OLD SPICE WILL GIVE YOU SWAGGER

In a hilarious ad campaign, Old Spice is trying to give men some swag through ther new line of "Swagger" products.

The ads star LL Cool J. Who is portrayed as geeky and scrawny, that is only until he finds that Old Spice Swagger. Get it!

RAG & BONE OPENS IT'S FIRST STORE

Rag & Bone opened its first store in the West Village yesterday. Designers Marcus Wainwright and David Neville selected a cozy 1,600-square-foot space at 104 Christopher Street in a mainly residential area. But with the always busy, Bleecker Street a block away, the new location isn't entirely removed from the Marc Jacobs and Magnolia Bakery foot traffic. When I went to check it out yesterday afternoon, customers continually filled the shop: Fashionistos shopped the menswear, a mother with a stroller stopped in, and a few stylish downtown girls were lured inside after a long look at the window displays. The predictably rustic interior includes showed brick walls, artsy furniture, and vintage trunks. And the clothes… oh, the clothes!!! Wardrobe staples like a black shirt jacket ($445) pairs nicely with the charcoal-gray cigarette trouser ($315) and a selection of buttery-soft cotton and cashmere tees and cardigans were more affordable. For women, work-friendly charcoal pencil skirt ($295) hung just a few feet from a pair of leather leggings that are so dope. That is if you have $1,440 to shell out for a pair of leggings. Be it leather or not. A double-breasted black blazer ($510), high-waist tuck pants ($370). And of course, a large selection of denim fills up the back wall. I dare say that I will definitelty return … after that holiday bonus rolls in.

Rag & Bone, 104 Christopher St., NYC, (212) 727-2990, rag-bone.com

INTRODUCING...WORDSPIT "THE ILLEST"

Stack all of your imaginations then mash it up with of color, boundless soul, and homegrown Hip Hop and you will be in the presence of Wordspit. Brooklyn- born, Chris Dupree burst out into the world in 1984 just as Run-DMC made their stamp on Hip Hop and now has come to claim his own. Raised by a drug ailed mother and a street-hustling musician as a father, he made his imagination his refuge. Since the third grade, Spit's fluid freestyles and uncanny metaphors have moved from the lunchroom -- on tables and over trays --to the corner with his boys keeping the beat, to the lights of center stage.

Years Of Experience: Eight years

Musical Influences: Nas, Rakim, Canibus, Jay-Z, LL Cool J, Linkin Park, Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, System Of A Down, Nirvana, Massinisa, Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Hi Jynx, good music, etc…

Favorite Rap Album: It Was Written by Nas

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