Further Reading – Spring 2020
We wanted to finish our book week with several shorter reviews in order to give you a wider range of books to peruse while in quarantine, or at least furnish our take on them.
Eugene Rabkin is the founder of stylezeitgeist.com. He has contributed articles on fashion and culture to The Business of Fashion, Vogue Russia, Buro247, the Haaretz Daily Newspaper, and other publications. He has taught critical writing and fashion writing courses at Parsons the New School for Design.
Goya: Drawings
It seems that in the current state of the world, books based on the many cancelled exhibitions take on a new importance, providing a glimpse into what sadly many of us are missing out on due to museum closures.
Fluence: The Continuance of Yohji Yamamoto
“I believe in the power of clothes just as much as I believe in the power of photography,” so goes the opening of a short essay by the revered Japanese fashion photographer Takay in the new book of photography devoted to the work of Yohji Yamamoto.
Chris Killip: The Station
Chris Killip is not a punk photographer, or a music photographer, or a youth culture photographer.
SZ MIX | EUGENE RABKIN
We hope you are all Ok. This week we will be publishing music mixes from our friends, and we hope they’ll help you pull through and let you discover or rediscover good music.
Nan Goldin: The Other Side
Over the past fifty years the photographer Nan Goldin has become the poet of the marginalized.
Fall/Winter 2020 Paris Menswear Report – Part II
At the Sacai show Saturday I was thinking whether a designer who sticks to a formula will sooner or later tire her audience out.
Fall/Winter 2020 Paris Menswear Report – Part I
Once again the fashion horde descended on Paris, the city of great beauty and inconvenience, to see what the best of menswear designers would offer.
Jil Sander, Telfar, and Random Identities at Pitti Uomo
As a reader of this magazine you may not be familiar with Pitti Uomo, the largest menswear trade show in the world that takes place in Florence twice a year, right before the Milan fashion week.
Daniel Miller on Mute Records and STUMM433
In 1978 in London the young musician by the name Daniel Miller recorded two songs, “T.V.O.D.” and “Warm Leatherette” under the moniker The Normal.