i picked these up the day before i left!

i have about 1100 of them, sooooo give me a holler if you want one. future secrets inside!!!

here’s a little sneak peak:

yes, it’s a shark backpack. !!!!!

i went to paris for a day! how i missed your fromage

it was great to be back, even if it was for less than 24 hours. unfortunately i was there on a monday and no one in paris likes mondays in august

everything was closed, boohoo.

i still got to see some great stuff though!

like this guy

and this mickey map

and here’s new york with paris behind it! these buildings were teaching an exercise class. sign me up please!

this restaurant is called the dog that smokes. that’s not what i would name my restaurant

collette was amazing, as usual. i got all my bases covered! now off to prague!

my dad is very excited about travelling

he loves climbing towers

i guess its worth it

henry showed me how to spell ill will with his hands. hey will luckman, i’m talkin to you!!

prague is pretty

i think this is my favorite painting

this is a pretty terrifying thing to put on the side of a building

we took some nerdy family pics. but hey, we like the beatles.

my bros started a band called the doozies. here’s one of their songs:

virginia- the doozies

they’re pretty great!

poppa dusen sported a dusendusen backpack

we went to a wedding in the countryside

everybody got dressed up

it was fun!

these guys were there!

i will end this post with a series called “dusens with money”

fall ships next week!!!! new stuff on the website starting tomorrow!

time warner really f-ed me when i moved aka no internet for a week and a half aka how do i get the news!? and send emails!? and watch the new season of jersey shore!?

i wish i didn’t have to give them money, but that’s just the way it is

i have way too much stuff. anybody want some stuff?

bye bye balcony

hello movers!

i saw best coast the day before i moved with molly and chris!

their new album is so good! you should get it if you don’t have it already

and LOOK! she’s totally wearing dusendusen!

i wish i was at this show but i wasnt

prettttttty exciting!

my buddies jamie alex and sam played their first show as great mason

please note the backpack in the drum

i thought they were great!

enter spring 2011 photoshoot!

claire slept over! we ate fancy sushi on the sidewalk

here’s our photographer max. i’ve been too busy to move in! boxes everywhere

i really love these girls

they’re the best

after all that business we found out there was a fire down the street!

i think it was mostly on the roof and no one was hurt

scary stuff

and woosh! i’m off to europe on sunday, return the following monday, then off to vegas on tuesday. until then mes amis.

i’m getting a serious quality of life step up, moving to this neighborhood:

well that doesn’t really look like a neighborhood but it’s a park within the neighborhood. in fort greene! there’s trees here. there are some things that i’ll miss about bushwick though like this mural on my walk to the train:

look at those facial expressions! especially the guy getting kicked.

the view from the above ground train is pretty good too

my studio had a balcony

and an elevator.

but! bushwick is dirty! full of trash! i certainly won’t miss the grime factor.

which is why it’s time to get out!

hey! here’s an outdoor mannequin designed by calvin klein! (not in bushwick)

and her butt:

back to bushwick: will and i helped our fried jeff make puppets for a music video

here’s my crushed velvet puppet:

googly eyes really make the man

good times had by all

here’s the link to the final result!

i had a sale! it was fun! here’s whitney and i in front of all the stuff:

jamie really wanted huck to wear sunglasses

almost, jamie.

sale was a success!

another success story! my new studio is going to be blue:

and awesome, presumably. moving day sunday! fort greene here i come!

stay tuned for news of my fall collection’s arrival. it’s coming real real soon!

please join me this tuesday at fat baby (yes, fat baby is the name of a place) for discounts and chats and cocktails. all the deets are in the flyer!

and a mess!

i got to take some breaks though

will and i went to a fader party where wavves played. i thought i wasn’t a fan but they actually put on a pretty good live show

will kept complaining that they sounded exactly like jay reatard and then we found out the bassist and drummer used to be in jay reatard’s band!

the bassist had really good hair

i was all dusen dusen’d out and will was all cute in the blacklight

i met the girls from danika, a jewelry line from the bronx

there were talks of a collabo

and lazer cutting wood into shapes

this is a painting done by steph terao of would-be rommates if their apartment was not condemned forever. 3/4 of the roommates w/painting:

pretty spot on!!! i wish mark was there too because the resemblance is uncanny

impressive setlist eh?

it was a covers party and it was fun!

vivian girls surprise played! that was cool! they didn’t do any covers though.

kendra and cyrus were both sporting some dusendusen

america’s bithday has begun! nothing says patriotism like boiling little animals

and barbeque

and dogs!

happy independence day mes amis!

ps: join my mailing list for cool stuff (discount codes, event info, etc)! email dusen@dusendusen.com w/subject mailing list

coney on a weekday: much more pleasant than coney on the weekend

this is my view:

more on that to come. but it did involve making a t shirt into a bikini, which may not be the best idea if you want a functional bathing suit.

and here it is! on the lovely roz

famous class had a show for northside

we saw tough nuckles

marko dj’ed

will was weird and christine got a haircut!

the darlings played too!

mmmmmm tacos

we went to the opening of the hole, a new gallery in soho opened by ex-deitch people

look how crowded! the show was called “not quite open for business” and all the pieces in the show were unfinished

these francine spiegel paintings are my favorite

will’s fingers

this is the wall of the bookstore within the gallery. i’m in the black and white stripe and will is in the maroon plaid

all good nights end with (not so) good jumping pictures. here’s will and rachel attempting one:

here’s a little preview of what to expect

there was all sorts of weird sea life hanging out like this dead jellyfish

i also got to see a ton of sharks (both in the wild and on a fishing hook) and dolphins! no pictures though.

my family took a boat trip one day and it was fun! here’s my bro and his gf juliana

intro bro 2

this is when it stops being fun

we ended up in shallow water while the tide was going out

and we got stuck.

we had to wait 6 hours for the tide to come back in. we passed the time by talking about serial killers and trying to throw peanut shells into a puddle. here’s the aftermath:

eventually we made it back and i took a trip to the house my mom grew up in. the bathroom has this awesome 60’s floral wallpaper. the flowers are embroidered!

each bedroom has a color theme. my mom’s room: green

my grandmother saved all her old clothes so i got to snag some on my way out. how cool were the 60’s??

back to reality: dave is better at ping pong than me

isn’t savannah pretty?

back to real reality: fall 2010 is approaching! back to the grind! acid wash that denim!

black acid backpacks coming soon!

(the next one’s a close up)

the rest of my pics didn’t turn out very well. it’s worth checking out!

it was molly’s birthday on saturday!

we sat on a roof in the west village

and ate some snacks

considering how much i like burgers you’d think i could grill a bun successfully. not so!

christine brought this guy

i went to check out the american high style exhibit at the brooklyn museum. lots of cool stuff! i’m way into this schiapparelli dress. love the print!

here’s a necklace of hers that reminds me of those gross lollipops you can get with bugs in them

schiapparelli was BFFs with some of the dudes from the surrealist movement, most notably with salvador dali. they collaborated on a bunch of projects, but they didn’t have any of them at the museum . here are some images pulled off the internet of pieces they did together. pretty crazy for the 1930s!!

the skeleton dress reminds me of this comme des garcons collection with the raised hands/flowers/bows all over the body.

these were time capsule pieces made in the early 60s predicting style in the early 70s. pretty close!  sans the hat. i forgot the name of the designer.

when we saw this one will asked me when 101 dalmatians was made. they’re so cruella! forgot the name of this designer too, but i know she’s a lady and that she’s american. that narrows it down!

then we went to egypt.

i will leave you with a photograph of a baby with a hamburger on it’s face.

i can only assume that this has never happened to me.