About

Operating on the fringe of Skateboarding and the outside world we create products with an inherently scandinavian approach – understated designs with quiet functionality. Last Resort AB is here to expand your mind.

– BREAK FREE

Pontus Alv – (Co-Founder / Designer)

I like turning dreams into reality. I love creating & making things; everything from the perfect shaped board to solving the skaters "pants nightmare". They say, if you can't find it design it or if you are unhappy with something well shut up and make it better.

My first big dream in life was to become a pro-skater in U.S.A which felt like an impossible mission in the 90's. Well at least when you live in a small town in Sweden. With a bit of luck a bit of talent and what not somehow that happened.

At some point in my pro-days I felt that I wanted to express my own ideas create my own films & projects. Present my perspective on our culture and show how we via DIY spirits, community, friendship can create great things together... (dream two)

Well about about 10 years ago I felt that I no longer could connect with the direction our industry was going, it felt stale & strange. So I started my own board company, Polar Skate Co (dream three)

The past years or so when I look out at the so called skate shoe landscape there is something about it that feels off & weird these huge corporations running things their way... It's a feeling and like I said above if your are unhappy with a situation shut up and do something about it...(dream four has started). – Alv

After well over a decade in the apparel industry doing design, creative direction and business management we started our own journey in 2018. What began as an ever-present internal reminder to follow our dreams, we named the company Last Resort AB, a seemingly odd name for a footwear brand that has come to resonate with people along our messages to BREAK FREE and “Here to Expand your Mind”.

In 2020 We re-launched LRAB together with Pontus Alv (Polar Skate Co) and Mike Halls with the goal to perfect and bring out our first shoe made for skateboarding and beyond.