B&O PLAY headphones are next-level! Pure quality to the max:

Hall-of-famer in China: Nana from Amsterdam!

I don't know what Kyle was trying to do...

... but it didn't work out.

Breakfast for champions before heading of to Gothenburg for the Way Out West Festival:

By train:

Our host for the weekend: Gab from Velour!

Yup, yup:

Pretty amazing to see our own label LE BERLINOIS being represented all the way in Sweden in full effect:

First timer: Way Out West Festival!

Mad SOTO love:

Public Enemy:

They guy I met in Portland: Erik by Erik aka one of Sweden's finest photographers!

Also not bad: James Blake.

Kendrick Lemar got the crowd going:

And Mrs. Alicia Keys finished it off like a real superstar:

I must say Way Out West Festival and Gothenburg was pretty dope! Gotta make this an annual happening. Great people, great acts, beautiful nature. Definitely worth it.

Thank you, Sweden.

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In Saronno for Disaronno

We did a quickie to the Italian town of Saronno to visit the good guys from DISARONNO ( = from Saronno).

On the way back to Milano we had some time for another quickie with Mr. Marcelo Burlon:

And at the airport we also hat a lil bit of time to turn the AMAZING Philipp Plein campaign into our own (so creative):

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Portland it was.

We had the luck to be invited to the Nike headquarters in Portland to be part of the Nike Innovation Summit. A great group was put together from all over the world to experience the launch of the Flyknit Free under the motto "Nature amplified".

All in all, mega impressive and a super fun time!

Check check...

Travel partner in crime: David from Highsnobiety.

Stop-over in Chicago:

And the Chicago Blackhawks reminded us very much of our friends from Berlin Braves:

Paris & Tokyo aka Yue & Poggy:

Yue, Marcelo and Kevin getting their Instagram game going:

Bianca:

Team Japan: Poggy, Kido and Melody:

Dinner time:

And this is what happens after "one more drink":

Breakfast for champions:

Portland at its best: Voodoo Doughnuts!

At the Nike Campus... first stop: Tiger Woods Center:

When Mark Parker talks, you listen:

Everything at its place:

Jordans where they belong:

Hiroshi Fujiwara:

Guess what made Marcelo so happy...

... naked men from behind. Hahaha!

Jordan1 love: All white everything.

One of our favorite parts was the little Nike history we got:

These guys:

Yue just stayed there:

#work #newjob:

Nike+ vintage:

Legends:

Mr. Sky Gellatly:

"Young Hollywood" showing us how to do it:

Yue "the shoes" Wu showing us how NOT to do it:

And that's exactly how I imagined Serena Williams' feet:

Team Portland:

Big thanks to NIKE and all the great people that were there!

Whata trip.

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Curtis Kulig loves BAM.

Where is this skate deck coming from?

BAM spreads love. (by Curtis Kulig)

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Highsnobiety x Marcelo Burlon iphone cases!

Whoop Whoop!

The Highsnobiety x Marcelo Burlon iphone cases just arrived!

Now available at the best stores in the world including colette, Luisa Via Roma, Antonioli, Union LA and so on and so on...

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Maison Kitsuné Pop-Up Store & Kitsuné Club Night

Berlin Fashion Week was busy. As usual. Us as well.

Here some pics of the opening of our Maison Kitsuné Pop-Up store at SOTO and the Kistuné Club Night we organized at Picknick.

Leila and Remi from Kitsuné:

All the way from Tokyo: Gorgi & Poggy from United Arrows:

This is Iya:

Behind the decks: Mr. Jerry Bouthier!

Time to party:

Our man Marcelo Burlon making 'em dance:

Thanks everybody for coming out and supporting!

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Rumble with Tumblr!

What a great night that was last Friday!

Great location, delicious BBQ and drinks, finest tunes and most importantly an AWESOME CROWD - Thanks everybody for coming!

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Mr. Rosso in da house!

We had a pleasant visit of Andrea Rosso in our BAM office.

Always good seeing this guy. Stay tuned for more...

