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The Reward System. Cooking with Master Chef Adam Dahlberg
The Reward System By Antonia Nessen For the print edition of our Head Piece issue, we wanted to cook lamb’s brain and teamed up with the master chef Adam Dahlberg. He agreed to meet us in his restaurant kitchen in Stockholm. This was the first time cooking lamb’s brain for Adam Dahlberg. The organ is […]
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Bohemians of the past. Artistic conflicts in fin de siècle-Europe
Fashion is riddled by contradictions, defined by the constant tension between surface and content, reaching into the future by continuously reinventing its past. This paradox was especially present during the turn of the last century, when rural and pre-industrial life swiftly (but in no way easily) gave way to a more modern existence, defined through urbanity, fashion and new media. By Philip Warkander.
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Interview: Dynamic and Melancholic Harmonies from Hell
Miriam Eriksson Berhan and Johanna Eriksson Berhan are Taxi Taxi! The duo from Stockholm started their collaboration in 2005 and have successfully been making beautiful music ever since. The first self-titled EP “Taxi Taxi!” was released in 2007 and found its way into the musical world through the use of Myspace. Miriam and Johanna have come a long way since then and are now playing concerts around their native Sweden for what is an increasing number of followers fascinated by their somewhat magical performances. Photography by Victoria Loeb and interview by Martin Gustafson. Click to read more.
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Exquisite corpse. Interview with Artist Asger Carlsen
Nothing disturbs us more than our own bodies. Their tendency to break down, their weird smells and shapes, the inevitability that they will decline and eventually decompose and disappear. Nietzsche described it as the root of ugliness. “What does man hate?” he asked, ready with a catalog of the body’s potential failures: heaviness, exhaustion, convulsions, paralysis – the smell, color and form of decomposition. “There is no doubt about this: man hates the twilight of his own type.” By Julie Cirelli
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A Fashion Intellectual. Interview with Caroline Evans
Fashion historian and theorist Caroline Evans has described herself as someone who lives very much in her head. But as she explains in this email interview, her interest has always been in applied rather than pure theory, as it relates to contemporary visual culture. She also loves interacting with the students at Central Saint Martins, where she is Professor of Fashion History and Theory. In her now iconic study of fashion in the 1990s, ‘Fashion at the Edge’, she used theory as a set of tools for thinking, drawing equally on images, objects, and ideas. In her new book, ‘The Mechanical Smile’, she traces the earliest history of the fashion show, a topic that is basically unexplored within fashion studies. In the process, she also found herself dealing with the idea of fashion as a situated, embodied and spatial practice. Fleeting moments of lived experience – the walk, the smile, the pose, the gestures, the attitude. Interview by Maria Ben Saad
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Sharing Brain Space. Interview with director Ry Russo-Young
Interview with filmmaker Ry Russo-Young. By Antonia Nessen
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Interview with Cover Star Courtney Love
I was once taken to an amazing dinner at Billy Wilder s apartment and he told me I reminded him of Carole Lombard. I was rather shocked that such an auteur thought of me as funny. Interview with Courtney Love from the latest issue.
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GOD 2. A Short Story by Black Market Boo
A short story by Black Market Boo from our latest print issue. Photography by Ninja Hanna and fashion by Hanna Holmgren.
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Trying and Failing. On Ann-Sofie Back by Philip Warkander
Since the launch of her eponymous brand in 2001, followed by the more commercially motivated Back in 2005, Ann-Sofie Back has incorporated materials that aren’t what they first appear, and worked with details deliberately set out to confuse. This tactic of confusion and playful disorientation challenges two of the most fundamental concepts within fashion theory: “distinction” and “imitation.” By Philip Warkander
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Out Now! Issue 6 is dedicated to Designer Ann-Sofie Back
For this issue, we also decided to take a closer look at designer Ann-Sofie Back without letting her know anything about our plans. We contacted her closest friends, colleagues and collaborators, and had paparazzi photographers follow her every move around Stockholm.
