As guests filed in, gate crashers and all (and there were lots), a group of soccer players-cum-models were running laps around the catwalk. Their coach hustling them on. Glistening brown bodies misting in sweat. It felt like an intrusion as we watched them huddle for a team pow wow. Dressed in Hummel athletic gear, a Danish athletic brand who partnered with Willy Chavarria to sponsor New York City soccer players with documented an undocumented citizenship, they walked with poise, as if the catwalk were a college track. Then the show began.
Albeit a hard transition, oversized streetwear enveloped the runway. As we went from the field to 1990. Baggy silhouettes in denim with low hanging pants and Timberland’s machismo’ed their way to the front. Sheer cut off tops sat on torsos and embroidered crosses ornamented backs.
The correlation between the opening act and the collection wasn’t seamless, but the message was clear. Representation is needed. Chavarria does not conform. His castings are not of the traditional sunken face, rocker body type either. His men are full-blooded, full-boned Chicano. And his clothes are intended for such. Willy Chavarria may not be around forever, but his platform is ready and his spotlight set.
Occupying the in-between space that marks our modern times, the Études Fall/Winter 2021 collection entwines a languid interior opulence with the nihilistic escape of millennial post-grunge aesthetics.
Models walked with make-up reminiscent of rock film classic The Crow and berets made a fitting reference to Paris, where the label presented on the official fashion week calendar.
For the Fall/Winter 2021 season, Z Zegna Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori breaks the boundaries between practical technicality, sophisticated leisurewear and romantic elegance.
In composing his latest collection, Takuya Morikawa, a longtime enthusiast of the Surrealist movement, delved into the intersection of reality and unreality, and with it, the ambiguity of where that intersection lies.
More than ever, the Rier FW21 collection is an ode to the hypothetical perfection of heritage pieces from the essentialist wardrobes of the Italian Alpine region of South Tyrol.
Kim Jones unveiled the Dior Men SS21 campaign, featuring Babacar N’doye, Jeremiah Berko Fordjour, and Samer Rahma lensed by Rafael Pavarotti and art-directed by Ronnie Cooke Newhouse.
For the first time, South Korean designer Woo Young Mi debuted her first-born, SOLID HOMME, infused with a contemporary spirit, in the official calendar of Milan Fashion Week.
The ten SUNNEI avatars are the center of the storytelling envisioned to communicate this new Fall/Winter 2021 chapter, presented during Milan Fashion Week.
The Prada FW21 collection by Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons takes as its basis an intimate and personal wish for contact, our urge to exchange and relate. The foundation of all is the individual: the human body, and its freedom.
Han Kjøbenhavn’s presented its Fall/Winter 2021 collection during Milan Fashion Week, featuring dramatic silhouettes and hard shapes mixed with refined craftsmanship techniques.
Rich Brian photographed by Hengyi Liang for our most delicious issue
“Food is sex. Food is injustice. Food is insecurity. Food is security. Food is dialogue, it is even a confrontation of ideas. Food is memory”
This issue encompasses an extensive range of subjects from veganism to the time Paris ate its Zoo. Ghetto Gastro, Etienne Russo, along with designers Emily Bode, Masahiro Ino of Doublet, Mats Rombaut, and Priya Ahluwalia all join in on the conversation and share some of their favorite recipes!
