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Hip hop is still the main influence on everything. Not only in music, but especially in fashion nowadays and there are no signs of change. Brands like Karl Kani (launched in 1989), even though off the radar for almost 20 years since their heydays of the early 2000's have managed a successful comeback even into the mainstream.
SF1OG is not only about aesthetics and business. The label is highly defined by personal and collective stories attending to private, cultural and political narratives that serve as the starting point of the design process and materialise in their shows.
While the golden age of vampire films is long gone, and their last resurgence with the Twilight saga left us with a bitter aftertaste of toxic relationships, zombies are almost impossible to kill. Because more than any other movie monster, zombies are not the heart or core of a story, but rather a context.
With the release of the new live-action movies The Little Mermaid, played by Halle Bailey, and most recently Peter Pan & Wendy starring Yara Shahidi, addressing the controversial topic of racebending fictional characters is more important than ever. At first, this conversation topic made me pretty angry. Obviously, due to the nature of the internet […]
What makes good design these days? Extravagant silhouettes? A clever nod to the zeitgeist? Refined essentials? Innovating or referencing the tried and tested? Or is it a mixture of all of the above? One brand that seems to be effortlessly in control of this mix is STAMM. Despite being the new kid on the block, […]
“Comedy is about the trauma that comes from a human’s lived experience and how they cope with it. Robots can’t be traumatized.” This quote from Comedian Whitney Cummings who did a Netflix special in 2019 perfectly summarizes the rise and downfall of an AI comedy show which resembled Seinfeld: Because Seinfeld never tired of emphasizing […]
Everybody is familiar with Snoopy, the cartoon beagle born on the pages of Charles M. Schulz’ Peanuts comic strips, who since his debut many decades ago has become way more than a comic book character – He is an icon of pop culture. At an early age Schulz decided to become a cartoonist, but only […]
In this age of social media and internet everywhere, we are all obsessed with screens – you are currently even staring at one while still trying to figure out whether this text is worth the effort! But the screen in front of you could also be the stage for a movie like Missing: Missing is […]
Many queer men have an instant connection with female pop starts, because their stories and women’s stories are closely linked to power hierarchies in society, where they must fight for being accepted and gaining relevance regardless of their sexuality or gender.
From Karl Lagerfeld’s first design collaboration for H&M in 2004 to Jeremy Scott’s designs for Moschino x H&M. The list of collaborations at fashion giant H&M is long – and well known. Now another high-profile fashion house is joining H&M’s notches on the fashion bedpost. Yesterday, the fashion giant announced that a collaboration with Mugler […]
