Inspiration for your gear

[MilSpex]

what inspires you when you gear up? People, music, movies, history, anything. images and styles you try to incorporate into your own style...

me:

*Gulf War I

*NY club kids circa KIDS movie

*Japanese street circa 1995

*A-ron

*Yop Hectic

*Hip Hop

*Nigo

*James Lavelle

*Hiroshi Fujiwara

*NBHD chief, Shinsuke Takizawa

*The Search for Animal Chin

*`80s

*The War on Terrorism

*W)Taps designer, Tet

*R&B

*Video Days

*Ian Brown

*Tokyo Recon Open Party spread in Boon Mag

might ad more later when I get inspired sum more..

Hey Minya...Fuck you.

Be Advised: Morgan Nixon AKA Moman631 AKA Moman6040 is a fraud.

Edited by MilSpex on Dec 27, 2005 at 06:40 AM

Edited by MilSpex on Dec 31, 2005 at 08:06 PM

[Francis Begbie]

Ralph Lauren

The 1950s

Ireland

Upper East Side

Gatsby Mob

Wu Tang Clan

WASPs

[RobbertJan]

hedi slimane

punk rock ( iggy pop, new york dolls, the clash, ramones, richard hell, the jam)

late '60's, early '70's

led zeppelin

pete doherty

london

lock, stock and two smoking barrels / snatch / trainspotting

the streets

edward norton

old-school skateboaring ( for shoes mostly)

coldplay

and more creative stuff in general that you don't really see in my clothing but that inspires me to try new stuff and keep adding stuff to innovate my style :

early hiphop: beastie boys, public enemy, eric b&rakim;

soccer players: ronaldinho, messi, robben, kuyt, kalou, kone, lampard, joe cole;

eminem, maybe a bit off a sellout lately but songs like lose yourself are really inspirering

that's about it, probaly forgot few things but i'll add later

''I'm a street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm/i'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb/I am the world's forgotten boy/The one who searches and destroys''...James Jewel Osterberg

[Teddy Boy Rocker]

among my sartorial influences:

lifestyle:

1950s Ted/vintage rocknroll style

1958-1964 mod (Small Faces, The Action etc)

1969 Skinhead

1970+ suedehead/smooths/casuals

1979 Punk/mod revival (The Jam, The Chords etc)

Modern designers with these sensibilities (Paul Smith, Ozwald Boateng, Duncan Quinn, etc)

film:

Bronco Bullfrog

Small Faces

Quadrophenia

Snatch/Lock Stock

Gangster No1

Alfie (both)

Get Carter (Caine)

Down with Love

[Kwing]

Music:

Pete Doherty ( Babyshambles , The Libertines )

Bloc Party

The Beatles

The Police

Hard-Fi

Oasis

The Streets

Cities:

Hong Kong

Paris

London

Movies:

Snatch

Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels

The Matrix

Brands & Designers:

Dior

Atelier La Durance

Iceberg

Prada

Nudie

and still i think i forgot a lot of things, but i'll add them later...

[Blanc0]

in no particular order, and just a smattering:

Lenny McGurr (Futura)

Blade Runner

Deadwood

Neil Young's denim

Tet

Shin

Kostas Seremetis

All military (esp. vintage and other countries than the US) clothing

Hardy Blechman

mechanics

Errolson Hugh

1940's smaller label workwear

LS&Co. Archives

No Direction Home (Dylan documentary)

yakuza tats

Steve Power's art (espo)

the color black

nuts (the japanese sign-painter)

[RobbertJan]

No Direction Home (Dylan documentary)

hey blanc0 i was planning on watching that tonight, heard some positive stuff about it, u reckon it's worth watching the 4 hours? cause it's a long time

''I'm a street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm/i'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb/I am the world's forgotten boy/The one who searches and destroys''...James Jewel Osterberg

[Guest Montreal]

PHARRELL!!!!!

[Handlethevibe]

Quote: NY club kids circa KIDS movie

lol, you and casper could be brothers. Baggy bdu type pants, big shirts, and crazy hair.

[andewhall]

Milspex Going to see Ian Brown in Sydney on the 5th Jan, Yeeeeeeeah. Will give you an update

http://photobucket.com/albums/y278/andewhall/

[berent]

I'd love to get my inspiration from the movie trainspotting. I just don't have the junkie body for it.

My inspiration comes mostly from the surf- and the skateboardculture

Edited by berent on Dec 27, 2005 at 03:01 PM

[Blanc0]

here's some more:

Denim MC (motorcycle club) vests

60's biker movies

old magic posters (Houdini, Carter the Great, etc...)

the quilts of gees bend

bad patching

buffed walls

angkor wat

Alameda Discount Center

The Presidio

WWII bomber nose art

Roy Lichtenstein

black tees with white print

80's era Alva team (when you had to have dreads to be on the team)

[Bronson]

80's Alva team was AMAZING. Leather jackets and dreads.

