Aziz Shittu
The Luxurious Sportsmanship
Aziz Shittu, Jr.was born July 27, 1994 in Merced, Calif., and graduated from Buhach Colony High School (Atwater, Calif.), where he lettered in football and basketball. On the gridiron, he earned All-America honors on the Parade, Rivals, Sports Illustrated and SuperPrep teams and played in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl; Rivals.com ranked him as the nation’s 27th overall recruit (all positions) coming out of high school. His first language is Yoruba, native to several countries in West Africa where his family originated from. Full name is Abdulaziz Shittu, Jr. Shittu earned his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Stanford in 2016.
Shittu, 25, joined the Buffaloes after he retired from professional football, as he signed as an undrafted free agent with the Philadelphia Eagles, and spent the 2016 season on the practice squad. After suffering a knee injury, he was placed on the team’s injured reserve list but was still a member of the Super Bowl XLII champion Eagles’ 2017 team that defeated New England. He spent the 2018 in two different stints on the Dallas Cowboys and was resigned by Philadelphia just ahead of the 2019 season, but again was soon placed on injured reserve.
Aziz lettered four years (2012-15) at defensive tackle for Stanford University, playing for head coach David Shaw. He recorded 78 career tackles (33 solo, five-and-a-half quarterback sacks), with three passes broken up, two fumble recoveries and one forced fumble. He was a regular starter as a senior, when he was in on 58 of those tackles. In Stanford’s 45-16 rout of Iowa in the 2016 Rose Bowl, he was named the Most Outstanding Defensive Player of the Game when he was in on 10 tackles, with eight solo, four for losses including two quarterback sacks, and a third down stop. He earned first-team All-Pac-12 honors on the field as a senior, when he was also named to the first-team All-Academic Pac-12 team.
WP Standard
Companion Essentials
What We Do
We are makers of bags and accessories – trusted companions made with natural materials that get better with time. The wear your bag takes on will be as unique as your own fingerprint. Defects and repairs are covered for life. We’re in it for the long haul.
The Story
Leather takes time. This isn’t something that you’ve likely given much thought to. I certainly hadn’t when I landed in Mexico ten years ago. For thousands of years, after an animal has departed, the hide begins its second act. On this particular day, the hides of the animal have been salted and loaded onto a truck bound for the tannery. This is where I find myself. Let me back up a bit. After a string of failed careers including high school teacher, salesman, and guitar player, I decided to start a company making leather guitar straps. This is how I find myself on a loading dock in a cloud of flies unloading dead animal skins in late 2009 – the beginning of WP Standard.
As unpleasant as this all sounds, I find this next piece uplifting. The long process of transforming discarded flesh into a beautifully tanned hide. The journey of the hide is analogous to winemaking in many ways. If you’ve ever spent an afternoon in Napa Valley you’re familiar with terms like “terroir” and “tannins”. Leather is like this in that there are hundreds of variables from hide origins to tanning, tumbling, and finishing that end up in a final product that is completely unique (editors note: don’t take a date to a tannery). No two hides are the same and each batch has some variance in characteristics making your bag truly one of a kind.
From the tannery, we find our finished hides which are ready to be inspected, cut and sewn. This is a process we take great pride in and I’m humbled to see the work roll out from our artisans every day.
When I look at the bags that people carry around airports and cities, they are usually nylon or a pressed leather with not much character to it. But occasionally you’ll see something haggard and beautiful that has endured years of coffee stains, run-ins with rouge doors and leaky pens. This sets my imagination adrift. This is a bag, or rather a person with some stories to tell. And though buying some bag doesn’t automatically imbue life with good stories, perhaps it can be a humble reminder to make some.
Ryan Barr,
Founder
The Bespoke Dudes Eyeware
Frames Inspired by deep root appreciation of quality and craftsmanship
Fabio Attanasio is the founder of The Bespoke Dudes, the leading Italian blog about craftsmanship and bespoke tailoring. Along with Andrea Viganò, an entrepreneur passionate about Made in Italy and an expert in Internationalization and Digital Marketing, they launched this project in 2015 with the aim of enhancing the image of Italy abroad and promoting its excellence and unique creativity.
Our accessories come from the expertise of talented Italian manufacturers, holding out against the ubiquitous empire of huge multinational groups. Our goal is to guarantee a continuity of the Italian craftsmanship and to protect our heritage, made of utmost quality and unique creativity. Our glasses are completely hand-made in Italy and we proved their quality by visiting the workshops and shooting the productive process. They are addressed to all the connoisseurs who want to stand out from the mass, knowing what they wear.
We are selling through the most high-end boutiques in the world like 10 Corso Como and Rinascente in Milano; Harvey Nichols in London; Lodenfrey in Munich; Shinsegae in Seoul; etc.
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Our acetate frames are extremely lightweight and provided by Mazzucchelli Varese – a historical Italian company and a global leader in the production of acetate frames – and our lenses are also made in Italy to guarantee incredible optical quality. Moreover, our collection consists of timeless accessories, mixing classic forms with a modern twist, represented by our elegant frames and refined lenses. The hinges of our handmade in Italy sunglasses resemble a bow-tie picked from a lot dating back to the ’30s and feature four screws – rather than the usual two – tightened by hand. It is a long and costly construction, but we are not in the trade to compromise on quality.
