The book Waits / Corbijn features 200 portraits of Tom Waits taken over four decades by Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn. Also 50 pages of Waits photography are included. The book has 272 pages in total and is made in a limited run, so be quick!
Available here: www.mendo.nl
Taxi Driver is undoubtedly one of my all time favourite movies! I like the great music in this movie, the slow camera shots, the dialogs and the great performance from the young Robert de Niro. In this classic movie de Niro is wearing the most iconic army jacket ever made, the M65. What I also like about this movie is that it’s made in the same year as my year of birth, 1976. Now after more than 36 years later Taschen made a really nice book with 400 pages full of unreleased pictures. They already made a limited edition of this book, but now the regular version is for sale. It’s way better priced, a great addition in your own collection.
Available here: www.mendo.nl
Yesterday I received a really nice pakkage from Antonio di Battista from Blue Blanket Jeans (Italy). My first pair of the amazing BB jeans brand and the great Men’s File Archive book. Many thanks Antonio, very happy with this!! Keep in touch!
Last Friday I had a meeting with Rin Tanaka, from the famous My Freedamn books, in Amsterdam. Rin was in Amsterdam to promote his latest and final issue of the My Freedamn range. The last time that we meet eachother was 6-7 years ago, also in Amsterdam. As always Rin was very open and had enough time for a lunch and we talked a lot about our shared passion. In the night Rin had the signing session at the Tenue de Nimes shop, because of their 4th anniversary. All in all a good day! It was nice to see you again Rin and many thanks for your presents! Till soon!
Recently I got this book Labels and Tags with full of nice vintage labels. The book dates from 1992 and is made in Japan. Below some personal highlights from the jeans section.
