The Custom Shop is back re-open again with an old favorite up for customization… The Half Mop! Shoppers will be greeted with a total of 108 color combinations that can be made by customizing the T-shirt body color, Bear Mop and text colors to their liking! Have fun, go crazy and customize it to fit your style and express yourselves!

The Custom Shop will be open for the next few days closing back down again on November 21st as we get ready for yet another customizable Mishka tee!! Don’t miss out, after the 21st the custom shop will be CLOSED!

Please note that ALL tees will ship out the first week of December!

We’re snapping back to the future today as we present an old classic, the Death Adders Arch Snapback.

You may remember almost two-and-a-half years ago when we first introduced our Death Adders Arch Snapback, well now we’re bringing them back with even better quality and craftsmanship, not to mention a new colorway, as seen above.

As we’re getting older, we’re getting better and these latest Snapbacks are a testament to the hard work we put into bringing you the best product possible.

Strictly available in limited quantities to our website, so as always they’re going to go at light speed. Don’t get left in the dust!

Just sayin’…

Exotica: Mishka Holiday 08 Lookbook & Catalog

For Holiday 2008, we will be offering a selective range of pieces, essential for carrying buyers through until the next year. At the heart of this late season collection will be signature styles in terms of outerwear, headwear in addition to our ever expanding cut and sew program.

Three distinct jackets, each playing upon our trademark look, will be available for holiday.  The first is the Zeitgeist M-65 Jacket, inspired by the popular field garment designed for US military, coming complete with classic features such as two large hip pockets and two medium-sized breast pockets.  Made from warm wool and further insulated with a flannel lining, there is no conspiracy as to why this jacket will be a dependable choice for cold weather wear.

For a more casual look, we will also be offering our own interpretation of two iconic sportswear garments: the Keep Watch Corduroy Coaches Jacket and the Death Adders Varsity Jacket.  The former is a simple snap-front cord jacket featuring our signature Keep Watch eyeball graphic on the left chest and contrast ribbing to keep warmth in at the neckline, sleeve and waist. Second, the Death Adders Varsity Jacket is traditional piece made from boiled wool with a hood for additional cold weather protection. The jacket is derived from our primary colors, featuring an original Death Adders patch on the left chest and lettering on the back.

We also return our ever popular Keep Watch Sweater, now updated in red, grey and black. There will also be a variety of simple but bold crewneck sweaters and hoodies such as the Inside-Out Crewneck and M-Panel Hoodie.  For layering, buyers should look no further than the Green River Flannel Shirt, made of 100% cotton and guaranteed to gain softness with more wear. As for bottom pieces, seasonal highlights include the Stoner Cords, which is an extremely durable material and preferable for cold climates.  The Stoner Cords are available in khaki, black and slate for every day wearing.

Lastly, our accessories program for holiday will ensure that you will not be left out in the cold with a solid offering of gloves, scarves and headwear.  Key pieces include the weatherly Keep Watch Aviator New Era, with fold-down flaps designed to make cold ears a thing of the past.  Made from rich brown leather, this classic hat is fully lined and features a Soviet inspired metal enamel pin on the front.  Complete the winter look with some simple yet warmly crafted Zeitgeist Gloves and the Star Eye Scarf.

The Holiday 2008 collection is currently shipping and should be available at select retailers shortly.

The Custom Shop is back re-open again with an old favorite up for customization… The Half Mop! Shoppers will be greeted with a total of 108 color combinations that can be made by customizing the T-shirt body color, Bear Mop and text colors to their liking! Have fun, go crazy and customize it to fit your style and express yourselves!

The Custom Shop will be open for the next few weeks closing back down again on November 21st as we get ready for yet another customizable Mishka tee!

Please note that ALL tees will ship out the first week of December!

Now that the smoke has cleared after our Fall-2 delivery, we’re coming back at you with another round of Online Exclusives.

This time we bring to you our Red Foil Bear Mop. Just in time for Halloween, this blood red Foil Mop is perfect for the vampires in all of us, sans all the gore of your favorite horror flick.

Be sure to stay tuned, because later in the week we have some more announcements about exclusive product that you won’t want to miss, plus our Holiday drop is right around the corner.

Yes, once again we’re back teaming up with our friends over at Cap City to bring you another round of Custom Color Team New Eras

This time around we flipped the colors in our usually unusual fashion putting a new twist on the Toronto Blue Jays,Detroit Red Wings, Cleveland Indians, and Chicago White Sox.

This round of caps has been by far our favorite around the office, especially as we flipped the White Sox cap with traditional blue and orange of our beloved New York Mets.

And check out the always controversial, yet dope Cleveland Indians logo flipped in hunter green and pepto pink.

As always these customs caps never stay around too long, so get em’ while the gettins’ still good.

