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...
Essentials: Taj Stansberry
As Taj Stansberry’s biography proclaims, an artistic genius is virtually indefinable. Privileged with the esteem gift of turning a calculated visual into an interpersonal connection bridging opposing worlds, the East Oakland native has emerged...
Essentials: Ernesto Uchimura
It should go without mentioning that Hypebeast finds a comfort like no other when indulging in the culinary arts. From our Hypebeast Eats… series to our editorial staff’s Instagram profiles crammed with food shots hash-tagged &#...
Essentials: Nicola Formichetti
Merging eccentricity with a gifted sense of style, Nicola Formichetti has firmly established himself as one of today’s foremost fashion directors and stylists. Not solely off the strength of dressing the likes of Lady Gaga, Formichetti has garn...
Essentials: Sara Kelly
The essential tools needed to run a domestically sourced clothing manufacturer are as simple as they are sturdy and reliable — just like the genuine garments produced by S.E.H Kelly, which sources every aspect of garment production within the British...
Essentials: Dr. Romanelli
Darren Romanelli earned his nickname and title, “Dr.” from his unique marketing ability to prescribe trends and expand on existing styles across the respective universes of both fashion and music. Dr. Romanelli has also developed a reputa...
Essentials: MC Yan
Artist and rapper MC Yan is often called the “godfather of Chinese hip-hop,” being credited as one of the first artists to ever rap in Cantonese during his rise to underground notoriety in the early 1990s. His hard-hitting lyrical style h...
Essentials: Garret Louie
Garret “GMAN” Louie’s endeavors over the past two decades are difficult to sum up briefly. Beginning in the early ’90s with the founding of distribution agencies Timebomb and F-Bomb Trading, LA street brand Freshjive was the f...
Essentials: Brandon Svarc
Canadian entrepreneur Brandon Svarc founded Naked & Famous in 2006. Since that date, the fabric pioneer and indigo savant has captivated many with his innovative designs by bringing new dynamics to denim. Backed in-part by a family business that...
Essentials: Casey Veggies
Within the last year, emerging hip-hop group Odd Future has helped deliver several creatives to the forefront of popular music; one such name is Casey Jones, better known as Casey Veggies. During his sophomore year, Casey worked alongside Tyler in Lo...
Essentials: Sung Choi
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Sung Choi has spent most of his life growing up in New York City. One of the deepest rooted personas in the “streetwear” and footwear world, Choi pioneered the brand PNB Nation in 1992 before relocating to Cali...
Essentials: ROID
After a decade-long campaign of street and subway wall adorning graffiti that has garnered recognition from his homeland in the UK to collaborative art exhibits in California, ROID has finally begun a push for the demanding world of fine art. At the...
Essentials: Nick Diamond
Nick Tershay, or better known as Nick Diamond, created a Californian skatewear line, Diamond Supply Co., back in 1998 after selling skateboarding gears at the back door of Eric Koston and Guy Mariano’s Fourstar label. Immersing himself in a pas...
