IElegant, provocative and intellectually dressed to kill, Role Play reminds us that fashion reaches its highest form not when it sells clothes, but when it quietly dismantles certainty. The garments may change. The performance never ends.
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THE VILLAGE EFFECT
What happens when two young creatives arrive in New York with one suitcase, a camera, and no intention of behaving like tourists?
Everyone tells you to visit New York. Almost nobody tells you how to read it.
Over one unforgettable summer, a young photographer and creative producer wander between the East Village and West Village, discovering a city where every block feels like a film set, every stranger has a story, and fashion becomes the language of survival.
This isn’t another New York guide. It’s a stylish portrait of downtown through photography, fashion and cultural curiosity—where artists, musicians, hidden bars and legendary vintage stores collide with the effortless glamour of Manhattan.
Sharp, witty and visually driven, The Village Effect explores why New York remains the world’s greatest muse—and why the best thing you’ll ever bring home isn’t a souvenir, but a new way of seeing.
Fashion. Photography. New York. One unforgettable summer.
Mick Szal is part of New York’s new modelling ecology—not as a breakout story, but as a working presence shaped by repetition, rejection, and creative adaptation. Based in the Lower East Side, she moves through the fashion system with a rare clarity about its mechanics, where silence often replaces feedback and visibility is never guaranteed. Rather than mythologising her career, she describes modelling as process: unstable, physically demanding, and intermittently creative. What emerges is not a traditional success narrative, but a portrait of a model who understands the system from within it—and continues to navigate it without illusion..
THERAPEUTIC DENIM NYC
HE ESTABLISHED WWW.CACHOFALCON.COM AS A WAY TO SHOW HIS WORK AND MEANS TO CONTINUE GATHERING STORIES FROM OTHERS. FALCON DISCOVERED IT WAS MUCH EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO SHARE THEIR DARK EXPERIENCES WITH A STRANGER. HE RECEIVED MANY ANONYMOUS EMAILS FROM PEOPLE TELLING THEIR STORIES OF LOSS, HOPE, REGRET, AND LOVE, WHICH IN COMBINATION WITH HIS OWN PERSONAL STORIES, BECAME THE BASIS FOR A MASSIVE COLLECTION OF DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS.
BØSE BUBEN drops into Berlin’s queer nightlife where documentary photography stops behaving and starts participating. Between sweat, bass, and half-lit bodies, Andreas Rød’s lens and Arthur Sopin’s framing capture intimacy as instability — desire without explanation, identity without closure. Part Nan Goldin tenderness, part Berlin industrial edge, the work refuses clean narrative in favour of contact, friction, and fleeting exposure. Nothing is staged for comfort. Everything is held long enough to feel real — and slightly out of control.
” IS IT IMPORTANT TO BE A SEER? MAKE ONESELF A SEER? THE ARTIST BECOMES A SEER THROUGH A LONG, BOUNDLESS AND REASONED EXPLOSION OF ALL THE SENSES. ALL SHAPES OF LOVE SUFFERING AND ALL KINDS OF MADNESS. HE SEARCHES HIMSELF, HE EXHAUSTS ALL POISONS IN HIMSELF, TO PURE HIS UNIQUE QUINTESSENCES. A HEAVY TORTURE WHERE HE BECOMES AMONG ALL MEN THE GREAT PATIENT, THE GREAT CRIMINAL, THE GREAT ACCUSED ONE -AND THE SUPREME SCHOLAR! THUS HE REACHES THE UNKNOWN!… -THE ARTIST, A THIEF OF FIRE! “
“In an age of disposable playlists and algorithm-driven pop, Camilla Luna makes music that lingers. Blending Nordic electronica, avant-house and haunting vocal landscapes, she is quietly redefining what emotional club music can sound like—proving that vulnerability is the boldest move on the dancefloor.
Forget dopamine pop. Bastian Emil’s solo debut is all velvet darkness and existential glamour—a soundtrack for those who find beauty in the crash rather than the finish line.
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Frédéric Chaubin doesn’t photograph buildings—he photographs the dreams they were built to contain. Between forgotten monuments, cinematic landscapes and the poetry of concrete, the French image-maker reveals why architecture remains one of fashion’s most enduring sources of fantasy.
