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SAVAGE BEAUTY

Friday, March 13, 2015

The venerable V&A museum opens its anticipated retrospective on late and legendary fashion designer Alexander McQueen tomorrow, which, if anything, makes it painfully obvious how we are lacking designers of the same calibre and radicality today. In the meantime, longtime friend and collaborator Nick Knight features his own McQueen retrospective of sorts on Showstudio, with [...]

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AT THE NEWSSTAND

Friday, February 27, 2015

Kim Gordon on the cover of the new issue of Purple (but ours is better…).

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mono.ride

Friday, February 20, 2015

Oh yes, the new data-enhanced Rapha Pro collection looks like a crooked mono.kultur logo in motion. And in case you don’t care about riding, you can also sit, of course. Or take the train, tonight.

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MY OWN PRIVATE I DON’T KNOW

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Photograph by Skylar Williams (for Purple Fashion)
Eckhaus Latta once again proved their inventive and avant garde take on fashion at this years New York Fashion Week FW 2015. Being reminiscent of a certain nostalgia paired with the flair of contemporary twenty-somethings, the runway show merged into an artistic performance. The FW collection was also presented [...]

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DIDION THE DOWNER

Friday, January 9, 2015

New face of Céline is the legendary writer Joan Didion… As a tribute to Didion, Vogue U.S. has re-published one of her essays on self-respect from the year 1961.
“…To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the nonplussed wonder of someone who has come across a vampire [...]

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FOOT TALES

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Artist duo Lernert & Sander are quickly becoming the guys to go to for fashion brands in the search of curious, quirky and eye-catching videos to promote their brand, and by golly, they do a great job. Latest addition in their row of illustrious clients is 3.1 Phillip Lim, for whom they developed four [...]

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NOT HAAS BEENS

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Excuse the terrible pun, but the works of the Haas Brothers demands irreverence, even the corny sort. Since officially opening in 2012, Nikolai and Simon Haas have produced a bizarre body of work that teeters between Louise Bourgeouis-Dr. Seussian surreality and everyday utility. Invoking a naive sensuality unbothered by the sexual and taboo, their work appears [...]

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MAKING NOISE

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

I’m deeply suspicious of COS, the H&M brainchild aimed at a slightly older and more sophisticated target group, but one has to hand it to them that they do know how to pick their collaborators: hiring the team behind Fantastic Man for their annoyingly tasty in-house magazine, Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers also [...]

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MAY THE CIRCLE REMAIN UNBROKEN

Thursday, August 14, 2014

With Instagram and virtually every other photographer shooting from the hip these days, it’s easy to forget that 20 years ago, that kind of snapshot photography was entirely unacceptable in a commercial context. With pioneers in casual snaps for high end fashion such as Juergen Teller, Wolfgang Tillmans and Terry Richardson having ascended to super [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: DAMAGE / ROTTERDAM

Saturday, August 2, 2014

Anyone who has ever been to Rotterdam will certainly confirm that it is an odd place. With the city lost somewhere between industrial areas and a vast port, it has a curious sense of being continuously just around the corner. But strange places often foster the most interesting surprises, and the creative output of Rotterdam [...]

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