{"id":3796,"date":"2009-01-06T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T19:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2009-01-06T21:49:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T05:49:23","slug":"ah-louis-louis-ah-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3796","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Louis Louis, Ah No . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/rtw2.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/rtw2.jpg','popup','width=529,height=385,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/rtw2-tm.jpg\" height=\"312\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Rtw2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Sprouse\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Sprouse<\/a><\/strong> was a graffiti artist and designer who did some work with <strong>Louis Vuitton<\/strong> artistic director <strong>Marc Jacobs<\/strong> back in the day. Sprouse died in 2004 but that hasn&#8217;t stopped the fashion house from bringing out a new Stephen Sprouse collection this week. And nothing says street fashion more than a skateboard.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the launch, the luxury goods company is also creating two limited edition pieces, which will only be available at the SoHo location: a Stephen Sprouse graffiti skateboard replete with a hard case monogram skateboard trunk, and a Stephen Sprouse \u201cRoses\u201d T-shirt. The company hopes to sell three graffiti skateboards with trunks for $8,250 each, and 70 T-shirts for $250 each. \u201cI don\u2019t expect them to last very long,\u201d Lalonde said. \u201cBy Friday, there probably won\u2019t be any more left.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then again, nothing shouts &#8220;I&#8217;m a slave to fashion&#8221; more than owning a $8,250 skateboard that comes in it&#8217;s own Louis suitcase. . . As a well-placed friend of ours said: &#8220;Sad to say, but after they sell all three boards (prob in 3 mins) they will be the second biggest skateboard company in the world next to <strong>Sector 9<\/strong>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwd.com\/retail-news\/louis-vuitton-to-celebrate-arrival-of-stephen-sprouse-collection-1909735?src=rss\/recentstories\/20090106\" target=\"_blank\">Women&#8217;s Wear Daily<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Sprouse was a graffiti artist and designer who did some work with Louis Vuitton artistic director Marc Jacobs back in the day. Sprouse died in 2004 but that hasn&#8217;t stopped the fashion house from bringing out a new Stephen Sprouse collection this week. And nothing says street fashion more than a skateboard. For the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3815,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}