Genetic Denim Wants You to “Be You”
The brand Genetic Denim has always focused on being more than just the jeans you wear. Genetic is a lifestyle, a mental state, and a way of being that permeates all aspects of their customers’ lives, while simultaneously honoring the [...]
Tags: Be You, Emily Kirkpatrick, Genetic Denim, Tasya Van Ree, The Wild Magazine
In Case You Missed It, the Fourth Week of May
Here’s what we’ve been paying attention to this week In case you missed it, “This war, like all wars, must end.” This was a key takeaway in a signature policy speech by President Obama on Thursday at the National Defense [...]
Tags: Blaine Skrainka, Headlines, ICYMI, In Case You Missed It, news, Politics, The Wild Magazine, world
Art Basel Hong Kong: What to see
The international modern art fair, Art Basel, celebrates its first year in Hong Kong this weekend with an overwhelming amount of exceptional work. Here are the WILD’s picks for what galleries and artists to seek out if you’re lucky enough to [...]
Tags: Art Basel, Art Basel Hong Kong, art fairs, Arts, Kate Messinger, modern art, olafur eliasson, The Wild Magazine, Vanessa Beecroft
Iggy & The German Kids / So Hard
“So Hard”—the inaugural track off the forthcoming album by Iggy & The German Kids, a collaboration of singer-songwriter Ignacio Uriarte and DTC Productions—opens with a slow thumping melodic bass. At the 16-second mark, Uriarte’s tenor croon comes in: “You come [...]
Tags: Claire Stern, DTC Productions, Freddi Todenhofer, Hubi Dahlem, Iggy & The German Kids, Ignacio Uriarte, music, music video, Roman Libbertz, The Wild Magazine, Tim Trachte
Matthew Stone’s Intoxicating “Armed Venus”
The new alliance between music and fashion has reached an apex with Matthew Stone’s “Armed Venus,” an orchestral composition mixed specifically for Gareth Pugh’s Fall 2013 collection. The arrangement layers acoustic violins on top of a droning bass for a [...]
Tags: Armed Venus, Bianca Ozeri, Femen, Gareth Pugh, Matthew Stone, the Asgarda, The Ukraine, The Wild Magazine
WILD Profile: Yana Toyber, Buzzing Sensations
Who: Yana Toyber Where she was born: Ukraine Where she lives now: NYC What she does: Visual artist What she’s currently working on: I am working on several projects simultaneously: EMBRYO, Which features Eva Fahler and her identical twin Mia [...]
Tags: ART, embryo, Eva Fahler, Kate Messinger, Mia Fahler, photography, the kiss, The Wild Magazine, visual artist, WILD PROFILES, Yana Toyber
Sounds in the Clouds v.05.13
This mix is about as schizophrenic as the weather has been in May, but if you are one that thinks a little crazy is a sign of good health, then strap in and get ready to launch. This is Sounds [...]
Tags: Annie Mac, Atoms For Peace, beats, Blaine Skrainka, Bondax, Chlöe Howl, CHVRCHES, Cyril Hahn, Denai Moore, Disco, Electronica, Foals, Four Tet, Geeneus, George Maple, hop hop, House, Indie, Jessie Ware, Katy B, Kelis, King Krule, Kings of Tomorrow, Koreless, London Grammar, MDNR, mix, mixtape, Moko, Mount Kimbie, Mr Little Jeans, MS MR, music, Pharrell, RAC, Remix, rmx, Robin Thicke, Ryan Hemsworth, Sandy Rivera, Say Lou Lou, Shit Robot, Snakehips, soundcloud, Sounds in the Clouds, T.I., The Wild Magazine, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Yacht
ØDD x Praxis’s Fluid Footwear
To celebrate ØDD’s first collaboration with footwear company Praxis, designer Judson Harmon produced a short film with artist Jason Akira Somma starring dancer Emmanuel Hunt. In the past, Somma has exhibited his work in many galleries, including the Guggenheim and [...]
Tags: Emmanuel Hunt, FW13, Guggenheim, Jason Akira Somma, Judson Harmon, Kasia Grabek, Leather Skate Boot, ODD, Praxis, The Wild Magazine, Theatre National de Chaillot
WILD Profile: Jake Emlyn, Hidden Intentions
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 just released my debut Mixtape [...]
