If keeping up with all the new sneakers, Japanese toys, prints, and limited edition crap out there has become nearly impossible, welcome to Survival of the Hippest: the all purpose dump for the stuff you may never end up buying, always question it’s purpose, but still find intriguing.
After the jump we bring all sorts of niche necessities that will help you stay fluent and keep you ridicule free when traversing below Stanton St.

If keeping up with all the new sneakers, Japanese toys, prints, and limited edition crap out there has become nearly impossible, welcome to Survival of the Hippest: the all purpose dump for the stuff you may never end up buying, always question it’s purpose, but still find intriguing.
After the jump we bring all sorts of niche necessities that will help you stay fluent and keep you ridicule free when traversing below Stanton St.

Red Topps zine volume 2. Just when you thought you were on some real limited edition tip, leave it up to the aNYthing crew to create a zine with only 25 copies, officially taking exclusivity to pretentiously cool new levels. And there’s even a release party for it tonight, with promotestitue Oxy Cottontail. Slamxhype

Speaking of niche zines and their second editions comes volume 2 of OneOneNine magazine. This 48 page artsy design magazine is printed in only two colors and features “emerging” artists and designers, making it par for the course for the indy media scene. Josh Spears

Skater-artist Mark Gonzales has got himself a vinyl toy. It will come in a bunch of colors: yellow, black, camo and has two arms and two legs. Not really much more to say beyond that. Oh yeah, it has two beady eyes and a stick figure mouth too. Supertouch

Designer shoe laces. This is precisely what the whole sneaker head movement was lacking. Available at some of the most elusive sneaker boutiques in NYC, these laces come packed like old school dime bags and will totally jazz up your Nike Dunks and keep you basked in hipster glory. Hypebeast