Hopefully no one has missed our guests in the Nitty Gritty Showroom behind our menswear store. The highly appreciated and beautiful pink coloured El Taco Truck of Stockholm has opened their pop-up Taqueria and will serve Mexican Tacos made with love and the right spices. One who is always very inspired by the native Americana is Hiroki Nakamura - the creative force behind Visvim.
The Crew from El Taco Truck
Taco truck is the house and we took liberty to shoot some Get The Grit pictures in their pop-up restaurant. I made a soundtrack for the occasion.
Read moreMasafumi Watanabe is the mastermind behind our latest addition in our brand mix. Bedwin & the Heartbreakers is a Japanese street wear label founded in 2004. Their motto is Paramount Quality which is something we always aim for at Nitty when we search the globe for new and interesting brands that could make it into our stores.
With a sharp edged flair in the fabric selection, lots of courage in the design and an impressive determination and dedication in their work, Swedish designer duo Natalia Altewai and Randa Saome is one of the brightest shining stars on the Scandinavian fashion sky.
Bedwin & Heartbreakers has hit Nitty Gritty and as a dedication they named the collection after Elvis Costello’s song almost blue.
Read moreWorking with Aspesi is in a way similar to reading a book by the American author Paul Auster. Just like Mr Aspesi, Auster likes to involve colour. The quality of the work is often refined and of great quality without ever being extravagant.
If Nitty Gritty had been a bag and accessories brand, we probably would have been like Mismo. The perfect combination of old traditional craftsmanship shaped in a smart updated design to fairly humane prices. The small leather goods are just perfect, the colour combos of the canvas/leather totes, shoppers and backpacks have something for every style and the branding is always very discreet and humble. It is a small company with big ambitions that always put quality in the first room. Just like Nitty Gritty.
Read moreIn a few sad attempts to make you all believe that buying fashion is actually a quite hard and tempting job, we have written about snowstorms in Paris, late nights in Florence and how hard it can be to adapt to the time difference between Stockholm and New York… well Copenhagen was no picnic either. Lost luggage, more rain and snow, a pregnant womens buyer with an appetite for destruction and malfunction key cards at the hotel!
Our feature The Bench is back with an update with no other than our favorite neighbour Neneh Cherry.
Read moreThere always seems to be a fashion week going on somewhere… and during that fashion week there seems to always be at least one collection that got their seasonal inspiration from the big Apple. The energy, the melting pot, the urban vibe etc etc. We don´t argue against that, we sure know what they mean, we are no exception, we also love New York City!
It’s that time of month again when Lydmar Hotel is overrun by Nitty Gritty Crew and guests.
Read moreThis time we went to Paris for the men's fashion week including a couple of trade shows and showroom appointments
Read moreFor us New Year always kick off with our favourite trade show, the Pitti Uomo in Florence, Italy.
Read moreHave you heard about the saddle maker named Billy Larsson? No? Well then you probably haven’t been to Bölebyn in the north of Sweden.
If Billy Larsson is the grand old man of producing beautiful leather goods up in Böle, his namesake in the Jérôme Dreyfuss family is also a true favourite.
Read moreRiccardo Della Piazza is the third generation running one of Italy’s most prestigious tailoring manufactures, Belvest. His mother Maria Teresa is the daughter of founder Aldo Nicoletto that started the business back in 1964.
Can Fashion really be slow? If it's slow, can it still fit in the “fashion category” or shall it simply just be called clothes. Well, we'd like to believe that it´s still possible to produce slow fashion that fits just perfect between the trend and the need.
Read moreAn old acquaintance and also the president of a big fashion group used to say that “it's not easy to be humble when you know that you are the best…”
“A modern career woman with her full life and her natural born urge for style…”
Read moreIs it the English discrimination or the French chic or maybe a combination of the two that makes a Drake product easy to define and point out?
What does a true Grit Girl have in common with angry young men (read mods), art students and Beatniks of London during the 50's and 60's?
Kristofer is our favourite TV presenter at our favourite Swedish TV programme Kobra.
Read moreNew Website for Nitty Gritty
A.P.C. x Carhartt released at Nitty Gritty.
Read moreThis week we would like to highlight two really iconic birthday boys and we are going to start out with the oldest one. The never ending story of Fred Perry has come to chapter 60. It´s a true story containing sports, music, sub cultures, street style and true working class heroes.
If you take into consideration that the Nitty part of this week's news contained kind of an Island twist, It's not far off to start the Gritty News by telling you that Helmut Lang lives on Long Island.
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