Please know that this months spread is not a social commentary on the state of sneaker culture. We are not saying that the culture is dead. We are saying that when something is soooo hot, like the La Femme GNS Athena, you can’t even keep the dead down to try and get their hands on a pair. Satin, patent and ruffled trim…grown and sexy, even for the deceased. Too bad you’ll have to wait until Spring 09 to cop yours…or fight ur mummy for a pair. You know we had to go there.

Download the M.I.S.S. October calendar here and the desktop here.

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Shoes: La Femme GNS, Athena

Links to previous month’s calendars and desktops after the jump . . .

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A lot of street wear tees are usually based around the idea of “playing” with a famous logo or piece of art.  It’s not a new concept, people have been doing it forever.  Everything from Tide (early Freshjive) to Warhol portraits (1/2 the brands out there) have been given a twist to further the message of small brands.  The tees I saw in Vegas were no different - but I did feel like there was a giant increase in the number of tees touting very high end brands.  This too is not new, but I felt that this time around there were so many more.  Maybe it’s the economy crunch?  Can’t afford real YSL but I can feel close to the brand by wearing a tee with it’s logo?  Or, maybe it’s a t-shirt brands way of aligning itself with what it thinks is cool, for example, girls that like Chanel should like my brand.  Whatever it is, there were a million (not quite, but almost) of these “designer” tees - I didn’t take pics of most of them but I’d be confident in saying that almost half of the clothing brands we looked at had some kind of designer reference - Chanel and Karl being the most used.  We even saw a shoe that made a designer reference.

Oh, and by the way, word on the street is that Fucking Awesome is coming back and re-issuing the Karl Lagerfeld “Gangsta Situations” tee (Yay!) - you heard it here first.  Check out more pics after the jump . . . .

Brian Lichtenberg for Blood Is The New Black - YSL

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The debut collection of La Femme GNS, the women’s sneaker line from Greedy Genius is dropping this fall and we are very excited about this (for a preview of the fall collection check out our Magic post from February). Digit, the designer of La Femme GNS, is doing an amazing job and really giving the ladies some new options for kicks. She’s got great style and seems to know what the ladies like on their feet. Pink is used only as an accent color - you won’t find any pink shoes here (thank goodness!). That’s not to say that the shoes aren’t feminine, they’re just not for 10 year old girls. She’s added some great details like studs and ruffles that make the La Femme GNS shoes stand apart from the rest. The shoes below all drop for Spring 2009 (except the Haze model). Check out more pics after the jump.

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Digit aka “Mamai Digital” hails from the City of Lost Angeles. She’s worked it out at Union L.A.,

and The Hundreds, working on their female division The Tens. Currently making things happen with

Le Femme GNS, this feisty lady described herself to M.I.S.S. and had this to say:

“I’m a fast living, determined young fly woman with enough energy to fly me to the moon. I am a vegetarian and have a huge appetite for gaining knowledge, good food, and love wine and cheese. Addicted to family and friends, veggie burgers & greens. Infatuated with the solar system, cosmic visuals, and anything Kawaii. Run strongly off of peoples vibes and aura. I was born to design, influence, double fist in the club, and live life to the fullest. Glad to announce my release for La Femme GNS, (woman’s division of Greedy Genius) Fall 2008.”

Get to know a little more about what inspires Digit after the jump!

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I wish I could bring each and everyone one of you with us on this tradeshow journey. I would hope that you could walk for a moment in our shoes and feel the pain and exhaustion of the week, so you could then undertstand why these posts have taken a day or two and you would then put aside your thoughts of me being a slacker…please forgive me, our faithful reader…Yeah, so Magic the tradeshow. This is the big mama of all tradwshows. All other tradwshows are off-shoots, grandbabies if you will. Well within Magic is a “million” more catagories. Today we visit “Streetwear” and within streetwaear is “Street Culture”…blah, blah, blah. Keep on reading to see what’s new this Spring from Dime Piece, La Femme GNS, Mama and much more!!

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