If you didn’t manage to get your hands on the first Alyx x Vans collaboration released earlier this year, you’ll be pleased to hear that they are partnering again on a second collection. 

“Vans are timeless shoes that I know I will like for years to come,” Alyx’s creative director Matthew Williams told Dazed. By teaming up again with the cult skate footwear brand, he…

If you didn’t manage to get your hands on the first Alyx x Vans collaboration released earlier this year, you’ll be pleased to hear that they are partnering again on a second collection. 

“Vans are timeless shoes that I know I will like for years to come,” Alyx’s creative director Matthew Williams told Dazed. By teaming up again with the cult skate footwear brand, he…

There was a time when photographers would rarely been given a second glance without agency representation. But a new wave of talents aren’t waiting around for industry recognition, instead, they’ve put their time into capturing vital stories from around the globe. It’s these people that Red Hook Labs – a public benefit corporation which is dedicated to establishing creative communities and self-sustaining businesses in developing areas through education, events, and programming – was looking…

What would we find if we looked at your phone? “A lot of photos of my praying mantises and bonsai trees,” photographer Ben Toms once told us. By the look of his latest project, he wasn’t kidding – released today at the San Francisco Art Book Fair, a box of postcards serialises his enigmatic visual fascinations.

With the images shot across the world (destinations as far…

Hitmakerchinx is walking me through the mind-bending art of ‘flexing’ via a video call from his home in Los Angeles. “Check this out,” he says, twisting his arm behind his head into an inconceivable contortion. Every sinew is straining. “I’ll go like this: ‘Boom. Boom. Boom.’ Then I’ll throw some sauce on it.” He unfolds his arm in one fluid, graceful motion. Ballet-like, he’s relaxed again. “The foundation is simple dancehall…

Forget one or two campaign stars – HUGO by Hugo Boss has enlisted eleven creatives to showcase its AW17 collection.

Shot by photographer Harley Weir, the group includes creatives from music, film, fashion and art. M.I.A returns to make her second appearance for the brand alongside cult male model Tony Ward, actor read more »

      
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Lana Del Rey’s relationship with nostalgia runs deep. In 2011, the artist formerly known as Lizzy Grant gave us “Video Games,” a song rich in sweeping instrumentals that contrasted her delicate voice. Plus, the track was accompanied by a video that worked to establish her as a personification of the past: with winged liner and bouffant hair, she was heralded as the second coming of Nancy Sinatra. And, because nostalgia was still a novelty at the time, LDR’s…