Thursday 15 February 2024

HANA VU - CARE

Tuesday 13 February 2024

A GRAND DON'T COME FOR FREE

Mike Skinner photographed by Ewen Spencer for The Streets album A Grand Don't Come For Free, 2004.

Monday 12 February 2024

JAWNINO - IT'S COLD OUT

Monday 5 February 2024

SPICE - 26 DOGS

Monday morning mood music.

Thursday 1 February 2024

ROOM SERVICE

"Room Service compiles over 100 snapshot drawings on hotel stationary from around the world by artist Michael McGregor. The Los Angeles-based artist's vibrant, gestural drawings explore luxury, leisure and travel-capturing and preserving small moments while roaming."  

Available here.

Saturday 20 January 2024

RIP HANS FEURER

Check out more of Hans Feurer's work here.

Monday 15 January 2024

ERIC ELMS

An ode to Dante's Divine Comedy for Carhartt Milan’s store opening.

Monday 8 January 2024

CHANCE LORD

Sticker collage by Chance Lord aka GUESS.

Friday 5 January 2024

LINKED UP 057

Acting a Smoochie and Dressing in Frog Shoes: 8 Cool, Smart, and Interesting Friends Review 2023
From the best-dressed person of the year to the guiltiest of purchases, the brightest minds in the SSENSE network review 2023. (SSENSE)

The List of Lists 2023
Friends of the blog weigh in on a crazy year. (No Bells)


Visuals: Ted Barrow
Enjoy Ted’s musings on three choice moments that stretch from the early nineties to the cusp of the millennium, a collaborative board graphic with one of skateboarding’s true visionaries, and a bonus piece of art history… (Slam City Skates)

"We Have to Shoot in Colour or They’ll Kill Us": The Day a Young Kate Moss Hit the Fashion Stratosphere
Fresh from Croydon, the model had a ball in 1990s New York. But the carefree images, which feature in a new book, got the photographer fired. 
(The Guardian)

Corinne Day’s Unconventional Photographic Style
Corinne Day was a self-taught photographer that grew into a fashion photography legend. Known for her intimate and candid portraits and anti-fashion approach to fashion photography, her work has pushed boundaries and paddled against the flow of fashion industry norms. (Goodhood)

Conor Murgatroyd
Bradford-born London-based painter Conor Murgatroyd is known for his surrealist paintings with underlying fun tones that often run parallel to every day British life. We caught up with Conor about making a living from art, being your authentic self, style inspiration from mob bosses, and more. (Goodhood)

Drunken, Youthful Poems Unearthed From the ’90s
The artist and former gallerist Aaron Rose had the coolest indie gallery in an era of creative explosion in downtown New York. A new book (of old work) captures that long-lost moment. (NYT)

In Conversation: Brendan Yates of Turnstile
Two and a half years after the release of Glow On, Brendan Yates reflects on an intense period of change, adaptation, and growth - all while protecting his sensitivity against the harsh glare. (Anti-Matter)

Tales of the Black Underworld Fuel Hip-Hop. His Feed Recounts Them.
ValTown, an account on X and other social media platforms, spotlights gangs and drug kingpins of the 1980s and 1990s -  and how crime and celebrity often intersect. (NYT)

Mixtapes, T-Shirts and Even a Typeface Measure the Rise of Hip-Hop 
New books collecting objects central to rap’s physical history demonstrate the importance of celebrating these relics before they vanish. (NYT)

Tennis Films for Tennis Heads
Swap your racket for a remote, as we present a curated selection of films, pulled together to keep your head in the game during the off-season (and to distract from the festive chaos). (Palmes)

Possessed Magazine: The FIRSTS Issue
The FIRSTS issue, an issue that is all about things that happen, come, or otherwise occur first. (Satisfy Running)

Five Fits With: Noah Founder and J.Crew Men's Creative Director Brendon Babenzien
A longtime advocate of dressing for your true self, the fashion industry veteran gives us a look at his own personal style. (Esquire)

Monday 1 January 2024

JASON DILL’S PLAYLIST

Dill's "Jet Lagged in Japan" playlist from 2012 is a perfect soundtrack for a chilled (hungover) New Year's Day.

