The latest issue of Blend magazine just came out and for the second time we collaborated with them on a campaign:

When you subscribe to the mag, you'll receive one of the tees from our upcoming collection for free! Check out this extra thick fashion issue and subscribe on: www.blend.nl

Save our Souls.

Our new collection will drop soon...very soon.

Save Our Souls. The end is near.

Will keep you updated on the exact release date and events that will follow..

This is the first time we actually have a showroom ourselves in our home country. What a pleasure this is...Last seasons we were always 'ontour' for a couple of weeks, visiting all our stockists, driving from A to B and back to A again, looking like a fool carrying all the bags around...things have changed and now we welcome our clients in our fresh and clean showroom and Wouter is doing a hell of a job. Still in the middle of the season, here some happy customers:

www.t-shu.com

www.friscostore.nl en www.247store.nl

Erosie sended me this pict a while ago...

Eindhoven city cleaning service doing their best;) Check out the inside of their vans' door...Apparently this is where they collect their awards!

Thanks Eros for keeping an eye on the streets! www.erosie.net

Last weeked it was tradeshow time again...before going to London, Cosmic Crack and I headed for Dusseldorf where we showed our new collection at the Weare tradeshow.

CrackRock brought his paint, charcoal, posca's and brushes...so then you know white walls won't stay white.

Work in progress...pretty soon we got into heavy conversations with The Germans about Illuminati, cabalistic secret societies, the new world order, Zeitgeist, Egypt priests, pagan sun gods, hidden knowledge and conspiracy theories...so our plan worked out very well.

Stefan Golz von Wemoto joined and together with Crackrock he created some dark gates and highways into the fifth dimension:

You can't find Wemoto Gregor anywhere on the picts, because the only thing he was doing was being a couch potatoe and screaming 'We Tour On Moto' instead of 'verkopen verkopen verkopen'.

The end result was good and we had a good day with our German colleagues. Too bad we couldn't go to The Clash party that night...next time we'll be there! Thanks everybody for having us. The only limitation is your imagination.

Finally..time to drop the BBB picts...

From the entrance straight to the Untitled area:

Selim from Toygiants showed some of his collector pieces in a funny 'kaws funeral-like' setup:

In fact, the situation for Ontour was a little bit fucked up, cause the plan was to go all 3 of us and have some good old Barca fun. But in the end it was so hectic and busy at our headquarters that I was the only one who had to volunteer to go...Etienne and Wouter had to stay in Eindhoven and do some serious firefighting:(

But all good, there were lots of our friends and family in Barca, so I didnt have to go to the MacDonalds by myself every night.

First night I had diner with Jesse and Sebas from the Freshcotton, our belgium friends Anton from Hurray/Wesc and Raf and the German connection Gregor and Stephan from Wemoto. Quite an experimental cuisine in restaurant Santa Maria at Carrer Comerc; when you go there, order a Dracula as desert!

Jesse and Gregor hustling...Buying cheap beers on the streets.

Brothers from different mothers: Fresh x Wemoto.

Nike Be True window at 24 Kilates.

Next day at the fairground: while I just arrived these guys already fixed a deal. new partners in crime Sebas, Scotty from The Hundreds and Jesse 'faster then light'.

It didn't take long before the other Dutch tourists joined us for some beers: Alain Lijfstijl and Gio Re-Issue 'doing business' and discussing the scene and all streetwear gossip.

Nos amis de Sixpack! Lionel wasn't feeling too well at this point after a solo performance the night before at the WAD party..

That evening The English joined and we went to Mama cafe in the Raval area with Will and Rufus from Second Son (www.second-son.co.uk), Ryan from sneaker store Ryouki (www.ryouki.com) and Mark and Karl from Lacoste. Good food, good wines and grappa...too much for these boys:

Back on the Rambla streets...towards the Untitled party...

At the party in club Mondo...well what can I say? have a look at the picts. As you can see we did our best! Tuna vs Jesse vs Gio.

Travelled all the way to Barcelona and who's behind the decks?? The Dutch represent...Wix and Mo...you can't escape from these guys!

Sebaske found his soulmates...Timothy and Freeman from CTRL. You can't tear them apart anymore.

More Dutchies! Pim Nike, Giovanni and Walid Patta say cheese.

Ofcourse...Romeo aka Roams checked in.

Box! Niklas Untitled!

Anton after a couple of hours in the Cava bar...Hurray! 'Da ga toch nie gaan!'

Juse 'I have Pop' talking about a concrete Pointer shoe with Gareth;)

Jim and Tilburg Snapte!

Roffa Roffa with the Gorilli Clique...

Okay, nightvision.

Up yours...Handjob from CTRL.

Party went on and on...last pict of the evening:

The day after Gio and I checked out some stores and visited the opening of the new “Chikashitsu” store by Slam Jam and Limited Editions.  Very impressive...Great minimalistic dark interior and a great brand selection like Goodenough, Head Porter, Medicom, Original Fake, Resonate, Undercover and Visvim…

The boss behind this store, Limiteditions and a new space called Black is Beauty that he showed us. On a first floor appartment this is a Nike Tier0 sneaker walhalla...Gio got a bit dizzy here.

Walking into the basement of Chikashitsu...

Super dope interior and vibe and products.

When Gio saw all the white boxes he kind of lost it...and I had to carry him outside;)

At bar Lobo we woke Gio up again with some water and had some good food.

Went to the Patta x 24Kts x Addict party afterwards somewhere up a hill in a super fancy crib from the owner of Amnesia:

Lots of familiar faces here...

Second Sons Rufus and Will..

Ryouki...

Remco Asics Onitsuka and Ry...

