Bianca Chandon

poster that came with the first batch of boards

Blonde Deck 7 ply maple deck. • 8.25″ x 32.5″ • 14.375″ wheelbase

t-shirt from Bianca Chandôn

(images via theworldsbestever / skateboarding.transworld)

Bianca Chandon. is a label created by New York based skateboarder Alex Olson. For us, (non skaters, maybe Alex Olsen is a very well known skater?) it’s a mysterious label, it carries t-shirts and skate board decks, 3 items in total at the moment, which are all sold out in the webshop, but Bianca Chandon has 18 stockist worldwide. Nothing much else to be found, Bianca Chandon is very exclusive! We were not only attracted by the name Bianca Chandon but also to the retro seventies feel of the brand and the Blonde Deck in particular.

“Bianca Chandon. The full name. Basically I came up with the whole concept of it because I couldn’t get the rights to any of the names I wanted originally. So then I was kind of digging around through inspirations I liked and try to figure it out. I think I had mentioned to Brian (Anderson) before 3D was thought up that it would be really cool to name a company after a boat. And so many boats are women’s names. So that sort of started the whole concept of choosing a woman’s name. Then from Studio 54 I think I got Bianca from Bianca Jagger. I just always really liked the name Bianca. It sounded kind of elegant and it was a big ‘70s name. A lot of the culture I was pulling from was from the ‘70s so it just made sense.” (read more at skateboarding.transworld)