5 reasons to check out ComplexCon 2021 in Long Beach

Sneakerheads and the manner guardant assemblage tin ditch their computers this twelvemonth and cheque retired caller merchandise unrecorded and successful idiosyncratic erstwhile ComplexCon returns to the Long Beach Convention Center Nov. 6-7.

After having a virtual ComplexCon online successful 2020 owed to the coronavirus pandemic, the 5th yearly lawsuit is backmost successful existent beingness and expected to pull thousands. The young and stylish fashion and euphony fans travel to store astatine the pop-up promenade wherever they tin bargain things specified arsenic sneakers, apparel and different items that aren’t usually disposable to the wide public.

And since this isn’t a emblematic mall, ComplexCon besides includes performances from hip-hop stars and different philharmonic acts, positive DJ sets. This year, there’s a caller nutrient tribunal that’s curated to lucifer the cutting-edge euphony and fashion.

There’s a batch to instrumentality successful this play truthful present are 5 things that you request to cheque retired astatine this year’s ComplexCon successful Long Beach.

1. Castle Kerwin

Harlem-born artist, DJ and manner decorator Kerwin Frost is bringing his kingdom — and a fewer celebrated philharmonic friends — to ComplexCon with his multi-room cardboard castle. The pop-up castle volition beryllium portion retail and portion show abstraction with a lineup that includes Onyx, Mac DeMarco, Kero Kero Bonito and adjacent a puppet amusement by the Bob Baker Marionettes, according to a property release.  On merchantability wrong the walk-in castle volition beryllium items specified arsenic a constricted pre-sale of Frost’s upcoming Adidas footwear merchandise and a pop-up 7-Eleven store. And yes, there’s a moving drawbridge, too.

2. All of the fashion

When it comes to fashion, ComplexCon is similar clip traveling to the aboriginal of benignant with brands dropping exclusive merchandise and doing peculiar collaborations for the event. This is wherever you spell to snatch up each the worldly that’s cool to wear earlier it’s disposable to the public. While details of circumstantial caller merchandise isn’t disposable yet, expect to spot brands including Adidas, BBC, Atmos, Pleasures, Crocs,  Bricks & Wood, Champion and Topps showing disconnected and selling their latest and top this weekend.

3. The food

ComplexCon isn’t conscionable a feast for your manner senses this year, it’s besides an existent feast since ComplexCon is partnering with Care of Chan, a  New York-based bureau that represents restaurants and chefs, to curate a lineup of much than 20 vendors and nutrient trucks for the play astatine the First We Feast Lagoon. The Lagoon includes vendors specified arsenic Sweet Chick, an  American comfortableness nutrient edifice from Brooklyn that volition not lone service chickenhearted and waffles, but volition besides unveil a footwear collaboration with the Clarks footwear brand. Also astatine the Feast Lagoon volition beryllium Houston rapper Bun B, whose Trill Burger edifice is collaborating with Chino’s Beleaf Burgers to service plant-based burgers. And yes, the rapper volition beryllium on-site serving vegan burgers close disconnected the grill.

4. The music 

Music goes manus successful manus with manner astatine ComplexCon and this twelvemonth the lawsuit volition beryllium headlined by A$AP Rocky with the stone set Turnstile opening for him connected Sunday, Nov 7. But determination volition beryllium euphony passim the play with DJ sets from Lil Yachty connected Nov. 6 on with different performances by artists including Zack Bia, Kitty Cash and DJ Scheme. On Sunday, Nov. 7, the lineup volition see A-Trak, Kerwin Frost, Blondie Beach, Mia Carucci, DJ Cam Girl and others.

5. The elephantine Lego sculpture

Lego is slipping into the footwear concern by partnering with Adidas to make a monolithic brace of Adidas Original Superstars retired of the bricks. The sneakers, which volition beryllium connected show passim the weekend, are much than 13-feet-long and took much than 150,000 bricks and astir 500 hours to build. And if you privation to effort to beryllium a Lego shoemaker, the institution besides sells a regular shoe-size Adidas Lego kit.

ComplexCon

When: Nov. 6-7

Where: Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd, Long Beach

Tickets: $80 for wide admission

Information: complexcon.com

COVID-19 Requirements: Proof of afloat vaccination oregon a antagonistic accelerated antigen oregon PCR laboratory COVID-19 trial taken wrong 72 hours is required to enter.  Masks are required astatine the venue.