TI adores this snap of Henry and Isaiah and is not the least bit frightened of their very long knives.

In the wake of his awesome monograph "In Love With Beauty" ( Steidl)

Happy Thanksgiving from Purple from Purple Magazine on Vimeo.

But however does one get the signature ID wink in

News travels fast these days which is why TI is speeding the hiss hot from London that ID's 300th issue due this summer is a blockbuster affair with multiple covers.

Get into the kaledescopic Katja Rahlwes experience at katja.rahlwes.free.fr/

"Anything that triggers you to take a picture is a creative and personal decision . That is the moment that you're saying, I need that . I need to see more of that. This is what I've been looking for and no one else could give it to me . That's what makes your work specific. That's how people can recognize your work."

Katja Rahlwes in a conversation with TI

Aline Weber: One Mgmt: in ID Sept 08 PH Richard Bush via tfs

Elite's Daul Kim is looking like the new model ideal these days

Fiorucci Imagery

It is right there beneath the surface. Whenever TI looks at the kids on the streets these days with all that color clashing, all that kitsch all that vibrancy we feel the tremors of a Fiorucci comeback. Founded in 1967 in Italy by Elio Fiorucci to bring the style of Swinging London to young Italians, the New York off-shoot of the shop (in Bloomingdale's) during the 1980's saw the likes of Marc Jacobs and a young Madonna and ID mag's Terry Jones, gallivanting through the premises. You could fully sense the influence that Fiorucci aesthetic had on the early imagery of these generation-defining mavericks. Early Madonna was a walking Fiorucci pastiche and the early Marc Jacobs exhibited a penchant for kitsch that he later refined into a kind of jaded irony as he grew older. Also cruise any of the first 15 issues of ID magazine online and you'll see color strategies and graphic design motifs straight out of Fiorucci.
How NY needs a store like that once more! The amount of failed "Colette's" clogging the retailscape of NY cries out for correction. The Fiorucci comeback attempt of the late 90's was the wrong time and the wrong place but TI is convinced that if the brand doesn't sense its moment, a hundred imitators are about to raid its archives and make bank on all those fun ideas. Keep your eyes on those SS09 runways and you'll see what we mean.

"Agyness Is The Girl Of The Decade" Steven Meisel in ID Magazine: PH:Terry Richardson for ID May 08 via TFS

I hadn't left NY is almost two months which was quite unusual as the big grinding machine that is Gotham usually has me ground out after a three week cycle. But now that Spring is clearly here, I find myself running through the city streets excited, invigorated and stimulated. (Literally!) I love how the new kids are dressing now in those clashing colors, in that skintight silhoutte, with all that generation/seperating bravado. I see more eccentricity, daring and individuality than I have seen in a long time. I love Agyness Deyn , I love all these exciting new bands and DJ's bursting out of not only America and England but also from Germany, Canada, France and Australia. I love how much information you can glean from Google/MySpace/Facebook/Youtube and I love that every entrepreneur large and small gets into the viral marketing of that. In other words I love the time I'm living in, the late Zeroes.

U Mag and its Apropriation Issue

TI LOVES what the kids at U Mag are giving on the visual tip. Its post-Jamie Reid's ransom graphics (Think Sex Pistol) meets iD magazine's signature fonts , familiar but...within the times. Thanks Fabien of the audacious frillr.com for the tip off!

Rad Hourani's new website is way inspirational