Best Frankenstein Movies Ranked: From Universal Horror Classics to Modern Reimaginings
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is, from first publication, a mutating text: full of gaps, contradictions, and rhetorical excess. It invites reinterpretation and reinvention. That open-endedness has made Frankenstein one of cinema’s most protean myths — a story more often warped than faithfully recounted, but endlessly compelling. Over more than a century, filmmakers […]
COMME des GARÇONS Homme × New Balance 509 ‘White’: The Return of Quiet Elegance
COMME des GARÇONS Homme has built a legacy on reinterpreting the familiar — taking garments and silhouettes from everyday life and refining them into icons of understated rebellion. The latest chapter in its partnership with New Balance arrives through the 509 ‘White’, a sneaker that feels less like a product of hype culture and more […]
Leopards Never Lose Their Spots – Cheraine Collette (Limited Edition of 7, Netherlands)
Cheraine Collette’s Leopards Never Lose Their Spots captures a rare duality—where myth and material coexist in a single photographic breath. Known for her elaborate fine-art compositions that mix nature, architecture, and the surreal, Collette constructs visual allegories that speak to transformation and permanence. This limited edition of seven, produced in the Netherlands, continues her pursuit […]
Still Get Chanel: Kodak Black and Chance the Rapper Redefine Resilience Through Haute
In a landscape where hip-hop often equates success with material excess, Still Get Chanel reframes the conversation. Kodak Black and Chance the Rapper, two artists known for balancing street realism with spiritual introspection, use the track as both a flex and a manifesto. The Chanel motif becomes less about couture and more about conviction — […]
Retroid Dual Screen Add-on: Handheld Innovation, Fragmented Vision, and the Future of Portable Play
In the ever-evolving world of handheld gaming, every device is a compact love letter to the idea of freedom—freedom to move, to escape, to carry fantastical realms within one’s pocket. Yet, this freedom often comes with sacrifice. The trade-off has long been understood: in exchange for portability, one forfeits expansiveness—screen real estate, system flexibility, and […]
Central Saint Martins BA 2025: Fashion as Protest, Memory, and Futurism
Few institutions in global fashion command the reverence, mythology, and persistent scrutiny of Central Saint Martins. Each year, the CSM BA Fashion show is more than a parade of new designers: it’s a seismic reading of our social, political, and artistic landscape—a living diary stitched in silk, trash, denim, latex, and inherited memory. The 2025 […]
Vanishing Americana: A Literary Interpretation of Jeff Brouws’ “Motel Drive, Fresno, California, 1991”
Jeff Brouws’ Motel Drive, Fresno, California, 1991 is more than a photograph—it is a loaded cultural artifact. It captures a fragment of the American roadside, locked in amber at the intersection of memory, decay, and longing. Brouws, often likened to a modern-day Walker Evans, channels a visual language rooted in documentary realism and poetic detachment. […]
Levi’s x Nike Air Max 95 in Black / Anthracite
There’s something sacred about a good collaboration—when two titans from different corners of culture converge to make something that feels both inevitable and surprising. Such is the case with the Levi’s x Nike Air Max 95 Black/Anthracite: a shoe that doesn’t scream for attention but demands it anyway. Not because of garish colorways or gimmicky […]
Hand-Stitched Hearts: The Nong Rak Story
How a rainstorm, a mohair hat, and a lot of feeling built Nong Rak—the now Bangkok-based slow-fashion label weaving sensical knits and Thai roots into something entirely its own. The Beginning Was Rain Before the mohair, before the wool curls and pastel fuzz, there was just rain. A sudden California downpour, the kind that cracks […]
Clipse: Let God Sort Em Out and the Resurrection of Hip-Hop’s Street Prophets
It’s been nearly sixteen years since the last full-length Clipse album. In the landscape of hip-hop, that’s practically a generation. But now, as the genre sits at an inflection point—divided between the polished and the primal, the commercial and the cathartic—Pusha T and Malice return to the scene not with a whisper, but with the […]