Monday 25 December 2023

HARING CHRISTMAS

Sunday 24 December 2023

FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK

From Michael McGregor.

Friday 22 December 2023

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“I’m not going to cry in front of you, but I could." (Interview)

Unpacking Noah X The Cure With Friend of HIP Chris Black
To celebrate the launch of Noah’s collaboration with The Cure - writer, brand consultant and co-host of acclaimed podcast How Long Gone, Chris Black, wrote an exclusive article for HIP. (HIP)

How a genre short on hooks, memorable riffs, and magnetic personalities became a defining sound for Gen-Z rock fans. (Stereogum)

Hardcore Expanded Its Boundaries in 2023 - and the Scene Embraced It
How the warm reception to adventurous bands like Scowl, Militarie Gun, and Zulu signifies a new normal for the genre that’s long overdue.
(Pitchfork)

Welcome to the MUSIC issue of Possessed. What does music have to do with running? Not much if you don’t listen to music when you run. But for those of you who do, you’re gonna love this issue. It’s the MUSIC ISSUE!
(Satisfy Running)

Glen Luchford on His Legendary 1994 Love Letter to New York
New IDEA book Roseland brings never-seen-before photos of Kate Moss out of a dust-covered box and pays tribute to the grit and rawness of the city before rent skyrocketed and the streets were sanitised. (Dazed)


Unified Goods
We paid a visit to Unified Goods' studio in London Bridge and spoke with James Goodhead about culture, collecting, and the important of tangible objects. (Goodhood)

Mood Is Back
We’re very pleased to present a chat with our friend Calvin Waterman, someone we first connected with back in 2015(!), when we were very new to this whole thing and Calvin’s company Mood, one of our undisputed favourites at the time, was starting to take off. We sadly haven’t heard much about Mood in the past few years. That is, until we opened Instagram earlier this year. (Village Psychic)

Mike Mills: 20 Year Issue
Mike Mills is a graphic designer, a filmmaker, and one of our first features. (Monster Children)

Thursday 21 December 2023

P-RALLEL AT AIME LEON DORE, LONDON

Monday 18 December 2023

PHARRELL

Pharrell Williams photographed in 2002.

Friday 15 December 2023

CHRISTOPHER WOOL ESSAY ARCHIVE

"I came across an archive of all of the essays and texts scanned from Christopher Wool’s books and publications. For fans of his work it’s an interesting reference that spans Wool’s entire career. Here it is compiled into a single chronological file. Enjoy, it is 197 pages!" - Eric Elms via OurGang News*letter

Download here

Monday 11 December 2023

U WASN'T THERE W/ BEN SOLOMON

Ben Solomon aka King Solomon aka KSER IRAK on the New Models podcast earlier this year. Check it out here.

Friday 8 December 2023

LINKED UP 055

Last year, Tremaine Emory was one of the fashion world’s most prolific new superstars, juggling a high-profile position at Supreme with his own brand, Denim Tears, when a serious vascular event almost killed him. Now, the iconoclastic designer known for channeling powerful histories of the Black experience is finally telling his own story - and reuniting with the medical team who saved his life. (GQ)

Riding Dirty - A Guide to Southern Car Culture 
Car culture and hip-hop have been inherently entwined since the birth of the genre when hip-hop originators DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and the Sugarhill Gang flexed their aspirations for automobiles. 
(One Block Down)

Label Feature: NTS 
“Don’t assume” - borrowed from a jazz record by Maggie Nicols and Peter Nu, the tagline has come to encompass NTS’ many charms and idiosyncrasies - qualities that have fuelled its success as an independent station in a matter of twelve years, and a record label in just four. 
(Carhartt WIP)


Más Tiempo: Why Skepta and Jammer Are Embracing House Music
When Skepta and Jammer stepped into the booth of Ibiza's legendary DC-10 club for the soft launch of a new project Más Tiempo, they surprised many - but the UK rap icons' relationship with DJing and house music runs deeper than you might realise. (Mixmag)