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Beauty insights

Condé Nast´s STYLE.DE recently dropped by to find out about our beauty habits. 

And guess what?! We keep it pretty straight and simple - in the end, real beauty can only come from the inside anyhow...  

Still the toothpaste of choice: elmex

Wake-up kick in the morning: Bulldog Original Washgel

Dior Homme EdT: Never change a winning scent...

Check out the full interview on STYLE.DE

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Last stop: SINGAPORE

Last stop of our little Asia tour was Singapore where we attended the Asia Fashion Exchange and Blueprint show.

It was our 3rd year in a row to SGP now and it was amazing to have some sort of a reunion of buyers and people from the industry who over the course have become close friends.

We arrived at night and hit the Blueprint opening party right away:

Asians just love this, don't they? :-)

The lovely Sharon from Front Row and Team Esquire:

Mommy rocking it with the Isetan gang:

First day of Blueprint...

This girl always finds the best stuff. Waffles on a stick!

Meet the incredible Ia from... all over the place... this girl lives up in the air.

Great assistance: Tjen taking good care of us:

Strolling through the collections...

Always good for a laugh: Jan.

Flying high as usual: Poggy.

Store check with the crew: Kyle from Goodhood, Ia, Jen & Poggy.

First stop as always: Surrender. One of our favorite stores in the world!

Big upz to Earn and his great crew Olivier and Andy!

Earn's F.I.L. store:

One happy Jan:

Singapore always has been fascinating to us, especially since it's so different from other Asian metropolitan cities. So well organized and clean and on the down-turn a somehow complete fake city build on business and money with hardly any subculture. But amazing architecture and great food!

Super interesting to see over the past years the development of the city and its people in the different segments. It's undeniable that SGP has a great future ahead of it.

A littel time out on Sentosa beach:

I bet Kyle's Goodhood crew love this photo seeing him working really, really hard:

When ladies (incl. Daniel) dress for dinner:

That's pretty much the best graffitti we've seen in SGP!

So fashion:

Team Surrender: Andy & Olivier.

An Old Fashioned in SGP:

And that's how they serve it:

Audi Fashion Festival party at the W Hotel with Azealia Banks:

Daniel & Nadine:

Ia & Jan:

General Earn and his ladies (sorry, Andy):

Waiting for the car...

And yes, this was really happening...grown up men posing in front of Steph's matt pink G wagon!

Pink gangsta crew from Paris-Berlin-London-Singapore:

He runs this town (photo credits to Kyle):

General Earn & Steph:

Bonding:

Who's happy here:

Next day... hang-over food in China town:

Remember this guy?

Big thanks to Tracy and the whole Blueprint crew for bringing us out here! It's always a pleasure.

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From Berlin to Bali.

We took a little break out of the city and since it seems like the whole world is going to Bali nowadays we checked out the Indonesian island for a couple of days.

Digital pick-up at the airport:

Sun. Blue sky. beach/pool. Good food. All you need.

A little romantic dinner:

With this guy... hahaha... Daniel:

Breakfast time:

Team Soto and BAM represent:

A little temple celebration to start the day off:

First day we went to Sanur to visit our good friend Ina showing us around in her hood, her house, her family and the artworks of her very talented daughter Natisa who is about to have her first solo exhibition in Jakarta in June:

Meet Natisa Jones:

Family:

At the pool party of Indo brand and store "This is a love song":

Some wise words:

Two to die for... Özlem & Fa:

Thanks for the great time, guys!

Our personal driver around the island aka Fa:

Hitting paradise at Bingin beach... at Mu:

Of course, we bumbed into someone from Berlin: Jewelery designer Akke and her beautiful little baby! :-)

Fa & Daniel:

At night we checked in in our new home... kinda felt unreal... we can only recommend Ametis Villa in Canggu! Great villas, unique service. The good life.

Breakfast time:

And a lovely visit from our friend Yenny:

Sexy time:

Fa workin it:

Every morning: The favorite German newspaper for Mr. Philip:

Meet our personal "butler" Charanga. This guy was sent from heaven:

Our favorite coffee place in Seminyak... Revolver:

BAM:

"This is a love song" says:

At Potato Head in Seminyak. Apparently, the place to be especially becuase of their great parties and concerts they're throwing right at the beach including M.I.A., Justice, Empire of the Sun etc.

