21 March 2012
14 March 2012
06 March 2012
02 March 2012
The Big Match
Art Director: Stefano Roncato.
Photographer: Oskar Cecere.
Models: Alex Sanchez, Jeff Thomas, Matthieu Inglese, Rodrigo S., Sebastian Slomkowski and Katya Riabynikina.
17 February 2012
13 February 2012
26 January 2012
16 January 2012
06 January 2012
29 December 2011
27 December 2011
Who Is This Boy?
Será que, os portugueses que têm talento continuam a viver todos no estrangeiro?
A verdade é que, muitos já voltaram e outros nunca chegaram a sair.
Portugal tem pessoas com muito potencial e com uma mentalidade muito cool.
Quero agradecer a todas as pessoas que continuam a acreditar no meu trabalho.
Vanessa MUITO OBRIGADO pelas palavras simpáticas que escreveu.
♡ ♡ ♡
Entrevista completa no site da Trend Alert.
25 December 2011
21 December 2011
15 December 2011
The Protester
Person of the Year Cover 2011 by Shepard Fairey - Time Magazine.
Probably most people don’t know that the person who appears on the TIME’s cover as Person of the Year belongs to the Arabic world (Egypt) and her name is Sarah Mason.
It was photographed by Ted Soqui during the protest at Bank of America (Los Angeles) back in November.
The message (99%) she wants to transmit through her vinegar saturated mask, to protect herself from the pepper spray that police could eventually throw, stands for the world population percentage that is not rich.
It was photographed by Ted Soqui during the protest at Bank of America (Los Angeles) back in November.
The message (99%) she wants to transmit through her vinegar saturated mask, to protect herself from the pepper spray that police could eventually throw, stands for the world population percentage that is not rich.
14 December 2011
07 December 2011
The Fall and Rise of Skateboard Chic
“When Supreme opened its London store this September, the young and well-heeled spilled on to the streets of Soho from a launch party many had queued for hours to get into. Inside, Ed Banger Records label owner and Parisian DJ Busy P rubbed shoulders with legendary skaters such as Jason Dill. This was more than good PR for the New York-based skater brand, recently worn in prolificacy by Odd Future’s Tyler the Creator. This was an event that marked a remarkable change in fortunes for a fashion once largely dismissed as the style concerns of waster teenagers.
Supreme started life in the mid-90s, when New York skating was at an all-time low. Companies were going out of business, skaters couldn’t afford to live off their sponsorship and the sport had developed a reputation for being popular among a nuisance generation of slacker kids. The idea that, a decade down the line, skater fashion would not only occupy a burgeoning corner of the market but also infiltrate high fashion must have seemed absurd. But that is what’s happened.
This spring PPR, the parent company of Gucci and Alexander McQueen, bought the Californian skate company Volcom in a deal worth $607m. The leap in Volcom’s stock to $24.39 from $19.73 when the deal was announced in May even prompted some law firms to take a closer look at it because they claimed shareholders weren’t getting a fair price.”
Read the full article at The Guardian
06 December 2011
29 November 2011
Generation Sell
EVER since I moved three years ago to Portland, Ore., that hotbed of all things hipster, I’ve been trying to get a handle on today’s youth culture. The style is easy enough to describe — the skinny pants, the retro hats, the wall-to-wall tattoos. But style is superficial. The question is, what’s underneath? What idea of life? What stance with respect to the world?
Previous youth cultures — beatniks, hippies, punks, slackers — could be characterized by two related things: the emotion or affect they valorized and the social form they envisioned.
So what’s the affect of today’s youth culture? Not just the hipsters, but the Millennial Generation as a whole, people born between the late ’70s and the mid-’90s, more or less — of whom the hipsters are a lot more representative than most of them care to admit. The thing that strikes me most about them is how nice they are: polite, pleasant, moderate, earnest, friendly. Rock ’n’ rollers once were snarling rebels or chest-beating egomaniacs. Now the presentation is low-key, self-deprecating, post-ironic, eco-friendly.
The millennial affect is the affect of the salesman. Consider the other side of the equation, the Millennials’ characteristic social form. Here’s what I see around me, in the city and the culture: food carts, 20-somethings selling wallets made from recycled plastic bags, boutique pickle companies, techie start-ups, Kickstarter, urban-farming supply stores and bottled water that wants to save the planet.
Bands are still bands, but now they’re little businesses, as well: self-produced, self-published, self-managed. When I hear from young people who want to get off the careerist treadmill and do something meaningful, they talk, most often, about opening a restaurant. Nonprofits are still hip, but students don’t dream about joining one, they dream about starting one.
The small business is the idealized social form of our time. Our culture hero is not the artist or reformer, not the saint or scientist, but the entrepreneur. (Think of Steve Jobs, our new deity.) Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurship comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.
Read the full article at The New York Times
22 November 2011
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