Essentials: Joe La Puma
The hip-hop, streetwear style, generation swag blogosphere Hypebeast so proudly aligns with what has seen many facelifts over the past five to ten years. This once humbled industry which started out of love for certain elements of fashion has now bee...
Essentials: Sebastien Brugalla
Ever wonder what a master alpinist, pioneering highliner and base jumper would need to carry around on a day-to-day basis? Hypebeast recently checked in with Sebastien Brugalla — the most recent addition to the French high-altitude daredevil crew the...
Essentials: Josh Cherin of New Era
When it comes to our introspective Essentials series it often provokes a heavy debate with sides both objective and impartial. What many of our loyal Hypebeasts seem to agree on however is the principal theme to this feature, as each collection of go...
Essentials: Dan Doyle
Strike up a conversation with Dan Doyle, and you’re sure to be entertained. The longstanding Brand Manager for A Bathing Ape EU is one of those people who you meet and immediately feel as if you’ve been friends with for years. Laid back a...
Essentials: Grayson “The Professor” Boucher
Bursting onto the scene in the early 2000s with a successful open-run tryout at an AND1 Mixtape Tour stop in Portland, Oregon, its native Grayson “The Professor” Boucher became one of the most recognizable figures in streetball. Now resid...
Essentials: D3STRUCTO – Gary Parkin
In our latest Essentials piece we linked with Gary Parkin, better known as D3STRUCTO, to showcase a few personal items that are typically in tote through his day-to-day doings. Spending much of his early years immersed in art and skateboarding, D3STR...
Essentials: Shane Osborn
The essence of our Essentials series is to not only display certain toting must-haves, but to identify the products that define the featured individual. Be it Ben Baller’s extravagant display of luxe goods or even Gourmet Co-Founder Jon Buscemi...
Essentials: Donwan Harrell
“Everything in life should have a purpose.” Profound statement right? But have you actually thought about its meaning? The decisions we make, actions we take, and processions we claim should be handled with a desired outcome. Sure life is meant to be...
Essentials: Aaron De La Cruz
Having recently closed a three-week-long exhibit at Known Gallery in Los Angeles titled “Some Thing Else,” Bay Area artist Aaron De La Cruz links with Hypebeast once again; this time around he runs his pockets to display a few daily must-haves and tr...
Essentials: Virgil Abloh
When Kanye West announced via Twitter earlier this year the inevitable launch of his new multimedia, conception to realization, collection of creatives titled DONDA (in honor of his late mother), it was to mixed reviews. Revealing in an insanely cohe...
Essentials: Victor Lopez
Given the moniker “Showtime,” Victor Lopez knows a thing or two about getting the job done as a professional freerunner and stuntman. Director of the Tempest Freerunning & Parkour Casio G’zOne Commando Video, Lopez has worked with br...
Essentials: Steve Aoki
Music mogul Steve Aoki is a mainstay in not only electronic, but the contemporary music culture of today. The founder of Dim Mak Records has worked with several of music’s top creatives, including MSTRKRFT, Bloc Party, Kid Cudi, will.i.am and m...
Essentials: Israel Kandarian
On top of serving as the creative director at Hurley where he has since transformed the brand’s retail presence, Isreal Kandarian has long contributed his fair share of work to the industry and racked up an impressive resume in the process. Wit...
Essentials: Kazuki Kuraishi
In the latest installment of Essentials, we rife through the goods belonging to Kazuki Kuraishi. There’s plenty to find, as Kuraishi carries with him a wide variety of items and knickknacks — many of which are from brands with whom he has eithe...
Essentials: Brandon Schoolhouse
With a narrow-minded conditioning, our global society continues to pressure its youth into following a strict career path based on scored assessments in hopes of productively contributing to the collective. So it certainly helps that our young, enter...
