Virgil Abloh a ‘Hip Hop Fashion Designer’
So what the actual fuxk.The Grammy’s called Virgil Abloh a ‘Hip Hop Fashion Designer’.In an ‘In Memoriam’.Fine time to denigrate a man’s accomplishm... More...
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Byron Hawes
Virgil Abloh – A Cultural Titan Has Passed Away
And...in today's instalment of 'the world is fucking broken and everything is the worst'...Virgil Abloh passed.The rumours of his cancer have been omniprese... More...
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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 specious, and borderline irresponsible, to tap out pithy epigrams suggesting that Nigo and Virgi... More...
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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.
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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; from the ether, perhaps.I always got that feeling about Solange. Not that she didn't re... 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-... 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 the intricacies and vitality of the streetwear ‘drop’ culture. The community; pedagogy; aest... 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.
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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 world being as notorious for chasing new young things as that ‘president’.Mainstream ... 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... 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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Byron Hawes
Contributing Editor
Boulevardier. Sprezzaturista. Architecture and avarice. Rakim and Rilke. Founding Editor at The Après Garde. Contributing Editor at Hypebeast.