(Sommer) by Danny Sommerfeld

At Bonkers, we love the region of Nothern Hesse. It’s less troublesome, less hectic, and infinitely more peaceful than our bustling metropolitan area. And that’s not just us. Even back in, like, medieval times, Hessian royalty would travel the bu …

Nike SB Bruin Ultra

Talk about doubling down on restrained aesthetics: the Bruin, one of Nike SB’s most minimalist shoes, gets a minimalist make over. Debuting as a basketball shoe, the original Bruin has been around for more than 45 years. While it’s not the go-to …

New Balance Numeric 420

New Balance Numeric’s team rider Marquise Henry sure is a prolific skateboarder. In fact, he’s so productive on his skateboard that he found himself out of skate shoes during his last Euro tour. But instead of bitching about it, Marquise humbly w …

Futur Oscar Candon Part

Speed and style; two ingredients that work like magic in Oscar Cannon’s new Futur part. It’s a black and white, full-throttle thrill ride through the streets of Paris, and we love it. To celebrate Oscar’s skating Futur just released a matching …

Welcome Iggy

Ok so naming your brand „Iggy“ comes with a major technical issue. If people don’t know what your brand is all about, they’re gonna google it, and guess what Google’s gonna spit out: news about Iggy Pop and concert tickets for Iggy Azalea, …

Adidas X Numbers Edition Capsule Collection

The LA-based skateboarding company founded by Eric Koston and Guy Mariano, Numbers Edition, teamed up with Adidas Skateboarding to create a limited edition of the classic City Cup. The shoe’s sleek silhouette is complemented by a soft Nubuck leathe …

Quasi’s Limited Mother reissue decks

Initially released on PornHub due to some boring legal mumbo-jumbo, Quasi Skateboards’s new full-length video Mother eventually found its way to YouTube. We’re sure there’s a nasty joke hidden somewhere in the semantic field of Quasi – Mo …

Introducing Pop Trading Company

Skateboarding distributions have been around for the most part of skateboarding’s colorful history, but very few can claim that they’ve changed the game forever. Regular old skate distributions, to be fair, have always had all the stuff you need: …

Vans TNT Advanced Prototype (SF Giants)

Here in Germany baseball isn’t exactly a national sport. Sure, there are some people that might be interested in it, but we figure that interest mostly manifests itself in the form of wearing the cool designs most baseball jerseys have, and not in …

Hélas Caps Escape The Paradise collection

Remember the bubble gum machines you used to walk by on your way to school? How the colorful bubble gums pressed against the acrylic glass? How you’d rummage for a dime in your kid wallet to put into the top of the coin-operated turning handle? Wit …

Fucking Awesome Summer 18

Jason Dill’s and AVE’s Fucking Awesome is back with a small but exquisite collection of cut-and-sew clothing, including t-shirts, jackets, and dress shirts. Cut-and-sew is this industry’s euphemism for not buying Gildan wholesale clothes and pr …

Vans Classic White Pack

Finally, a colorway we can get behind: in what must have been a struggle of Biblical proportions Vans have decided to treat their iconic Slip-On Pro and Old Skool Pro models to a mature colorway that’s both fresh and minimalist. In fact, the monoch …

Adidas Lucas Premiere Mid

Everyone’s favorite Frenchman Lucas Puig just got an update to his pro shoe game, courtesy of Adidas Skateboarding. Puig’s Premiere model is now available as a mid-top, and we approve. While the low-top Premiere is already one of Adidas Skateboar …

The Nike SB Lance Mountain Pack

California-based legend Lance Mountain and Nike SB go back a long way, and it’s thus no surprise that their collaborative exploits pop up regularly. What is surprising, however, is the consistent quality of their output: there has yet to be a Lance …

Adidas 3MC

Low ballers, prick up your ears: Adidas Skateboarding came up with an affordable pair of skate shoes, the 3MC. Its minimalist look and no-nonsense design make for one utilitarian skate shoe, and we’re already seeing this one become a favorite among …

Nike SB X Hockey Killshot 2

Fucking Awesome’s subsidiary Hockey recently joined forces with Nike SB to revamp the popular Killshot tennis shoe. Their combined efforts resulted in some sleek skate kicks that meet the high demands of skateboarding: the black polished leather up …

Nike SB Zoom Blazer Chukka XT

Somebody at Nike SB’s design department must really love Jurassic Park. With the new film having come out just recently, they probably thought to themselves: “We need to make a genetically engineered creature of our own!” Luckily for them, Nike …

Nike SB X Murasaki Tokyo

Tokyo-based skate shop Murasaki teamed up with Nike SB to create a pair of pretty effin’ clean Dunk Low Pros. The shoes’ color is a shade of very dark obsidian, and the upper is built from a mix of suede and perforated and Elephant print leather …

Canal New York City

New York City’s Canal Street, as well as the rest of Chinatown, is more like a parallel universe than a street, and living there must be a fate worse than death. Apart from being home to every smell in the world, it also provides a well-developed c …

Welcome Scumco and Sons

Scumco and Sons from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is all about unique and hand-drawn graphics. Fed up with run-of-the-mill designs any intern can slap together from a bunch of templates in Adobe Illustrator, Nick Teodori founded Scumco & Sons to cre …

Polar Skate Co. Summer 18

In his essay The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, German philosopher, economist and redistribution enthusiast Karl Marx wrote one of his most famous – and most misquoted – statements. History, he says, repeats itself, “first as tragedy, t …

Öctagon Spring/Summer 18

Back to the future: Paris-based skate company Öctagon sent us a time capsule containing a bunch of t-shirts and longsleeves. There’s a retro-futuristic ASCII-code backprint, one with Öctagon’s eponymous octagon symbol, and a very minimalist the …

Wayward London

If there’s only one rule in skateboarding, this has got to be it: everybody is always more fucking gnarly/stoned/drunk than anybody else. It’s kinda funny that in skateboarding, a sport cherished by many for its inherent carelessness and life-cel …

Welcome Chaos Fishing Club!

Japanese culture is known for embracing foreign fashions and influences while retaining its deeply-rooted sense for perfection: Japan, for instance, is home to some of the best whisky distilleries, a domain commonly associated with the Irish. The wea …