The Saturday 8 AM | Hinoki Buro — Where Stillness Breathes
the hour btw dream and daylight There is a fleeting stillness that only belongs to Saturday mornings — a fragile bridge between the residual calm of sleep and the slow awakening of the world. The hum of the week has quieted. Time itself feels suspended, and breath becomes tangible. It’s at this hour that “Saturday […]
Dior’s Alpine Reprise: The Spring 2026 Lifestyle Capsule
In Spring 2026, Dior revisits one of its most elemental playgrounds — the mountain. But rather than retreat to alpine nostalgia, the House reinterprets winter’s rugged terrain through the lens of modern utility, creating a wardrobe that balances elegance and endurance. With simplicity, function, and an undercurrent of daring, this capsule is not a pastiche […]
Seamless Power: ROG Ally X and the Rise of Xbox on the Go
a new age of portable power There’s a rhythm in modern gaming — one that beats faster than silicon refresh cycles. It’s a rhythm driven by the desire for freedom: to take the desktop experience out of the office, to carry the console beyond the living room. That rhythm now has a handheld form: the […]
Back to the Brick: LEGO Reimagines the ‘Back to the Future’ DeLorean
Few pop culture icons have aged as gracefully—or as playfully—as the Back to the Future DeLorean. Since its cinematic debut in 1985, the gull-winged time machine has transcended its role as a prop, morphing into an enduring symbol of innovation, nostalgia, and retro-futurism. Over the years, fans have celebrated it through model kits, die-cast replicas, […]
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 […]
