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… »
Interview with Nick Youngquest!
Nick Youngquest is the ambassador of Paco Rabanne‘s new perfume “Invictus“. As the fragrance in itself he embodies the same presence of power, dynamism and energy. Fucking Young! came to interview him and ask him about… »
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Be Unique… Interview with Shaun Ross!
“Be Unique!”, it should sounds more or less like this the new spot by Ford Vehicles that will have Shaun Ross’ face and soul. Who better than him might have performed as the protagonist? He, the “First African… »
Lost in his Grey Garden… Interview with Joe Turvey!
“But you see in dealing with me, the relatives didn’t know that they were dealing with a staunch character and I tell you if there’s anything worse than dealing with a staunch woman… S-T-A-U-N-C-H. There’s nothing worse, I’m telling you…. »
Interview with Charlie Engman
Charlie Engman is a New York City based photographer and his clients include Urban Outfitters, I-D Magazine, Vogue Brazil, Marie Claire China and Collina Strada. He photographs fashion within contextually absurd settings while his personal work –mostly about the human… »
Fucking Young! Interviews Ivan Jimenez of SKULLS BROOKLYN
Every single person has one. You know the kind I mean. That annoying, sonofabitch friend of yours who’s baited you into coming shopping with them but despite running all about SoHo, Melrose area (*insert garment district of your choice here*)… »
Psychotic-Fashion… Interview with Asger Juel Larsen!
His style is irreverent. His fashion makes people talk. His point of view is visionary. Asger Juel Larsen leads us into MADHOUSE where “rock and roll meets rainbows, girls meets boys, boys meet girls, drugs meets orange juice, and old… »
The rain has never been so exciting… Interview with T-Michael and Alexander Helle!
“I’m singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin’
I’m happy again…”
Certainly if the musical masterpiece starring Gene Kelly had been shot in 2013 he, Gene, would have worn one of the raincoats created by… »
Gori de Palma en “El Garito de Converse”
“El Garito de Converse” quiere hacer ruido de verdad en Madrid. Y es que la marca, a través del espíritu rebelde de su campaña #GetLoud, ha invitado a todos a participar de actividades multidisciplinares con la… »
A realistic dreamer… Interview with Kris Van Assche!
“As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression. It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become victims of the darkness”…
Fashion surreal emotions… Interview with SOSNOVSKA!
“SOSNOVSKA aims to provide order in the darkness by merging surreal emotions with dedicated functionality”, few words that describe a brand, the brand founded in 2009 by Anna Sosnovska and Vitali Chyleka: a wonderful combination of minimalism, tailoring… »
A new street-couture… Interview with Joshua Sanders!
As they say… The way to success is long and winding but Joshua Sanders knows how to run fast especially if he wears one of his capsule collection’s models at his foot…
Twenty-seven years. New Yorker by birth, Italian… »
Call the Exterminator… Interview with Fam Irvoll!
Her hair was blue when we met her in London at the Freemasons’ Hall during the presentation of her S/S14 Collection… Today she might have it green, orange or pink… Oh yes because her – Fam Irvoll –… »
The Fashion Northern Lights… Interview with BIBI CHEMNITZ!
Hoodies, hoodies, hoodies! If we think about BIBI CHEMNITZ they just come to mind the fantastic hoodies that in 2006 changed the small Scandinavian + Greenlandic + Danish brand into an international phenomenon. By that year Bibi and… »
Discovering the discoverer… Interview with Cesar Perin!
Cesar Perin by Emma Woolrych
“Experience is not what happens to a man, it’s what a man does with what happens to him”, Cesar Perin certainly takes George Falconer (Colin Firth)’s words in the film A Single… »
Filippo Scuffi rewrites Death in Venice…
“Gustav Aschenbach, or von Aschenbach, as his official surname had been since has fiftieth birthday, had taken another solitary walk from his apartment in Munich’s Prinzregentenstrafie on a spring afternoon of the year 19..” the incipit of Thomas Mann’s Death… »
Ennio Capasa… A really rock S/S!
“Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me”, Bob Dylan sings this way and a rock shiver runs down our spine…
The same feeling catches us in the Costume National backstage. The 2014 S/S Collection has a disrespectful… »
Ottavio Missoni… Goodbye to the knitting heart’s designer!
“To dress badly you do not need to follow fashion, but it helps”… And indeed he, Ottavio Missoni, didn’t follow fashion, he launched it. He’s gone so, a morning in May, at his home in Sumirago. He was 92.
Men’s fashion revolutionaries… Interview with Frankie Morello!
“The suit is conceived as ‘art’ to be worn“… Few, simple words to tell the world, philosophy, mood of a brand that in less than fifteen years has been able to assert its overflowing personality at an international level: Frankie Morello.
KOFTA’s functional art
“It all derives from a strong concept for personification of my own desires and ideas. This has lead me to the creation of a complete brand, based on the search for the sacral core of beauty itself. It is a… »
THE WHITE BRIEFS… Interview with the founder Peter Simonsson
“In a colorful world the element of surprise predominates; in white, instead, only a joyful and premonitory restlessness”, this way , in his Strahlungen, Ernst Jünger tries to describe the white: bright, pure, symbol of the brand THE… »
