Tag: fashion

haven = thicker than water!

a fairly recent feature on hypebeast.tv caught our attention and we feel it’s something that needs to be shared. in collaboration with vancouver based deepsee productions, hypebeast did a video profile on HAVEN: a company based out of edmonton, canada that was started by two brothers: Arthur & Daniel Chmielewski. having opened their flagship retail spot in edmonton in 2006, HAVEN has quickly become a premier clothing and accessories shop both physically and online. further proof of their success can be evidenced by the opening of HAVEN Select in vancouver in 2009.

what we believe has driven the partnership to success, is how genuine the brothers seem to be with both their product selection and business approach. after watching the video and by browsing their online shop you really get a sense that they only carry products that they themselves would wear.

we are positive that after watching the feature you’ll want to make a trip to edmonton or vancouver just to visit their shop. again, you’ll get a sense of their honest, feel-good retail approach; while enjoying the production qualities of the video. check out the HAVEN website for further infos and keep track of their activities via twitter: @havenshop

No Comments by miguel on June 19, 2010

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tagged brands, business, clothing, edmonton, fashion, haven, lifestyle, vancouver

hector mediavilla = a sapeur connaisseur!

Hector Mediavilla is a business graduate turned documentary photographer from spain. this sudden change of career has prompted Hector to travel across the globe in search of new photographic encounters. one of his most famous series is his study on congolese “sapeurs“. coming from the acronym SAPE, which reads “societé des ambienceurs et des persones élégantes”, sapeurs are a social group concerned with elegance, good manners, politeness, and morality.

the first ever sapeur emerged in 1922, when G.A. Matsoua, a congolese citizen, travelled to Paris and returned looking like a bona fide french gentleman causing the admiration of his fellow congo-men. nowadays, sapeurs can be found among the streets of brazzaville wearing suits worth thousands of dollars, while surrounded by extreme levels of poverty and misery. according to Hector “this is simply a particular way to leave a footprint in a remote corner of the world”.