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  • “There’s a line in the Norm Macdonald film Dirty Work, where Chris Farley’s character (a bar regular with a bad attitude) says: “In the land of skunks, the man with half a nose is king.” While his character is, in fact, missing half his nose, the line also defines his motivations and attitudes. We believe that this philosophy can also be extended to sneakers: In the land of ever-scarcer and more visible collaborations, the humble general release is king.”

    – A sneakerhead’s heartfelt ode to the general release in HIGHSNOBIETY 🤔🤔💌💌

  • Dev Hynes Collaborates with OAMC and Adidas on a Capsule Collection

    Under the music moniker Blood Orange, Devonté Hynes has spent the last decade softening the strident ego of mainstream pop with the wistful jazz and new wave tones, as well as musings on identity, belonging, and vulnerability, on albums such as Cupid Deluxe or Negro Swan. Singer, songwriter, producer, and director Hynes, who goes by Dev, brings his solitary sensibility to his other projects, too – whether scoring films and fashion shows, collaboration with visual artists, or, more recently, starring as the face of a capsule collaboration between adidas and OAMC, a menswear label founded by Luke Meier and Arnaud Faeh in 2013.More

  • “One might be forgiven for wondering whether such generational categories are anything but a pundit’s lazy approach to thinking about historical change. The imagined subject of “the generation” tends to be middle class, white, and liberal by default, while the hypothesis of generational identification serves to obscure the ways that our society is divided, especially by class and by race. In what sense is the life experience of a white Princeton graduate in 1995 comparable to that of an African-American Detroiter who attended community college and graduated in the same year?”

    Read more from Kim Phillips-Fein in DISSENT ✖✖✖

  • “A long process of erosion and attrition preceded the fall of the Wall. In my mind this is all tied up with the movement of the East-West Express, also known as the Moscow–Paris Express.”

    Ten years ago, on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, historian KARL SCHLÖGEL remembered its end as a series of events, shifts, and impressions – a whimper, perhaps, more than a bang:

    “In my memory, it is not the fall of the Wall on November 9 that I connect with the feeling that the old days were over in 1989 – that night, as ‘crazy’ as it was, was just the verification. It was the sanctioning of what had already been decided, beforehand and elsewhere. I connect the end of the epoch with other dates, other places, other people. They do not feature in the most recent master narratives.”

    READ MORE in The Black Marketeers of the Bahnhof Zoo (Summer 2019)

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  • “If West once imagined himself as a religious figurehead, now, in the wake of career-threatening turbulence, he’s assumed the role of humbled disciple. At least, this is the conceit of “Jesus Is King,” West’s new album and a document of an alleged spiritual awakening. Religion has always animated West’s music, in flashes: one of his earliest hits was “Jesus Walks,” and he described his record “The Life of Pablo,” from 2016, as “a gospel album with a whole lot of cursing.” In this new era, though, Christianity is his raison d’être. Kanye the luminary has become Kanye the missionary.”

    – Carrie Battan on Kanye’s move from self-deification to “maximalist, gospel-choir glory,” in THE NEW YORKER ⛪⛪⛪

  • JUST RELEASED 🔎🔎🔎 Rihanna’s 500-page visual autobiography. Rihanna follows the artist, performer, designer, and entrepeneur from the beaches of Barbados to her worldwide tours, featuring intimate photos of her life on and off the stage. Peep our favorites above or head over to THERIHANNABOOK.COM for one of three limited edition hard copies codesigned by artist duo The Haas Brothers:

    –  “This Sh*t is Heavy”: includes a custom tabletop bookstand 🏋️‍♂️

    –  “Luxury Supreme Edition”: signed by RiRi + The Haas Brothers and including and a “Drippy + The Brain” gold-plated bookstand 🏆

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    CHILD’S PLAY: Sasha Chaika’s shoot in an analogue uncanny valley 🎎🎎🎎

    or TREAT…

    MONSTROUS THOUGHTS: Earlier this year we asked Eugene Thacker whether we’re in a “New Golden Age” of horror film, what philosophy and horror have in common, and for a few of his favorite recent flicks.🐙🐙🐙

  • “While “sustainability” is a big buzzword in the fashion industry, it has now become so ambiguous that it’s lost its original meaning. “The problem is that no one knows what a ‘good’ value chain looks like,” says Sebastian Boger, partner and managing director at BCG and co-author of the Pulse report. “In this industry, we clearly have to differentiate between ‘less bad’ and things that make the current practices better.” More from Christopher Morency’s report on streetwear’s sustainability problem in HIGHSNOBIETY 👟👟

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  • “Whether the Ringgold-Picasso pairing inspires consternation or praise depends largely on how we conceive of the purpose of this gallery and, by extension, the Museum itself.” – Jack McGrath on the new MoMA in FRIEZE.

     

    “We did have slavery. Why should I get angry about Picasso?” – Faith Ringgold in 032c. Read the full interview HERE.

  • “What does solidarity mean in Europe today? I believe that we’re facing our moment of truth, and the truth is: in Europe, we don’t always get along as well as we like to think we do. This became clear with the Brexit vote. When I discussed Brexit with a group of parliamentarians and intellectuals from Great Britain, that’s when I grasped it: I really don’t understand them. My only explanation was that they must be crazy. Yet somehow that isn’t right either. We have held Europe together for a long time around a fiction of understanding. That’s the moment of truth: we do not understand each other at all. … There is no template for solidarity called the European Union. It’s still undefined. Now we have to talk about it again with respect to reciprocity, we have to mutually look each other in the eye and say, ‘I do not understand you.’ And then, ‘How are we supposed to move forward?’ That’s a good way to get back to Europe.”

    JOACHIM BESSING spoke to sociologist HEINZ BUDE on European solidarity in 032c Issue #36. CLICK FOR THE FULL INTERVIEW.

  • “Bruh. What the fuck? This ain’t no pool, your boy Guwop in the lagoon.”

    GUCCI MANE just dropped WOPTOBER II. Read the interview Gucci and see his shoot by Petra Collins HERE. Or get the Gucci Mane special cover IN PRINT. 📚

  • “To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all.”

    We salute HAROLD BLOOM, literary critic and champion of the autonomy of the aesthetic.

    Read Frank Kermode on Bloom, from the LRB archive, HERE.