On Wednesday, for the first time in over seven months, sneakerheads put aside their love-hate relationship with Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, and resumed a love-hate relationship with his Yeezy sneaker brand—which is to say, loving to buy them and hating to miss out.
WHILE WE MAY not be the biggest fans of Kanye and Kim Kardashian West, we are very much longtime fans of Axel Vervoordt. In fact, we once wrote a piece about how the Belgian designer and the musician met (How Kanye West met Axel Vervoordt, This Is Glamorous, April 26, 2018) ...
25 of our favourite tracks from the Playlists of 2019, including Bon Iver, Billie Eilish, Angel Olsen, Sharron Van Etten and many more. A big, big thank you to everyone who has supported the Playlist this past with purchases made at The Shop.
Francis And The Lights, the synth-pop project of the musician known as Francis Starlite, has a new album coming out later this year called Take Me To The Light, the follow-up to 2017’s Just For Us.
Dev Hynes has returned to Negro Swan – the latest album under his Blood Orange moniker, released back in August — for a remix of “Smoke,” the project’s closing track.
In this instalment of TIG TV: we find out what true love really is, and discuss the legacy of Anthony Bourdain;...
In this instalment of TIG TV, we remember Aretha Franklin; take at look at the Monocle Quality of Life Survey 2018; wonder whether tourism has killed Dubrovnik; create feeling with Frank Gehry; take a look inside the Nicaraguan town resisting President Daniel Ortega; learn what a conductor actually does on stage; visit the real life ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and as always, much much more. –P
Over coffee before work this morning, P and I were discussing Kanye West’s most recent mad twitter rants, in which he also shared a few photos of his Hidden Hills home that he designed with Belgian collector, curator, designer and antiquarian Axel Vervoordt.
In this instalment of TIG TV: a taste of Tuscany and an exploration of how to make the perfect city; the art of creativity and connecting humanity through art, a look at how our past influences our present; Malcolm Gladwell explains where his ideas come from; Paulo Coelho shares his Top 10 Rules for Success, and as always, much much more.
Welcome to a special holiday edition of our Weekly Playlist. Pour yourself a glass of wine and take a seat by the fire and enjoy our carefully selected mix of melancholic winter-themed and Christmas tracks and reflect on the year gone by. Happy holidays! --P.F.M.
In this week’s edition of TIG TV we take a look at Jack Nicholson’s acting, Ryan Reynold’s & Jake Gyllenhall’s most...
Dev Hynes directed and edited the clip, which captures the singer/songwriter playing instruments in an empty apartment and an assortment of dancers showcasing their moves on rooftops. Hynes also appears in front of the flag of Sierra Leone, which is painted on a wall. The album borrows its name from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone where Hynes' father was born.
