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Run-DMC released My Adidas in 1986, and adidas signed the group to an endorsement deal soon after. A rap group selling sneakers by rapping about them sits close to the center of everything here. Clothes pick up meaning from music, art and the street, and the stories follow how. Dapper Dan remade luxury logos in Harlem. The Lo-Lifes built a scene around Polo Ralph Lauren in Brooklyn. Shawn Stussy signed his surfboards in Laguna Beach and then signed T-shirts the same way. Palace came out of London's skate scene in 2009. Virgil Abloh went from Off-White to Louis Vuitton, and Pharrell followed him there in 2023. KAWS turned a cartoon skull into the Companion figure. The money side gets the same scrutiny, from the Supreme drop to the resale economy, with attention to who did the work and who collected the profit.
Stories
Culture4 min read
Aimé Leon Dore and Teddy Santis, From Queens to Mulberry Street
A curtained shop on Mott Street, a Greek café on Mulberry and a forgotten 1989 basketball shoe. How a Queens kid built New York's most watched quiet label.
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Culture4 min read
Virgil Abloh, Off-White and the Age of Quotation Marks
An architecture graduate from Rockford put quotation marks on Nike, IKEA and Louis Vuitton. Five years on, the punctuation is still doing the talking.
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CultureFeature4 min read
How Hip-Hop Rewrote Menswear, From Run-DMC to Nigo
Shell toes, Harlem couture, boosted Polo and a Tokyo ape. How four moments in hip-hop took over menswear and never gave it back.
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Culture4 min read
Kith and Ronnie Fieg, From Stock Boy to Store Empire
Three pairs of Asics, 252 of each, and a cereal bar. Ronnie Fieg turned a sneaker buyer's eye into one of the most watched retail brands in the world.
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Culture4 min read
Nigo After Bape, Human Made, Pharrell and the Kenzo Years
He walked away from the ape and built something slower. Then LVMH handed him a Paris house, and the stock market came calling.
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Culture4 min read
Supreme and the Rise of the Drop Model
A Lafayette Street skate shop turned Thursday mornings into a ritual, scarcity into a business plan and a $30 brick into a collectible.
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Culture4 min read
Palace Skateboards, the Tri-Ferg and London's Cheekiest Brand
A squat near the Southbank, an impossible triangle and a sense of humor nobody in skating could copy. How Palace made London matter again.
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Culture4 min read
JJJJound, the Montreal Mood Board That Became a Label
No captions, no logo worth mentioning, no noise. Justin Saunders turned a wall of saved pictures into one of the most trusted names in menswear.
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Culture4 min read
Stüssy, the Laguna Beach Signature That Started Streetwear
A surfboard shaper signed his boards in marker, printed the scrawl on a T-shirt and accidentally drew the blueprint for every streetwear brand that followed.
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Culture4 min read
KAWS and the Companion, How a Vinyl Toy Took Over Art
A Jersey City graffiti writer drew a cartoon with crossed-out eyes, sold it as a toy in Japan and ended up floating it across Victoria Harbour.
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Culture4 min read
Pharrell at Louis Vuitton, Three Years of Showtime
A gold bridge, a Wild West garden, a snakes and ladders board and a wave rising out of sand dunes. Pharrell runs Vuitton menswear like a headline tour.
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Culture4 min read
Inside the Sneaker Resale Economy, From Flight Club to StockX
A pair of shoes can change hands several times before anyone wears it. The machinery runs from the consignment wall to the authentication bench.
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