A$AP ROCKY

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

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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)

Olivia Rodrigo Knows What Makes Her Happy Now

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)

Jim Goldberg: ​“When You’re in the Moment, You Get It” 

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)

MIKE TYSON

Lori Grinker’s photographs show a rarely seen side of Mike Tyson in his prime. Between 1981 and 1991, Lori photographed the intimate moments away from the general public’s gaze; going home to Brownsville, old friends, trips abroad, in hotel suites before and after fights, his hook-up with Robin Givens, their wedding, their divorce, and the training and fights in between until Tyson's first defeat.

(Via Infinite Archives)

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The Longtail Impact of Lord of the Decks Vol. 1: The Fellowship of the Mic

For anyone seeking to understand grime music's roots, it's an essential listen, and for everyone else, it's still one of the rawest hours of bars you're ever likely to hear. Pardon the photoshopped album cover... (TRENCH)

Rob Harvilla, ‘90s Authority, Picks the Best Rock Year of the '90s

In a Q&A, the podcast host and 60 Songs That Explain the '90s author talks about context collapse, shoplifting, what we as a society owe Britney Spears, and the improbable cultural endurance of Weezer. (GQ)

Slowdive: How Gen Z Became Obsessed With the 90s Shoegaze Legends

With sold out tours, their first Top 10 album and legions of new teenage fans, we find out what’s behind this surprising and overdue renaissance - 34 years after they originally formed. (Evening Standard)

Our Merch, Ourselves

What do the bands and brands whose merchandise we buy say about who we are and what we value? (NYT)

The Black Album Turns 20 (Stereogum)

Cam’ron and Ma$e: How Two Rap Legends Became Us Sports’ Unlikely Hit

The Harlem rap vets behind It Is What It Is are breathing fresh life into a hoary format with their chemistry, editorial freedom and unpredictability.

(The Guardian)

Celebrating the Golden Era of Golf With Metalwood

Metalwood Studio is an ode to golf in the ‘90s and some of the early 2000s - the technology boom is just starting to happen. Metalwood looks to engage with their visitors by creating a nostalgic wormhole via a collection that includes vintage-inspired clothing, accessories and golf equipment. 

(Supply)

Chris Luu Turned a Barrier Into a Bag

We spoke to Chris Luu, who recently took the novel (and very skaterly) idea of producing a small-scale replica of a traffic barrier that doubles as a handbag and really, actually, legitimately made it happen. (Village Psychic)

Swedish Craft Companies Playing the Long Game: Svenskt Tenn and Märta Måås Fjetterström (Permanent Style)

The Very Stealthy Success of The Row

An exclusive interview with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. (FT)

Sofia Coppola and All the Sad Girls

For 25 years, Sofia Coppola’s films have served as a stylistic manual for how to be sad, or at least disaffected, in our modern age. (NYT)

Richard Prince Stalks the Image World Like a Vampire

An exhibition at Gagosian in London unearths a deathly yet exultant quality in the artist’s early photographic works. (Frieze)

The Revue: Jonny Gent

Our latest Revue, starring the painter, restaurateur and Renaissance man, Jonny Gent. (Drake's)

November Radio + Mood (Corridor)

PAUL RAND

Paul Rand's logo for Esquire magazine, 1938. More here.

DIPSET: POWER IN NUMBERS

Take a look back at Marc Joseph's photos from the halcyon days of Dipset's mixtape empire, taken just before the release of Cam's Purple Haze LP in 2004. It's also worth revisiting Omid Fatemi's Fader #24 cover story for more on Cam'ron's early aught's hustle.

ABSOLUTE HABIBIS.

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If You Live in a "Sauce Desert", Can You Get Off Fits?

How to wear cool clothes in unpopping places. (Blackbird Spyplane)

How Long Gone Take on Australia

The podcast duo who have become tastemakers for a certain genre of extremely online, tapped-in people around the world give us their thoughts on the lucky country. (GQ)

A Pop of Colour, Bucket Lists, Puglia: Nicky Haslam’s Snarky Annual Tea Towel Is Back

It's the most wonderful time of the year. (Evening Standard)

On My Radar: Cat Power’s Cultural Highlights

The indie singer-songwriter on her favourite New York restaurant, Dave Chappelle on top form, and Tracey Emin up close. (The Guardian)

Peter Schlesinger and Manolo Blahnik Look Back on the Golden Age of Paris (Interview)

A Chance to See Daniel Arnold’s New York Life on Gallery Walls

Attuned to moments in the city that many fail to notice, Daniel Arnold documents the personalities who rush, stumble, and idle through every sidewalk, subway, bodega, park, beach, and ferry throughout the five boroughs. (Juxtapoz)

Photographing the Modern-Day Dolce Vita

In Sam Youkilis’ debut book, Somewhere, the photographer dials up the realness of everyday Italians in all their bronzed glory. (The Face)

In the Studio With Theo Bardsley

The young London artist on painting the world around him. (Drake's)

Noah Davis: American Ethereal

Notes on a painter. (Drake's)

Michael McGregor Feels Like a Kid in a Very Chic Candy Store (Interview)

