MAFIA's Top 5 Female Sneaker Collabs on The Vine

A couple months back we told you about Sneaker Freaker’s First Lady MAFIA’s new gig blogging over at The Vine. She’s been informing and entertaining us for a minute now, especially when it comes to giving the ladies as much of the spotlight as the guys.

This week she’s compiled a list of her fave female sneaker collabs so far - and you know if MAFIA’s a fan of these they gotta be the goods! The list names none other than the Pro Mama along with some of the best in the game – LA Gear X Club Zonder Filter, MOB X Colette X Reebok, Fafi X Adidas Adicolor W2 and the Nike Blazer X Claw Money.

Do yourself a favour and check the full article here.

Images from The Vine.

MAFIA's Top 5 Female Sneaker Collabs on The Vine

Melbourne readers wake up! We know you’re broke after the Easter long weekend, but surely you can scrape together the clams to hit the second event in Fat Kids Simply Bread Series this Friday. For the uneducated, Simply Bread is a 12 month project celebrating street culture – bringing together fashion, music, toys, art, and design and putting it into one big party.

Our aim is to help celebrate the guerrilla lifestyle we love and ultimately become the hub of inspiration and assistance for all brands, creators, toys, and collectors.

Simply Bread Series 2 – The Designer Street Fashion Series - recognises how streetwear has become a big influence on youth today and is here to help celebrate its originality and influence. The event features Lafayette (Japan), Orisue (California), Estate (LA) and Garbege (NY).

There is a pile of giveaways, and everyone likes free stuff right? If you didn’t pre-purchase you’ve sadly missed out on the chance to win a pair of Supra NS Skytops or a Converse Black and Gold pack. But dry your eyes, there’s plenty more - if you feel like getting in early and are in the first 20 through the door you’ll get a gift pack courtesy of Fat Kids worth up to $700. Win the freshest t-shirt comp and you’ll take home a $1000 prize pack (yes, that’s ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH), plus giveaways from Madman DVD, Lafayette, Orisue, Estate, and Trainer.

To top it off, tunes provided by B.Two, A-Style and MISS fave MAFIA.

Event deets: SIMPLY BREAD SERIES 2 (DESIGNER STREET FASHION SERIES)
Time: 10.30pm till late
Venue: Roxanne Parlour Level 3, 2 Coverlid Place, 3000 Melbourne
Tickets: pre-sale ONLY $12 / DOOR $15

If you still need some convincing (shame on you!), take a look at flicks from the first event here.

M.I.S.S. MAFIA has a new gig in addition to being the First Lady of Sneaker Freaker - she’s also writing for one of Australia’s most well known blogs, The Vine, and she did a piece on Mama. You can read the full interview here. Thanks MAFIA!

M.I.S.S. M.A.F.I.A., from Sneaker Freaker, sent the newest edition of the Sneaker Freakette Tee in a clean pastel colorway.  You can get yours and other fresh colorways here.  Mafia is always on the grind and on her newest project, Panda Party, she documents her debauchery from gig to gig, as you follow along on her DJ travel extravaganza.  Merci M.A.F.I.A.!

French-based magazine, Lady Caprice wrote an article on M.I.S.S’s very own Lori Lobenstine, founder of Female Sneaker Fiend.  As members of FSF, Lori asked Liz and I to submit photos of our collections for the piece.  Check out the full story to see the photos - and shouts to other fabulous ladies featured including Pink Eye, Toofly and Mafia.

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Sneaker Freaker did their annual “Best of the Best” feature in Issue 14. If you can’t wait to get your hands on a copy, you can check out the feature online here. We did you the favor of sorting through and picking out what the ladies in the industry thought. Did you think I would choose any other shoe?   Pro Mama for life! Haha, check out what the other ladies including M.I.S.S. Lori from Female Sneaker Fiend, M.I.S.S. Mafia from Sneaker Freaker, Tara from Trash Bag Aesthetics, the Club Zonder Filter ladies, and many more after the jump.

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Here’s the final Women Making History series round-up! All 27 ladies ladies in one post. If all these ladies ever got together in one room, heads would explode, our minds would be so blown!

Thanks to everyone who read these features on the daily, posted about the series in their blogs, everyone who left lovely comments…you’re all appreciated!

Here’s a recap of the last 4 features, March 29th-31st:

• Saturday, March 24- M.A.F.I.A of Sneaker Freaker
• Sunday, March 25 - Linda of Burton/Lovemade
• Sunday, March 26 - Tammy of Lovemade
• Monday, March 31 - Gabriella & Liz, Founders of M.I.S.S. Crew

The ladies of weeks one, two, three and 4—after the jump!

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Maria Limberis aka M.A.F.I.A. has been involved in Hip Hop culture for over 25 years. For over 10 of those years, she’s been spinning a diverse selection of music ranging from ‘90s Hip Hop and Electro to Baltimore and Hyphy. Along side spinning, Mafia hosts, and runs her own nights, making her deserving of the title “Australia’s Hardest Working Lady DJ!�? as well as, Melbourne’s “go-to�? DJ to get the party started! Aside from hosting, Mafia has been on-stage support for Dizzie Rascal, Cool Kids, Girl Talk, CSS, and A-Trak, just to name a few.

Mafia is the only female to work for Sneaker Freaker Magazine and brings her own flare to the magazine and site which includes doing all the New Release sneaker reviews, interviewing anyone and everyone making waves in street culture, updating the website daily with Newsflashes and bringing new brands and people who are on the come up to worldwide recognition with interviews, reviews and stories on everything encompassing sneaker culture.

Mafia does anything and everything at SNKFRKR HQ to make sure the best sneaker magazine in the world stays at the top of the cultures go-to site and magazine for only the best in sneakers and fashion. She takes aNYthing’s motto of “Never Not Working” into account, and is online at least 14 hours a day, hustling, researching and immersing herself in a culture she has grown up on.

Mafia’s got a few videos to share after the jump, including one where she gives a breakdown of sneaker head terms. We also re-link you to a free Mafia mix we posted about a few weeks back. Jump!

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M.I.S.S. Crew and Sneaker Freaker’s very own M.A.F.I.A. has just released a mixtape called “Celeb Life on the DJ List.” The set includes everything from M.I.A., KRS One, ODB, Pharoah Monch and NKOTB. Yes, the NKOTB. M.A.F.I.A. definitely knows how to have fun and mix it up. Download the mix here.

View the Tracklist after the jump . . .
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