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WILD Profile: Jake Emlyn, Hidden Intentions

by: Katie Chow

Who: Jake Emlyn Where he was born: Homerton Hospital, Hackney, East London, England, UK Where he lives now: East London What he does: I do hip-hop pop-rap London-style. What he’s been up to lately: I have [...]

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Rhye / Open [Bondax rmx]

by: Blaine Skrainka

Kaleidoscope slplit-screen music videos are basically a commodity at this point, but it can still make for a nice little day trip if the imagery and track vibe. And I’d say that’s the case for [...]

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Hanging Gardens, Loudi City

by: The WILD

Liu Aicheng/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com A farmer tends to terraced paddy fields near Loudi City in central China’s Hunan Province.

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Titania Inglis Installation at Swords-Smith

by: Abigail Doan

At the conclusion of New York Design Week, we thought that it would be apropos to feature a fashion designer who creatively navigates the realms of art, design, and architecture with smart fluidity. Ecco Domani [...]

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YSL’s Muse Holds A Couture Auction

by: Jasmine Duarte

This coming fall, Danielle Luquet de Saint Germain will part ways with her extensive wardrobe once and for all, auctioning off more than 10,000 pieces of couture. The designers in her collection would make any [...]

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Maison Nue: 4 Girls, Unlimited Projects

by: Marine de la Morandière

Maison Nue is a hybrid. Creative studio, music lab, fashion brand… that and much more. Their motto, “Act like a lady, think like a boss,” speaks for itself. This multiplatform agency knows how to keep [...]

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How to Help Oklahoma Tornado Victims

by: The WILD

Dozens of people were killed, and many more injured, by a massive tornado that ripped though an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday afternoon. For logistical reasons, on the ground rescue teams are pleading for money [...]

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Captured Atmosphere

by: The WILD

Aaron Bondaroff was one of those characters seen at every major downtown party or event in New York in the early 2000’s. Back then, he’d been talking about starting a clothing label and was organizing [...]

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Kaleidoscopic

by: The WILD

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New York Design Week: tree wood at Socrates Sculpture Park

by: Abigail Doan

After a weekend of tromping around town, weaving in and out of galleries and showrooms – it is refreshing to discover a bit of folly in the urban landscape as a reminder that framing a [...]

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KOTOBA’s WholeGarment Knitwear

by: Emily Kirkpatrick

The knitwear brand KOTOBA focuses on merging technology and fashion with an emphasis on environmental responsibility. Lead designers, Melinda Danko and Lindsay Mann, named the line after the Japanese word for language, chosen to represent [...]

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The Journals of David Wojnarowicz

by: Kate Messinger

Artist, writer, and gay activist David Wojnarowicz was always one to be brutally honest. A prolific photographer, filmmaker and painter in the Lower East Side art scene of the ’70s and ’80s, Wojnarowicz didn’t shy from pornography [...]

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Music To Start The Week With #086

by: Diego Martínez

In case you haven’t wondered by now, we envision our Music To Start The Week With playlists as a sort of soundtrack for an entire period of seven days, as we feel every day has a [...]

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Zach

by: Drew Malo Johnson

Name: Zach Occupation: Student Seen: NW 13th Ave., Portland WILD Wish: To finish engineering school.

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New Track: Gorgon City ft. Clean Bandit / Intentions

by: The WILD

It’s been a rather dreary onset of spring here in New York City, so this new cut from Gorgon City has us dreaming of summer holidays in Miami and Ibiza. The single features Clean Bandit [...]

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The New Lipstick Feminists

by: Anna Cooperberg

Before she identified as a feminist, Caroline Shadood, one of the bloggers behind Broadist: Fashion for Broads, chose her clothing based on what she thought others would think of her. A size 12, she wore [...]

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In Case You Missed It, the Third Week of May

by: Blaine Skrainka

Here’s what we’ve been paying attention to this week Did somebody say scandal?! Scandals! It was scandal week for the White House and the media, which is sort of like Shark Week — with all [...]

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Teja

by: The WILD

WILD Face: Teja Blatnik Directed by: Joseph Isho Levinson Cinematography by: Livia Coullias-Blanc

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Junip, Walking Lightly – an Interview with José González

by: Blaine Skrainka

It took more than a decade for Junip to garner widespread attention in the indie music scene, but time and patience have paid off. In case the name is new to you, the three-piece Swedish [...]

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Kendrick Lamar / Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe

by: Joseph Johnson

Along with the phenomenal “Swimming Pools (Drank),” Kendrick Lamar’s “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe” was one of the standout tracks from his critically acclaimed debut album, Good Kid M.A.A.D City. The track has received praise [...]

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An Ugly Business for Young, Pretty Girls: Part 1

by: Niki Blasina

Crowds have gathered at Lincoln Center in New York on a cold February morning. It’s Fashion Week, the first of the four worldwide, and streams of impeccably (and some wildly) dressed fashion editors, bloggers, buyers, [...]

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New York Design Week: Doug Johnston’s Light Sculptures

by: Abigail Doan

There is no disputing that artist and designer Doug Johnston is the current darling of the craft/design world, locally so and far beyond. The Brooklyn-based maker has been creating baskets, sculptures and stools from coiled [...]

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WILD Profile: Neon Neon, Unplugged

by: The WILD

Who: Bryan Hollon aka Boom Bip of Neon Neon Where he was born: Lima, Ohio Where he lives now: Los Angeles, CA What he does: producer and recording artist What he’s been up to lately: [...]

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London Grammar / Wasting My Young Years

by: Blaine Skrainka

If you were to close your eyes and let the imagery of “Wasting My Young Years” take shape inside your mind, the hypnagogic debut video from London Grammar might be be a close match. There [...]

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Amir and Cadeem

by: Mel Gordon

Name: Amir (left) Occupation: Assistant manager at 55DSL Seen: Kenmare Street, NYC WILD Wish: A never ending supply of Ben and Jerry’s. Name: Cadeem Occupation: Student of “The Game” Seen: Kenmare Street, NYC WILD Wish: [...]

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New York Design Week: #CHAIRTRUCK by Uhuru

by: Abigail Doan

With NY Design Week now officially underway, we will be on the lookout for WILD sightings that lure us beyond sleek design showrooms and white cube repositories. Design should ideally be by the people and [...]

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Alice Proujansky: Taking Us Inside the Delivery Room

by: Tshepo Mokoena

Photographer Alice Proujansky already knew what childbirth looked like by the time she was in third grade. On two counts. She’d watched her mother push both of her younger siblings into the world, first when [...]

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Faster Pussycat! Ink! Ink!

by: Katie Grimmer

Laura Satana first tattooed herself when she was 14 years old and hasn’t stopped since. The owner of Paris’ Exxxotic Tattoos has inked Parisian rappers Booba, 25G, Nessbeal, singer-songwriter Julian Perretta and Jonny from Social [...]

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Pizza, Mirrors and other art trends at Frieze NY

by: Kate Messinger

Rainbows. Mirrors. Shiny stuff. Pizza. Paul McCarthy, Balloon Dog You could say these are a few of my favorite things, but that would be an understatement. These are a few of everyone’s favorite things. Or [...]

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Calm Before the Storm, Burma

by: The WILD

AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe Young Buddhist monks juggle a soccer ball on the beaches of Sittwe in northwestern Burma (Myanmar). Later this week Cyclone Mahasen is expected to land ashore; thousands of residents of Rakhine State [...]

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The Corseted Loves of Aaron Burr

by: Alicia Caticha

Fashion history comes alive in Camilla Huey’s famed garment district atelier, House of Execution, where she produces corsets for a wide array of famous women, from Oprah to Katy Perry. Her latest body of work, [...]

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Moko / Hand on Heart

by: Blaine Skrainka

London-based Moko is back in black and white for her second clip for the cut, “Hand on Heart.” Fans of Lulu James will be in love with Moko and her finely produced U.K. electronica beats [...]

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WILD Profile: Naomi Clark, Free to Possibility

by: The WILD

Who: Naomi Sarah Clark Where she was born: Boulder, Colorado Where she lives now: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn What she does: I am a painter and part of an art collaborative Fort Makers. What she’s been up [...]