Tags: Brooke Candy, east london, Electronica, Hackney, hop hop, Katie Chow, music, Olivia Newton John, pop rap, Riff Raff, Scandinavian Alien, The Wild Magazine, The Wonka Hath Landed, UK, WILD PROFILES
Rhye / Open [Bondax rmx]
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 Harvey Pearson’s clip for the [...]
Tags: Blaine Skrainka, Bondax, Harvey Pearson, Kaleidoscope, music, music videos, Rhye, The Wild Magazine
Titania Inglis Installation at Swords-Smith
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 sustainable design award winner, Titania Inglis, [...]
Tags: Abigail Doan, ART, Bike-to-Work Day, Design, Ecco Domani, Fashion, Milk Made, New York Design Week, NYCxDesign, sustainable design, Swords-Smith, The Wild Magazine, Titania Inglis
YSL’s Muse Holds A Couture Auction
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 fashion advocate jealous, with pieces [...]
Tags: Azzedine Alaïa, Christian Lacroix, Claude Montana, couture, Danielle Luquet de Saint Germain, Françoise Sternbach, French Union of Professional Art Experts, Gros & Delettrez, la saharienne, le smoking, Paco Rabanne, The Wild Magazine, Women's Wear Daily, YSL, Yves Saint Laurent
New York Design Week: tree wood at Socrates Sculpture Park
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 killer view and crafting contextually [...]
Tags: Abigail Doan, Architectural League of NY, Architecture, Arts, New York Design Week, NYCxDesign, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Wild Magazine, Toshihiro Oki, Toshri Oki Architects, tree wood
KOTOBA’s WholeGarment Knitwear
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 the brand’s philosophies behind the [...]
Tags: eco-friendly, Emily Kirkpatrick, Fall 2013, Knitwear, Kotoba, Language, Lindsay Mann, Melinda Danko, Spring 2013, The Wild Magazine, WholeGarment
The Journals of David Wojnarowicz
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 or violent art, often spoke [...]
Tags: 80s art, AIDS, artist diary, David Wojnarowicz, diary, Gay Rights, Journal, Kate Messinger, Nan Goldin, new york art, The Wild Magazine
Music To Start The Week With #086
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 cinematic appeal: morning, noon, afternoon [...]
Tags: Change, Diego Martinez, Fantasy, Feel Real, Indiana, Juveniles, Kissaway Trail, Krack, Kyle Andrews, Mikal Cronin, movement, MUSIC TO START THE WEEK WITH, Nørrebro, Shower with the Sun Shining In, Smoking Gun, So Far From Here, Soulwax, The Juan Maclean, The Wild Magazine, Touch Of Evil (Lady From Shanghai), Tunng, Villa Kang, WILD PLAYLIST, You Are My Destiny
Zach
Name: Zach Occupation: Student Seen: NW 13th Ave., Portland WILD Wish: To finish engineering school.
Tags: Drew Malo Johnson, Portland street style, Seen on the streets, Street fashion, The Wild Magazine
New Track: Gorgon City ft. Clean Bandit / Intentions
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 and cues up Nikki B [...]
Tags: Black Butter, Black Butter Records, Clean Bandit, Electronica, Gorgon City, House, music, Nikki B, The Wild Magazine, UK
The New Lipstick Feminists
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 a lot of black – [...]
Tags: Anna Cooperberg, bloggers, body image, clothing, Fashion, fashion bloggers, Feminism, feminist, New York, style, The Wild Magazine
In Case You Missed It, the Third Week of May
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 of the teeth and none [...]
Tags: Blaine Skrainka, ICYMI, In Case You Missed It, news, Politics, The Wild Magazine, world
Teja
WILD Face: Teja Blatnik Directed by: Joseph Isho Levinson Cinematography by: Livia Coullias-Blanc
Tags: Joseph Isho Levinson, livia coullias blanc, s models, silent models, Teja, Teja B., Teja Blatnik, the WILD, The Wild Magazine, thewildmag, Wild Faces
Junip, Walking Lightly – an Interview with José González
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 outfit is composed of percussionist [...]
Tags: Blaine Skrainka, Bo Hansson, Don Alsterberg, Elias Araya, Fields, Hannele Fernström, Interviews, Jan Johansson, Johanna Hedborg, José González, Junip, music, Sweden, The Wild Magazine, Tobias Winterkorn
Kendrick Lamar / Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe
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 from fans, critics, fellow musicians, [...]