Now available in our Online Exclusives section is our limited run collaboration shirt with good friends from Japan, Secret Base.

Unlike other exclusives we have extended this t-shirt for sale to some of the top Kaiju selling accounts in the US. Rotofugi, UltraPop, Super 7, Lulubelle, and Toy Tokyo!

We took Secret Base’s Skull Bee logo and put a nice little twist on it adding some elements of our own favorite icons, the Bear Mop and the Simon head, thus creating a new monster of which has just risen from our often sinister laboratory… The Cyco Skull Bee!

Act now because this twisted beast won’t be around these parts for long!

Mishka Fall-2 “08 Collection Now Available Online! (Click Here)

You’ve all been asking and yes, we are pleased to announce, it’s finally here, our 2nd delivery for Fall 2008. The store is jammed packed with new Flannels, New Eras, Winter Hats and Gloves, Tech Jackets, Sweaters, Denim, you name it, it’s in there!

This delivery is one of our personal favorites, and as always many items are available in limited sizes and quantities, so act now because once these items are gone they are gone for good.

I dont like to play favorites when it comes to our accounts. We love each and everyone one of you out there that supports Mishka and the amount of hard work, super long hours, and love we put into the brand to put out a quality product.

Yea, retail is down, the economy sucks, but you know what! You have to stay positive and stay creative! Extra Butter has done just that! Check out their BLOG post today for the release of the Skyway Trippers Fall 2 Collection. They took the little extra effort to make people excited, you know why, cause they are excited! It just the extra effort that counts!

Extra Butter is located at 266 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, NY. Babylon Line on the LIRR to Rockville Centre stop. Exit 19S off the Southern State Parkway.

On a side note, Extra Butter did not contact me that they updated their blog, or ask me to post this, I saw this on my own accord and it just got me excited so I made the post.

The Dmitri Snow-Washed Japanese Selvage Denim Slim-Straight Leg 5-pocket denim echoes the days of yore with a classic snow-washed and slim-straight fit. It wouldn’t be uncommon to see your local crew of skate rats or burned out metal dudes sporting jeans of this wash and fit back in the day. With the Dmitri, we attempted to re-create a pair of retro straight-leg jeans that were pretty slim fitting, but not exactly painted on, as to allow for more mobility when doing 180 heel flips or walking on some dirtbag’s head in the pit. Vintage wash matched with function, the Dmitri Snow-Washed Japanese Selvage Denim offers a unique duality of both comfort and style so you can thrash hard and still look good.

There are only 60 available each in:
• Black Snow-Washed
• Indigo Snow-Washed
And you can only get them right here!

The Dmitri uses some of the highest quality Japanese Selvage denim you can get your hands on! Seriously we’re not exaggerating here, you’d be floored to know who else uses this same stuff! It is woven on the same vintage shuttle looms used until the 1960s for most U.S. produced denim. Our primary goal when creating these jeans was to replicate the durable denim of yesteryear, which had been unfortunately abandoned to make way for more economical lower grade denim. While more time consuming and less economical, using these vintage shuttle looms creates a tighter weave that results in a heavier, more durable and overall higher quality denim.

The Selvage refers to the natural clean edge of the denim that prevents unraveling. The selvage seam is most obvious on the outer seam of the jeans, visible when cuffed and rolled up. Unlike a lower grade denim, a selvage edge will not fray, guaranteeing you longer life and more wear & tear out of your jeans!

Continuing our October Online Exclusive Onslaught, today we present to you the Blue Foil Bear Mop. Stand proud as the reflective foil Royal blue Bear Mop shines through.

Available in limited quantities only on our website, so act now before these bite the dust.

And be sure to stay tuned all week as we have more exclusive items ready to hit the streets in the coming days that are not to be missed. Keep your eyes peeled!

The Pom-Pom hat is timeless and has been on the scene almost as long as the good ol’ hammer and sickle. What started out as a seemingly cute accessory for one’s younger brother or sister to keep their head warm in the winter, was quickly adapted by B-boys and B-girls of inner-cities across America, and has been a staple piece of headwear ever since the late-Seventies. From dorky indie-rocker to hardened stick-up kid, our Heatseeker Pom Hat transcends race, color and creed and remains dope on all levels regardless of where decide to, er…hang your hat.

The blue/yellow colorway is exclusive to our site in limited quantities, so get em’ while they’re still around. One-size fits all and it’s sure to keep your dome warm.

