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Ambition & sociopathy in the movie of the year (?); a must-cop book for Mach 5+ photograph appreciators; multiples mode: décor edition; and more unbeatable recon
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First things first —
The Moss Wanderers, the fantastic shoes we whipped up with Helsinki’s Tarvas and Stockholm’s Nitty Gritty Worldwide, go online at 5 of the world’s best shops today:
Maidens in Tokyo
Neighbour in Vancouver
Nitty Gritty in Stockholm
Rendez-vous in Paris
Understory in Oakland
Brooklyn’s Ven.Space does not have a webshop.
But it does have us, tonight, Thursday 11/13, co-hosting a 🌿 launch party 🌿 from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. at 369 Court Street in Carroll Gardens. Come through.
Tomorrow, Friday 11/14 at 11 a.m. ET, the Moss Wanderers go live at the Tarvas site.
We are giving our Classified-Tier Spyfriends early access at 10 a.m. ET.
Details on the Early Access window are further down in today’s sletter.
Wow —
Erin and I landed in New York earlier this week ahead of tonight’s launch party and immediately set out on a multi-front campaign of recon for you.
Case in point: on Tuesday we caught a morning screening of Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, which comes out on Christmas and stars Timothée Chalamet as a charismatic Lower East Side demon who is extremely nice at ping pong.
I emerged from the screening room buzzing, and walked over to Josh’s office to say what’s up.
It’s feeling like a lock for our Movie of the Year. Without spoiling anything, here’s a little Spyplane Intel: