GRAILS: PHOTOSHOOT FEATURING @YMANIBARBEE AND @ADORE.EU IN STREETWEAR GRAILS BY SUPREME AND DIAMOND SUPPLY CO. X COLLABO NY
BOYLE HEIGHTS, LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Ymani and Natalie looking fine in streetwear grails by Supreme and Diamond Supply Co. x Collabo NY. Ymani is wearing a Supreme grail from 2008 (tags still on) featuring JFK and Jackie in 1963, just minutes before JFK was assassinated. Natalie is wearing another grail: Diamond Supply Co. x Collabo NY’s 2006 flipped Misfits skull logo with grills. This design was so lit, that it initially sold out within minutes online and was released two more times in different color ways. The Misfits became angered by the money being made from the flip of their logo and had their attorneys send a cease and desist letter to Diamond Supply, Co, prohibiting future releases of this iconic shirt.
Ymani and Natalie ruled this shoot in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Gorgeous and down to earth, we couldn’t have asked for two better individuals to represent Awesome Totally Awesome (“ATA”) in our first model shoot. Find out more about them in Spotlight On, here.
Just a few hours before we arrived at the location for the shoot, we were informed by the owner of the location that an LAPD Officer had been shot and killed early that morning, and that LAPD were conducting (involuntary) voluntary searches of all vehicles coming into the area. Needless to say, the LAPD and the tension surrounding the area were the least of our problems.
Absolutely unprepared, we had some warm Cokes in our photographer’s car, but that was it for amenities. We had no water, no snacks, no real changing room, no fan, no toilet paper in the bathroom, and assistants who went MIA for three and a half hours (on a Chinese food, snack, ginger ale–most likely crack and stripper run). Ymani and Natalie dealt with it like the rock stars they are, and are the primary reason this shoot was lit.
Add to that, Todd Stockham’s genius eye, and some grailed T-shirts from OG Streetwear brands, Supreme, Undefeated, BAPE, X-Large / Grand Royal, Diamond Supply Co. x Collabo NY, Rocksmith, Manik Skateboards, Rebel 8, Technics x Marvel, Triumvir and (more recently) Alphonso Rawls Iconic–Everybody Skates, (with some other iconic shit scattered in the background), and we have ATA’s first photo shoot. Enjoy friends.
Steve Kitagawa
Grails – Photoshoot Featuring @ymanibarbee and @adore.eu Wearing Kanye and Jay-Z Grails from Everybody Skates
/0 Comments/in Art & Photography, Awesome, SteezYmani and Natalie looking fine in streetwear grails by Everybody Skates. Ymani is wearing Everybody Skates’ Jay-Z shirt. Natalie is wearing Everybody Skates Kanye shirt. The only newer company represented in this shoot, Everybody Skates is skate icon, Alphonso Rawls’ clothing company whose iconic shirts are announced via his Instagram and sell out in hours. Don’t sleep on Everybody Skates.
My Love/Hate Relationship With #Supreme – Photoshoot with @ymanibarbee @adore.eu and Essay
/2 Comments/in Art & Photography, Awesome, Features, Steez, You Know My SteezLike it or not, Supreme will always be the litmus for streetwear. For old streetwear heads like me, there continues to be a love / hate relationship with Supreme. About a year ago, I was driving home from work and one of the neighbor kids (usually dressed head to toe in Pac Sun or even worse, Dallas Cowboys gear), cruised by me, riding a Razor scooter, with a mohawk helmet, wearing a Supreme box logo hoodie. I lost concentration and almost drove my car into the kids playing basketball in the driveway a few houses up.
Grails – Photoshoot Featuring@ymanibarbee and @adore.eu in #undftd and #everybodyskates
/1 Comment/in Art & Photography, Awesome, Steez, You Know My SteezYmani and Natalie looking beautiful as ever in streetwear grails by Undefeated and Everybody Skates. Ymani is wearing Undefeated’s classic Role Model T shirt, with a reproduction of an iconic photograph of Sir Charles Barkley wearing his 76ers gear and an NWA cap. Undefeated has always been at the forefront of edgy athletic streetwear, and this shirt is a classic representation of the same.
Natalie is wearing another favorite: Everybody Skate’s Madonna, T-shirt with Madonna doing a Madonna.