Posse in full effect...waiting on the bus haha

Back in the touringcar...how stylish.

Thanks to my fellow photographer for some of the best picts above and below. Public Enemy number one: Big C who's also rollin his own blog nowadays. Check it out: http://fresh-cotton.blogspot.com/

C'est Ca! Dusseldorf and London here we come.

Okay, 2 out of 3 tradeshows covered now on my blog...it's becoming a daily job. Here a quick preview of my Bread and Butter adventure...Gio Re-Issue sleeping on the dancefloor;) I've got to sort out these hundreds picts, but I'll manage...all of them online soon...dont Sleep!

So, after Barca it wasn't enough for me and headed out to Frankfurt. Came back on friday evening from BBB and early saturdaymorning drove with Etienne and our new roommate Sebaske to Bright. Here our German distributor showed Ontour in a  prisoncell booth, number 123. This was the second time Etienne were here and the vibe is always good and chilled out. Ofcourse we brought some eyeballs:

In front of our booth with Sebastian, owner of Kickback berlin (www.kickbackberlin.com) and our first gerrman customer from the beginning, and Tim our distributor from Burning Business and 667:

Ontour vs Wemoto: no enemies, but beerbuddies in their booth:

Hanging in the corridor with Jason and Matt from Official hats:

Dope expo about Steve Rocco / World Industries and all the artwork, adds, fights, diss and fucked up humour they created:

The laser cut architecture model from Onitsuka Tiger:

Bowl inside the tradeshow:

On doctors advice we bought some of these Frankfurter UFO's, cause the women who was baking these looked so healthy:

In the evening we went to this huge traditional Frankfurter restaurant, or shall we call it eating factory, where it was cramped with locals sitting on long tables...

where everybody was drinking liters and liters of Apfelwein:

and eating kilo's and kilos of Kartofeln mit Fleisch und die berühmt gewordene Frankfurter Grüne Sauce!! Lekker!

We had a good time with Tim and his crew:

After that it was partytime again and we had to cue up for this Vice party...ofcourse:

Finally inside, it was the same old story...

Here we go again, Big C showing some moves: Ein, Zwei, Polizei:

Jean, our Belgian distributor from Citykingz and Toykyo, in the Hause!

The crowd:

A party is always a succes when there are nice girls and you have eyeballs...

The Ontour sticker fun began again...

The freaks come out at night...

It all went downhill from here...to the BOTTOM

Ontour looking sharp:

Official looking sharp:

FC Sebas, Untitled Niklas und Felix 667 looking sharp:

All eyes on me...okaaaaayyyy

Guten Nacht.

Immediately after Frankfurt we went to Amsterdam on mondaymorning to finish this deadly week. To check out tradeshow Modefabriek, well in fact to see the Superstore; a huge store in the middle of the tradeshow showcasing design in all forms. From clothing to books, to furniture, food, movies, electronics, art etc. The selection of items, development of the concept and design of the space is done by my girlfriend and the studio Stijlinstituut she works for. So that was the reason for me and Wouter to have a look and ofcourse meet some lost souls in between the fashion glutter.

This is the 4th version of the superstore and this years theme was virtual greenhouse. From the invite: "The many applications by socially concerned and committed designers underline the importance of a new perspective on the combination of natural origin and artificial creation with high-tech innovations.
A space is created, a taste lab, a conservatory where the fusion between modern technology, science and experiment becomes one with nature."

The space looked really good and a nice selection of products. As you can see the exhibition breathes an atmosphere in between a biolaboratory and greenhouse...

Here a short selection of some of the weird and fabolous stuff:

Concrete tiles that reveal a floral pattern when it rains.

Wearables based on forms and structures from nature.

Super sick 'superheroes' made out different parts of insects, transforming into new freaky insects:

Experimental furniture and pieces of clothing:

Plants made out of rubber...

Bowls shaped around fruits and vegetables..

captain Cuckoo Brains headwear...

Oh No...who's that?...who's that ghost in the smoke?...it can't be...it can't be Mr. Tradeshow aka Big Fashionista C again?.....Oh No....

YES!! It is! Big C represent again, the first time with something healthy in his hands. Thanks man, for being my partner in crime this hell week.

Bye to the first round of tradeshows...Dusseldorf and London are the next stops. More soon. I'm out.

The new sales season is about to explode and yesterday we received the samples of our upcoming A/W08 collection....Cosmic Crack Ontour:

This collection is a step into a new direction for us, all designs are made with a local artist who's alter ego is "Cosmic Crack and the powerblast movement", I've already dropped some of his work on this blog a few times.

I can tell you...the samples look amazing and very special. We can't compare this collection with our previous ones and I think we've now reached another galaxy. Everybody's really excited to show the items and we can't wait for the sales season to start. We will present this collection at the following shows:

Bright tradeshow Frankfurt Germany 19-20 January www.brighttradeshow.com

WEARe fair Dusseldorf Germany 8-10 February www.weare-duesseldorf.de

TBC fair London UK 10-11 February www.2beconfirmed.com

Besides some of us can be found at Bread and Butter coming week, so drop me a line when you want to drink a beer with us: remco@ontourlab.com

Here's a bit more info about our friend Cosmic Crack, aka  Evil E:

Cosmic Crack currently an Eindhoven native, is a botanical artist with a fresh approach to the well known cosmic genre.
From his early work to his later work with Betamaxxx (of which he is the co-founder) Cosmic Crack has carried his fascination with the unique and unusual into a wide range of multi-media artwork, including various installations,as well as design of concepts that are unsurpassed for their innovation and theoretical intergallactical flair.

www.powerblastmovement.com

www.betamaxxx.com

See Colors Hear Noise Powerblast!