The noble art of shirt-making – Interview with Giorgio and Paolo Xoccato
The 80s witness both Giorgio and Paolo, sons of the founder, joining the Company and the start of a production and commercial development new phase. The 90s are the years of the full achievement of the quality and customer service concepts, in short of those values making Xacus a leader and reference point for the discreet luxury-lovers.
8CUFF – Interview with Sue Suh
Provocative Prints, cuts and dimensions contrasting one the other and particularly eye catching outfits, for sure 8CUFF is not a random brand but one that we notice for its remarkable features. Sue, the eclectic and visionary mind that produced… »
The Alexander Wang x H&M collection debuts on the runway in New York
On 16 October, the Armory on the Hudson in New York City was transformed from an indoor track and field stadium to a fashion arena for the global launch of the Alexander Wang x H&M collection. Justin Theroux,… »
A Maho-shōjo in fashion – Interview with Na Di!
Urusei Yatsura, Nanako, Atsuko, Usagi Tsukino, Ai Kisugi… The manga-stars are generally young, pretty… keepers of a secret: for the most, more or less diligent students; for few, courageous heroines ready to race in defense of the weaker.
#antonymoratoplaces in Milan – Double interview with Nabile Quenum & Adam Katz Sinding!
If you are even just mildly into street-style photography the names of Adam Katz-Sinding and Nabile Quenum do way more than just ring a bell. Name any top fashion magazine, if it really is in the Olympus of the most… »
GHOSTWEAR PROJECT… Interview with Kristian Guerra!
“I ain’t afraid of no ghosts”. In 1984, Ray Parker, Jr. is the haunting ghost in an American neon-home. In aid of the provocative owner, the Ghostbusters’ team – that in those days is all the rage in half the world’s cinemas. Refrain of the homonymous hit that also becomes the cult movie soundtrack, I ain’t afraid of no ghosts brings us thirty years back: when ghosts were bad and hunters heroes.
God bless the innovation… Interview with James Long!
“Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes”. I was transcribing… »
A Polite Chat With UBI SUNT
As we leave the long and warm European summer behind us, mind you; she is not giving in easily; we felt an urge for some melancholic reflection. What better way to do so, than by meeting another promising designer… »
A fashion without fashion… Interview with Minimal To!
“The Minimalists are idealist”.These are words by Agnes Martin, one of the greatest exponents of Minimalism (although she did not like to be defined like that).
Interview with Francesca Reberschegg!
An explosion of colors, asymmetrical cuts and overlaps. Francesca Reberschegg, a young Italian fashion designer, offers a stylistic mix strong and up to date. This promising talent tells Fucking Young! the main theme of her first collection presented… »
Maison Kitsuné electronic-shock…
“Around the world, around the world. Around the world, around the world”. In 1997, Daft Punk launches Around the world, a hypnotizing-refrain single that turns Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter in both media phenomena and stars in the… »
BLACKGATEONE CONTAMINATION
Postcards from Shanghai. The most populous city in China attracts more and more dreamers in search for a new future in a new world. Hanging between past and present, between ancient traditions and pioneering innovations, in a few decades… »
Interview with Ashton Michael
Bursting onto the LA fashion scene at age nineteen Ashton Hirota quickly gained attention for his unmistakably edgy, ready-to-wear collections that use detachable details such as removable sleeves and collars which invite the wearer to make design decisions. Crafting… »
The flowers power… Interview with Rachel James!
“If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair”. Scott McKenzie’s version of San Francisco, the success of The Mamas & the Papas, becomes a historical testimony of the January 1967 great gathering… »
Art in fashion… Interview with Leitmotiv!
Leitmotif, a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.
Adhering to the Oxford Dictionary, the definition appears as clear and reassuring but in Italy the term Leitmotiv (the… »
Geox SS15 Collection… A conversation with Mr. Cox
“Happy to see you again!”, with such a proactive mood we set out for the Hotel JK in Florence where Geox is about to present its SS15 Collection for the last edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo. Here we have… »
Interview with Andrea Cammarosano!
