Flexing With Fela

When you mix New Yorkers Flizzo, Opt, Jay Donn, Sedo + Danny, contorting their bodies in their east Brooklyn style of street dance called flexing, made famous by the 2013 documentary, ’Flex Is Kings’, with the afrobeat sound invented by Nigerian Fela Kuti, you get short ‘Fela Flex’ directed by Dominick Sheldon.  Shot in a dark studio space, […]

How To Wear The Cage Of A Champagne’s Cork

Inspired by the cage of the Champagne’s cork, jewelry designer Isla Fontaine’s ‘Cage Ring’ is sure to spark up conversation wherever you go.  As Fontaine’s first fine jewelry piece, you can’t help but be in awe of the look of this ring. Handcrafted by Italian goldsmiths, this beautiful ring features a stunning amethyst stone within a gold […]

Jeremy Scott’s Continues To Have Fun With Moschino For Pre-Fall

For Moschino’s Pre-Fall collection, Jeremy Scott once again triumphed in having fun with the label, but this time, by dumping out the Atelier like a purse + finding inspiration in everything contained therein.  There were gowns with yellow measuring tape ruffle + bow details as well as a cute jacket with large graphic numbers trailing […]

Jonathan Turner’s ‘Dark Matter’ Plays With Light + The Color Black

‘Dark Matter’, Jonathan Turner‘ digital film homage to painter Pierre Soulages, you get to experience how the famous artist’s all black paintings play with light.  By using only black paint (below), according to NOWNESS, the oft-namedropped nonagenarian artist manipulates the spectrum of light bouncing off the surfaces of his works, in turn conceiving a new shade of his own, […]

Killer Makeup Collabo With Yazbukey + Shu Uemura

I simply love both French jewelry designer Yaz Bukey + Japanese makeup brand Shu Uemura + in finding out the two are collaborating on a special capsule collection, I gasped.  Not only do I love Bukey’s designs, drowning in pop culture goodness but Shu Uemura’s products are just amazing. The 34 collection, set to drop […]

FKA twigs Seduces + Hypnotizes In New Video ‘Pendulum’

Wake up to the haunting vocals of FKA twigs in her self-directed video for ‘Pendulum’.  Off last year’s ‘LP1’, in this video, you see twigs suspended in the air, tied up with rope + her own hair, Kinbaku/Shibari style, which is the Japanese form of erotic bondage, to then be swallowed up by a cool […]

REVIEW: ‘Mexico’ Album By Gus Gus

There’s nothing I love more than an artist with range + Gus Gus is definitely in that category.  To hear just one sound + one voice, tends to grow weary on the listener no matter if you’re looking back or looking forward, and their ‘Mexico’ album is just that, especially with twenty years of an evolved repertoire […]