” FOR TRE ÅR SIDEN GJORDE JEG ET TYPISK POPUP DRAGQUEEN-SHOW PÅ FINCKEN I BERGEN. ETTER FORESTILLINGEN TOK JEG AV MEG KOSTYMET, BYTTET DET UT MED MITT AFTER SHOW-ANTREKK, OG SAMMEN MED NOEN “TRANSER” GIKK JEG OVER VEIEN TIL UTESTEDET GARAGE. INGEN AV OSS KOM INN, MED BESKJED OM AT ”VI SLIPPER IKKJE INN FOLK I KOSTYMER”. NÅ ER JEG UTESTENGT PÅ LIVSTID, MED SAMME BEGRUNNELSE. “
8. MARCH NIPPLE DILEMMA: HILDE MARSTRANDER
http:// HILDE: – 9. MARS BLE ET ULLENT SNAPSHOT FRA ET KUNSTFOTOSHOOT MITSU, ARTHUR, ANDREAS OG JEG […]
STEFAN HYTTFORS’ FUTURE TALK
DEN 19 MARS 2015 AVGJORDES RANDSTAD AWARD, VÄRLDENS STÖRSTA OBEROENDE EMPLOYER BRANDING-UNDERSÖKNING, FÖR ANDRA GÅNGEN I SVERIGE. STEFAN HYTTFORS ÄR EN AV SVERIGES MEST UPPSKATTADE FÖRELÄSARE. UNDER RANDSTAD AWARD PRATADE STEFAN OM AFFÄRSUTVECKLINGSPERSPEKTIVEN, FRAMTIDENS ARBETSMARKNAD OCH FRAMTIDENS LEDARSKAP.
THE EMPTY HAND OF INNOCENCE.TRANSFUSING STREET OF THE SORROWS
AND CHILDREN OF THE WOOD
HOUNDED, SHREDDING ALL VEILS. AND WINDING ALL SHEETS OF THE DEAD WORLD DRONING. OVERTURNING TABLES LADEN WITH SILVER SACRIFICIAL BIRDS. BEATING GOAT-SKIN DRUMS. ADVANCING WITH HANDS OUT-STRETCHED. AND WE KEEP FILLING THEM WITH MERCURY NITRATE, ASBESTOS
BABY BOMBS BLASTING BLUE
SCAVENGERS PICKING THROUGH THE ASHES. CHILDREN OF THE MILLS!
CHILDREN OF THE JUNKYARDS! SLEEPY, ILLITERATE, FUZZY LITTLE RATS HAUNTED, PAINT-SNIFFIN’, STONED OUT OF THEIR SHAVED HEADS
FORGOTTEN, FORAGING, MYSTICAL CHILDREN
FOUL-MOUTHED, GLASSY EYED, HALLUCINATING.
In Oslo, words rarely stay still. They drift through conversations in hotel lounges, echo across studio floors, and dissolve into the city’s informal rhythm of cafés, apartments and late-night exchanges. It is within this restless linguistic atmosphere that the practice of Unni Askeland takes shape—less as a fixed position than as an ongoing dialogue with the city itself.
Her presence within Norwegian contemporary culture has long been defined by this interplay between speech, image and persona. In Askeland’s orbit, language becomes performative material: sharp, improvisational, and often deliberately unpolished, reflecting a broader Oslo sensibility where art is inseparable from lived social intensity.
To speak of her work, then, is to speak of Oslo as much as of painting.
A night that begins in showroom melancholy and ends deep inside Oslo’s club circuitry—moving from curated fashion haze at Soyaaulait, through Jaeger’s late-night spill, to the kinetic pressure of The Villa. At the centre of it all, Berlin techno authority Ellen Allien and Oslo’s own Della reshape the dancefloor into something less like escapism and more like shared emotional infrastructure—where house, techno and human connection blur into one continuous pulse.
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” HAN VAR AV DENNE MANGEHODEDE OG BROGEDE SKARE AV VRØVLEKOPPER, ABORTERETE MISFOSTRE OG HALVDANNEDE VIKTIGPAVER SOM TROR DE VET ALT, DENNE LEGION SOM STRAKS OG PÅ ET BLUNK TILSLUTTER SEG ENHVER IDÉ SOM ER PÅ MOTE, FOR SÅ UMIDDELBART Å VULGARISERE DEN OG PÅ DENNE MÅTEN LIKE HURTIG LAGE EN KARIKATUR AV ALT DET SOM DE I NOEN TILFELLER MENER SEG Å TJENE PÅ DEN MEST OPPRIKTIGE MÅTE. “
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