Florence, late winter, the city is quiet, the Arno flows incessantly and the market squares seem abandoned. History is allowed to whisper, sullenly along a crisp breeze. A perfect occasion to catch up with Mr. Andrea Cammarosano, a… »
The Parisian Teddy Boys… Interview with Adieu!
“Il recréerait des souliers,
Ah Dieu, si vous le vouliez!”
Stéphane Mallarmé’s The Savetier perfectly embodies the spirit of Adieu, the made in France shoe-brand founded in 2012 by Isabelle Guédon and Benjamin Caron.
Interview with ODEUR!
A meeting with ODEUR is always a pleasurable affair. The brands founders Petter Hollström and Gorjan Lausager, know exactly what they want and how to explain their collections. They never answer in unison nor feel the need to… »
Interview with ISAORA!
Wi-Fi onesies and LED dresses are unlikely to catch on but in a world of smart phones and progressive technology it would seem only natural that clothing and fabrics evolve to cater to the complexities of modern life. »
Interview with NICKLAS KUNZ!
Springtime, a tale of two modern-day vigilantes sipping a cup of joe. As a brazen young man opens the door, clearly a polite yet determined urban dweller, we enter his Copenhagen atelier, to catch up with NICKLAS KUNZ.
Un-compromised fashion… Interview with BARBARA I GONGINI!
I can’t open my eyes. A dazzling light wraps and blinds me. It’s warm and glacial together. I feel strangely free. The light is charging a creative power, it’s exciting. It speaks with me. It tells me a story of… »
Diego Barrueco. Who is that Boy?
“Hey mom, I’m on MTV,” Diego Barrueco cheekily tweeted. It was the premiere of the music video for music superstar Ellie Goulding’s new song “Beating Heart”, and Diego, the 23-year-old Spanish native, had been cast alongside her thanks… »
A real Batman… Interview with Federico Curradi!
Close your eyes for a moment. Imagine Florence, the Renaissance splendor, the Tuscan countryside. Imagine New York, the skyscrapers in Manhattan, the American dream. Imagine Milan, the Castello Sforzesco, the Italian fashion. Mix all that vigorously and in front of… »
The coolest way to be friend… BoyzAroundTown!
“Sha-Shabba Ranks, Sha-Sha-Shabba Ranks
Eight gold rings like I’m Sha-Shabba Ranks
Four gold chains like I’m Sha-Shabba Ranks
One gold tooth like I’m Sha-Shabba Ranks”
The irreverent A$AP Ferg sings Shabba. Sha-Shabba Sha-Shabba is echoed by the BoyzAroundTown, protagonists… »
No censure… Interview with Byungmun Seo!
Repression, control, restraint. Three key words to describe the Korean brand Byungmun Seo 2014-15 F/W Collection.
It is a provocation, a cry of protest against censorship, in any forms. With subtle politeness, I’m censored removes the gag of the so-called respectability… »
THE LAST CONSPIRACY… Interview with Roald Nore!
“Bei der Laterne woll’n wir steh’n. Wie einst, Lili Marleen”, the eternal Marlene Dietrich sang like that and her guttural voice on melancholy notes suddenly transports us in one of those smoky Berliner dance halls, full of mysterious men who… »
Clowns are People too… Interview with Bas Kosters!
“Dare to wear the foolish clown face”, once Frank Sinatra said and he, Bas Kosters, has taken him on his word by creating a collection able to reveal both the man behind the mask and the mask behind the man…. »
The Master of the shoes… Interview with Patrick Cox!
“Tell me what you fear, I’ll show you what to do. We don’t do sincere, everything taboo”, the unleashed protagonists of Taboo – the musical written and directed by Boy George – sing out loud. To inspire it the nightclub… »
The ‘art’ of hip hop… Fucking Young! Interviews Sydney The Artist
Nicolette ‘Sydney’ Worth, or better known by her creative outlet moniker ‘Sydney the Artist’ is an Australian multi-media visual artist and designer. This badass hip-hop-centric babe plans to abandon her life in the land down under to do… »
