OVERVIEW
BAGEL
FANTASTIC MAN
Lev Tanju. Photos: Alasdair McLellan.
“Skateboarding was not cool. You had ripped shoes on. You got no girls when you went to college. We were behind California. It wasn’t accepted in England. It was an outcast, weird thing to do,”
— Lev Tanju
Carlos Alcaraz. Photos: Bruno Staub.
“I always loved playing. For me, it’s not about being serious on court. I always think that it is a joy; it is fun.”
— Carlos Alcaraz
Giorgio Armani. Photos: Alasdair McLellan.
“The world is my inspiration. It never ceases to surprise and delight.”
— Giorgio Armani
GQ MAGAZINE
“This is the first cohort in the Fashion Residency, a new mentorship programme that wants to light a fire under British design and turbo-charge a capital city that’s responsible for the likes of McQueen, Westwood and McCartney.”
— Stuart Brumfitt
A new golden era of queer community. Photos: Luke Abby
“Everyone is grappling with complex intersectional issues, fast-moving identity shifts and sometimes staunchly prejudiced and discriminatory institutions, but they’re doing it with passion, sensitivity and grit.”
— Stuart Brumfitt
Karoline Vitto. Photos: James Robjant
Inside NTS Radio, London’s global music phenomenon. Photos: Annie Lai
The very viby orbit of Bone Soda. Photos: James Pearson Hewes
The Dolomites: the alternative Alps for a new kind of skiing holiday.
Eleven times Skepta proved he is London’s best dressed. Photos: Mathew Sperzel
Oliver Sim. Photos: Nicola Delorme.
“I’m mindful I’ve made a record about shame and fear, but I don’t want to sound like a finished product. I still have fear, I still have shame. I’m just far less overwhelmed by it than I was.”
— Oliver Sim
Roger Federer. Photos: Clive Brunskill /Allsport
"In hindsight, I think, ‘Was I crazy to wear XL at 17?’ But you wanted to think you were big and buff, even when you weren’t yet."
— Roger Federer
“GQ's ranking of the 25 most stylish sportsmen ever.”
How to train like a Wimbledon champion. Photos: Andy Cheung.
Bjorn Borg on being a tennis style icon. Photos: Fila Museum.
“Padel is set to be the biggest fitness trend of the summer”.
John McEnroe on Djokovic, Raducanu and opposing the ban on Russian players. Photos: AELTC/Michael Cole.
VOGUE MAGAZINE
Lorenzo Musetti. Photos: Tim Clayton/Getty Images
“There’s a new crop of men’s tennis players bringing fresh attention to the sport, from girls holding the same superfan crushes to gays feverishly setting up queer Instagram fan accounts in praise of their big legs, washboard abs and high performance butts.”
— Stuart Brumfitt
Gus Kenworthy. Photos: Clay Stephen Gardner
"For men, sport has such a machismo attitude around it. A lot of gay men stop pursuing sport because of it. It didn’t feel safe; they didn’t feel welcome. That’s why it’s important to speak up on it."
— Gus Kenworthy
Crystal Moselle and the Skate Kitchen cast. Photos: Lily Bertrand-Webb
"There are a lot more women directing these days, but the biggest problem is that we're telling these female-driven stories which people in higher places are not really wanting to put out in the world in an impactful way."
— Crystal Moselle
Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson. Photos: Buzz White
THE FACE
“The artist should be in the background so that the story and soul of that song are in the foreground. On the stage, when I feel most fulfilled is when I get close to being a channel.”
— Rosalía
“LA is a special place. Everyone wants to come here to live their dreams. I was definitely meant to be born here...I knew I was going to do something in art or music or film and I was not going to stop until I made my mark.”
— Alexa Demie
“Hollywood designs things in ways that have worked in the past, which trickles all the way down into the roles and types of movies. Stereotypes perpetuate stereotypes. I think it’s quite lazy.”
— LaKeith Stanfield
“People are finally seeing the oppression that’s been happening and overlooked, and that we, as a culture, have been fighting through every day.”
— Travis Scott
i-D MAGAZINE
Riccardo Tisci’s Givenchy. Photos: Danko Steiner
“To make only beautiful bags and clothes is great, but sometimes why not put this social message next to it? If nobody stands up, the world is never going to change, and you'll think, 'My god, we live in a fucked up world.'”
— Riccardo Tisci
Janice Alida. Photos: David Sims.
Kim Jones
“You have to go a long way to find things now. It's fine to look on the internet or in a book, but I like to see, touch, look at things and be inspired by culture, wildlife, people... I'm quite sensory in that way.”
— Kim Jones
Raf Simons
Rick Owens
“I wanted a room filled with my furniture to look like a leather bar decorated by Brancusi. I want stuff to be big, strong and silent. But within this severity I allow myself moments of complete sensuous collapse.”
— Rick Owens
Dev Hynes & Kindness. Photos: Beau Grealy.
“I fucking despise the guitar! It's a love-hate, but mainly hate relationship. It's the instrument I'm best at. I could be shot in the face and I'd still be able to play guitar, but I've always despised it. I even hate holding a guitar.”
— Dev Hynes
Kendrick Lamar
“It's really about grabbing some hope — that same hope that Martin Luther King had, that same hope that Malcolm X had — and trying to continue that.”
— Kendrick Lamar
Jourdan Dunn. Photos: Quentin Jones.
