“I have never been interested in fashion. I’ve always been interested in how people interact with clothes,” says London-based menswear designer Martine Rose.
Her first collaboration with Nike, a capsule featuring tracksuits, football jerseys and a completely re-articulated Nike Air Monarch, is indicative of this fascination. It plays, as much of Rose’s work does, on distorted proportion. Similarly, it follows the ethos of her design: finding things that appear ordinary but have something extraordinary about them and transforming those into items that are, in Rose’s words, “really quite exceptional.”
“Sportswear has been appropriated for years by various youth movements in England and America. The acceptability makes it so interesting. People can mix it in with any other type of wardrobe,” she says. “Again, I’m very interested with how people interact with clothes. It says so much about who they are, who they want to be. It’s an emotional thing.”
The Nike x Martine Rose collection releases in January.
Larger Than Life is Georgian-Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli’s first major solo retrospective in the UK, curated by Hervé Mikaeloff and soon on display at Saatchi Gallery, London.
Virgil Abloh presented his Fall/Winter 2019 collection for Louis Vuitton. We first got an idea of the mood when our invite arrived with a single bedazzled silver glove. While Abloh usually focuses… »
The first Virgil Abloh collection for Louis Vuitton was one of the great events of last season. So the arrival of the first products to stores will also be something big.
Emmanuel Bajulaye and Harry Napper at RPM Models and Chris Rutt, Jonathan Armour, Andres Canovas, and Tilal Imani, photographed by Francisco Gomez de Villaboa and styled by Celia Arias, in exclusive for Fucking Young! Online.
The collection explores counter-culture as a way of being. Outsiders from different fields – academics, anarchists, bohemians, off-grid pioneers – are gathered then mixed, as if to build a new community.
Continuing the pledge for the sustainable and transparent production process, the PHIPPS collection for FW19 is crafted from recycled and organic materials.
The London-based young rapper, producer and writer Skinny Malone currently making waves on the British scene, recently shared the video for his ‘Bill That’ song.
For Fall-Winter 2019/20, Givenchy returns to the Paris men’s wear calendar with a standalone collection that showcases its new vision of a complete, day to evening wardrobe brimming with contrast, eclectic pairings and a nod to the maverick individualism of the Nineties.
Virgil Abloh presented his F/W 2019 collection “Public Television” for Off-White at the Carrousel de Louvre that was transformed into a landscape that could easily be found in a bio-dome.
“The more beautiful the sky, the more hopeless the neighborhood.”
Cover feat. Jhona Burjack at Next Models shot by Kito Muñoz
“And even if we change neighborhoods, cities or countries, we always carry with us that sense of personal transformation that a piece of land, with its buildings, parks, bars, and people, has given us. We are almost certain to hang on to a sense of gratitude and nostalgia for it.”
