So here at the shop we love shops. We love to talk shop and we love the people who visit the shop. But we especially love when we get visits from other shops! Not too long ago, Frank and Ana of Wish Atl made their way over to 350 Broadway while seeing the sites of NYC. We kicked it for a bit and talked about one of our favorite passions, our individual shops.

If you’re ever in the Atlanta, GA area, you should definitely make your way over Wish Atl. The location pays homage to the building’s past as a historic library with its clean book shelf layout. And with Wish housing some of the sickest exclusive kicks this side of the Mississippi, there’s no question why it’s such a hot spot. But if your trip down to Hotlanta isn’t happening anytime soon, keep up with Wish’s comings and goings by following them on Twitter

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725

J/M/Z to Marcy Ave.
G to Broadway
L to Lorimer

So with all of the hubbub of our recent retail expansion to Los Angeles and Tokyo, maybe you thought we forgot all about our homebase here in Brooklyn? WRONG! This Saturday, March 13th, marks the one year anniversary of the opening of our flagship store in South Williamsburg. To celebrate, we’re doing it up big with our own way of publicly stating that “we’re here to stay”…permanently, like a tattoo!

We’ve teamed up with our friends over at Three Kings to bring you an entire day-long event, where you can get tattooed with your choice of custom Мишка-inspired flash artwork, created by the gracious and talented artists from the shop. But here’s the kicker… the tattoos are only going to be $3.50!* That’s effin’ right, for the cost of a bacon, egg & cheese on a bagel from your local bodgea, we’re giving you the opportunity to get a tattoo from one of New York’s finest shops. You’ll N-E-V-E-R get a deal this great on this kind of work!

The shop will open at 12 noon and will stay open until 8pm, permanently adorning a legion of fans, hipsters, hoodrats, heshers and hypebeasts with a lil bit ‘o Мишка that they’ll take with them forever and ever! So come by, get tattooed, do some shopping (we’ll have Spring 2 in-store that day) and have a few drinks! It’ll be a Saturday you’ll never forget!

To handle overflow and give everyone a comfortable place to chill while they wait their turn to get inked, our neighbors across the way at Trophy Bar have been very gracious to open their doors at 1pm that day. They’ll be having $3 Brooklyn Lagers ’til 11pm and a happy hour from 5-8pm with $3 well drinks, $2 off drafts and $4 margaritas & bloody marys. Then, from 7-10pm,  Trophy will host an after party for the 1st anniversary, featuring the Chronic Youth DJs and a special DJ set by Prince Terrence of Hussle Club. Oh and did I mention that there’s a huge lead-up party to all of this the night before? More on that later today…

Please note: Anyone getting a tattoo must be at least 18 years old and must have a valid ID (driver’s license, passport, or birth certificate) to get tattooed! No exceptions!

*The $3.50 price does not include a gratuity for your tattoo artist. Be kind and courteous and tip the artist for his work and time!

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725

J/M/Z to Marcy Ave
G to Broadway
L to Lorimer

Мишка Key Toppers Now Available!

This is one of the most fun accessories we’ve ever had the pleasure of crafting. From the actual molded Key Toppers down to the packaging. Each pack comes with three toppers in two different color assortments featuring the Keep Watch Eyeball, a Kill With Power Pyramid and the Death Adder Bear Head.

These toppers will fit almost every single standard key type and are molded out of a durable rubber that will take beating and keep on ticking. Plus these are super easy to clean off the pocket gunk from. Just a little soap and warm water and voila! Good as new. Get both sets and really jazz up that boring old key ring you currently have in your pocket or carabiner!

The day after the party, all of us were running on just a couple hours of sleep. But we had to head out to take care of a few last minute things before heading over to the store opening. After greeting our fans, some press and being engorged in bouquet after bouquet of flowers we ventured out and about into Tokyo.

Our first stop that afternoon was to Thrash Out for a Le Merde’s solo show, “Severed for Life” which featured and assortment of custom Kaiju, prints and paintings by the Seattle based artist. This case was chock full of amazing customs of this brand new figure by Gargamel, which is the bastard child of their Hedoran and Le Merde’s Hujili’s Ghost.

The small space was crammed with Kaiju and Le Merde fans eager to scoop up some of the custom figures along with a chance to meet the artist.

