After a successful run in Detroit, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Alex Melamid’s "Holy Hip-Hip!" rolls west to Los Angeles. His work takes 12 famed hip-hop figures and presents them in old master style. 

Doesn’t another guy do that? Yes, indeed, Kehinde Wiley is the poster boy of hip-hop portraiture. While Wiley is frequent visitor to hip-hop subject matter, Melamid’s work focuses just on this set. Still, the comparisons are bound to continue as "Holy Hip-Hop!" continues to show. While on subject, read a review of Wiley’s latest work (from the New York Times), here. An excellent, and accurate assessment.

"Holy Hip-Hop!" is on view at Forum Gallery from tomorrow. It runs to November 1. (Via Men.Style)

More of Melamid’s portraiture after the jump.

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After previous releases of the "Silverlake" Regional Tee and the "Tokyo" Regional Tee, you will see today the release of the "Los Angeles" Regional Tee. The t-shirt will only be released at Undefeated LA, today, September 6th.

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Over the years we have become used to seeing people cue for product, sneakers, collections launches and other things, but we can safely say, that we have never seen anything like the opening of the new Johnny Cupcakes store in Los Angeles.
The Hundreds did a good job documenting the opening, from the store itself to the VIP tent, the cuing and the arrival of Johnny.
Congrats to Johnny for the new store, hopefully we can visit it soon! If you have time, visit it on Melrose.
Check out more images after the jump.

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Now that A Bathing Ape is operating a NYC and LA store, they came out with two winter plaid New Era Caps, featuring the local favorite MLB team on the caps. The caps are now available at Cliff Edge.

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The Comme Des Garcons Guerilla Store LA has produced some skate decks that will be released along with the F/W ‘08 collections on July 10th. Via Slamxhype.
COMME des GARCONS Guerrilla Store +1 213
125 W 4th Street #106
Los Angeles Ca 90013
213 626 6606
Overall there is a set of three decks, which look just as good on the wall as they do on the street.

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Huf is about to release the "LA" and "SF" New Era caps. Since they recently opened a store in Los Angeles you can expect more "LA"product in the coming months. Hopefully we can soon show you some better images.

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Long in the making, the new Johnny Cupcakes store on Melrose in Los Angeles now finally has a fixed opening date. The new store marks the second store overall of the brand, the first being in Boston.
The Los Angeles retail market certainly seems healthy, with a new store opening up almost weekly. Just in recent weeks we have seen Huf, Upper Playground, Bape and now also Johnny Cupcakes.


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Huf managed really well to keep this under the wraps. Their new LA store is opening tomorrow, May 31rst on North Fairfax. Once again a welcome addition to theLA retail landscape. Via Crazy Steez Yo.
Hopefully we can soon show you some first images of the new location. Check out the flyer after the jump.

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Here is the first sneak peek of the Johnny Cupcakes LA shoppe. They are working closely with a company that builds, fabricates and engineers various things for Disney Land/World, Universal Studios as well as other international artists + architects.
Once again they proof to understand how to put their brand in the spotlight and how to communicate with their customer in a way that is memorable. The store is supposed to open next month – we will keep you posted. Now watch the teaser video here below.

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The Bape LA store opens this week and last night they celebrated the occasion of the opening. Lots of celebrities showed up, including N.E.R.D., Nigo, Takashi Murakami, Mike Tyson, Dr. Romanelli and many more.
Thanks to Supertouch we can give you a look at the new store, the people that were at the opening and also the Bape L.A. exclusive Roadsta sneaker, which comes in an orange/purple colorway.
Check it all out after the jump.

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Tonight, Claw Money will be celebrating the release of her Boosted case and bag collection in Los Angeles. The event starts at Barracuda and will continue later on at Bordello with performance by Devlin & Darko, Roxy Cottontail and a Special Guest.
Expect an A-List of guests at the event. Rumor also has it that Santogold will be at the event, just another reason to make it over there.

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On April 3rd Fred Segal MAN will be opening a pop-up store exclusively carrying the collection by Damien Hirst in collaboration with the Warhol Factory and Levi’s. They created a stunning space for the collection in Los Angeles. Via Notcot.
After the jump you can take a look at both the space and some of the product that will be for sale.

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LA’s premier fitted cap store, Hall Of Fame, has a released a new series of t-shirts – the Upside Down Tees. They come in several colorways for different cities and teams and are available now.

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Here is the Adidas Gil II Zero x Gilwood, paying tribute to the ties that Gilbert has to the west coast, where he was born and raised. This shoe is about paying tribute to his roots with the classic colorways of the Lakers.
It will be released March 30th.

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Sometime in the first couple of weeks of April, Crooks & Castles will be dropping some hoodies that are exclusive to their flagship store on LA. Overall there are three hoodies being released, each coming in three colorways – black, red and purple.
Keep your eyes open for the release and check out all three hoodies after the jump.

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Here is something a little unexpected. House Of Cassette will be opening an experimental store of Fairfax. The official opening celebration is actually today.
Cassette 523 
523 North Fairfax Ave 
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Definitely another good spot to hit up when you are around Fairfax!

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Freshjive has released some new New Era caps as part of their Spring/Summer 2008 collection. There is a new black leather cap and two colorways of the LA cap. Both are now available at Reserve in LA.

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Not many brands have managed to create such a strong following as Johnny Cupcakes has in Boston with both the webstore and the physical store. People have been lining up for literally every release of the brand. Now they are expanding and announced their second flagship store, which will be on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. More info once we get closer to the opening!

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The Comme des Garcons Guerilla Store L.A. opened its doors this weekend. Another hot retail spot for the city, where a lot has been happening in the past months in terms of stores already.
The new store is just like most of these guerilla stores around the globe, very raw in terms of design, minimal and nothing like any other store in its surroundings. On your next L.A. trip, make sure to stop by.
(Pictures taken by DT)
After the jump many pictures of the location.

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Last year Rostarr held an exhibition at the Turntable Lab in LA. For the occasion they had worked on a collaboration with Clae Footwear. They made the Garvey slip-on model in all black and added a tonal Rostarr artwork embroidery to it. They still have the available in store now!
More pics after the jump.

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