Essentials: Alex Russell of Carhartt WIP
Committed to the mission of providing best-in-class apparel for the active worker, Carhartt has been a favorite among hard laborers and urban-dwelling utilitarians for more than a century. Having nearly cornered the workwear market with season after...
Essentials: Kestin Hare of Common People
Advancing our introspective Essentials series, we showcase the everyday necessities of Common People’s Founder Kestin Hare. As a student in college, Hare was never the best at cutting patterns, so he began to experiment with design by altering...
Essentials: Eddie Prendergast of Present London
No trip to Shoreditch would be complete without a stop through Eddie Prendergast’s menswear outfitter, Present. Co-founded with fellow London-based menswear elite, Steve Davies, the history leading up to the creation of Present is as lengthy as...
Essentials: Ronnie Fieg
Continually attributed with delivering a well-executed product with each release, Ronnie Fieg has been driven since an early age to create and innovate in the field of footwear. Through his contributions to a multitude of brands, the founder of New Y...
Essentials: Mikkel Grønnebæk of Norse Projects
Extending our recurring Essentials segment, creative director for Norse Projects and partner at Copenhagen’s v1 Gallery Mikkel Grønnebæk has divulged his range of day-to-day items. Born and raised in Denmark, Mikkel’s choices exem...
Essentials: Anwar Carrots
Over the past year Anwar Washington, known to many as Anwar Carrots, has quickly risen to the focal point of Fairfax’s recognized group of young creatives. When not occupying his time on the road with friend and colleague Casey Veggies, Anwar d...
Essentials: Albert Cheng of Carhartt WIP
Carhartt defines its diffusion brand Carhartt WIP (Work In Progress) as “the avant-garde way of living the Carhartt brand, reshaping the outstanding Carhartt legacy.” Faced with a new found appreciation from urban-dwelling European suppor...
Essentials: Yasar Ceviker of A Kind of Guise
Yasar Ceviker, co-founder and designer of A Kind of Guise (AKOG), has quietly made a name for himself. In less than three years, Mr. Ceviker and his team have branched out substantially from selling only leather bags to diversifying into clothing. Th...
Essentials: Maria Falbo of Copson Street
Above we’ve listed Ms. Falbo’s current title as the Founder of Copson Street, but in reality she wears many thinking caps covering multiple career paths, from professional skater and fashion designer to brand consultant and writer. Now, i...
Essentials: Mark Haddon of Haddon PR
One of the more benefiting factors to working in an artistic field like music or fashion is simply having the opportunity to not only expand one’s third eye, but also find and development one’s passions. With each project or promotion one...
Essentials: Dan Chmielewski of HAVEN
Daniel Chmielewski is the co-founder of Canadian retailer HAVEN and plays an integral role top-to-bottom, from conception and design, to helping his brother and fellow co-founder, Arthur, with the buying. Daniel’s role doesn’t end there,...
Essentials: Tinie Tempah
Hip-hop is no longer that same rebellious subculture found in the courtyard of towering New York City housing buildings. Since its days of vinyl scratching and subway car graffiti, the rhyme-heavy music genre that is rap now reaches the ears of liste...
Essentials – Chris Corrado
The road to a satisfying career in the fashion industry is one often less traveled, complete with unwelcoming detours and a hefty amount of road rage. Chris Corrado, the current Show Director of peripatetic tradeshow Capsule, has certainly had his sh...
Essentials: Salehe Bembury
After hosting our A Conversation with Salehe Bembury earlier this year, our appreciation for the Tribeca-born footwear designer was taken to an entirely new level. Be it the multifaceted creative’s seasoned experience as a footwear designer or...
Essentials: Krink
Craig Costello or “KR” is the founder of Krink, now the world’s quickest growing art supply line. Cheekily, the NYC-based artist describes himself as “a terrible art student, a semi-successful vandal, and an entrepreneur who l...
