Hypebeast & HYPETRAK TV – Paying Dues with Flatbush Zombies
With a proclivity to indulge with marijuana, crowd surf and chatter rebellious slang, Flatbush Zombies shows are anything but tranquil. With that in mind, we headed down to their performance at Paid Dues Festival to experience first-hand a sonically...
Concepts x Vans Syndicate “Combat Zone” Sk8-Hi
From Porky’s to the Kennedy family, Massachusetts-based Concepts finds inspiration in some rather unexpected places. The cult store looks to a notorious, mostly-forgotten chapter of Boston’s history for its latest project, a partnership w...
Nardwuar vs. Flatbush Zombies
Besides being hilariously awkward, Nardwuar has a penchant for probing the lives of artists and pulling out ephemera that never fails to surprise. The latest subject of his antics is Flatbush Zombies, the trio consisting of Meech, Juice and Erick Arc...
200,000 Mr. A’s Later, André Speaks With The Talks
André Saraiva — known in some circles as Mr. A or simply, André — is a noted graffiti artist and entrepreneur. Recognized worldwide for his iconic, long-legged “Mr. A” tag — now replicated around 200,000 times, by his co...
Eddie Huang Talks “New BaoHaus” and Race vs. Culture
“But before there was a memoir or radio shows denouncing what Huang describes as the “cult-like atmosphere of TED Talks,” there was BaoHaus, Huang’s now legendary Taiwanese restaurant.”
If he isn’t already, then Eddie Huang is...
Freunden von Freunden Spend a Day with Union’s Chris Gibbs
Spanning the globe over and meeting with some of the creative world’s most influential personalities, Freunden von Freunden turns its latest focus to Union owner Chris Gibbs. Union has come to represent an important point of retail within the A...
HUgE Magazine: An Interview with Larry Clark
HUgE Magazine, the lifestyle publication out of Japan, has an in-depth interview with Larry Clark — and even if you’ve never seen KIDS, it’s an important read. Clark has influenced the canons of filmmaking, writing, and photography...
A Conversation with Miguel Gala of U.S. Alteration
Menswear is heavily influenced by past generations and iterations, in which certain brands look at an archetypal piece or iconic style genre and reappropriate it according to the said brand’s ethos. The result sees immaculate remakes to timeless crea...
Russ Karablin of SSUR: Beyond the GUTTERS
For Russ Karablin, SSUR was always a vehicle for art – an easily communicable canvas for his provocative and often subversive visual messages. Not that an audience was always there — despite the current success of COMME des FUCKDOWN, for...
A Conversation with Matt Fontana of SUPRA
Matt Fontana of SUPRA stressed the intimacy between the brand’s design and the skate culture that continues to inspires it when he sat down with Hypebeast in late January. In particular, he gives insight into the relation between a smaller inde...