Continuing our Fall-2 2008 T-shirt preview we have one of my personal favorites that we’ve ever done…

Cosmic Truth

Those who have kept up with us long enough might draw similarities between this graphic and our old Bull In the Heather (Chronic Youth) design from way back when. For one the header is the same font and based on Sonic Youth’s Goo, and two, both illustration are done in a Ray Pettibon style. That old Bull in the Heather design was also one of my favorites and I wanted to revisit it’s style although this time really keeping the homage aspects at a minimum (Free T-shirt to anyone who knows the album from which this illustration influence came from) to downright obscure! I wish I could explain to you the deep symbolism behind this female cosmonaut in bondage gear, but I’ll let the graphic speak for itself…

She spoke very softly
Her English was very
fluent. I was looking
into the eyes of a real
zillion dollar sadist…
Hello!

That’s some cosmic truth right there!  This will be the last Fall-2 2008 T-shirt preview as we’re going to suspend it for the rest of the week to bring you a whole assortment of Online Exclusives!

The weekend is over so it’s back to our Fall-2 2008 T-shirt preview. We start things off with an oldie but a goodie…

Keep Watching

An eye is an eye but people seem to have fallen in love with this little guy ever since we introduced him back a year ago on the Keep Watch New Eras and T-shirts. This little guy has gotten so popular that in many ways he’s as identifiable a mark for us as a brand as our Bear Mop while still just being, well an eyeball! Maybe it’s that northwest glance or those chunky veins we love him and it seems like you all do as well.

For Fall 08 we simplified things and just let the Eyeball speak for himself and had it in the traditional blue and red while the remaining 3 T-shirts match the Keep Watch New Eras dropping for Fall 2… Keep Watch!

Just a preview of Fall-2 Keep Watch dropping sooner than you know it!

Welcome back to our Fall-2 2008 T-shirt preview! Next up is…

Cavalry Shield

In coming up with designs for the Skyway Trippers collection, we came up with a few based on military patches. The Cavalry Shield is one such design drawing it’s inspiration from (duh) the U.S. Army’s 1st Air Cavalry Patch. While sticking to some of the traditional symbolism such as the diagonal stripe representing a sword holster and in military design represents vigor and aggressiveness from the original design, we then opted to replace the traditional Horse’s head with our beloved Cyco Simon and added a comet. Simon represents being fearless in the face of death, while the comet was meant to draw the obvious allusions to speed & space.

All Skyway Trippers would have worn the Cavalry Shield on their uniform’s shoulder… if they were real that is.

We’re going to take a short break fro our Fall-2 T-shirt preview to bring in a new Online Exclusive.The second drop in our now running weekly series of online exclusives, we present what is sure to be a smash in clubs around the world: enter the Glow Mop. Party hard in the sun all day, hit the clubs when darkness arrives. Trying to lay low in a dark corner is useless as you’ll be a prime target for all potential lovers and haters alike as the classic mop will be shining brighter than the bat signal over Gotham.

This shirt is not recommended for those pursuing a life of crime. Available in both men’s and women’s styles.
• Men’s Glow Mop T-Shirt
• Women’s Glow Mop T-Shirt

FYI: Unlike like in the pic to the left the shirt needs to be charged up in the light to glow so don’t expect the magic to happen without a little of natures help. 

Part two of the Fall-2 Delivery T-shirts preview brings back an oldie but goodie the…

Cyrillic Trails

A year ago we started playing around more and more with logo based design centered around our Cyrillic Logo rather than soley focusing on the Bear Mop. The Cyrillic Trails was done as an online exclusive in small quantities and proved to be a big hit amongst fans.

Now we tend to  retire designs after they’re released, but that’s kind of hard to do when it’s your logo! So after repeated email requests, and it’s initial limited release we decided to add the Cyrillic Trails to our stable of logo designs. After deliberating over weather given the second chance if we wanted to tighten anything up on the design we felt it was perfect (in our eyes) to begin with and chose to just have fun with the color and gradient combos.

That whole K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid!) philosphy is worth it’s weight in gold!

Doing the individual T-shirt previews proved to be a real fan favorite the last time we did it so I thought I’d continue it for all of the Fall-2 Delivery T-shirts. First up is…

Galactic Guardians

All of our graphics tell some sort of story however literal or metaphorical it may be. Like with the Fall-1 Overfiend shirt I wanted to place the viewer squarely in the middle of a story with this Galactic Guardians graphic. I wanted to give the viewer and wearer complete the cue to create a beginning & ending that they saw fit for whatever was transpiring at the moment.

Keeping with the Space Knight theme we set forth to do large scale space assault graphic! A battle in space with destroyed ships, pilots on com-links, laser blasts, an alien horde the whole works! While this would work great in comics, it’s not as easy of a comosition to get right for a T-shirt. Thankfully we had just the man for the job in illustrator Daniel Dussault.  He masterfully took a lot of our own visual language and inserted it into a composition that gave obvious nods to Macross & Voltron cartoons but also more importantly the Sega Genesis cult video game classic Target Earth (Assault Suits Leynos). A personal favorite of mine and his