A. Moret
Long before receiving knighthood for his services in architecture, Peter Cook was known as a founding member of Archigram, an avant-garde architectural group formed in the 1960s. The group’s sense of invention was influential to British counterculture while Cook’s “irrepressible” (as he calls it) architectural desire continues to challenge the...
Maxwell Williams
Santaigo Vernetti
Down in historic filipinotown, los angeles, hidden in the outermost crook of a forsaken strip mall, a small crowd congregates post-show in the parking lot, having just had their minds absolutely blown out of their young skulls. The venue, Pehrspace, which hosted the young and now brainless, is all ages. Inside, fragments of skull and brain drip from the ceiling and...
Meghan Alfano
French fashion rebel jean-paul gaultier has taken an American classic and added his own irreverent twist. The legendary designer has collaborated with Levi’s, producing a collection of reconstructed pieces for Spring/Summer 2010.
Gaultier is no stranger to innovation with classic designs. Last November, the designer, an avid denim fan, re-...
Matthew Bedard
A light wisp of flaxen fuzz embellishing upper bum cheeks. The crisp, autumnal flavor of organic Granny Smiths. Light-kissed ribcages. And of course, twilight baths. These basic, libidinal essentials are sensuously showcased by photography pair Jenny Gage and Tom Betterton in their latest, Upstairs, Downstairs & Outside (Damiani). In the book, the...
Jeff Weiss
Chloe Aftel
Ryan Lynch lost his job last july. He’d been an office services assistant in a San Francisco law firm slogging through an array of menial tasks: reception, sorting mail, hospitality. The sort of forced, dead-eyed, dead-letter existence suspended somewhere between The Office and Bartleby the Scrivener—one intimately familiar to creative types crushed by...
Mui-Hai Chu
The old debate over town vs. country ends here. They’re both indispensable to the soul: one refreshes with the embrace of pinecones and fresh breezes, the other invigorates with chaotic energy. On sojourns from one to the other, figuring out what to pack and how to properly integrate these two antithetical aesthetics and lifestyles can be tricky. How...
Olivia Wilde
Tao Ruspoli
The actress reports on good memories at the Ace Hotel and Swim Club with her medley of playmates.
Since I put down roots in Los Angeles eight years ago, I've been hearing friends describe Palm Springs as the "perfect place to steal away to," a sun-soaked oasis from which they returned reborn, fresh, ruddy, and optimistic. Despite all...
Karyn Campbell
The mass-produced minimalism of scenesters’ living rooms around the globe have proven that creating aesthetically “cool” furniture is no large feat for the machine. However, true craftsmanship remains a luxury, as few commercial designers think in the scale of eons. Parisian designer Hervé Van der Straeten, a trained painter and...
Tara Ferris & Mui-Hai Chu
SHIRTS
Supima, meaning "Superior Pima"–the prized, extra-fine cotton fiber which grows only in California and the American Southwest—launches a collection of 100% Pima cotton unisex t-shirts and tops exclusively at Bloomingdales this Spring. The collection highlights four flattering silhouettes, crew neck, V-neck, 2-button henley, and...
Long Nguyen
“I really care about a woman’s independence. I don’t like her to look so naïve and so fragile. I like her to look stronger. If a man goes up to her, he has to have balls to go up to her. I don’t like her to be taken advantage of. She has an ambience around her.” This was a response from Lee Alexander McQueen during a...
