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!
“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… »
Freethinkers… Interview with Ksenia Schnaider
Until a few years ago, if I thought of “Russia” it unfailingly appears before my eyes the image of the richly honored crown of the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna Romanova and the bulky furs worn by the protagonists of Doctor Zhivago…… »
A Cosmopolitan Boy… Tim Labenda
“So let me be a Cosmopolitan Boy… It’s true that I just want to conquer the globe”, Monsieur Bien sings… Oh yes… He likes metropolitan life. He feels as a citizen of the world, different from anybody else, immune to… »
TEETH in Luca Finotti’s story…
“Mmmbop, ba duba dop. Ba du bop, ba duba dop. Ba du bop, ba duba dop. Ba du… Yeah”, the refrain of the Hanson’s song MmmBop echoed in our ears all along that 1997’s summer… Today it comes back as… »
The Great Gatsby of fashion… Angelo Flaccavento
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since…”, The Great Gatsby’s incipit helps me to present him, Angelo Flaccavento: journalist, author, style icon (but woe to… »
Uniforms, camouflage, psych-rock… Interview with SMITH-WYKES duet
“We bonded over the creative energy and eclectic music of the scene, that, and a shared appreciation of dry martinis”. Imagine a small rowdy bar in the new yorker East Village. Imagine you getting in, immerse yourself in a surreal, avant-garde, contemporary… »
Naplestreetstyle sets the style… Interview with Walter D’Aprile!
“…Perhaps it is just Nss, and all the world revolving around it, which can describe us better than anything else… Now we are what we do”, this way Walter D’Aprile answers one of my questions and in those few words it seems… »
Interview with Brian Mazza
If I awoke tomorrow in some machismo reboot of Freaky Friday inhabiting the body of Brian Mazza, it would be far from the worst thing. In fact, I wouldn’t ask any questions, I’d simply go about my… »
The capricious Christian Deslauriers’ Enfant Roi…
A son of the Nintendo generation. Willing to take risks to reinvent the very concept of elegance… Christian Deslauriers’ Enfant Roi is a spoiled brat: capricious, cheeky, modern.
He, Christian, perfectly embodies the spirit of the brand. Young, Danish, passionate about visual… »
Magic Realism… Interview with Lucio Vanotti!
According to him, “reality could be the best dream possible” and it’s just by the real world that he is inspired. His are clear cloths, no frills. Created for the individual rather than the mass. We could define him as… »
Las jóvenes manos de J. Mendel. Entrevista a Adrián Salvador.
En un portal próximo a Macy’s del que la gente no deja de entrar y salir. 6 ascensores y 25 plantas. Una puerta de cristal y dos secretarias dan paso a un mundo sinfín de sueños e ilusiones, un subidón… »