METAL No 39 • 29th April 2023

Interview with Katharine Hamnett

"In the midst of an extreme right wing storm sweeping across the globe, Katharine has a plan to save our democracies. And it’s based on believing in people. But if you want to follow that plan, you have to be strong – Katharine doesn’t like chickens."

24th January 2020

Dear 2020, This Is Your Reality Check

Consumerist society is getting ready to face the consequences lead by political chaos, geopolitical turmoil, and long ruled practice of waste. Sore wounds are starting to fester. The child takes matters into her own hands while Kanye West turns to God. What's next for 2030?

MOTERIS • 20th September 2019

Fashion advertising and unwelcomed desire to own it all

This article analyzes the magic formula of current fashion advertising. What would you sell when everything's already bought? The answer is your simple, boring every day. A stone that valued $85 for medium-sized and slightly less for a small version had an instant sold-out at Nordstrom two years ago.

370 • 18th April 2018

Fashion victim: loosing one's mind

There's a depth behind the delightful fashion's surface and it is dangerous. Explaining the concept of victimisation in fashion system and how it leads to excess induced parody.

L'Officiel • 28th March 2018

Japanese outsiders that brought the "anti-" to the fashion

How the designers from the land of rising sun defined the alternative fashion system and why it changed the face of modern design beyond the recognition.

METAL No 38 • 20th December 2017

Interview with German artist Sebastien Bieniek

"As we speak, I realise that there’s this abnormal fascination with weirdoes, dropouts, outcasts, queers and provocateurs that we both share."

METAL Nº 38 • 25th October 2017

From Hardcore to Hard Dior

My interview with Dior Homme director Kris Van Assche and street art pioneer Dan Witz on how the hell it happened that Dior gone Hardcore. And Hardcore gone Hard Dior.

370 • 13th September 2017

Dress me like my babushka

Footsteps of "russkoe dusha" in current Post-Soviet fashion trend. Is this a joke or is it for real? Is it ethically problematic or is it culturally liberating?

PIBE Magazine • 8th September 2017

'Free Speech' issue 4 - autumn 2017

Essay on the work of Maxine Helfman and the idea of freedom of speech that lurks behind it.

370 • 12th July 2017

MODUS OPERANDI: fashion and subculture

Study on how and why fashion keeps on flirting aggressively with various subcultures throughout the times. Where does the sub-cultural appropriation begin? Where does the "exploitation" end?

370 • 10th June 2017

Review: Twin Peaks after 25 years

Unfolding the power behind Lynchoidian phenomenon.

TEETH, "Nature of the Beast" Spring/Summer Issue • 26th May 2017

OUTSIDERS DON'T JOKE

Interview with artist and outsider by heart Asger Carlsen

METAL 37 Spring/Summer 2017 • 11th May 2017

Old Masters / New Brushes

Does the history of art repeat itself? The curious case of Syncretism in the work of Cesar Santos.

370 • 9th May 2017

Fashion evolution: from bad taste to couture

Analytical piece on the concept of ugliness in contemporary fashion

MOTHER • 11th April 2017

SUSANNE OBERBECK: NO BRA

I talk to artist & performer No Bra about identity fluidity, intersectional feminism & power. A monolith in the current dystopian and drastically changing global political climate, Susanne appears to...

METAL Spring/Summer 2017 • 5th April 2017

Interview with painter César Santos in METAL #37 Spring/Summer

We know, we haven’t been very subtle. The eight covers of this issue are quite a statement – they unveiled our trick even before the game started. Let’s be clear....

MOTHER • 1st October 2016

Interview with body architect Lucy Mcrae

McRae is a futurenaut, she remaps the logic of futuristic (r)evolution of beings, lifting the foundations of self-proclaimed society impregnated with Darwinian comfort and laying them back as an incubated...

MOTHER • 1st September 2016

Life, death and Christian Dada in collaboration with Nobuyoshi Araki

I talked to the designer Masanori Morikawa of Christian Dada about his ethos, ideologies and collaboration with legendary photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.