🧦 Super Sunday Socks
Arvin Goods Socks, Kristin Juszczyk's Upcycling (adjacent) Work, Cherrystones Surf Film, The Big Food Redesign, Killer Mike Sweeps the Grammys
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Arvin News
Happy (Super Bowl) Sunday!
It’s the hype-iest day of the year in America. Super Bowl Sunday. This year it’s in Las Vegas so it’s like steroids on top of an already overtly excessive event. Then add in Taylor Swift, and Usher, and we have atomic-level attention. With all that happening, if you are still reading this, we are very grateful.
This week (Thursday) we are releasing our latest little collection of socks. The lead style is our newest version of the marled, terry knit crew sock. Made in Portugal, using our Spanish yarns from Ferre, and Recover™️. These are by far the best socks we have ever produced, and we are very proud of them. Available in two colors, Black, and Caramel. Hit the site, follow our socials, sign up for the email list, and all that for more info as we start to roll it out this week. Have a great Super Bowl Sunday, and thanks for rockin’ with Arvin Goods.
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Team AG ✌️🧦
Stories Of The Week…
Fashion
This Is Kristin Juszczyk's Super Bowl, Too - GQ
Kristin Juszcyzk will have quite the birthday celebration this Sunday. Then again, the almost-30-year-old has already had quite the year.
The clothing creator and designer went viral (her Instagram account is up to 973,000) after Taylor Swift and Brittany Mahomes wore two of her custom creations for the Kansas City Chiefs’ AFC Championship victory. Following that match-up, Juszcyk signed a licensing deal with the NFL for men’s and women’s apparel designs. And while her husband Kyle Juszczyk, an 11-year veteran fullback for the 49ers, is prepping for Sunday's Super Bowl, Kristin was in Las Vegas for her own Super Bowl-related media appearances this week.
For Juszczyk, the sudden spotlight is the culmination of years of hard work. The Massapequa, New York native began sewing her own designs years ago. Now, with celebrities like Simone Biles, Taylor Lautner, Mahomes and of course, Swift, wearing her designs, Juszczyk wants to bring her creations to the NFL fan masses. We caught up with her from her Vegas hotel room, as she prepped for several appearances.
Industry
Cherrystones - Wasted Talent
If you were in the French South West this summer, chances are that you heard about Cherrystones—Nathan Sadoun and Jeremy Soma’s latest surf film.
Unlike most French surfers who were born and bred on the 40km coastline between Biarritz and Seignosse, Nathan was born on the south side of the country; Marseille to be precise, a place where surfing is not quite the most popular sport indeed. Nonetheless, it hides a more than decent surf potential, as we discovered in Beaux Rivages—our French Riviera escapade with Eithan Osborne— in which you can catch glimpses of Nathan and his dad Giles.
In the couple of years of knowing Nathan, we’ve seen his surfing evolve rapidly. From being one of the most graceful longboarders we know of, his learning curve ridding shorter crafts has been steep as you’ll see in his recently released film, as he travels and samples a variety of conditions, from Basque peelers to classic Indonesian perfection.
Known for his fashion photography and his recognizable, saturated and surrealist aesthetics, it’s one of Jeremy’s first digs at putting together a surf film. We’re always interested in seeing people’s perspective on that old game of capturing surfing and Jeremy Soma has managed to do something rather unique with Cherrystones.llv🎥🌊🏄🏻
Sustainability
The Big Food Redesign Challenge - Ellen MacArthur Foundation
We’re calling on food businesses and retailers to redesign our food system to allow nature to thrive.
The current food industry is one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss and accounts for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions.
By rethinking the ingredients they use and how their products are made, food brands and supermarkets have the power to make nature-positive food the norm. They can provide choices that are better for customers, better for farmers, and better for the climate.
What is the Big Food Redesign Challenge?
In 2023, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in partnership with the Sustainable Food Trust, launched the Big Food Redesign Challenge to catalyse and inspire the food industry to build a better food system that regenerates nature, based on the principles of a circular economy.
The Challenge brings together ambitious producers, retailers, start-ups, and suppliers to design new food products – or redesign existing ones – to regenerate nature.
The Challenge is split into three phases – the Design Phase, the Production Phase and the Retail Phase. Explore the timeline.
Entertainment
Killer Mike Wins Best Rap Album, Song, and Performance - Pitchfork
Killer Mike swept his three nominations at the 2024 Grammy Awards. The Atlanta rapper won Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance for “Scientists & Engineers.” He also won Best Rap Album for Michael. Killer Mike had won only one Grammy Award before tonight: Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, in 2003, for the Outkast collaboration “The Whole World.”
