Pure NY street flavour

You have to pop over to the NY Times Style section and listen to Mr Cunningham's hilarious audio commentary on the ever dropping pants on the black and Latino kids of NY. TI finds it criminal that there's not a "Collected Works" of Cunningham's street images. They are pure NY history!

As Three As Four As one

assume vivid astro focus had a banging kick off for their new exhibit " Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious)" at Deitch Studios Long Island City and artist Jayson Keeling was there to cover the ...err "vivid" proceedings. Here's his eyewitness report:

Editorial!

I love that this boy works Crown Heights in looks such as these. Paris is waiting!

Quite Butch queen realness in athletic heels , no?

TI's fascination with NY style mavericks Hood By Air is pretty self-evident. They are like a new chapter in the myth of New York living in the grand tradition of boomboxes and breakdancing, vogue balls and languorous summer days spent on handball courts. I hear the music of New York night clubs when I see their clothes which is practical and flamboyant, sportif and conceptual, plus I love their homemade videos which always has me in stitches. I caught up with Shayen, one of the architects of HBA , where he schooled me to the ways and by-laws of a taste point called Hood By Air.

Is New York "late" right now next to London and Berlin ? Is there hope for NY to snatch the moment back?

No, never that. London has its cocky sensibility. We're realist... or too conservative lol. From a New York point of view, I feel like they have this way of complicating expression, or at least mocking it in a way that comes off as pompous...even late. We are everyday show queens, whereas they're queens that put on a show. Which is pretty cool both ways.NY is coming back though, We always birth the urban renewal.

From HBA I get a feeling of Nike but also of a vogue battle with a little vintage Gaultier...vintage Westwood.... Something Yohji is up in there too. I get many things. Am I wrong?

These are a few things that have been an inspiration, not necessarily reference... I love the sense of active restriction which I feel these inspirations embody.

Where do you all come from?

Todd: Boss Models: PH: David Bosman

That thing that Nike does with their vintage kicks. It's genius. Whether Air Jordans , Air Force Ones or Air Max, they're inevitable. Just ask Todd who exhibits an outstanding athleticism in this snap by Mr. Bosman, no doubt due to his all-purpose Nike's! I'm getting a pair tomorrow.