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Lil Nas X‘s surprise hit “Old Town Road” is on track to smash a streaming record currently held by Drake with “God’s Plan.”
“Old Town Road” is projected to hit 80 million on-demand streams in a single week by Hits Daily Double, whereas “God’s Plan” reached “only” 69 million last year. To be fair to Drake, this is including both the original track and the Billy Ray Cyrus remix.
You may recall our recent coverage of a particularly flex-worthy skateboard and surfboard from none other than Chanel. The boards – priced at $7,700 and $8,900 respectively – were made from lacquered wood, shiny glass, and aluminum, and featured the late Karl Lagerfeld’s iconic interlocking Cs. But Chanel isn’t the only brand with high-end boards to gawk in amazement at.
Whether you’re looking to flex on the waves or at your local skate park, or you’re simply looking to blow some cash on an insane collector’s piece, there are plenty of ways to invest in this sphere.
From French erotic illustrator Petites Luxures – who released a limited series of three skateboards featuring the artist’s “The 3 Graces” print, paying homage to Greek goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite– to Diptych Surfboards, who designed two surfboards with a print of François Boucher’s “The Triumph of Venus” painting from 1740, an even more limited edition of only 10 sets. What’s more, the latter designs are hand-made in France, coming with hooks to hang them on your wall if you’re too scared to scuff a $3,780 board out at sea.
Artnet News reports that British artist Adrian Wilson recently sold the “world’s most expensive skateboard” on eBay for $20,000. The Supreme Mundi board features a detailed knockoff version of the Supreme logo on a wooden artist palette with wheels underneath.
“This isn’t just a usable novelty skateboard,” he said in a statement. “This is a commentary on the 500 year wide artistic and financial hypebubble we are in right now.”
Whether it’s the brand’s hard wearing denim products or its latest wearable tech innovation, Levi’s® remains as reliable as ever as we kick off 2019. For its latest foray, Levi’s® has put a modern twist on a classic for a ‘90s revival worth talking about.
Levi’s® first announced the reintroduced of its iconic Engineered Jeans™ with an invite-only pop-up at the Being Haunted Space in Berlin just this week. Transformed into a studio and showroom, the space showcased the various jean and jacket cuts from the Engineered Jeans™ range. Guests were given the opportunity to try the pieces on with street-style photographer Soren Jepsen on hand to shoot their look.
