A conversation with Bijan Shahvali, founder of intramural shop, about his Iranian roots, getting laid off, forcing him to go all in on intramural, curating good vintage in a crowded market, and more. (Sprezza)
Can Dressing Well Make You a Better Movie Director?
In this exclusive excerpt from A24's new book, How Directors Dress, The Souvenir auteur Joanna Hogg muses on the power of a filmmaker's uniform. (GQ)
The co-author of The Casual Style Guide steps out from behind the lens and fills us in on his own look. (Esquire)
Inside NYC’s Brick-and-Mortar Shopping Revival
We visited five of the city's buzziest shops for a look at the summer's best new clothes, worn by their stylish staffs - and to find out what's driving the comeback of retail. (GQ)
Bill Hall, the proprietor, has assembled a vast collection of hard-to-find fashion books and magazines coveted by designers and influencers. (NYT)
Chase and Timothy talk with Chris Black (co-host of the podcast How Long Gone) about working retail, DIY education, and Converge tees. (Spotify)
Belgian photographer Quentin De Briey and Dazed fashion director Imruh Asha combine forces on a fashion story set in Paris. (Dazed)
Pieces add up to an archive of a life lived deeply in Lyle Ashton Harris’s compelling survey at the Queens Museum. (NYT)
Tree's Studio
In L.A's Arts District with the painter and star of our summer lookbook, Jasaya Neal. (Drake's)
Things That Have Always Been There: An Interview With Michael McGregor
In his latest solo exhibition at Hashimoto Contemporary New York, Voyage Voyage, artist Michael McGregor considers the fantasy surrounding travel and how it lifts scenes of life from commonplace to romantic, making certain objects, experiences, views, seem as though they’ve always been with us. (Juxtapoz)
It's not often that a photographer shoots for TIME magazine, global brands as well as being the Creative Director for a semi-pro soccer team. Jared Soares is that photographer, a master of his craft and probably one of the most humble too. (Cult Kits)
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Fandom
From all-stars and merch to the necessary personalities of a starting five lineup, we're talking shop on basketball and its followers with two dedicated fans: writer Ben Detrick and artist Andrew Kuo. (Discovery)
Inside USA Cricket’s Incredibly Unlikely, Maximally Joyful World Cup Run
Against a dominant India squad, the plucky Yanks made a case for the game - and, in a way, for America itself. (GQ)
How Charley Hull’s Viral Cigarette Lit up the Golf World: “It’s a Little Surreal”
England’s top golfer, a newly minted cult hero after being snapped smoking at the US Open, has the whole-mood swagger of John Daly by way of Kate Moss - and the game to back it up. (The Guardian)
The refashioning of the fairway. (FT)
H2whoa - The Radical Rebranding of Water
How hydration became a fully fledged lifestyle. (FT)
How to Build Brand Energy
Unpacking Brat: A 4-month exercise in IRL to URL energy marketing and being outside. (The Sociology of Business)
Ghostly's 25th-anniversary Deep Cuts playlist takeover continues with a new set curated by crushed, aka West Coast musicians Bre Morell and Shaun Durkan. (Ghostly)