One of Thrash Out’s display cases featuring years of Zagoron colorways. There’s some serious bank in this case right here.

Takashi (on the right) AKA Terrible Whore AKA Rezeon Scum was in attendance. Takashi will be joining us back in NYC for an extended stay in a couple of weeks, and we can’t wait to have him back! Hopefully that means you’ll be seeing more Rezeon Scum graphics in upcoming collections? Who knows…The Terrible Whore is weirdo! However, I do know is that Spring-2 does feature a brand new tee design by him that I’m eagerly looking forward too.

More Le Merde customs figures, this time in resin though…these things are so effin’ trippy!

The man himself, Mike Kelly AKA Le Merde! He came all the way from his home in Seattle for this show and was a gracious host, signing figures and drawing sketches for all of his fans. After the show we had to head on back to the shop for a photoshoot where they crammed 10 of us into a window..we’ll have more on that later but as soon as that was done some of split for dinner while others ventured to Shibuya O-East to catch Baroness‘ first ever Tokyo show!

The guys were gracious enough to invite us to the show, and there’s no way I was going to miss a chance to see them play! I also was really curious to experience a concert in Tokyo as I had never been to one out here. As expected, metal show or not the fans were very polite…way into it, but still, very courteous.

The Guys played about 90% of the Blue Record and were absolutely amazing! The club itself had some terrific sound, so this was a real treat to experience one of last year’s best albums in such a pristine environment.

Allen pounding away…

Peter shredding away!

Seriously, this was one killer show! The guys were in town for their first ever Japanese tour supporting Isis. We unfortunately had to bail right when Isis was starting up. Dinner plans and just overall exhaustion from this whirlwind trip were starting to take a toll on us.

Again, all of these photos were taken by John Prolly, who has more over on his Flickr stream. Stay tuned to the as we’ll have more shots from the trip in the coming week!

I’m sure you’ve all seen the interior shots of the shop that have been up Hypebeast a lil’ while now, so I won’t bore you with more of the same in this post. But here’s a great one of Lamour Supreme’s finished mural of the Swami Simon on the wall by the cash wrap.

Pictures don’t really do the space and details justice. You should really just book a plane ticket and fly all the way out here and see the store for yourself. Oh and while you’re at it, buy a few things ya know? This store cost 60 jillion dollars to make, so we gotta recoup that cost, NOW!!!!!!!

Secret Base was kind enough to make a custom colored magenta and sea-foam marbled skull for the Tokyo shop. These vinyl craniums are what we use to display our new eras, snapbacks and beanies. I think we may even have a few of these to sell sometime soon…but don’t hold me to that!

The Rotting Flesh Boogie Man… These guys blew out the door in no time! Seriously one of the best colorways ever of any Boogie Man. There was a kid camped out from midnight ’til 11am on the morning of the opening, just to ensure he got his hands on one of these. He didn’t unfortunately because there were 10 people camped out ahead of him to get these! I’m just kidding…he got his.

This is Ricky, one of our pals out here in Japan. He too is in the Kaiju business, running his own brand by the name of Velocitron. For the opening Ricky made a very limited run of 5 Larvadons which also blew out of the shop in no time. Who wouldn’t want one of those cuddly little creatures?

Here’s the Larvadon attacking world renown toy ruiner, Lamour Supreme! Hopefully this will put an end to his heinous reign of destroying beautiful Kaiju.

So after a couple of all-nighters and trips to Tokyu Hands we got our new Tokyo shop all spic and span, it was time to close up and head over to our Grand Opening Party at Microcosmos…

Greg wasted no time getting crazy along with Hikauru from Bounty Hunter. Hikaru DJed a great set of punk and hardcore classics that not only got the crowd wild, but re-energized us after a long 14 hour work day. I think 2 minutes after this photo was taken Greg was so crazed he head-butted John Prolly!

Holy fuck was this place packed! It took an average of 15 minutes to maneuver through the crowd to get from one end of the club to the other.

This is just how international Kaiju superstar Lamour Supreme rolls. He sculpts gigantic bear heads, he buys Audis like they’re packs of gum and he tips waiters with Rolex sub-mariners right off his wrist! And this is how he parties when he hits the clubs…with three Japanese groupies on his arms; all of whose breasts he customized and signed after this photo was taken. Seriously kids, fuck being a rock star or an athlete! You want the good life? Design, sculpt and customize Kaiju!