Tags: acclaimed, Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe, church, dope, Good Kid M.A.A.D City, Hip-Hop, Joseph Johnson, Kendrick Lamar, music, rapper, review, The Wild Magazine, video.
New York Design Week: Doug Johnston’s Light Sculptures
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 and stitched cord since 2010. [...]
Tags: Abigail Doan, ART, Doug Johnston, ICFF, Lauren Coleman, Michael Popp, Mondo Cane, New York Design Week, NYC X Design, NYCxDesign, The Wild Magazine
WILD Profile: Neon Neon, Unplugged
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: Deep into a theatre production [...]
Tags: Boom Bip, Bryan Hollon, music, Neon Neon, The Wild Magazine, WILD PROFILES
London Grammar / Wasting My Young Years
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 is something inconsolable about that [...]
Tags: Blaine Skrainka, Electronica, Gary Jules, London Grammar, Mad World, music, music videos, The Wild Magazine, UK, video.
Amir and Cadeem
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: To throw a Jello party [...]
Tags: Mel Gordon, NYC Street Fashion, Seen on the streets, The Wild Magazine
New York Design Week: #CHAIRTRUCK by Uhuru
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 for the people – at [...]
Tags: #CHAIRTRUCK, Abigail Doan, ART, Brooklyn, New York Design Week, NY Design Week, The Wild Magazine, Uhuru, ulihee chair
Alice Proujansky: Taking Us Inside the Delivery Room
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 she was 4 and again [...]
Tags: Alice Proujansky, documentary, photographer, photography, photojournalism, The Wild Magazine, Tshepo Mokoena, world
Faster Pussycat! Ink! Ink!
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 Distortion. We spoke with the [...]
Tags: Exxxotic Tattoos, Gypsy Gentleman, Katie Grimmer, Laura Satana, Marcus Kuhn, Paris tattoos, tattoo industry, The Wild Magazine, Tin-Tin
Pizza, Mirrors and other art trends at Frieze NY
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 so it seemed at New [...]
Tags: Anish Kapoor, Arts, Frieze, frieze art fair 2013, Jack Early, Jeff Koons, Kate Messinger, Kehinde Wiley, marina Abramovic, mirrors, Nick Cave, pizza, Randel's Island, Takashi Murakami, the WILD, The Wild Magazine
The Corseted Loves of Aaron Burr
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, however, transcends the mere artistry [...]
Tags: Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Camilla Huey, Eliza Jumel, Harlem, House of Execution, Katy Perry, Morris Jumel Mansion Museum, Oprah, The Loves of Aaron Burr: Portraits of Corsetry and Binding, The Wild Magazine, Thomas Jefferson, Vice President
Moko / Hand on Heart
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 matched with an utterly classic [...]
Tags: barber shop, Blaine Skrainka, electornica, fade, Moko, music, music videos, R&B, The Wild Magazine, UK
WILD Profile: Naomi Clark, Free to Possibility
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 to lately: Well we have [...]
Tags: ART, FortMakers, Naomi Clark, paiting, The Wild Magazine, Venice Biennale, WILD PROFILES
My Night With the Mysterious Swaai Boys
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 Public Assembly, the surf rock [...]
Tags: Beach Boys, Brooklyn, Indiana Jones, Marielle Mondon, music, Paul Simon, Safari, Swaai Boys, The Wild Magazine
Alexander Wang’s First Balenciaga Campaign
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, emotional stance, greatly contrasting his [...]
Tags: advertising campaign, Alexander Wang, Balenciaga, Fall/Winter 2013, FW13, Kristen McMenamy, Steven Klein, The Wild Magazine
A Step in the Right Direction
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 day as I saw the [...]
Tags: Avaaz, Bangladesh, Blaine Skrainka, C&A, Clean Clothes Campaign, Dhaka, factory collapse, Fashion, Gap, H&M, Human Rights, Inditex, IndustriALL Global Union, Ineke Zeldenrust, International Labour Organization, labor rights, Primark, Rana Plaza, slacktivism, The Wild Magazine, UNI Global Union, Walmart, workers rights, world, Zara
A Survivor Feels the Sunlight Again, Dhaka
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 was trapped in the basement [...]
