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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Byron Hawes
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... 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 been on the list over the last few years, but Canada. The whole country. They recommend a... 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... 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 Donaghy.Well, for at least one week of the year, aesthetics carnal are thrown over in favour ... 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... 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, and there's been plenty of interesting things to keep up with. Anthony Vacarello's first Sa... 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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Terry Cloth Runway Dreams: The Emperor has no Clothes
I read an interesting piece on Racked over the weekend about “How LA changed my personal style”. I tend to think that this particular east coast-west coast be... More...
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Blame Canada: LVMH Where You At?
I know plenty of SH readers aren’t Canadian, so I apologize in advance for the Toronto-centric (or Canada-centric) theme of this discussion, but broader themes do exist, I promise.A week or two ago I went to a fashion event called Match Made in HEL... More...
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The Pleasure Principle: F*ck It, Just Celebrate Real Quick
So I’m going to go on a bit of a hard left turn here. It’s entertaining to read (and write) pithy, snarky dissertations on the flailing state of the world of co... More...
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Fashion’s Short Term Memory Loss
In this ADD-addled world of Snapchats and Vines, of people vocally pronouncing the acronym IRL (which, as Abbi correctly pointed out to Ilana, is the same numbe... More...
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Luxury: Is It Really Worth It?
Apple just announced that they will sell the Hermès straps separately, as of later this month, at a drastically reduced price. This will drop the lowest price of an ‘Hermès Apple Watch’ to $639USD (around half of what it was previously). Which, inevi... More...
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The King is Dead – Long Live the King
So it happened. Honestly, we knew it was coming, but it doesn’t soften the blow any. At midnight, April 1st, Hedi Slimane announced that he was leaving his self... More...
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Dear Fashion: Time To Open Your Eyes
It’s hard to know exactly what the turning point was. Probably because it’s so baffling that it took this long in the first place. But the Grande Dame that is t... More...
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Authenticity and Fashion: Fake It ’Til You Make It
So Jeremy Scott is taking flak for supposedly plagiarizing a faux Chanel iPhone case that resembles a pack of cigarettes. Tbh, I think Jeremy Scott should be taking flak for tricking people into taking out a second mortgage in order to look like Krus... More...
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Fashion Week: Hello Darkness, My Old Friend
There’s been a ton of talk about the seismic shifts in the fashion universe of late. Not just that Creative Directors are quitting so quickly I’m starting to wo... More...
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The Kanye Principle
Do we even talk about anything but Kanye West anymore?Despite the barrage of news of late. The loss of King Bowie. Of Severus Snape. Of his real world Death E... 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.