COTR - WINTER / SPRING 14 / 15 ENG

WINTER / SPRING 14 / 15

INTRO It‘s kinda difficult to describe the feeling that we‘re having now that everything‘s finally finished and ready for publishing. Curiously, though on purpose, we‘ve decided to write this intro as the last bit of this catalog.

We‘re probably repeating ourselves, but we say once again that we‘ve enjoyed this catalog a great deal. We met a lot of interesting people during its preparation, all of whom were more than ready to help us and in this way we‘d like to thank them once again.

It was amazing to finally witness the secrets of the trade of barbery, to see a comic book writer working in his natural habitat, to meet people of note from the Czech tattoo scene or to try living some of the band on tour life, full of smoke-filled bars, stale beers and moving from place to place.

With this collection we are trying to make a step forward. It basically helped us define the purpose that we see in our work, and that‘s what we call moving forward. As long as the wind swooshes along our ears, the gravel screeches under our wheels and all the potholes, hills and turns keep appearing before our eyes, it will have a purpose for us and we‘ll be happy doing what we do.

VULTURE TEE

PHOTO: TomAS Sekanina MODEL: LeOS Sekanina

DIDDLY TEE Although we don‘t worship a particular god or religion, we do believe there has to be a kind of order in the universe. Thank God that our souls, forever condemned to sin and temptation, have gotten some sense of direction thanks to this badass. All our moral boundaries and principles have been instilled in our heads by him, by this mustachioed, rhyming fellow.

His legacy shall therefore be spread by means of this shirt and that‘s why you‘re getting a left-hand fistbump, our favourite neighbor, you really are one righteous fella.

DIDDLY TEE

PHOTO: MAREK STEFECH MODEL: LUCIE SEDLACKOVA

VULTURE TEE

PHOTO: YVANS MODEL: RADEK TRLICA

VULTURE TEE The road is a cruel mistress. Nobody can count how many men have been enchanted by her mysterious charm.

It‘s easy to fall in love with her, but you always have to remember that this girl rips men apart purely for her pleasure.

Any time you hit the road, a vulture circles over your head. You‘re now wearing this very vulture, so that you can never forget that the road can betray you at any time.

ONE LOVE TATTOO If you find yourself roaming Prague, absorbing the city‘s beauty, walk into its crooked streets and alleyways and sooner or later you‘ll run into a small parlor with a noticeable shop sign that says One Love Tattoo. Perhaps, like many others, you‘ll feel a powerful urge to go inside the place. The bell rings above your head and suddenly you realize you‘re inside. You‘re enthralled by the amazing atmosphere of this place. With all the traditional flashes and oldschool skateboards everywhere it‘s difficult the resist the urge to have something like that permanently entrenched on your skin.

The idea to create something in cooperation with these guys has been around for quite some time and we‘re glad that it‘s finally happened and that you can finally wear some of their artwork.

ONE LOVE TATTOO SHOP PHOTO: IVAN IVANOV

ROOT TANKTOP / BASIC BEANIE PHOTO: IVAN IVANOV MODEL: TARLITO / VESKO

TARLITO TEE Tarlito suffers from a very ugly addiction. We suffer from it too, although in our hopelessness we can hardly be any competition to this guy. Tarlito loves old skate decks and never has enough of them.

The specific look of old skate decks influences this design, which has been approved, unsurprisingly, while skateboarding with a beer in hand.

That way ideas just come by themselves.

VESKO TEE Anyone who‘s ever had a needle dance on their skin to the blues of a tattoo machine and the smell of disinfectant knows what we‘re talking about here. We wanted to merge this passion of ours with skateboarding. Roses, hearts and anchors, basically just traditional tattoos. The machine has been replaced with markers and the skin with sketching paper and a lightbox. Vesko has merged the cultures of skateboarding and tattoos in this unique t-shirt.

VESKO TEE

PHOTO: IVAN IVANOV MODEL: VESKO

CITYLIGHTS

PHOTO: MARTINEZZ MODEL: CITYLIGHTS

They told them they‘d become anything of worth at school. What does that mean though? Do we want to spend our lives rotting in a cubicle, sucking up to our boss like a good little doggy to get a decent paycheck? Or do we want to get carried away by riffs where people want to hear them? To live a nomadic life in a van, where your smokes are my smokes.

Where my beer is your beer. The creative process, hours upon hours of rehearsal, discovering new parts of ourselves. It is our path, a path we‘ve chosen. Our city, one that we know perfectly. Another organ, hidden somewhere in our bodies.

Perhaps it‘s not even what we do best, but it is the thing that gives us the strength to get up every morning. Each day we rekindle the fire to give us heat and light, to calm us down. We burn our bodies for what we love.