Tags: AFP, Bangladesh, Bangladeshi garment workers, garment workers, Getty, Human Rights, photography, textile industry, The Wild Magazine, workers rights
Lorde / Royals
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 for “Royals,” shot back home [...]
Tags: Blaine Skrainka, Lorde, music, music videos, New Zealand, The Wild Magazine
Diego
Name: Diego Occupation: Fashion Student Seen: Avenida Catedral, Barcelona WILD Wish: To be as successful as I can be in the world of fashion.
Tags: Barcelona Street Style, Oliver Hinds, Seen on the streets, Street fashion, The Wild Magazine
Music To Start The Week With #085
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 will spice up your whole [...]
Tags: Aghori Diet, AM & Shawn Lee, ASTR, Believe, Blondie, Diego Martinez, Goldroom, Grandchildren, Heart Of Glass, Homeless, Kriget, Lee Bannon, Mereki, MUSIC TO START THE WEEK WITH, Oliver, Only You Can Show Me, Operate, Rellahmatic, Smith Westerns, Softwar, Soledad Vélez, Sunrise, The Wild Magazine, Thee Mike B, Two Times, Varsity, WILD PLAYLIST
Riccardo Tisci Goes to the Ballet
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 chance to design costumes for other [...]
Tags: Beyonce, Bolero, Givenchy, Madonna, Paris Opera Ballet, Riccardo Tisci, Rihanna, The Wild Magazine
An Interview with Dark Soul-Dream Pop Singer, Chrysta Bell
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 with Chrysta about her musical [...]
Tags: Chysta Bell, David Lynch, Interviews, Jordannah Elizabeth, music, The Wild Magazine
Our life is precious like yours, and our dreams are precious too
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 feel uncomfortable — it haunts [...]
Tags: Bangladesh, Bangladeshi garment workers, garment workers, Human Rights, photography, Taslima Akhter, textile industry, The Wild Magazine, TIME, workers rights
Ashaloo Jewelry Pops On Stage and Off
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 brass and copper headpiece and [...]
Tags: Anna Cooperberg, Asha Maddali, Ashaloo, Concerts, designer, Foreign Archives, handmade, headpieces, Jewelry, Lower East Side, made in ny, music, Music Festivals, New York, SXSW, The Wild Magazine
Luis
Name: Luis Ocupation: Criminology Student Seen: Calle Alcala, Madrid WILD Wish: To play in the NBA.
Tags: Madrid Street Style, Paulo Cesar Hernandez, Seen on the streets, Street fashion, The Wild Magazine
The Stepkids / Suit and Tie
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. It is pretty much R&B/pop [...]
Tags: (RED), confined, cover, Jay-Z, Jazz, Joseph Johnson, Justin Timberlake, lounge, music, pop, R&B, Rap, review, singer, songwriters, Stones Throw, The National, The Stepkids, The Wild Magazine, trio, video.
Live Shots: Little Boots + Avan Lava + Feathers
“I’ve decided it’s better to try and get it wrong than not try at all,” said Victoria Hesketh, aka Little Boots, onstage at Music Hall of Williamsburg. “That’s my new motto.” The U.K. dance-pop artist celebrated the long-awaited release of [...]
Tags: Avan Lava, Feathers, Katie Chow, Little Boots, Live Shots, music, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Nocturnes, The Wild Magazine, Victoria Hesketh
Nicolas Ghesquière Speaks
After six agonizingly quiet months, Nicolas Ghesquière finally speaks about his abrupt departure from Balenciaga. The designer opens up to System Magazine’s Jonathan Wingfield about his worthy reasons: the poor communication within the brand, how his innovation became stifled by [...]
Tags: Alexander Wang, Balenciaga, Bianca Ozeri, Jonathan Wingfield, Juergen Teller, Nicolas Ghesquière, Nicolas Ghesquière leaving Balenciaga, System Magazine, The Wild Magazine
The National / Sea of Love
No, that’s not Peter Dinklage, it’s just a really cool little kid rocking out with none other than The National. The band teamed with director Sophia Peer as they stuffed into a closet to pay homage to the hilarious claustrophobic [...]
Tags: Blaine Skrainka, Indie, indie rock, music, music videos, Sea of Love, The National, The Wild Magazine, Zvuki Mu
