Crispi x HoodTarantino stroll the streets of NYC

So, I want you guys to meet my new friend AJ. I met AJ randomly in the streets of the Lower East Side, NYC from my last trip to Jersey. I was in need of a second model; I told myself I would find someone to shoot off the streets of New York City... since you know, there was no time for a new casting and what do you know AJ was the lucky one!
You guys can check AJ's images from our shoot by clicking here!

Little did I know AJ was a film creator and director. We decided to link up and put our creative forces together. AJ and I work pretty well hand in hand, so this will not be our only time working together. New York City should be on the look out for AJ aka "HoodTaratino". Take a look at some random footage and images we came up with from our strolls in the Lower East Side.

I was able to learn about one of the few holes in the wall left in New York City, called "Ray's Candy Store". You guys should definitely taste Ray's fried bananas and chocolate milk! Really warms you up after long film and shooting in this cold weather. Most definitely have to follow them on the gram @RaysCandyStory !

I hope you guys enjoy!

xoxo Crispi

#stayhumble


The Art of Bae - Crispi's First Annual Gallery - Art Basel Edition '15

It was an awesome #ArtBasel15 being able to be apart of a lot of events, shooting DJ Esco on his first Art Basel, meeting Metro Boomin and just embracing the art . Art Basel 2015 is really another for the books to remember!

Being able to curate and perform my own first art gallery exhibit for Art Basel 2015, at the Congress Hotel in Miami Beach was a blessing. The gallery is called The Art of Bae #BaeswithArt #ArtBaselEdition.
Shining light on 7 females, including myself, to showcase their talents. To showcase talent from the event flyer created to the physical art being exhibited. The meaning of The Art of Bae is to show the world that females in general (any type) are art producing art despite the concept or the way they look. #BaeswithArt was one of the hashtags created meaning, females with art. This gallery was created in a matter of 4 days. It had a very lounge feel with a good decent turn around.

This was just the beginning, y'all gone have to stay tuned for part 2 of #theartofbae and many more. It is time to shine light on the real culture and underground artists.

Do it for the art, don't do it for the hype. 

Baes with Art: Crispi - Yahighrus - Claudia - Denise - Ashley - Luccia

Mc Bae: Tami

Erasmo for flying back from LA! Special thanks to #bestqualitycanvas for pulling through with my prints! Also, thanks to everyone who came and showed love and support!

Dreams do come true! Live Happy! Smile

xo Crispi

ART BASEL KICKOFF - "We Lit Wednesdays" Recap

What can I say? What better way to kick of Art Basel Miami 2015 with a SOLD OUT venue for "We Lit Wednesday's"!

#WLW had over 1,400 rsvp's made. Hosted by UNO from 1UMBRELLA headlining 40oz Van; in my opinion this Wednesday was pretty lit! This Art Basel edition we rounded up many different talented artists, creative individuals, and boss ladies. With this amazing turn around, this come back set the tone for the rest of the following lit Wednesday's!

If I did not capture you, my apologizes. I am going to need you to either dance, talk to me or do something!

Also don't forget to tags and hashtags @thatscrispi #thatscrispi #welitwednesdays !

xoxo I hope y'all enjoyed! For those who didn't come through stay tuned for more lit Wednesday's coming your way!

Shirts To Match Jordan 8 Three Times A Charm 2015 Release

Shirts To Match Jordan 8 Three Times A Charm 2015 Release

Well, the holiday season is here. You know what that means, there are tons of dope sneakers dropping, which means of course we've got the dope shirts to match. For this post let's focus on the Jordan 8 Three Times A Charm release. We've got the perfect 3Peat tees for you. Peep them below and let us know what you think in the comment box.

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Exclusive: ’47 brand Speaks on New Products, Collaborations, and Future of the Brand

https://youtu.be/1UUFjexgsfU

In 1947, twin brothers and Italian immigrants, Arthur and Henry D’Angelo founded Twins Enterprises. The D’Angelos were entrepreneurial pioneers who were quick to see the future of sports licensing. Their company became ’47 brand, which this year dropped the “brand” in its name becoming simply ’47.  As the decades have passed, ’47 has grown into a premium global sports lifestyle brand that is a licensed partner with the MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, as well as over 900 colleges.

We caught up with ’47 during our recent visit to NYC to talk about the brand’s new products, recent collaborations, and where the brand is going next.

As the new generation of ’47 begins, what kind of new products can we expect to see from the brand?

Well one of the new projects we put out recently is a great example of the kind of new stuff we want to do – Our “Black Fives” collection. This is a collaborative effort between us and the Black Fives Foundation that celebrates Black Fives era teams. Before the NBA was integrated, there was the Black Fives League so we decided to pay homage to those teams with this collection. It was a way to stick to our historic roots and still create something new and fresh. So you’ll see more projects like that from us moving forward.

Street culture is always popping up with new trends. How do you guys plan to keep up? 

Well we we’re paying a lot of attention to the pulse of the culture. So we’re going to make sure that when the trends hit, we’ve got a wide selection of products ready to cater to that younger demographic.

Some of those trends play into what you’ve already been doing anyway. Curved visor caps or “dad caps” are back in style and that’s one of your original products right?

Yes, definitely. That’s a big piece of our foundation so we’ll definitely try to do some story telling around that. We’ve got a wide range of that style of cap already and we’ll continue to build on that.

The Supreme collaboration was a benchmark moment where ’47 crossed over from just sporstwear to streetwear. How did that effect the brand?

After the Supreme collab, we’ve had an influx of brands that want to work with us. But there’s some things our team really sticks to when it comes to collaborations. One of them is, we should never do something if our brand or the other brand could do it on their own. We believe collaboration is when two brands have different foundations or capabilities come together to do something greater. It has to be unique, and it has to be grounded in sport.

A lot of brands will be attracted to working with you because of your massive amount of licenses with the sports leagues too.

Yeah, we have this massive amount of assets in the licensed product category so we have to be strategic about it. Especially with the Supreme x Yankees collab, after that we got all these brands like “We wanna do Dodgers, We wanna do this team, etc”  So we really have to set up a filter to protect both our relationships with these brands and make sure our past collabs don’t become watered down by doing the same thing over. 

You can follow ’47 on instagram or twitter and check out their products here.

Photos by Crispi | Video by Michael Nymania

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