BELOWGROUND turns transit energy into modular community. The team behind its redesign breaks down the refined, street-conscious space made for convergence-with-purpose.
On the brink of her second album, UK experimental rapper and producer John Glacier meditates on joy as resistance and why culture is the one thing you can’t kill. Read our Digital Cover on the artist quietly becoming one of music’s most essential voices.
Tokyo artist Tomihiro Kono treats human hair as a medium of transformation, crafting “Space Creatures” that suggest tentacles, feathers, and deep-sea organisms. Some are so strange they confuse facial recognition software.
The Tokyo label is celebrating 20 years of blurring the line between fashion and art.
Kiichiro Asakawa’s gift is creating a rarefied version of the familiar. Ten years in, his label ssstein has turned that instinct into one of fashion’s most discerning labels.
Led by self-taught designer Luis Dobbelgarten, NO/FAITH STUDIOS turned social media momentum into a self-sustaining empire built outside the traditional fashion system.
The artist has built one of the most recognizable airbrush aesthetics in the game — with a compressor in hand, sumi ink in his roots, and rap and fashion’s upper echelons knocking at his door.
Ryo Miyoshi’s brand everyone may look like a minimalist clothing label, but behind the garments is a slow-built world shaped by small shops, shared taste, and the lost art of putting people on.
Thai jewelry outfit Patcharavipa is crafting one-of-one watches at the speed of art.
The trash-talking, horned-up world of Aurel Schmidt is as interesting as her inimitable illustration practice. After almost two decades of success outside the institutional gallery system, she’s still got more to say.
With “Piss in the Wind,” Joji builds a 21-track world that keeps the spotlight on the songs and off the man behind them.
When musicians started seeking out his father’s furniture, Benjamin Paulin took note. The result is Sounds Like Paulin — a studio, a label, and a community built inside his Paris family home.