Due propers to the all-weather cycling community, but for many, more sensitive riders the bike season is just arriving. Dovetailing with that is the launch of a collaboration between Berlin/Paris-based BLESS (“a multidisciplinary project that is consistently difficult to define… the elusive designers behind the brand are indifferent to the media and focus on quietly developing objects and garments that ‘make the near future worth living for'”) and Portland’s own Table of Contents.
They’ve just released a lookbook for a new collection of cycling accessories: u-locks and cable locks, bags, and helmets that are crazy expensive. They are lovely, handmade in France (the helmet design is insane!), and have one foot in the fine art world, but most people simply aren’t going to get much closer to them than looking at the photos, more of which I’ve posted over on MOD. In the meantime let’s play a game. Guess how much a) a lock, b) a bag, and c) a helmet from the collection goes for, and I’ll post the answers after the break. May we all be such ballers someday.
- Table of Contents
a) $323-$590
b) $653
c) $984
That helmet it just plain fugly!
And I doubt those cable locks work any better than your average $25 cable lock, which is to say, thieves laugh at them.
BIKES!
Crap – I clicked the jump button before getting to the end of the article. But I definitely wouldn’t have guessed all the way up to $984 for a helmet!
And I see the quest for a not-hideous helmet still goes on. Nice try, though, BLESS!
Look at all of that under priced utilitarian brick-a-brack. It looks like somebody sent their butler to scrounge the flea market for curios elbow to elbow with the unwashed masses.
I wouldn’t be caught dead putting such unrefined refuse on the mantle in my other-other summer cottage in Martha’s Vineyard.