COVID and the travel bug
In light of the state of our union (and by that I mean humanity’s supposed social contract, rather than that of my adopted homeland), it has been feeling specio... More...
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Byron Hawes
Art in the time of coronavirus
The world has been utterly turned on its head.Worlds, in fact, have been utterly turned on their head. Sports are a distant memory. Shopping basically invol... More...
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No. Rihanna is not the end of fashion.
So typically I don't like to comment directly on other writers' output. No one is trying to be Hemingway to Sherwood Anderson, on some Torrents of Spring jawn.Yet I feel strangely compelled to respond to Liroy Choufan's latest piece on Business o... More...
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Solange ‘When I Get Home’ Houston Event
There are certain people who give off the distinct impression, upon first glance, of not being from anywhere. Of simply having arrived, fully formed on earth; f... More...
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Is Individuality Out of Fashion?
I sometimes have a bit of a tendency towards 'old head syndrome'. Kids these days and all that. That Rakim > Rocky, Leica M3 > Sony A7r iii, et cetera bar... More...
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Essential Places To Travel This Fall
Personally, I buy airplane tickets like most people buy movie tickets - in the cab en route to the venue. But, for those of you who have mastered first-year-of-university level adulthood. Who can do their own laundry and even peripherally balance a c... More...
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Drop: How high fashion is taking a page out of streetwear’s book
A few weeks ago I released a photography book, called Drop, with Powerhouse Books out of DUMBO.The intention, during the conceptual stage, was to capture th... More...
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Ride or DIY: The Worth of Self Taught Contemporary Fashion
DIY culture has increasingly taken hold of contemporary fashion.Not DIY like the Berlin Kidz in that Good Guy Boris Drifters Code jawn (anyone else remember... More...
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6 Underrated Places To Travel in 2018
Last year we put together a little travel roundup, highlighting some spots we felt were underrated. New year, same deal. We're gonna do this remix real quick.There are, and always will be, the places that are inevitable. Unimpeachable. Beyond rep... More...
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Fashion Mean Girls: Calling out the copycats
Much has been made of the ‘honesty’ and ‘integrity’ of the Instagram account @Diet_Prada over the course of the last week or so. Which makes sense; then fashion... More...
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A Damn. Coronation
Has there ever been a mainstream rapper more difficult to parse than Kendrick Lamar? More complicated; obfuscatory; excoriatingly honest; conflicted?Kendric... More...
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A Month of Walking Slimly: Fashion Week(s) Roundup
Fashion Week is done. Well, more accurately, Fashion Weeks are done. Sort of. Paris, New York, Milan, London, Stockholm - Finished. But Seoul, Reykjavík, Athens, and Odessa still to come. Still, we can probably call it for now. Because it never ends.... More...
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8 Destinations To Travel To in 2017
The New York Times just did their annual '52 places to go' list. And guess what? Canada came out on top. Not Squamish, or Calgary, or Toronto, all of which have... More...
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Ushering the Nike Air Force 1 into 2017
"I like the all white high top strap with the gum bottom/there's something 'bout them that's dirty why I got 'em/I leave um strapped and laced and come up out u... More...
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Vetememes, and Fashion’s Mytho-Marketing Complex
Gibson once wrote that 'far more creativity, today, goes into the marketing of products than into the products themselves'.In our ever more consumptive, and increasingly expeditious, society, getting ahold of the newest and most sought after is b... More...
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The Basel Conundrum
Photo by Zach Slootsky
'Why does anyone go to Miami? Ass, and the emerging contemporary art scene.' So said Alec Baldwin's iconic 30 Rock character, Jack Donag... More...
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Fast Fashion: Is It Really Worth It?
Another season. Another fast fashion collabo.Kenzo x H&M releases this week. Pioneered, of course, by the downtown stage-setting, fêted af duo of Humber... More...
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Fuck FOMO It’s About That JOMO Life
Much has been made of late of the fact that social media is obfuscating realistic interpretations (and presentations) of our diurnal lives.Since the seminal NYT piece 'Branding and the 'Me' Economy', sociologists have rampantly discussed that new... More...
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Is Vogue losing at its own game?
If you're anything like me, your social feeds and most frequented media have been awash in Fashion Week coverage for the past few weeks.Nothing new there, a... More...
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Frank Ocean’s ‘Blond(e)’ Unpacked
So we don’t know each other.
But, chances are, the last week or so, we’ve had a shared experience. Well, one aside from the ‘ride the subway/drink a Daiquiri/v... More...
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Byron Hawes
Contributing Editor
Boulevardier. Sprezzaturista. Architecture and avarice. Rakim and Rilke. Founding Editor at The Après Garde. Contributing Editor at Hypebeast.