Takahiro Miyashita – TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist. Spring Summer 2022 “PAUSE≒PLAY” Takahiro Miyashita has always been more obsessed with music than with fashion. The label that brought him fame was Number (N)ine, a…
After last year’s series of experimental releases, Bladee has returned to deliver the most blissful of victory laps. “The Fool” is a happy, straightforward release that reverts to a style…
Either you love Bladee or you hate Bladee. I don’t know many other musicians for whom this statement is more applicable, and with good reason. In strictly technical terms he…
For their 100th anniversary, Gucci did what no other luxury fashion brand has done before—collaborate with their competition, Demna Gvasalia’s Balenciaga. This merger is perhaps the most covered and publicized…
What is “the ongoing moment?” It’s a phrase, coined by Geoff Dyer, that contrasts with Henri Cartier-Bresson’s iconic “the decisive moment.” Dyer proposes that photographs add on to a collective…
Logos are generally hated by anyone who considers themselves interested in art. They’re dismissed, rightfully so, as soulless identifiers. I love them. I’m not referring to the golden arches and…
For many members of Vassar’s student photography club Phocus, the best camera in the world is a disposable point-and-shoot. Elitism within the art world has always existed, but photography—superseded only…
Yohji Yamamoto’s work is beloved by all, infinitely influential, and yet difficult to dissect— where is the narrative? Not that there has to be one, but without a clear narrative,…
Aggression runs in Rick Owens’ blood. He describes his younger self as arrogant, alcoholic and aromantic, and his collections periodically revel in this state. For his menswear Fall Winter 2021…
Raf Simons has an obsession with youth culture. Usually it’s the culture of his own youth – to be specific, the post-punk and New Wave scene in Europe in the…