Mine:

Suicidal Tendencies

Minor Threat

Henry Rollins (Black Flag Era)

Late 80's Straight Edge

Early 90's Grunge

Old Men who haven changed their wardrobe since the 60's

Hardcore flyers

The Misfits

BXH

NBHD

Fragment Design

Tony Alva

The Jesus and Mary Chain

the early 80's Powell Team

Visvim

Levis

Vans

[low profile]

quantum leap

vodka

samurais

[neawts]

Internet.

[Guest]

From (no particular order):

+ Superfuture - wink

+ LastNightsParty.com

+ Plan B Team, 1992

+ David LaChappelle

+ Creative uses of wealth - that'd make a good company name. Steal it now.

+ DIGISTA

+ Duran Duran, Seven and the Ragged Tiger

+ Neighborhood

+ Ducati Monster

+ Tom Ford

+ Nigo

+ Porsche 356A, Aston Martin DB5

+ Indian Motorcycles

+ Lee Bakofsky, David Choe, KAWS, Banksy

+ Art Prostitute

+ HUGE INC

+ SB

+ Kanye, for a variety of reasons

What I aspire not to be:

+ Corporate

+ Lil' Wayne, Jermaine Dupri, Chris Brown

+ Dockers

+ Fucking idiots on Cribs (exc. Moby)

+ Seven for all Mankind

+ Hummer H2

+ Harley Davidson

Back in the days, the thought of NIKE in the skateboarding world made me cringe. I cannot believe they actually made my 'good' list. Now I can hardly stomach 90% of most non-nike skate shoes. Evolution is constant I guess.

[coolhunter]

my reflection in the mirror

[NESK]

predator

old cypress hill videos

ninjas

beastie boys

beat street

john woo flicks

bruce lee

graffiti art/culture

hatred for mall punk

[youwish]

Pretty boy thugs.

Sophisticated punks.

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

[M.O.A]

skate

old rock

nigo/pharell.....ill say it...even though i try not to........its hard......

my friends

myself

NY/london/Tokyo....prolly the most important thing.....

i dont know...so many things its so hard to sum up.

F**K HYPE

solecollector.com

getlifted.net

overstand.net

[obsessis]

snoop dogg/dr dre, early 90's, deep cover/g thang era

early to mid 90's east coast hip hop

[gunpwdr]

- Tokyo, Paris, and London streetwear

- SST, Fat Wreck Chords, Lookout!, Epitaph...

- Minor Threat, Fugazi, Descendents, All, Chemical Brothers...

- The original Vans Salman Agah

- Late 80's, early 90's skate culture... Life's a Beach, Powell Peralta, Santa Cruz Speed Freaks

- Hedi Slimane & Dior Homme

- Multi-cultural, non-hypebeasting Asian style

- Life on TMY-120... not CMOS or CCD

[teejayess]

Quote:

*James Lavelle

--- Original message by MilSpex on Dec 27, 2005 06:39 AM

Oh yes.

Edited by teejayess on Dec 28, 2005 at 09:00 AM

[aitsuka]

STREETS

OTHER PEOPLE

HIP-HOP

JAPAN

NYC

SKATE CULTURE

VIDEOS

-don't hate, appreciate-

[bobbyhundreds]

black.

thehundreds is huge.

www.thehundreds.com

[RobbertJan]

have to add 2 designers:

ann demeulemeester, brilliant use of leather, boots are amazing and just the overall sort of neo-gothic inspired collections are great, good thing that the first menswear collection came out this year, i hope ann will continue with putting out great collections

alexandre plokhov, ss 06 collection by cloak is very, very nice. the collection is made with great craftmanship and there really isn't a piece in it that i wouldn't want

''I'm a street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm/i'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb/I am the world's forgotten boy/The one who searches and destroys''...James Jewel Osterberg

[parish]

most of all, other people

franz ferdinand's alexander kapranos

john galliano

hedi slimane

the strokes

lil bit of pharrell

the libertines

my dead hip hop culture (when hip hop was hip hop...)

the beckhams (to see how i shouldn't look)

wallpaper*

10 corso como & purple (milan shops)

the 70's

mmmh...seems weird....

[nig1]

the OC. AF, Hollister, P. Diddy, Emos, Skateboard P.

[Yakboy Equals Nurturer]

That James Lavelle photo is fucking priceless. Where'd you find it?

[Guest]

for me:

runways

commedesgarcon

junya watanabe

hedi slimane

yohji yamamoto

jun takahashi

madsaki

marc jacobs

edison

becks

music list is endless...