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Team IkuzawaTAG Heuer x Team Ikuzawa x BWD Work Jacket
Watch brands produce some of the best promotional merch, but Team Ikuzawa’s new collaboration with TAG Heuer and Bamford Watch Dpt. takes it to the next level with a classic mechanic’s jacket modeled after a real race crew’s uniform. The jacket is made from a blended cotton twill with pleated button cuffs, waist tabs and a single large chest pocket. It is complete with the Team Ikuzawa logo printed on the chest and across the back, along with stitched-on embroidered patches from TAG Heuer on the chest and back and BWD on the sleeve.
CarharttCarhartt Embossed Beanie
Carhartt’s beanies have become a cool-weather staple everywhere from dressing for the worksite to fashion-centered street style. In this new edition, the 100-percent acrylic, stretchy rib-knit fabric form factor has been preserved, while the brand’s iconic square patch has been replaced with an embossed brand logo. The beanie is available in two core Carhartt colorways: Carhartt Brown and Black. While the standard version of the beanie is $20, this elevated take sits slightly closer to $30.
A24A24 ‘The Invite’ x Houseplant Stacking Ashtrays & Matchbook Set
Alongside Olivia Wilde, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton, Seth Rogen is starring in The Invite, a new comedy-drama from A24. To celebrate, his cannabis and home goods brand, Houseplant, has collaborated with the movie studio on an exclusive stacking ashtray set and matchbook. While styled with references to the film, the matchbook is a pretty straightforward classic, but the glazed ceramic ashtrays are much more unique, boasting a stunning multifaceted blue finish and a stacking format that makes them easy to store between uses. Whether you use them for joints, blunts, sage, incense or something else entirely is completely up to you.
ABT SportslineABT Sportsline RSQ8-LE 1000
The grand finale of ABT Sportsline’s 130th-anniversary trilogy, the RSQ8-LE 1000 pushes output to a thundering 1,000 hp from Audi’s 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8. In addition to custom ABT turbochargers, an upgraded intercooler and a water-ethanol injection system, it also brings a full matte exposed-carbon wide-body kit with 23-inch satin-gold forged wheels and a quad 105mm stainless-steel exhaust. Just 30 examples will be built, making it an ideal option for the collector who wants the most extreme, most exclusive factory-backed Audi SUV money can buy.
VollebakVollebak FWAHBL Jacket
Vollebak exclusively makes insane apparel designed for unrealistically hardcore situations, and the brand’s FWAHBL Jacket might be its most extreme yet. The jacket is designed for “For When All Hell Breaks Loose,” and Vollebak says it can withstand “poisonous unicorns, vomiting goblins, alien rain,” and other apocalyptic calamities. What this translates to in the real world is a bright yellow trench jacket made from the same polychloroprene rubber/polyester blend as chemical protection suits, with two zippered pockets and exclusively internal seams to prevent leaks. Vollebak is making just 10 examples of the nearly $4,000 jacket, which are available for preorder now with deliveries expected in September. Hopefully, the apocalypse holds off until then.


