Byron Hawes

COVID and the travel bug

Byron HawesJuly 20, 2020

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...

Art in the time of coronavirus

Byron HawesJuly 13, 2020

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...

No. Rihanna is not the end of fashion.

Byron HawesJune 24, 2019

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...

Solange ‘When I Get Home’ Houston Event

Byron HawesMarch 8, 2019

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...

Is Individuality Out of Fashion?

Byron HawesOctober 29, 2018

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...

Essential Places To Travel This Fall

Byron HawesOctober 22, 2018

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...

Drop: How high fashion is taking a page out of streetwear’s book

Byron HawesAugust 14, 2018

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...

Ride or DIY: The Worth of Self Taught Contemporary Fashion

Byron HawesMay 23, 2018

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...

6 Underrated Places To Travel in 2018

Byron HawesMay 7, 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...

Fashion Mean Girls: Calling out the copycats

Byron HawesOctober 19, 2017

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...

A Damn. Coronation

Byron HawesApril 19, 2017

Has there ever been a mainstream rapper more difficult to parse than Kendrick Lamar? More complicated; obfuscatory; excoriatingly honest; conflicted? Kendric... More...

A Month of Walking Slimly: Fashion Week(s) Roundup

Byron HawesMarch 17, 2017

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...

8 Destinations To Travel To in 2017

Byron HawesJanuary 17, 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...

Ushering the Nike Air Force 1 into 2017

Byron HawesJanuary 6, 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...

Vetememes, and Fashion’s Mytho-Marketing Complex

Byron HawesDecember 14, 2016

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...

The Basel Conundrum

Byron HawesNovember 30, 2016

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...

Fast Fashion: Is It Really Worth It?

Byron HawesNovember 1, 2016

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...

Fuck FOMO It’s About That JOMO Life

Byron HawesOctober 13, 2016

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...

Is Vogue losing at its own game?

Byron HawesSeptember 30, 2016

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...

Frank Ocean’s ‘Blond(e)’ Unpacked

Byron HawesAugust 26, 2016

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...