Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY used his platform during the first Digital London Fashion Week during the weekend to create revenue streams for UK Black Pride and Kaleidoscope Trust. The label’s dual-focused output – a live-streamed virtual talent showcase and a capsule collection launch – support timely causes close to the LOVERBOY community’s heart.
“SOLASTA showcases creative expressions from London-based, multi-disciplinary Black creatives: Dancer Malik Nashad Sharpe, singer/songwriter Rachel Chinouriri, poet and activist Kai-Isaiah Jamal, commentator and presenter Miss Jason of Jason’s Closet, and fashion designers (and former students of Charles’ via lecturing at The University of Westminster) Halina Edwards and Catherine Hudson. Across the line-up, these individuals generously lend their talents not only to LOVERBOY but to the London Fashion Week platform. SOLASTA takes place in tandem with the launch of a new capsule collection from the label. The 20-piece unisex collection, entitled (Self)Portrait of a LOVERBOY, is comprised of graphic jersey, knitwear, and accessories. The collection will be sold globally in December 2020, and proceeds will be donated to Kaleidoscope Trust.”
The offering is relaxed yet polished. It includes rugby shirts, lightweight shell jackets, and everyday T-shirts that speak to the brand’s modern-prep influences.
James Edward photographed by Jess Segal and styled by Heloise Chauvenhei, with creative direction by Charlotte Carter, in exclusive for Fucking Young! Online.
PUMA’s Talon sneaker, first launched in 2004, is a relic from a specific time. It’s a shoe pulled from the archive, but its new collaboration with NO/FAITH Studios is about more than just nostalgia.
This season confirms SHOOP’s design approach. It draws from the everyday and reinterprets it through a poetic, modern lens, creating a language that joins the functional with the emotional.
Turn the page. Breathe deep. Your pupils are already dilating. The high is coming.
Issue 26 brings together two electrifying covers that take the dopamine dive from Sadiq Desh captured by Cris Cerdeira to multidisciplinary visual artist and photographer Tomás Pintos’ cover story, Besos hasta agotar stock (Kisses Until Sold Out), developed from the live performance creating a space where glamour
meets exhaustion.
