As a kid, I religiously peeled the skins off grapes first. A bitter foil to the soft fleshened interior to follow, I bit them brief and swallowed whole as a sort of drum roll. That stark of a distinction between the skin and its grape body hadn’t existed again until this day… several decades later. […]
“Stevie Wonder is not a blind man; neither was Ray Charles. When you have imagination and can see things in the darkness, you are never blind.” Riz22 Robinson was born in NJ and grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He started running with the TAT CRU, a group of graffiti artists when he […]
After gazing at the clothes modelled in Calvin Luo’s fall-winter 2019 collection, three words seemed to outline for me most of the pieces: in alphabetical order, plaids-solids-stripes. They conjure up the lasting image for me, even though there were a few eyebrow-raising items that featured animal prints, the designer’s name in a series of patterns, […]
