The drums are the classic glass soda bottle in an isle of canned pops. Childhood friends, Jonathan Pierce and Jacob Graham, are the base of the catchy indie pop band The Drums. Since Summer Camp the band has not only added two new members, Adam Kessler and Connor Hanwick, but transformed every single one of their concerts into a 50’s dance party. Roll up your jeans, spike the fruit punch and get ready to wear out your oxford’s soles. Sputnik, who?
The London based brand Antipodium creates fashion for the fiercely individualistic, effortlessly cool and unapologetically confident crowd. Whoever that is. Antipodium’s Aussie creative director, Geoffrey J. Finch, has reflected his pop culture inspired surroundings, rural childhood and effervescent artistic neighborhood of Shoreditch into his creations. Antipodium is not only known for having on-point party wear and much needed basics with a twist but mostly for its playful use of Australian iconography and catchy garment names. Finch is infamous for his ‘No Romance’ parties, but his A/W 10 “Brides of Christ” Collection with sheer fabrics, asymmetry and velvet bodysuits has managed to overcome it. Amen.
Behavior’s music is not only a faint secondary image produced by a fault in an optical system or internal reflection in a mirror or camera. It is a compound of bewildering layers of amplified murmurs, ghostly synths, stringed shades and chamberous drums. The native New Yorkers Bryce Hackford, Ian Campbell and L.A transplant Khira Jordan are the culprits behind the slow pop that will leave listeners in a state of stunned confusion and bewilderment.
Dazed and Confused yet?
Shabd Simon-Alexander’s line is a system of millions or billions of stars, together with fashion and edge, held together by gravitational attraction. The young Williamsburg designer translates her obsession with outer space and psychedelic prints into her tie-dye centric collections. Leggings, bodysuits, scarves and totes that could only blend in on a seventies inspired psychedelic wallpapered room. The craftsmanship of the line is utterly obvious in her attention to fabrics and compositions. Each piece is unique and varied in color and dye pattern, which are inspired by Hubble telescope photos of worlds being born and stars dying. Let’s talk about spaceships?
Many collect records, some collect concert ticket stubs, and a few collect ex-boyfriends. I just collect favorite songs, such as “Collector” by Here We Go Magic. Luke Temple’s newest musical project goes beyond my usual crushing on the “newest cool-band”, it rapidly expanded into a pure overt musical favoritism. The muted psychedelia of “Pigeons”, Temple’s second LP and first album as a full band, is textured over crumbs of folky guitars and technological beats. The band’s colorful haze of half-conscious sounds is the eccentric compounded result of an analog synth, a cassette 4-track and a SM-57 Mic. Is there such thing as a mild fascination?
Photographer: Eileen Andrade
Stylists: Luiza Villar & Eileen Andrade
Model: Mariam Garcia
Photographer: Nicole Irizarry
Stylists: Luiza Villar & Eileen Andrade
Model: Mariam Garcia
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Diabetics beware, Twin Sister’s psychedelic cotton candy phonetics will sugar coat your ears. Although that might just be the object of my own perception. The Beat lyrics from the “Color Your Life” album are much like those unfinished letters with coffee mug stains that will probably never be sent. Andrea, Bryan, Eric, Gabel, and Udbhav are the dandy quintet with fully buttoned shirts and twee haircuts behind Twin Sister. The songs “ Ginger” and “All Around and Away We Go” are my latest addictions. My freckled heart skipped a beat.
Dusen Dusen is a Brooklyn based brand that is so sweet it might as well be served on a wafer cone. Every season Ellen Van Dusen looks through her round sunnies and throws a dart at her music festivals map. The Dusen Dusen S/S 10 collection of graphic prints, cropped tops and acid-wash denim is the staple line for the kids with the neon wristbands and 60’s haircuts. Dusen Dusen is with the band.
Pink Cobra has a typeface of thick strokes. Tania Martins is the dominatrix of fashion behind the hip fashion brand Pink Cobra. In the F/W 2010 collection the brand morphs classics into it-items, and the outcome is a contemporary LBD that is just as basic as Daisy Lowe’s outrageous outfits. Martin manages to give her clothes a subtle edge of an unrefined style. The brand’s bold vision and cunning approach is reminiscent of a Charlotte Gainsbourg song, sans le french accent et le cigarette smoke. Pink Cobra is a gunmetal fist in a leather glove. Pull the trigger.
Psychic Chasms is an intense vivid color swirling abstract pattern. Neon Indian’s debut LP sonorous imagery translates into lyrical hallucinations. Alan Palomo, also known for his work with Ghosthustler and as the artist Vega, is the artist behind the Austin band. Neon Indian started as a careless outlet for ideas too offbeat to fit the vega mold, but has since gone on to define a genre. “Sleep Paralysist” and “6669 (I Don’t Know If You Know)” are usually prescribed for expansion of consciousness. WARNING: Do Not Operate Heavy Machinery, Motor Vehicle or call your EX While Listening To This Album.
“Clean living under difficult circumstances” represents the Whyred philosophy. Whyred’s Inspiration is always drawn from the music and art scene, and in this case from The Who’s manager, Pete Meaden. The Swedish brand has kept faithful to the simplicity of postmodern aesthetics. The SS10 collection is the definition of the neo-minimalistic look, with a clean and modern impression striking a chord to a 90’s fashion revival. Blow the dust of your “Nevermind” album and come as you are.
Micachu is an alphabet soup, in which each letter is a new technological sound. Mica Levi is the young English musical talent that is behind the fictional and quirky Micachu. Michachu’s colorful experimental pop is drawn in neon colors. Songs like “calculator” and “Lips”, from the album “Jewellery”, are so bright that they will make you pull your Ray-Bans out. Can you hear Bubblegum pink?
Charles Anastase is a designer and illustrator based in London, whose collections seem to be tailored for a remake of a modern day Alice in Wonderland. His latest show was labeled after a 1970 quote from Yoko Ono, “John’s something more abstract.” Although his latest collection is ground breaking avant-garde, the Spring 09 RTW is still what I believe to be the zeitgeist of the brand. In collaboration with Linda Farrow the brand created the “Tennessee” glasses after the drummer of the band The Like, Tennessee Thomas. Tennessee’s style reflects the brand concept of a Muse that is “Naïve, spontaneous, abstract, gothic” so well, that it might just be that her closet is an actual Charles Anastase store. How do you know I’m mad?
Born and raised in the picturesque Illinois but now based in Los Angeles, Wren designer and founder Melissa Coker makes fashion for library-card-carrying hipsters. In a literary vein, the name Wren was borrowed from a Dickens character that made dresses for dolls named Jenny Wren. Quirky Brit cool meets Cali-girl on Wren’s Holiday 09 look-book featuring darling it-girls Alexa Chung and Tennessee Thomas. Slinky velvet skirts, light silk tops, shimmery frocks and dotted tights that are just so fitting in an underground dance party as in a lavish Jay Gatsby one. Can’t you just connect the dots on my legs?
