Retro-Luxuriance on the High Seas
Fashion on portside, fashion on starboard. now let’s get nautical. Gucci and yacht-manufacturers, Riva, recently embarked on a collaborative design project, Riva Aquariva Speedboat by Gucci, and is it ever something worth being seen on. (“Darling, did you...
Mui-Hai Chu
Collaborations for the Artistic Sportsman
Art and fashion often share a symbiotic relationship; art is intrinsic to fashion when fashion is at its most groundbreaking, and it’s well known that the best place to be best dressed is at a museum gala. As well, art has documented styles of dress through the ages;...
Karyn Campbell
111 Years of the Legendary Classical Recording Company
More than a century ago, russian bass feodor chaliapin became the first contracted singer to record his music for a company. Afraid the recording might curse him and cause him to lose his voice forever, he would reportedly cross himself and stand bare-...
Maxwell Williams
Tony Kelly
You know that point in the story where shit just gets freaky? Well, that point in the story happens around 5 p.m. when someone (a 21-year-old aspiring actress named Sam with a really great body) completely “takes her kit off” before holding high a watering can. She’s standing in a shower next to...
Mui-Hai Chu
Musing over the assorted modes of personal transportation available in this modern life, from buses and the underground to cars and rickshaws, it’s been realized that the complexity of choices available needs simplifying, and thus, the two most essential carriers have been decided upon: a cool new handcrafted...
Long Nguyen
Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi
Savile Row Sophisticates Meet an Edgy Design Duo
From his london studio, designer Justin Thornton of Preen shares on the label’s new collaboration with legendary Savile Row bespoke house, Gieves & Hawkes: “We approached them, as we were very interested in working with such craftsmanship for the ideas of Preen’s tailoring in our...
Matthew Bedard
Hiroshi Manaka
An Electro Icon on the Importance of Sex for Dancefloor Spirituality
Stepping from a steaming, 12-speed shower, legendary Munich-based house-techno turntable master, DJ Hell, swaddles himself in a fine cotton robe, cracks a Sapporo, and gazes out over the vast, frenetic pinball machine that is Tokyo. “I love to come to Tokyo and do my...
Mui-Hai Chu
Mason Poole
The Character-Driven Poly-Invention of a Turkish Fashion Voice
Nomadic, trilingual, young, sexy, tattooed, multi-talented (evidenced by a past life in fashion photography), award-winning, and a bevy more illustrious adjectives describe Umit Benan, the thirty-year-old Turkish designer who’s altering the state of menswear in Milan with his...
Rebecca Voight
Fe Pinheiro
The French Director Explores the Redheaded Nihilism of the Road Movie
More than a road movie, Romain Gavras’ first film, Our Day Will Come, is about running away. And it’s hard to figure out exactly what the nihilistic guidance counselor Patrick (Vincent Cassel) and the very mixed-up youth Rémy (Olivier Barthelemy) are running away from. Is...
