By Kathleen Gasperini and Ryley Bane The Burton U.S. Open of Snowboarding is the largest and longest-running snowboarding competition in the world. Last week in Vail, CO, the Open marked its 33rd anniversary and wrapped-up another epic event series with Kelly Clark claiming her 8th U.S. Open title in the Superpipe and Jaime Anderson taking […]
The International Olympic Committee Executive Board has moved forward with several initiatives approved from the Olympic Agenda 2020 which was agreed upon during a meeting eight weeks ago in Monaco. First, for the bidding process of host cities, the new Invitation Phase for the 2024 Games is in place which gives interested cities the chance […]
Bread & Butter is back in action and has announced some innovative new plans or their July 7-9, 2015 show at their usual place, the Berlin-Tempelhof, including the theme Modern Urban Lifestyle. As we’ve been saying for the past few years now, fashion trade shows have to change to keep up with lifestyle shifts in […]
X Games Aspen 2015 wrapped up yesterday, January 25, 2015, with some incredible results. On day 4, the X Games achieved the largest single-day crowd in X Games Winter history with 48,500 fans. The X Games Winter also featured more of a festival-like experience, ramping-up its musical performances throughout the Games and featuring a highlight […]
The 4th Annual Agenda Emerge powered by Group Y held in Long Beach, CA, January 6, 2015, was the biggest conference yet for the action sports and streetwear industries. With a capacity crowd of 825, it was clear that people were interested in hearing how innovation and creativity can produce the most amazing brands, bands, […]
Fashion trade show season is underway, and after a successful launch at Agenda last week, here’s more of what to expect next in the realm of street, denim, urban contemporary, and youth lifestyles. Selvedge Run When Bread & Butter initially announced that it would be heading to Barcelona for the summer edition in 2015, Maria […]
The world of professional surfing has come to a close for 2014 with some of the best waves and competition in surfing history. Young guns such as Julian Wilson and Gabriel Medina are stepping-up, replacing surf pros like Mick Fanning and 11 time Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Champ Kelly Slater, and making way for […]
The new Olympic Agenda 2020 has been approved as of the last meeting at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne on December 11, 2014. The two main initiatives, which are slated to start at the Tokyo Games in 2020 include the bidding process for Olympic Games which includes how the host city can account for sustainability, […]
Today, December 9, 2014, Bread & Butter Managing Director, Karl-Heinz Muller, sent out a letter to officially announce that Bread & Butter in January 2015 is cancelled. It’s been a challenging couple of weeks for the European urban contemporary and streetwear trade show that first announced it would tighten down to one hall for January. […]
News just in, that Bread & Butter’s January show is now canceled. No comments yet from Karl-Heinz Muller, but just last week, he announced the show would be smaller and down to one hall. Meanwhile, some of the original Bread & Butter brands are moving to other shows. Carhartt is headed over to Bright, the […]