No band’s legacy hovers as menacingly over the Aussie music scene, in a more incendiary or frenetic fashion than The Birthday Party, the cult Melbourne-born, post-punk noise band that savaged crowds during its explosive tenure between 1977 and 1983. (Monster Children)

Music Map
The closer two names are, the greater the probability people will like both artists. (Music Map via Public Announcement)

Whippets: What Went Down During the Making of Kids 
Equally idolised and villainised, the movie Kids directed by Larry Clark plays out like a hedonist's fever dream or one of the most accurate snapshots of the Lower East Side's skate scene during the mid-90s. (office)

Strange, Unusual, Forever Cool: 20 Years of Friendship With Winona Ryder
Robert Rich discusses his new photography book with the formidable actor at her most candid, 90s New York, and whether Winona’s kind of cool can still even exist. (Dazed)

“I won’t do a mulled wine - that’s a little too medieval for me.” (W Magazine)

Wednesday 29 November 2023

A$AP ROCKY

A$AP Rocky photographed by Ryan McGinley for Highsnobiety. More here.

Friday 24 November 2023

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How Palace Took Over the World
Lev Tanju and Gareth Skewis have taken Palace Skateboards from a UK streetwear brand to a global phenomenon that counts Gucci and Formula 1 among its many collaborators. (GQ)

At 40, J. Crew Shakes Off a Midlife Crisis
After four decades of business and filing for bankruptcy in 2020, the American retailer is hoping for a renaissance. (NYT)

Nicole McLaughlin, Queen of Mocs
In an exclusive interview, the superstar up-cycler and designer tells Hypebeast about the full-circle nature of her “MocLaughlin” collection with Merrell 1TRL, her thoughts on sustainability, and her dad’s favorite sneakers. (Hypebeast)

Fits & Flows; How Tyler, the Creator Challenges Music and Fashion
We’re watching and celebrating the progression of Tyler, the Creator as an artist, musician, and fashion icon. (okayplayer)

"The People Own It Now - Not Me": Super-Producer T2 on 16 Years of 'Heartbroken'
Today marks 16 years since the Jodie Aysha-featuring bassline smash was officially released. Here, we get the in-depth backstory on how T2’s platinum-selling national treasure came to light. (Complex)

She's the best pop star on the planet: a rage-soundtracking, youth-code cracking, confidence-power packing backdrop to a million teenage lives. And jaw-droppingly, brilliantly, excitingly, the 20-year-old is just getting started. (The Face)

The legendary American photographer talks about shooting Olivia Rodrigo for our cover, how he once failed at being a monk and not naming the chickens on his farm. (The Face)

Edward Colver: Punk’s Most Beloved Photographer 
In the early 80’s, when American Hardcore Punk began to take off in Southern California, photographer Edward Colver was attending live performances five nights a week while documenting the most iconic bands from the movement. (Monster Children)

How Futura Changed the Art World
On his birthday, the artist looks back at his singular journey from graffiti writer to industry game-changer. (i-D)

Off the Court and Field, Top Athletes Become Players in the Art Market
Sports figures are increasingly becoming serious collectors, helping drive interest in contemporary art and particularly in artists of colour. (NYT)

What Andrew Kuo Can’t Live Without
We asked artist Andrew Kuo, co-host of the podcast Cookies Hoops and co-author of The Joy of Basketball, about the induction burner that replaced his gas stove, the insoles that keep his feet fresh, and the stationary bike he credits with saving his life. (The Strategist)

That’s Hot… and Good?
If your only idea of a restaurant is as somewhere you enter, eat some food, and leave full, you’re missing the point. (Family Style)

Dinner Is Served, Sort of: Meet Fashion Food
“I don’t think I’ve ever left a fashion dinner being like, Wow, I just had a great meal.” (GQ)

The Inside Story of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s George Magazine
In the '90s, John F. Kennedy Jr. founded and edited a revolutionary magazine called George, which covered politics like it was pop culture. Was it folly - or a glimpse of the Trumpian future? (Esquire)