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INTERVIEW: SNOW PEAK LONDON

Japans legendary luminaries of outdoor clothing and purveyors of the outdoor way of life, Snow Peak have officially landed in London to a rapturous welcome. Their arrival in the UK has been well documented and hotly anticipated as the ‘heads' and outerwear aficionados discuss their inimitable qualities with candour and excitement on forums to hype sites, with an eagerness reserved only for the greatest of brands and product. The New Order were granted an audience with head designer and brand director Lisa Yamai, to discuss the intricacies and minutiae details that make this brand truly a one off /

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Jobe Burns - Mixing-Room

With London’s Frieze in full swing, we caught up with sculptor and spatial artist Jobe Burns who opens his latest work “Mixing-Room” during the four days over at NikeLabs’s 1948 Studio Gallery in Shoreditch /

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FUJI ROCK 2019 CHEMICAL BROTHERS

This years Fuji Rock was headlined by a number of stand out acts but perhaps the most telling of all was the performance of Chemical Brothers. Having reached there prime in the 90s and 2000s you possibly would have accepted a below par performance but this was an honest and true showing of there talent as musicians. Performing some all time classics along with a few new gems.

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Rick Owens - Glade

Award wining designer Rick Owens is no stranger to working in a variety of disciplines, along with his partner Michele Lamy they have broadened their fashion business to include art installations, furniture and their ‘Maison Objects’ collection. During both London Fashion Week and London Design Festival they opened their new exhibition Glade at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Mayfair we spoke with the projects creative force Michele ahead of the opening.

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INTERVIEW: MIINK

Hailed as one the UK most necessary emerging artists by DJ and Radio 1 presenter Benji B, Miinks soothing, soulful and introspective debut album Small Clan received critical acclaim for its genre spicing sonic backdrop mixed with D’angelo meets Prince vocal layers. We caught up with the west London native to talk about the modern music industry, Japanese fashion and his latest release “Miss me More” /

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The Art of Warez

THE ART OF WAREZ is a short film amade by multi disciplinarian artist and film-maker Oliver Payne & painter and ANSI expert Kevin Bouton-Scott, telling the story of the hitherto virtually unknown world of the ANSI art scene … while some of us were whiling away the hours listening to cassette players make ‘that noise’ as it audibly loaded your game on a Vic 20 or a Spectrum 48k others were inside the machines taking control in a parallel universe located deep in pixels and code.

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FIVE THINGS - SOY PANDAY

A true advocate of global perspective, Soy Panday has been looking to the horizon and letting creativity from all over the world inform his graphic work for years. As co founder of Magenta Skateboards with brothers Vivien and Jean Feil, Soy continues to push a more meaningful side to skateboarding.

We sat down with Soy at the tail end of Paris Fashion Week to get his “5 Things” /

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INTERVIEW: ADAM KATZ SINDING

A wonderer in the truest sense of the word, Adam Katz Sinding is an American-born and Copenhagen-based photographer who has innovated the world of street style documentary while traveling the globe in search of the perfect image. We catch up with Adam to talk about his latest book “Live From F*cking Everywhere” /

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GOOD HOOD X JOY DIVISION

In celebration of one of the most important albums of our time, as well as a landmark in music/design crossover history. London’s Goodhood have teamed up with the graphic architect of Joy Divisions seminal debut Peter Saville to create a capsule collection of curated items celebrating 40 years since "Unknown Pleasures" was first released /

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FEATURE: HAMADAWASHI "ZOKUZOKUSURU WASHI" EXHIBITION

Hamadawashi believes that the strength of washi is not only its robustness, but the flexibility and adaptability to last without deterioration for a thousand years. To verify that, their washi is used to restore international masterpieces including the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo's Last Judgment, Ukiyoe collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Louvre Museum collections.

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MR PORTER ‘The Japan Edit’ - Kazumichi Maruoka

Kazumichi Maruoka is an artist who marches to the beat of his own drum. Well-schooled in hardcore and punk, he works in pottery and illustration – his sculptural work revolves around ingenious, artisanal reimagining’s of the human skull . Born and raised in Hiroshima and now based in the outskirts of Tokyo, Maruoka finds himself most at home at the CPW skate store in Kaminoge – As part of the “Japan Edit” project in collaboration with luxury menswear retailer MR PORTER, we met up with him in the quiet residential area, and a somewhat surprising location for this hub of Mr Maruoka’s creative friends, who who share his passions in skateboarding, films and music /

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MR PORTER ‘The Japan Edit’ - Ino Hidefumi

Kyushu native Mr Ino Hidefumi moved to Tokyo in early 2002 with his wife Hiroko. After launching the successful café Tenement, they managed to build up enough revenue to back Mr Hidefumi’s dream of becoming a musician: in 2004 he put out his first single – a hit – and launched a record label, also called Tenement. Since then, Mr Hidefumi has released a series of albums, recorded exclusively with vintage instruments, which, he says give him “a sense of nostalgia”. His latest, Don’t Listen, Feel! Which was released at the end of 2018, is the first on which he’s picked up the mic and tried his hands at vocals. – As the final part of the “Japan Edit” project in collaboration with luxury menswear retailer MR PORTER, we met him in Jinbocho, a district famed for its used book stores, and Harajuku, in the renowned synth shop Five G

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MR PORTER ‘The Japan Edit’ - Lono Brazil III

Born a Japanese mother and American father, Mr Lono Brazil grew up between Japan and the USA before settling in Tokyo in his mid-20s. Now he serves as director of Union Tokyo – the latest outpost of the cult LA store, which Mr Brazil has been instrumental in making a success – while working with Nike to support local running communities in the city. As part of the “Japan Edit” project in collaboration with luxury menswear retailer MR PORTER, we met up with him at Union and the neighbourhood he remembers from childhood, just behind Yoyogi park /

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MR PORTER ‘The Japan Edit’ - Tomoki Takaso

Discussing fashion with Tomoki Takaso is never dull. Having worked for almost a decade at famed Japanese publication Huge, Takaso turned to retail when it folded, making the most of his eye for the avant-garde by opening Velvet, a vintage store now in its fourth year of business. As part of the “Japan Edit” project in collaboration with luxury menswear retailer MR PORTER, we met up with Tomoki in Shimo Kitazawa, an area that, aside from its wealth of vintage clothing, is known for its underground music scene and hole-in-the-wall eateries /

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