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happy socks: bringing happiness and quality to every corner of the world.

it started under the cloud-ridden april sky of yet another belayed swedish spring in 2008. a vision to turn an everyday essential into a colourful design item and spread happiness. a rigid standard of ultimate quality, craftship and creativity. a concept brought to perfection by the happy socks collective of creators, most lately spotted in a 400-year-old, shrieking red cottage among cherry trees and berry bushes in a park located in the midst of stockholm.

the happy socks collection features an almost endless variety of models and designs, crossing a wide spectrum of colour combinations, materials and textures. simply put: a pair of high-quality socks for every occasion, mindset and style. manufactured at a 30 year old, family-run factory in turkey.

spring 2011 marks the debut of happy socks at still life. a fun, colourful collection in the store hung with care on our new accessories display - happy socks have been worn & loved by our staff over the past few years and we're all thrilled to have them in stock. currently available styles range from six seasonal spring collections: over & under, five colour, stripes, lows, over-the-knee & inca collections for spring.

we've had a lot of big arrivals at still life this week, and rounding out the pack is swedish street wear favourite, wesc. the stockholm-based crew of creative thinkers, tinkerers & focussed individuals produces some of the most wearable garments in the store season after season, and the wesc delivery this week offers some key ingredients to a solid spring 2011 look.

we're stocked up in our favorite wesc denim (the slim & the kelvin), shorts (the conway, the ireland & the wyatt) and our new favorite chino (the kelvin, an anti-fit with tapered leg & button fly). we've also seen our first swimsuits of the season arrive for our girls, a two-piece bikini (the lindsey top & hillary bottoms) and a one-piece (the katie) - all bathing suit styles come in nautical navy & white (with gold) or fiery red & scarlet.

as always we've also received a full offering of our favourite wesc headphones (the banjo, the oboe, the maraca & the snare) in a variety of colours, and wallets (the joakim & the yngwie) in black and loden green.

WEaretheSuperlativeConspiracy (wesc) represents a group and family of good, competent people working towards the same ideals and goals. wesc aims to address like-minded people, who are awake and aware, regardless of race, religion or financial background. people within the wesc family share the values and lifestyle of the wesc founders, who were all avid skateboards, snowboarders and, above all, creative minds.

the arrival of wesc spring 2011 accessories means we're fully stocked on mens & womens wesc tote bags, messenger satchels and weekend duffle bags as well as a full selection of classic and new release wesc headphones including:

• banjo premium headphone - a new design from wesc for spring, the banjo keeps an ultra clean aesthetic with a thick corded headband and silver detailing. available in black, white, navy and sky blue.
• snare sporting headphone - free of any foam or cloth componants (thus, more approrpriate for wet weather than traditional headphones), the snare is a new retro-future wesc style designed for an active lifestyle available in black
• oboe solid and joachim garraud special edition headphone - the iconic wesc headphone is back for spring in super slick solid colouring (black on black, white on white) as well as a super limited wesc x joachim garraud collaboration. one of the finest dj's and producers to ever come from france, garraud has worked with everyone from david bowie, cassius, moby, kylie minogue, david guetta and many many more. this collaborative headphone bears space invader likenesses inspired by fellow french street artist invader on the ears with joachim garraud etched along the top of the head.

founded in stockholm in 1999, wesc aims for a clean aesthetic on their wearable, casual fashions that give their customer style for whichever industry they're involved in: skate, music, design or 'intelectual slacking'. their weactivist campaign brings their friends & extended wesc family together under a banner of style, friendship and casual lifestyle within their respective creative communities.

back in stock for fall on the men's side at still life boutique, wesc always offers a tight collection for us. this season we've got a variety of tees, shirting and denim for the boys and a strong presence of the wesc maraca and oboe headphones in some killer new colourways.

urbanears is a collective out of scandinavia, motivated by a common interest in global relationships and shared involvement in the relevance of the living brand. urbanears promotes a deeper connection to color, form and people while providing the freedom to transcend individuality and unify the sound experience.

urbanears was created by a number of individuals with very different traits gathered around a belief in the concept. the crew is made up out of entrepreneurs, industrial and graphic designers, tech nerds, former retailers, salesmen and business men - most of which can be described with more than one of these traits. they come from backgrounds in fashion, electronics and design based in stockholm, sweden.

we've moved our fair share of headphones out of still life boutique over the years, and we're more than thrilled to start offering urbanears to our friends in victoria. matt & jordan have been sampling a couple pairs over the last month and they're killer. we've got a very small starting run of the scandinavian-designed headphones and don't expect them to sit long on the shelf - come in soon to check them out and keep updated on our facebook page to know when more and more show up.

founded in stockholm in 1996 by four creatives, acne’s ambition was to create and develop a lifestyle brand through desirable products. acne was one of the first brands to see the space in the market for denim and used this forward thinking to create 100 pairs of unisex jeans. they were featured in swedish elle magazine and soon, sweden’s leading boutiques wanted to carry the characteristic jeans with bright-red stitching. these are the foundations of acne. 

with confidence from the success of the jeans, jonny johansson acne's creative director, branched out into other design genres. the first full collection was launched in 1998, and it set the tone for the brand – the subtle luxury and understated items originates from the ethos that the clothes should feel like someone’s wardrobe. cool and personal. the result is that nothing dominates anything else, yet every piece is effortlessly stylish. 

with stores and projects across nine countries, acne is today recognized internationally as a creative collective, unique for its corporate diversity in fashion, graphic design, film production and advertising, as well as product, business and concept development. 

today the full team reaches over 200, each as enthusiastic about the brand as the original four creatives.

wesc - WE, ES, SI - that's how they say it, that's how we say it, that's how you say it.

wesc, founded in stockholm, sweden in 1999, is a fantastic casual brand we move through quick here at still life. the folks at wesc involve themselves heavily in the skate, music, design culture and as a result have a loyal group of weactivists around the globe. from legendary skateboarder steve berra to film & tv star jason lee (a legendary skater in his own right), the weactivists campaign for the brand under a banner of style, friendship, and casual lifestyle within their respective creative communities. wesc works hard within these communities, resulting in some great collaborations that end up in the hands of their loyal fanbase. headphone collabo's with steve aoki, the boys at ed banger records, and most recently the berrics crew and shoe collabo's with adidas show the brand's desire to push creativity forward and work together on compositions.

this spring/summer we've got a great new batch of styles from wesc: a variety of headphones, denim, accessories, shirting and some of the first shorts & swimsuits we've seen for summer are here.