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Welcome back to another installment of Freaky Stylee where we choose the best fit of the week and award that person a $75 credit for our online store and of course bragging rights! If you think your fit is great, then don’t ruin it with a crappy photo! Great fits, deserve great pictures. Contestants can enter multiple times to Freaky Stylee, even past winners. So submit those images of yourself rocking Мишка as part of their outfit and who knows? You may win! Guys and gals are all welcome to enter. Check after the break for complete rules on entering into next week’s Freaky Stylee! Good luck and now on to the fits…

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This week’s winner is a longtime fan of the brand who’s a regular at 350 Broadway. Weez is always one of the sharpest dressed guys in the hood so he was a pretty easy choice for this week’s Freaky Stylee.

Name? Anwar “Weez” Smith
Age? 27
Location? Crown Heights, Brooklyn
What do you do? I’m a junior marketing analyst

Describe your style? I would define my style as Ghetto Punk, outrageously defiant to the norm but still yet classic

What are you wearing? Мишка Keep Watch new Era, Мишка Mariner Pulover Hoodie, Мишка Mephisto MC Jacket, Levi’s and Nike Dunk-His.

What are you currently listening to? Passion Pit, Kid Cudi, Radical Outing, Justice, Matt and Kim and the Death Set

That’s now two weeks in a row we’ve got winners from NYC. Come on west coast and Europe, step up your game! Don’t let NYC just run away with this each week.

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We hate to be teases to all of you who can’t make it out to Japan, but we still thought it’d be cool to share some of the goodies we cooked up for our newest shop with all of you.

Up above is a sneak peak at one of the exclusives that could be yours when our Tokyo store opens its doors on Saturday, March 6th. at an undisclosed date in the near future, sorry. As longtime fans, it was a real thrill for us to work with Bounty Hunter on a tee design. We kept it simple, with a cyco simonifying of one Bounty Hunter’s more iconic skull and cross bones logos.

The back is another combination of two favorites… our tagline of “Engineered to Destroy!” done in the style of Discharge (one of Hikaru’s favorite bands) along with Bounty Hunter’s 120% Darkside Justice catchphrase underneath. Pure evil and only for Japan!

The Plastics – Top Secret Man

Boris – My Neighbor Satan

Pizzicato Five – It’s a Beautiful Day

Yoko Ono – Walking on Thin Ice

Vow Wow – Don’t Leave Me Now

Kaiju Fanatic rejoice! Our Tokyo shop opening on Saturday March 6th will feature this brand new colorway of our Cure Boogie Man dubbed “Rotting Flesh” for obvious reasons. This guy glows in the dark, has LED flashing guts and is my favorite colorway so far of our Kaiju collaboration with Cure.

As always, this guy is produced in very, very limited quantities so if you’d like one (and are in Tokyo), head down to the shop on opening day. I doubt they’ll stay around much past that. This is only one of the many in-store exclusives (clothing and Kaiju) that we have planned for our Tokyo opening.

So for those of you clever enough to check Lamour Supreme’s flickr stream, this image won’t be all that new… but then again how many of you are obsessive Kaiju junkies (excluding Hateball)?  For those of you who have visited (or have seen photos) of our Brooklyn shop, you’ll no doubt be familiar with the giant Cyco Simon head that lives in-store.

Well, Tokyo is getting a gigantic Soviet Super Soldier Bear head as a compliment to the Simon in NYC. Like Simon, this head is sculpted by Lamour Supreme, who has truly outdone himself with this sculpt. No picture even comes close to capturing how crazy and gigantic this head is…nor reveals all the little easter eggs Lamour has hidden throughout the sculpt. These photos were taken when the head visited our Brooklyn shop before being shipped out to Tokyo.

Speaking of Tokyo, here is Lamour Supreme inside Мишка Tokyo, working hard on a mural for the shop. This Swami Simon mural is a reverse take of the Swami Devil Head mural that we have inside 350 Broadway. So If you’re in Tokyo on March 6th, please come by the shop and check out both Lamour’s giant Soviet Super Soldier head and this mural… plus meet the man, the legend, the toy ruiner in person! Maybe if you’re lucky, he’ll even ruin customize some vinyl for you on the spot. Then you can take it to Mandarake and flip it for some bank!