Skepta
“I've gone to Australia, New Zealand, killed that, went to Hong Kong, killed Europe, went to Nigeria, killed Africa, went to America, smashed the East Coast and the West Coast… Life is sick, don't cry for me when I die”
— Skepta
Eddie Peake. Photos: Alasdair McLellan
"Art-making is a blind feeling-out in the dark… When I say in my art that I want to invent a language from scratch, I mean something like that: find a space and a place in the work that is untranslatable to any other form of language."
— Eddie Peake
KAWS. Photos: Nils Mueller.
“I always worked to make fashion more pop. I think the 90s in fashion were really interesting. Remember all the Gianni Versace shows when there was Elton John, Prince and David Bowie there? That's what made me love fashion.”
— Olivier Rousteing
Tavi Gevinson. Photos: Petra Collins.
“Feminism informs how I approach everything. I wanted to create a place for girls who would not normally read feminist theory. Girls my age are used to being fed a lot of girl power rhetoric, so I wanted to do something more in-depth, but something that isn't alienating.”
— Tavi Gavinson
RuPaul
“When I started with drag, it was more of a political punk rock F-you. You can still see pictures of me this way on YouTube — I had smeared lipstick and combat boots and torn wedding dresses, like "F-you!" That's gender fuck.”
— RuPaul
Mykki Blanco. Photos: Bruno Staub
Olivier Rousteing
Ciara
Kate Moss by pop artist Allen Jones
Popcaan
“Pop music is getting more and more vague. That's sad. I don't want my music to be bland shit.”
— Lily Allen
Lily Allen. Photos: Matteo Montanari.
Jean-Michel Basquiat & Jennifer Stein Anti-Baseball Card Product, 1979, Colour Photocopy. Photo: Justin Piperger.
“Me and Basquiat would go up to the Museum of Modern Art to sell postcards and they kept saying, ‘You can’t sell things’, and we were like, ‘Art denial! Art denial! Art denial!’”
— Jennifer Stein
Photos: Lorraine O’Grady
Kiddy Smile’s Guide to Paris. Photos: Manuel Obadia-Wills
“I was 23 and African-Americans and other artists of colour were not shown in other galleries and museums, so I decided to do it – with zero money! It was a ballsy thing to do ”
— Linda Goode Bryant
Barry Jenkins’s film, Moonlight
“One of the themes in the film is this performance of masculinity. I think externally, what we project to the world is very different to what we feel beneath the surface.”
— Barry Jenkins
Surreal studies of Dubai’s upper-class. Photos: Nick Hannes
Explosive phots from Mexico’s Burning of the Bulls festival. Photos: Dan Medhurst
A Guide to New York’s Upper East Side. Image: Hannukah Lamp #7, 1989-20, John Parnell. Photo © The Jewish Museum, New York.
11 Things to do in Lisbon
John Booth
“Some people see my work as less academic, or less serious. People think it’s more profound to do darker, more obscure work, but I don’t think that stands. I take my work seriously, even if it’s not a serious subject.”
— John Booth
Health tips from fitness expert Joe Holder
“I not only had to evaluate what I was doing fitness and performance wise, but also with my wellness, mental health, emotional health, spirituality, all of that.”
— Joe Holder
Jamaican food travel story
“You want chaos? Give a Jamaican unseasoned food!”
— Cherée
Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent in Marrakech, 1977. Photos: Guy Marineau.
“The Moroccan sun probes every recess and corner. The birds were singing and the Atlas Mountain, covered with snow, would make our horizon warmer and greater.”
— Pierre Bergé
DAZED & CONFUSED
Jamie Bochert. Photos: Willy Vanderperre.
Dapper Dan
“Harlem likes a certain extravagance. The mainstay are items made out of silk, linen, leather, exotic skins, minks and furs. Those fineries determine your status.”
— Dapper Dan
RuPaul
Tom Sachs, Swiss Passport Office, 2018
“The art world has nothing to do with art. The motivation for doing these things that I have — and I speak for all the artists there — doesn’t start with those things. It starts with the studio, always. It always starts with the work.”
— Tom Sachs
Khalik Allah, Black Mother
“Film-making is about touching people and affecting people on a spiritual level. That’s my purpose here — like a minister, man.”
— Khalik Allah
Photos: Sabrina Mahfouz
Still from Sarah Lewis’s film Cuts.
WALLPAPER* MAGAZINE
Stone Island. Photos: Piergiorgio Sorgetti
Stone Island. Photos: Piergiorgio Sorgetti
“I don’t describe it as a fashion brand, because that is too superficial, too ephemeral. It’s product-first, functionality, research, innovation and materiality”
— Robert Triefus (Stone Island CEO)
Herno CEO, Claudio Marenzi. Photos: Mattia Greghi.
Shinsuke Yamaji, C.P. Company.
BUFFALO ZINE
Chelsea – Issue No. 16
Pink – Issue No. 15
ES MAGAZINE
Patrick Mouratoglou.
“There has to be great trust and the player has to look up to the coach, otherwise it has no chance of working. And in the case of Serena and myself, it goes both ways.”
— Patrick Mouratoglou
“You’re talking to people all over the world. It doesn’t matter your background, religion, sexuality, country, how much money you make — Diesel has a place in any household. I’ll be more of a social designer.”
— Glenn Martens
WONDERLAND
Sky Ferreira
“Fiona Apple was my number one idol as a kid. Nastassja Kinski is a very big person for me. Vanessa Paradis as a teenager! She’s still glamorous. I love all that look of French girls, like Brigitte Bardot.”
— Sky Ferreira
Big Sean
Miguel