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My Night With the Mysterious Swaai Boys

by: Marielle Mondon

An essential component of performance preparation for the Swaai Boys is procuring just the right amount of plants to decorate the stage and later flourish in the studio. Before its show last month at Williamsburg’s [...]

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Alexander Wang’s First Balenciaga Campaign

by: Jasmine Duarte

For Alexander Wang’s debut campaign as Balenciaga’s creative director, he played it safe. Leaving the editorial type advertisements for his own label, in his debut campaign for the house Wang went for a more cinematic, [...]

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A Step in the Right Direction

by: Blaine Skrainka

Allow me to be candid: navigating and covering the story of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh has been a quagmire for me, full of contradictions and more questions than answers. The other [...]

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Best Of: CUTLOG & Wish Meme

by: Kate Messinger

Though they might not have been held on their own private islands and only supplied plastic cups of wine instead of organic champagne in flutes, it was the smaller, underdog art fairs of this year’s [...]

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A Survivor Feels the Sunlight Again, Dhaka

by: The WILD

AFP/Getty Images Reshma Begum, a seamstress and mother of a young boy, was pulled out of the rubble of the Bangladesh textile factory collapse on Friday, 16 days after the disaster stole 1,125 lives. Begum [...]

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Lorde / Royals

by: Blaine Skrainka

New Zealand pop voice Lorde first crossed our radar indirectly with the awesome FFFRRANNNO remix of her single “Bravado,” and now we have her first official video to share with you. The Joel Kefali-directed clip [...]

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Diego

by: Oliver Hinds

Name: Diego Occupation: Fashion Student Seen: Avenida Catedral, Barcelona WILD Wish: To be as successful as I can be in the world of fashion.

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Female Zombie Shooting Target Triggers Backlash

by: Claire Voon

Zombie Industries discontinues its distasteful and misogynist shooting target product after critics question its close physical resemblance to real women.   In light of the torrent of backlash that target-manufacturing company Zombie Industries received for [...]

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Music To Start The Week With #085

by: Diego Martínez

We’re right in the middle of May and that can only mean Summer’s just a warm breeze away. Let’s all rejoice and welcome the hot weather with a brand new selection of 10 tracks that [...]

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Riccardo Tisci Goes to the Ballet

by: Jasmine Duarte

Riccardo Tisci, creative director of Givenchy, has designed his first ever stage costumes for the Paris Opera Ballet’s season opening production of Boléro. The Italian designer behind the French couture house has been offered the [...]

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An Interview with Dark Soul-Dream Pop Singer, Chrysta Bell

by: Jordannah Elizabeth

Chrysta Bell is a seasoned musician who recently had the rare and auspicious opportunity to work with film legend David Lynch for her new album, This Train. I had a chance to have a long conversation [...]

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BKLYN Designs Returns

by: Bianca Ozeri

Tomorrow marks the last day of BKLYN Designs, an exhibition of contemporary furniture, lighting, and accessories made or designed in the eastern borough. After a one-year hiatus, the show has returned for its tenth anniversary [...]

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In Case You Missed It, the Second Week of May

by: Blaine Skrainka

Here’s what we’ve been paying attention to this week In case you missed it, the Air Force officer in charge of the sexual assault prevention unit — for the entire Air Force — was arrested [...]

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Our life is precious like yours, and our dreams are precious too

by: The WILD

Taslima Akhter, a Bangladeshi photographer and activist, captured the final embrace of two workers at the Dhaka factory collapse. Of the image, Akhter told TIME magazine: Every time I look back to this photo, I [...]

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Ashaloo Jewelry Pops On Stage and Off

by: Anna Cooperberg

Asha Maddali sits at her desk draping a chain around a canvas head form. She whips a tape measure from around her neck, measures one chain and snips off the excess. She lifts up the half-finished [...]

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Luis

by: Paulo Cesar Hernandez

Name: Luis Ocupation: Criminology Student Seen: Calle Alcala, Madrid WILD Wish: To play in the NBA.

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The Stepkids / Suit and Tie

by: Joseph Johnson

Justin Timberlake made his return to the world of music with one of 2013’s biggest songs to date. “Suit & Tie” features Timberlake’s ravishing vocals, some saucy lyrics and a verse from the indomitable Jay-Z. [...]

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