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A Conversation with Jun Takahashi
UNDERCOVER founder Jun Takahashi has embodied the definition of design versatility. Playing several different positions in the creative realm, he has shown an outward versatility that has been replicated time after time in menswear, womenswear and more recently, performance...
A Day With Craig Ford
Craig Ford has had a considerable impact on the London and British fashion scene. As an important visionary who brought the original BAPE STORE to London, he has also gone on to help develop the British brand presences' of various respected streetwear brands including BBC | Ice...
Korean Creatives: Kyungbin Chon of FITBOW Kollektiv
Despite the look provided into FITBOW seen above, the brand's founder Kyungbin Chon comes from unconventional beginnings. An integral part in the growth and development of Korea's hip-hop scene, Chon would eventually embark on something often disassociated with hip-hop in the...
A Day With Sophia Chang
Illustrator, designer, and the official bun queen, Sophia Chang, goes under the microscope in this latest A Day With feature. Emerging from Queens, Chang's eclectic approach to creativity spans multiple mediums ranging from prints, T-shirts and media with some of her work...
A Conversation with WANT Les Essentiels de la Vie
Twin brothers Messrs Dexter and Byron Peart were so passionate about their conviction to create a product that filled a niche desire, that when they founded WANT Les Essentiels de la Vie in 2006, they decided to incorporate those core values into the name. Since that time, the...
A Day with Darcel
The brainchild of illustrator Craig Redman, Darcel has come to represent the fun and honest side of fashion and the arts. Often getting himself into various precarious situations, we follow the one-eyed wonder through a day in his life.
A Conversation with Shinsuke Takizawa
Since the mid 1990s, NEIGHBORHOOD has been one of Japan's greatest streetwear exports. Founded by self-professed Americana junkie Shinsuke Takizawa, the brand has been a driving force in branding, quality and at times controversy due to some of its chosen graphics in the past....
Widening the Running Paradigm
Looking back at the evolutionary development of humans, our physiology and subsequent bipedalism has become a characteristic trait. The whole idea of “persistence hunting” enabled humans to develop a respectable degree of endurance and efficiency. While we as humans are far...
A Conversation with Hanni El Khatib
In our latest A Conversation with... feature we catch up with musician Hanni El Khatib, widely recognized in streetwear's inner circle as the former creative director for HUF. With music now his full-time occupation, we took the opportunity to rap out with the San Francisco...
VERBAL & Swizz Beatz: Reebok Ree-Done
The last few months have seen a huge resurgence from Reebok. This comes in tandem with the announcing of two new creative directors including Swizz Beatz as the Global Creative Director, and VERBAL as the Reebok Classics Asia Creative Director. Both parties were on hand in Tokyo...
A Conversation with Andrew Chen
Our latest A Conversation with... feature gives us an opportunity to chat with Andrew Chen, one half of contemporary brand 3sixteen and co-owner of Self Edge Los Angeles & New York. With nothing too formal in mind, we allow Andrew to discuss various facets of his brand, life and...
A Conversation with Hommy Diaz
In our latest A Conversation with... feature we catch up with Queens, New York native Hommy Diaz, best known as the Global Design Merchant & Marketing Director over at DC Shoes. Primarily handling the brand's LIFE collection and newly developed NVRBRKN. line, Hommy speaks of the...
A Conversation with Tofer Chin
American artist Tofer Chin has put a youth-impacted spin on contemporary painting, photography, sculpture and installation over the past few years. His carefully stylized paintings capture the controlled and the insane with a uniquely identifiable, rainbow-hued aesthetic. We...
A Conversation with Paul Mittleman
Stüssy is a brand of particular importance and familiarity among the Hypebeast demographic. A critical piece of the puzzle has been Paul Mittleman who has done an admirable job of maintaining relevancy within Stüssy as a whole, despite the ever rapidly changing landscape...
A Day With DJ Neil Armstrong
Long before he was Jay-Z’s tour DJ for all of 2008 and 2009, or a Global Brand Ambassador for adidas, Neil Armstrong was a humble fan of music and that's never changed. Acknowledged as the founding father of the DJ Collective "5th Platoon," Neil was born and bred in NYC,...
