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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Byron Hawes
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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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 beef was summed up, and much more pithily, 30 years ago by Bret Easton Ellis, when the narra... 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 ... 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 number of syllables), I find myself thinking a lot about memory. Tradition. Antecedents.Histo... 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 o... 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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Byron Hawes
Contributing Editor
Boulevardier. Sprezzaturista. Architecture and avarice. Rakim and Rilke. Founding Editor at The Après Garde. Contributing Editor at Hypebeast.