JACKNIFE TEE Raised on the street, with a rusty razor in the back pocket, holding a broken smoke in the corner of the mouth, and always up for shady shenanigans. Whenever a chicken gets stolen, everyone knows who did it. Whenever someone snatches a bottle or two from the neighboring town’s liquor store, it’s obvious who did it. That guy would grow up to swing from the gallows, and everyone knew it. You don’t have to tread the slippery slope to appreciate the lightness, because some stride it.

JACKNIFE TEE

PHOTO: MINISTR ZAHUL MODEL: MARTIN VAGNER

HIKE TEE

PHOTO: MAREK STEFECH MODEL: KAROLINA DOLEZELOVA

HIKE TEE This shirt is a synonym for freedom.

The freedom you feel when you decide you should keep going forward. The freedom you feel when you leave a place which makes you feel good, but subconsciously you still feel that if you don‘t hit the road, you‘ll miss something really important. This shirt we dedicate to all the wanderers being dragged on and on by their adventure, with the end of the road never to be seen.

LEOŠ SEKANINA The smell of gasoline has been a drug for me since I was a kid. I grew up in an automotive shop, my grampa was the leading mechanic of its repair section, plus my dad was a rally driver. I‘d hang around the cars and I‘d sit on grampa‘s motorcycle and fantasize about having my own bike, travelling and feeling free.

In 1989 I got my first skateboard, a plastic pennyboard, which was great until I actually tried to ride it. It really began some time later. My brother introduced me into his gang, who were one of the first skateboarding pioneers in our city. Skateboarding, BMX, parties and everything around that became my life. After I had worked in a skateshop for several years, I finally got the courage to change my life and purely by chance I got an opportunity to travel to Canada. I returned as a completely different person, I changed my outlook on life and my priorities. I started to fulfill my dreams and could finally buy a motorcycle...and another one right after that. It‘s an addiction. We live only once, there‘s no time to dream.

VULTURE TEE

PHOTO: TOMAS SEKANINA MODEL: LEOS SEKANINA

CROSS HOODIE

PHOTO: POMELOU MODEL: DAVID VERES

CROSS HOODIE Sometimes you don’t need much, even a tiny detail is enough and every single person involved knows.

Everyone from your neighborhood knows about your rap sheet, meaning that a happy colorful shirt isn’t fooling anybody. The COTR cross is for those of you who keep it real, who don’t care about brands or style, but still support what we all love and believe in.

HIKE CREWNECK Even the baddest badass can be taken by surprise when the sun disappears under the horizon and the cold night retakes the land once again for its part of the deal.

Obviously, if one has endured so much already, it sucks to just go home because of something so trivial.

It doesn‘t really matter if you‘re hiking through the forest or strolling through the city, in this sweatshirt you can always keep going.

HIKE CREWNECK

PHOTO: LADA LAHVACEK MODEL: VLADA HLAVACEK

HIKE CREWNECK

PHOTO: LADA LAHVACEK MODEL: VLADA HLAVACEK

VLÁĎA HLAVÁČEK It was the year 1998 and I vividly recall the day me and a friend of mine went out, him being on his roller skates and lending me his plastic skateboard so that I wouldn‘t have to follow him around on foot. That was the first day I rode a skateboard and at that time I had no idea that it would eventually become a sort of addiction of mine...

After some time some other kids joined us and because we had no money, we tried to build our own skateboards DIY style, from halved roller skates with no bearings and wooden decks cut out into shapes more resembling tiny surf decks than anything...this was a long time ago, lots of falls happened since then, as well as pain, joy and all other things that are a part of skateboarding and I think of it as the best thing that has ever happened to me, thanks to skateboarding I‘ve met loads of cool people, who are my friends, I started shooting and editing videos, I attended lots of of trips and events.

The older I get, the more fun skateboarding is for me and I enjoy it more and more, and sometimes even though I‘m tired and I know I won‘t be any good, I still go skating or just cruise some.

Thank you, skateboarding.

NOUVEAU BAG Trends sometimes come as quickly as they go. But seldom do they disappear for good. More often their idea reappears sooner or later. It‘s usually in the least predictable moment and in an utterly new context.

The Nouveau bag merges the elegance and elaborateness of Fin de Siecle with the functional simplicity of modern times.

NOUVEAU BAG / VIENNA

PHOTO: MAREK STEFECH MODEL: KAROLINA DOLEZELOVA

ROOT TANKTOP / BASIC BEANIE PHOTO: NGUYET NGUYEN MODEL: OANH NGUYEN

rOOT TANK Back to basics with a few cans of beer and a clear plan of how to put our new idea in a few lines and letters. This motif is the very core of our brand, and even though it may seem simple, it contains everything that divides us from that night with the present day.