Our eleven collections have names coming from the bespoke tailoring industry and addressed to all the connoisseurs who want to stand out from the mass, knowing what they wear. Our collections consist of timeless accessories, mixing classic forms with a modern twist, represented by our elegant frames and refined lenses. At Pitti Uomo 93 we unveiled three new collections: MOHAIR, FLARE, and CROSSBREED.
The Bespoke Dudes Eyewear is a patron of Italian excellence with the goal of meeting the demands of the most discerning customers around the world. The names of the collections come from the bespoke tailoring industry. Our glasses are inspired by a deep-rooted appreciation of quality and craftsmanship, guaranteed by the expert artisans of Cadore, Italy.
We are selling our handmade accessories worldwide in the most important high-end boutiques like 10 Corso Como; Rinascente; Harvey Nichols; Shinsegae; Londenfrey and Pauw. Our eleven collections have names coming from the bespoke tailoring industry and addressed to all the connoisseurs who want to stand out from the mass, knowing what they wear. Our collections consist of timeless accessories, mixing classic forms with a modern twist, represented by our elegant frames and refined lenses. At Pitti Uomo 93 we unveiled three new collections: MOHAIR, FLARE, and CROSSBREED.
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Sosi Kameleon
Dallas, TX
Sosi Aseffa is the Sales Manager and Marketing Specialist for Leaf of Youth. A company that is dedicated to bringing the best CBD cosmetic products to market.
Sosi earned her Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from the University of North Texas. Post college she worked at UT Southwestern’s Neurology Research Department. Her hard work, dedication, and contributions led to the successful publication of “The case for an Amharic term for Stroke” by the Journal of Neuroscience Nursing. Her love for science and beauty has allowed her to find her passion in selling CBD infused cosmetic products for living, amongst other things.
During her free time, Sosi spends most of her days modeling in front of the camera for different brands and or socializing at networking events. Sosi has a relentless work ethic, and unmatched interpersonal skills. Her strength in building strong relationships with others has been the foundation for her success in sales, and life in general!
If Sosi was a quote she would read “How you do one thing, is how you do everything! Excellence therefore is a habit not an act”
Tatiana Fritzgerald
MUA Elite
Atlanta based makeup artist Tatiana has a passion like no other for the industry! She is able to tailor make looks to suit her individual clients as well as enhance their own natural beauty. Her many years and vast knowledge of the industry and industry standards makes her the perfect makeup artist to create just about every look one can image.Her drive enthusiasm and attention to detail keeps her in demand!This highly sought after make up artist creates individual masterpieces on the canvas of runway models,brides,television personalities, celebrities and many more.
As a child Tatiana always had a love for the beauty world as she often played dress up and would Apply her mothers' makeup to her face. She didn’t know it then, but years later that love would grow into a fulfilling professional career..The certified master cosmetologist, from Freeport Bahamas specializes in Clean makeup application, as well as makeup for beauty, runway, fashion, sfx,bridal,editorial, advertising, and television.
With her career in the beauty industry spanning for almost a decade now, Tatiana has worked on many photoshoots,movie sets, weddings, fashion shows, and video shoots. Tatiana’s endless creativity and artistic freedom makes her a makeup artist that enjoys what she does, causes her to continue learning for growth, and build a very happy client base! Tatiana’s love doesn’t stop with makeup application,it Trickles into her other passion of teaching others how to properly take care of their skin and how to apply clean makeup on themselves or others
Fabrizio Di Paolo
Freelance Fashion & Street Photography
Fabrizio Di Paolo, freelance fashion and street photographer, collaborates with newspapers, men’s fashion magazine and world renowned bloggers. Today one of the most followed Italian photographers of this fashion area on Instagram, especially during the events of Pitti Immagine Uomo.
If you ask me when and how I decided that I wanted to be a photographer I answer you that I believe destiny decided for me. When I was a child I always had an attraction for the camera. I still remember when at age of 3 running all over my house, taking pictures. Since then, things have not changed so much.
This is absolutely my dream job.
I consider myself a lucky person. Confucius said “Choose the job you love and you’ll never work, not even a day in your life”. I let myself be carried away by my instinct. When I shoot I enter a world of my own, where the photo that I will shoot it’s already etched in my mind. Everything is to capture precisely that moment.
On the day of my first show I was very happy and impressed by people’s appreciation of my work. Actually the thing I liked most was that everyone tried to “read” my pictures, everyone saw something different, different emotions coming up from my works. I thanked them for telling them that I would have appreciated every form of criticism because I’m convinced that it is a way of personal growth. Sometimes there is a single image whose compositional structure has such force and such wealth and the contents of which radiate so much out of it that this single picture is a whole story in itself.
The beauty of photography is that it gives you a way to take ideas and inspiration from anyone, no matter how famous. The list of the photographer I admire could be infinite but if I have to choose a name I would say Scott Schumann the one who is able to tell, through his camera, the largest fashion catwalk: everyday life.
