1,000 Posts and Runnin'

It's been one year, six months, and thirty days since we started this blog, and damn have we come a long way. Been through 4 cameras, more countries than I would have imagined, and met some really amazing people. I used to get mad when Meezy would blog about his lunch, and now we're being sourced by the likes of Hypebeast and Honeyee, as well as actually making a difference for some of these brands. And even with all of that, I promise that this is just the beginning.
Some of you have been with us from day 1 and some of you might be reading this as your very 1st SwaggerDap visit, so here are just a handful of pictures to catch you up on the past year and a half...


We started in this little cubicle at Syracuse University with an idea and a ton of work to do...

Up at Syracuse we got into some shenanigans, which for some reason usually involved taking some traffic paraphernalia, or in this case shopping carts...

We also happened to move out to Hong Kong for a few months...

Visited South East Asia where, as you can see, we were treated like celebrities...

On our travels we hit up crazy releases everywhere from Juice in Hong Kong...

To Bodega in Boston...

And saw some amazing works like the Michael Lau Crazy Force One exhibit...

Also had the chance to build with tons of great people, like Marcus Troy in Montreal...

Got to meet NERD at the BBC/ Ice Cream store ...


And if you ever had the chance to hang out with us, you know we like to have fun and act like idiots all the time...

Like when we had the BBQ of fake Jordans and Bape...

And when Meezy met the mysterious girl in the white dress up in Toronto...



Overall I just want to thank everyone who visits the blog, the brands that we have built such great relationships with, anyone who has retweeted a blog post, and all of the people who have taken time to listen to our ideas and help us build what we have. Special thanks to Yom and Joan for your help, you're coming with us on this ride.

So keep it locked to SwaggerDap, and I feel like a broken record, but you won't be disappointed with what we have in store.

1,000 posts and running...


-john-

Faces in the Crowd: Marcus Troy in Montreal

As you may have read last week, we met up with the man Marcus Troy while on our trip to Montreal. He is just as passionate about fashion as anyone I've met so naturally we had to get him for a Faces in the Crowd.



Name: Marcus Troy
Reps: Montreal
Occupation: Influencer, Fashion Interpreter, Entrepreneur, Blogger (www.marcustroy.com)
Favorite Brands: Polo, Nike, Wings + Horns, Comme des Garcon
Wearing: Hat - Bape
Jacket - Canterbury of New Zeland
Jeans - Levis Eco Friendly
Boots - John Varvatos by Converse
Words from Marcus Troy: "You can't buy swag!!"



Thanks again to Marcus Troy for showing us around his city and being down for this segment, some northern hospitality there.

Make sure you check out his site, MarcusTroy.com
And follow him on Twitter, @marcustroy


-john-

More Adventures in Montreal

Here are some remaining pics from the last couple of days that we spent eating, shopping and exploring around Montreal.

We headed to Montreal's Chinatown for a very nice dim sum meal. I don't think I know anywhere in the world that there isn't a damn wait for dim sum.


As nice as it is to hear, French is still kinda hard to understand.

We were able to hit up 2 really good stores in Montreal, the first being Off the Hook. Off the Hook carries tons of lines including but not limited to The Hundreds, Twelve Bar, Stussy, Staple, Mishka, and their very own line Rated Rookies. They are conveniently located right in the downtown area of Montreal on Rue St Catherine.

A more upscale boutique in the SoHo area of Montreal, u&i also caught my eye as they carried the likes of Junya Wantanabe, Acne, Vivienne Westwood, and more. Also right around the corner from u&i was another upscale boutique by the name of Duo. Duo carries YSL, Raf Simmons, Y-3, Super, and many more.

Right across the street from Duo was this amazing bistro Marche 27, where the menus are written all over the walls. On top of the amazing food, I thought this was rather epic.

We were also fortunate enough to meet up with Marcus Troy and have him give us the ins and outs of the Montreal fashion scene. We even got in a verbal war with some store clerks over the meaning of Swagger, which for the record can not be bought!!
He is a really inspiring guy with great vision, definitely be on the look out for this man to make serious moves in the near future. Be sure to check out his site MarcusTroy.com.

After all of that it was back on the road to Syracuse.

Thanks to Marcus, French Canadians, science & art, the hookah lady, a horse statue, and a few ignorant store clerks for making this trip what it was. We'll be back soon Montreal.


Check out the entire album of Montreal pictures here


-john-

Adventures in Montreal: Old Montreal & Centre Des Sciences

Old Montreal is just what is says, the OG version on Montreal where the city started, the buildings are epic and the streets are cobble stone. It's a really beautiful area with tons to see, eat, and drink.

I'm not sure what this building was but I'm sure it's something important.Forgive the ignorance Canada.

The old railway.

I think the button was broken or something...

Then we went to the Centre Des Science De Montreal. (Thats French for the science museum)

We got to look at ourselves upside down, in heat imaging and more.
How you gunna tell us that we don't wear heat now?? What??

Then right as the place was closing we saved the world for the next 70 or so years in this amazing world simulation game they have. We thought it was pretty impressive until we saw that someone else had saved the world for like 300+ years. (-_-) Sorry Earth.

Probably the best science museum I've been too, even though that Liberty Museum in Jersey is kinda awesome too. Anyways off the attack another day with our brothers to the north.


-john-

Adventures in Montreal - Bonjour

After one hell of a drive up through NY state, getting lost, and almost dying at a gas station and a truck stop, we finally made it to the land of maple, Montreal, Canada.

Almost didn't make it through the border cause our smart-assness was close to kicking in.

Next morning we had to live out of the car to change shoes and go.

Then, I can't lie we just started drinking early.

All you need in this world.

In Canada so I had to bring the Goodfoot scarf. Eh?

Old Montreal is quite nice.

Then to end an early drunked night it was off to grab some Canadian McDonalds. Can I just say though that Montreal McDonalds > Toronto McDonalds. Plus the McDonalds in MTRL have power outlets on the ceilings which is just confusing and awesome.


We got a little reckless a little to early and ended up PASSING OUT after only like 3 bars but it was still fun. Tonight will be better though, hopefully we can meet up with the man Marcus Troy and really see this place.

Eh?


-john-