A Graphic Wizardry Journey With Will Bankhead

Will Bankhead is a name you probably already know and love. Head honcho of record/clothing label The Trilogy Tapes, DJ, designer and photographer for James Lavelle's record label Mo'Wax, co-founder (with Joy Orbison) of record label Hinge Finger, ex-sponsored skater for Slam City Skates, designer for Palace from the get-go, etc, etc. (Goodhood)

Faye Webster and Her Brother Luke on Creating Art With Your Family

The brother and sister duo talk their favourite Lorem artists, childhood memories and what it’s like working with your sibling. (Dazed)

Croaking Frogs, Buzzing Hornets, Squealing Dolphins: A Guide to Smithsonian Folkways’ Best Science and Nature Recordings

Celebrating the storied label’s 75th year with nine of their most unusual non-musical albums. (Pitchfork)

Backstage With Slowdive

Talking to the band about their new album and the ones that shaped us. (Monster Children)

The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place Turns 20 (Stereogum) 

P‑rallel Is Fanning the Flames of London Club Culture

The Face speaks to the DJ/producer about his Movement mixtape and dance music’s multicultural legacy. (The Face)

DJ Kenn: The Unsung Architect of Modern Rap

The legend of DJ Kenn is a story of sheer fate. (sabukaru)

How Priscilla Made the Sickest Soundtrack of the Year - Without Any Elvis Songs

Thomas Mars of Phoenix talks to GQ about doing the music for wife Sofia Coppola’s latest film, and shares his favourite movie needle drops of all time. (GQ)

Sofia Coppola’s Best Needle Drops

Hear songs that memorably accompanied scenes in The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Priscilla and more. (NYT)

Harmony Korine - An Unstructured Reflection of Life

For decades, the art of film has largely been bound to conventional structures, be it character or plot. One director who sought to completely disrupt this was Harmony Korine. (GATA)

Writing Is Painful

Imagining the interior lives of those maligned, cancelled, and spurned, Emma Cline’s work as a writer is free of simplistic moralising, instead interested in the stories we all tell ourselves and how we create our own personal delusions. With her recently released second novel, The Guest, she delivers an already-classic exploration of class neurosis in late capitalist America. (Kaleidoscope)

What’s the Future of Books?

Amid historic disruption in the publishing industry, big questions are - rightfully - being asked. Here, experts weigh in on how books (and the ways we discover them) are going to change. (Esquire)

Is the Concept of Genres Deteriorating?

It's impact on culture. (Tower Records)

PENGUIN DONKEY

Designed by Egon Riss in 1939, the Penguin Donkey bookcase has become a design classic. The original design was named the Donkey because it had four legs and two compartments resembling panniers. 

Publisher Allen Lane was an early fan of the design and since it was apparent that the shelves were perfectly sized to accommodate the newly launched, distinctive orange Penguin paperbacks, the Donkey was rechristened the Penguin Donkey.

The Penguin Donkey was launched just as World War Two broke out, with around 100 manufactured and sold before production ceased as a result of the war. Now reissued by Isokon Plus, this characterful design icon enjoys an enduring appeal.

(Via Atelier Éditions)

SPIRITUAL CRAMP - NAH, THAT AIN'T IT

Monday morning mood music.

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Matt Sloane Talks Jerks™: The Vintage Platform With Music at Its Core

Jerks™ is the London-based vintage platform unearthing secondhand gems, tees and memorabilia from your favourite artists’ decades-old merch drops. (Crack)

The Rise of the Upmarket Greasy Spoon

Norman’s Cafe in London, the one that started it all, has led to new-age caffs cropping up around the country. Are they caricaturing working class culture or a giving a welcome spin on classic British food? (The Face)

Can You Get Good New York Bagels - In London? Mr Dan Martensen Says Yes

Barely open a New York minute and It’s Bagels has Londoners queuing around the block to sample its indelibly NYC menu of bagels, schmears, smoked fish and deli salads - which is wild. More so as it’s the brainchild of in-demand fashion and documentary photographer, Mr Dan Martensen.

(Mr Porter)

Gifts for Gardeners? They’ve Got Them in Spades

With clothes inspired by Martha Stewart, heritage tools and colourful clogs, the couple behind Gardenheir cater to actual and want-to-be gardeners alike. (NYT)

The Throwing Fits Guys Have Curated the Perfect Winter Wardrobe for You (Mr Porter)

Inside the Archive of Magnum Photographer Thomas Hoepker

A new exhibition highlights the images that saw the legendary “author photographer” elevate photojournalism to new heights. (Huck)

Discovering a Tribe of Archivists

In the quest to preserve history, I'm far from the only one passionate about the past. (URB)

The Return of Anti-Matter, ’90s Hardcore’s Most Influential (and Emotional) Zine

Texas Is the Reason guitarist Norman Brannon on why he revived his beloved fanzine as a Substack. (Pitchfork)

Natasha Stagg on Gatekeeping, NYC Supremacy, and the Decline of Criticism

“People used to say, ‘Everyone's a critic.’ Now, no one's a critic,” the writer tells GQ columnist Chris Black. (GQ)

Pitter Patter Is Putting One Foot in Front of the Other

The Brooklyn-based artist is finding creative independence in making new cultural artefacts that relate to personal style, identity, and the era of self-commodification. (Byline)

Efron Danzig and Kade Holt on Making Art and Being Best Amis

They met in the City of Brotherly Love - here’s how their friendship has stood the test of time. (SSENSE)