ROOT LINOGRAPHY

PHOTO: ELEN WEYROVA HANDS: YVANS

The idea to open a classic barber shop, where men would find their world, came in 2013. As former classmates we‘d decided not to wait any longer and just jump straight in – to open our very own barber shop right in the center of Brno.

After a year of searching for inspiration and a suitable location we‘ve finally, after a lot of work, opened the Local Barber Shop. In our barber shop we try to restore the barber trade, which has a long tradition in our country and simultaneously re-use old and thrown-away stuff. We try to keep to the barber shop idea and philosophy, where men go to relax, chat with other guys and have a beer or a glass of good whiskey. We try to spread this idea and it is our dream and goal for every city in the country to have its own barber shop, because that‘s what every man deserves.

NOVEAU BAG / VIENNA

PHOTO: MAREK STEFECH MODEL: HONZA KRAJICEK

NOVEAU BAG / VIENNA

PHOTO: MAREK STEFECH MODEL: LUKAS HROMADKA

STRANGER SHIRT Nobody knows where this guy came from. He parked his black Firebird, black like his clothes, just by the entrance to the bar. He sits alone and lights one smoke after another with his bandaged hand. With his cold, steely eyes he gazes over the road which disappears at the horizon.

After chugging a double whiskey he suddenly stands up and asks for a can of gas. “I ain‘t found a gas station in this bone dry desert in fifty damn miles!” The echo of his words rings through the silent bar long after he‘s gone out through the front door.

There‘s something really fishy about this fella. He opens his trunk and tosses the empty gas can in. I swear to God I saw a hand stick out that trunk of his.

RAZOR PATCH In our hearts, patches are something that‘s inseparably connected with gang membership, something recognize and accept as our own.

This is not a matter of style or a spontaneous impuls. This is in its own way a commitment.

A commitment of loyalty of an individual to other holders of this brand. That place on your torn denim vest right next to your heart has been empty up till now so that now you can join the ranks of Cult of the Road.

RAZOR PATCH

PHOTO: YVANS

LOCAL BARBERSHOP

PHOTO: MAREK STEFECH

PRODUCTS OVERVIEW

VULTURE

DIDDLY

JACKNIFE

VESKO

TARLITO

HIKE

CROSS HOODIE

NOUVEAU BAG

RAZOR PATCH

HIKE CREWNECK

STRANGER SHIRT

ROOT TANKTOP

CREDITS & THANKS MODELS

PHOTOGRAPHERS

CONTRIBUTORS

KÁJA DOLEŽELOVÁ OANH NGUYEN LUCKA SEDLÁČKOVÁ RADEK TRLICA VlÁĎA HLAVÁČEK MARTIN VÁGNER TARLITO VESKO LEOŠ SEKANINA HONZA KRAJÍČEK LUKÁŠ HROMÁDKA LUBA ČERNÝ

MAREK ŠTEFECH DAVID VEREŠ TOMÁŠ SEKANINA IVAN IVANOV NGUYET NGUYEN MARTINEZZ PHOTO MINISTR ZÁHUL YVANS

ONE LOVE TATTOO SHOP

SPECIAL THANKS

PARTNERS

CULTOFTHEROAD

MARTIN ČERMÁK LUBA ČERNÝ (STTC) BEN MALŮŠEK (BRAQ) MARTIN TUČEK ROBIN SMEJKAL FLÉDA KLUB JAREK DESAINTMALO MIRA ONDRUŠ GREEN BAR STRÁŽNICE ADÉLA ŠAFAŘÍKOVÁ

ONE LOVE TATTOO SHOP

COPYWRITING

LOCAL BARBERSHOP

LUBA & YVANS

CITYLIGHTS HC TRIBO TATTOO ELEPHANT SKATEBOARDS CZ

TARLITO VESKO VULTURE TEE

GREY DAYS JACKNIFE TEE

SLAKING LIZARD

GRAFIC

YVANS PRODUCTION

KOMIKSOVÝ KRÁM

LUBA

NERDI.CZ

PROOF-READING

ELEN WEYROVÁ TRANSLATION

EMIL SVOBODA

STEP TO THE CROWD

PHOTO: YVANS MODEL: LUBA CERNY

We‘re really glad that you‘ve taken a browsed through this calendar long enough to read this text. We sincerely hoped that you‘ve enjoyed browsing through this catalog and that we‘ve had the opportuinity to meet new people and get to new places. Occasionally, it was hard get everything done on time, but in the end we were able tocdo everything we‘d wanted and we didn‘t publish the catalog until we were a hundred percent satisfied with it. The biggest reward for us is your attention, praise and critique. Today we‘re gonna chillax and tomorrow we‘re gonna work on the next collection.

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