Antwerp has RA, Brussels has got Hunting and Collecting.

Belgium’s got it going on! (Liège where you at?)

Unfortunately we couldn’t make it to the opening. No biggie apparently, because the moment we set foot in the shop (300 square metres.. So bbbb-bow down) owners Niels and Aude offered to give us a private tour.

About 2 minutes later, Niels and LGF discovered their mutual love for all things PAM.

So while they were browsing the PAM A/W 10-11 lookbook (2ManyDJs up in there! + the best jackets for winter!), I walked around and took pics of the place.

Here are my favourites :

I’ve been obsessing over this PAM bag for two days now. So I think I might have to act on my urges.

Good and honest price tag too.

These are Band Of Outsiders. Love them.

Ok, so these are hands down the best pinata’s I have ever seen. They are filled with handmade confetti.

Designed by New Yorkers Confetti System, who also design stage props for little known bands like MGMT and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

KNOTORYUS office party material!

Can’t ever go wrong with a tag like that breathing down your neck.

LGF crush.

Great window displays.

If you support it, you buy it.

We got a PAM shirt for the main cheese and bi-colored knitted kiddie collants (one leg = black, the other’s cream) for the lil’ one.

HUNTING AND COLLECTING boast collections of Anntian, Band of Outsiders, Baron Baronne, Beetle&Flor, Bless, Carin Wester, Common Projects, Confettisystem, Cosmic Wonder, Eldelgado Buil, Fith Avenue Shoe Repair, Heikki Salonen, Hope, Inventory Magazine, Kitsuné, Kyouei Design, Ligia Dias, Lungta de Fancy, Maria Francesca Pepe, Martin Lamothe, Martine Viergever, Mlle San, Natascha Stolle, New Order Magazine, Opening Ceremony, PAM, Patrik Ervell, Petar Petrov, Peter Jensen, Popup Shop, Rachel Comey, Sabrina Dehoff, Saskia Diez, Sirch, Slow and Steady Wins The Race, Stine Goya, Tristan Zimmerman, Von Sono, Wackerhaus, Wings+Horn.

Congratulations A & N!

Go check ‘em out :

OPEN

17, Rue des Chartreux/Kartuizerstraat, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Open from Tuesday to Sunday

From 12- 8 pm

More info here

Record Makers are celebrating their tenth birthday with an iPhone app collabo with Mr. Oizo and Sébastien Tellier. To make it viral-friendly, they also commissioned this fantastic video for Sebastien Tellier’s ‘Look’. Oh and there’s also a competition to win a week’s stay at Hotel Amour in Paris.

I wouldn’t mind staying in the André room for a week.

Watch the video after the jump.

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by Mrzyk et Moriceau

Hotel Amour competition HERE.

Some days are better than Sundays. But today I’d even take a bad Monday.

Untill this video rolled around that is. Baby! This one’s for you!

And for all y’all as well of course. Watch ‘Fo Yo Sorrows’ after the jump..

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The new David Bowie Beatles Beach Boys MGMT single ‘Flash Delirium’ is up for free download at the MGMT site. Click the image to go there.

Other tracks from ‘Congratulations’ are leaking, too. (See below)

I like it.

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I like pop songs. No shame in that.

It’s a bit weird that people keep calling this track ‘too slow’. Is BPM a quality standard now? It’s not like MGMT wasn’t making pop before this. Keep yer pantone coloured panties on. I’m sure sharkslayer will remix this stuff soon enough.

Not much to say except genius..

Official statement at the end of his show : “Each piece was unique, as was he.”

(view the rest of the collection after the jump)

Click on the pics to make ‘em bigger.

According to WWD :

“McQueen’s parent, PPR, had indicated the business would continue without its founder and creative director. On Thursday, retailers will be invited to buy a showroom collection spanning about 160 pieces, said McQueen president Jonathan Akeroyd. “People are focusing on the business,” he said, characterizing bookings for the pre-fall collection as “exceptional.” McQueen counts about 300 wholesale clients for its women’s wear, in addition to its network of 11 boutiques. “Everyone has been very supportive,” Akeroyd said. With McQueen’s death so fresh, less than a month ago, PPR has resisted making any forward-looking statements about the business, and the sensitive issue of design succession. Robert Polet, president and chief executive officer of Gucci Group, was overcome as he rushed backstage to see the design team. “It was a very moving experience to take a deep and serious look at his last collection. It showed Lee’s unique talent to create pieces of beauty that touch many of your senses, leaving one enriched,” Polet said later, after composing himself. Then he added, “Although the sense of loss afterwards, I found overwhelming.”

Haters can’t deny this.

Martin Margiela FW 2010

Vivienne Westwood 2010

Balenciaga FW 2010

(all via Purple Diary. Photography: Olivier Zahm)

(via SEB BASCLE)

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Koudlam – See You All

(I’ve always wanted to post five minutes of darkness. It’s the Lars Von Trier in me.)

Check out Koulam’s site.

Ultimate branding backpack.

(via Nice and Important)

Air Max 1 for Nike SS2010 by Parra

(via Freshness)

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Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak (Live on Top of the Pops)

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Closing of with blatant sillyness:

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Heartbeeps Trailer (1981) with Andy Kaufman

Starting today, KNOTORYUS will be heading a new project called Ü.

Ü is a collaboration between Belgian and Dutch lifestyle and pop culture bloggers, i.e. Monobrow, Nenz, Coco Pastis and Bloody Horny Crew, led by KNOTORYUS.

The new blog: www.uhier.com (Dutch)

Ü will not only be a blog catering to the Belgian and Dutch crowds; it will also be a collaboration platform for lifestyle bloggers to set up projects, events, etc.

Bookmark it.

Become a fan on Facebook.

Follow Ü on Twitter.

Or if you want to know more about the future collaborations, projects, etc.: mail us here.

Ü will be an new asset to the ever-expanding KNOTORYUS portfolio. If you want to know more about our other activities such as copywriting and production, go HERE.

The Drums go all The Cure on you on the first official single off of their debut album: it’s a superpoppy bouncy track about missing your dead best friend. They directed the video themselves. Good.

Let’s hope Jonathan’s dancing moves and rolled up jeans catch on, ‘cuz I’m so damn ready for spring to kick in with some much-needed sunshine and sillyness.

Watch it after the jump.

(via Pedestrian TV)

Oh well, whatever. Nevermind.

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And, just for good measure: the real thing.

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