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The Real-Life Wardrobe of Thundercat, Who ‘Fangirled Hard’ at a Rick Owens Show

The Real-Life Wardrobe of Thundercat, Who ‘Fangirled Hard’ at a Rick Owens Show

Published by Jenni Sidey

When I ask Thundercat what his life was like before music, he shrugs. “There is nothing prior to music,” the funk virtuoso tells me. Fair enough. Thundercat, born Stephen Lee Bruner, is a Grammy-award winning bassist was raised in Compton in a household full of drummers—his father was a drummer for some of Motown’s finest acts, and his mother was also a percussionist and flautist. His brother, Ronald Bruner Jr., has played for Kamasi Washington, Snoop Dogg, and Kendrick Lamar; both Bruner brothers appeared on To Pimp a Butterfly. So, why did Thundercat gravitate towards the bass? “That’s a million-dollar question,” he quips. “I don’t know, maybe I just didn’t want to do what everybody else was doing in the house.” After some years of studio work playing for others, Thundercat blossomed into a solo artist, releasing his debut studio album, The Golden Age of Apocalypse, in 2011. His music is complex, funky, challenging yet accessible, and owes its sound to his myriad influences taken from the historically rich tones of black music: jazz, hip-hop, …

31 Novel Ways to Wear Leather This Winter

31 Novel Ways to Wear Leather This Winter

Published by Jenni Sidey

Leather, in any form, feels charged, which is also what makes it such a taste-defining outfit ingredient. Some hardcore fashionheads (looking at you, Rick Owens stans) prefer for the textile to be the main dish, making up every element of a look to a high-BPM effect. Or, in an all-leather look, you can channel a dungeon dweller, a biker dude, or a dashing ranch hand—or just look devastatingly cool and tough. If the head-to-toe leather look isn’t for you, the material can still pack a punch in smaller doses. Say, a pair of sleek black gloves, or a broken-in moto jacket, or an unconventional leather button-up shirt with a thick matching necktie to boot. Not to mention the power of a Law Roach-caliber exotic Birkin or a briefcase. Feeling leather curious? Here’s how the showgoers at Paris Fashion Week had fun with their leatherware. Source link

Rick Owens Found Your Next Haircut: Meet the ‘Skullet’

Rick Owens Found Your Next Haircut: Meet the ‘Skullet’

Published by Jenni Sidey

This is an edition of the newsletter Show Notes, in which Samuel Hine reports from the front row of the fashion world. Sign up here to get it free. On Thursday morning, exactly five minutes before the Rick Owens show was scheduled to start in Paris, the designer introduced me to a quiet artist from Berlin named Bernardo Martins. Martins, whose online moniker is Figa.Link, uses AI to create vivid and unsettling portraits of people with sunken cheeks, hardcore face piercings, and mullets. But these are not e-boy mullets. They are much more alien and architectural, with blunt bangs and rainbow tails. Some are aggressively reversed (party in front, business in the back). Others are spiky and scary, or wavy and wild. He calls his signature look “skullets.” “They’re really beautiful,” Owens said. “How did you describe my work earlier?” Martins asked. Owens paused to think. “Savage,” he replied. “Brutal.” Christina Fragkou Christina Fragkou Backstage, hair stylists were turning Martins’s digital art into reality, attacking wigs with scissors and dye and gluing tendrilly hair extensions …