Apparetnly they've sourced over 10.000 different wooden shutters which they used for decoration:

Dinner with the lovely Yenny at Mantra:

Last night in Bali. Crazy experience. Pure adrenaline rush.

My first tattoo. ON somebody else!

So here's the story... my friend Fa wants the ones she loves to put heir mark on her. Tattoo her. Their names.

Obviously, none have tattooed someone before.

It's all about imperfection and experiencing this moment together.

And even more obviously I was shitting my pants and was nervous like hell!

PHIL-G:

BAM!

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Tokyo - Part 2

One struggle in life: There's never enough time. Especially when you're travelling. Too many things to see. Too little time.

On the way to Shibuya:

Meet our friend Miho from Saji magazine that combines food with fashion with lifestyle. Always a big pleasure seeing her!

Acclaimed artist Yue Wu from Paris did the cover for this issue, which will be launched at colette end of this month.

Couldn't resist. Jordan 1. All white everything:

Artist of the moment JR hosting a retrospective of his global art projects at Watari museum:

For his INSIDE OUT project JR is asking everybody to participate as well and paste their photo in their cities:

And who do I run into on the streets of Harajuku: Pe from messenger bag company bagjack. A little Berlin reunion right here:

Full on Spring in Tokyo:

Scandinavian design made in Japan:

At the WARP magazine office. Juta showing us the full page feature of Team Soto (Berlin represent! Big thanks to Akiko!):

At the Visvim showroom:

Kazuya from Visvim representing the Le Berlinois x Lacoste Polo from Berlin store SOTO:

Best coffee in town:

Our favorite... Tsutaya book store in Daikanyama:

Time for food:

Soon in Germany and all over Europe: Just Maté!

Probably one of the most stylish guys in the world: Poggy from United Arrows:

Oh yeah, baby! Home is where this toilet is. This is an invention of God.

No hands needed.  :-)

Oko from Paris performing at Idol:

Our man Russell and his wifey:

Danny & Andy:

James from Slamxhype:

Mayu and So from Hidden Champion magazine:

So good to see that the crowd over here are rocking the shirts of our friend Marcelo Burlon:

Thank you Tokyo! It was a blast.

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BAM goes Tokyo - Part 1

Tokyo it is. No matter how often you come here, it's always a surprise. Constantly discovering new things, being overwhelmed by the people here, their customs, their tradittion and culture and of course the Japanese kitchen!

There's hardly a place like this in the world where you can just sit somewhere in Shibuya or Harajuku and keep on watching and observing people. For hours. It just freaks you out. (in a good way that is)

Here some impressions of our trip...

Like little ants:

Ok:

An oasis in the middle of Tokyo: The Meiji shrine.

Great get-away from the city and with appr. 100,000 trees planted there is enough space for everybody.

Traditional Sake barrels:

Before entering the shrine you have to wash first your left hand, then your right hand and then rinse your mouth to be fresh and clean to pray:

We were lucky to experience our very first Japanese wedding. We weren't invited. But obviously we were there. #weddingcrashers

This tree of wishes stands in the middle of the shrine. The trunk covered with wooden wishes from random people.

And BAM wishes you:

In Harajuku for the obligatory store check:

Supreme & Neighborhood:

BAPE:

Visvim's installation on Omotesando:

Soooo nice, but soooo expensive:

Prada store by Rem Koolhaas in Aoyama:

Drinking time: Markus from Just Another Agency, Jay from Bodega in Boston (always fun times seeing this guy!) and yes that's Russell Westbrook! (NBA All Star! This guy)

Kampai:

Best hosts ever: Bebetan from Bedwin And The Heartbreakers and Hue from Deluxe. Arigato!

The latest KAWS exhibition at Kaikai Kiki Gallery:

And our new favorite drink to end this post: Matcha Frappucino! Bam.