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4 Jan

Beyond Music: Cult of Individuality Creates Recent Streams

Beyond Music: Cult of Individuality Creates Recent Streams
Greater than 14 years after Cult of Individuality began shipping to stores, founder and inventive director Ron Poisson is constructing on the music culture that the brand personifies by leasing the lounge and performance space in its Garment Center offices. When the three,500-square-foot space became available in 2021 at 260 West thirty ninth Street, he leased it and built it out for “an artist activation space.” The corporate was already accustomed to doing activations in its adjoining showroom and offices for 200-plus people. Stylists and musicians incessantly drop by to tug product, so Poisson is confident the audience is already in place for select rentals. Having allowed MTV, VH1 and a number of musicians like Toosii to make use of the space,...
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23 Dec

Extreme Cashmere Weather: Amsterdam-based Cult Brand Adds Warmth to

Extreme Cashmere Weather: Amsterdam-based Cult Brand Adds Warmth to
LONDON — The world of cashmere. Extreme Cashmere, the Amsterdam-based cult brand, has taken over Ssōne’s store on London’s Chiltern Street, neighbors with Andre Balazs’ luxury hotel and restaurant, Chiltern Firehouse, fashion label Casely-Hayford, and newly opened lab-diamond brand Kimai. Ssōne is a up to date women’s fashion apparel and lifestyle brand. The affluent street is the place for sustainable brands with a slow ethos. Extreme Cashmere has taken full rein of Ssōne for 3 months until February —  turning it into a colourful world of luxurious cashmere with the mannequins completely covered within the fiber. Some even have cashmere braided hairstyles in burgundy red and mud, which resembles a sandy blond. Inside Extreme Cashmere at Ssōne. Courtesy of Extreme Cashmere The brand experimented with Ssōne...
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3 Sep

Six cult fashion figures in dire need of a

Six cult fashion figures in dire need of a
LEIGH BOWERYFamed for monstrously flamboyant looks and controversial performance art, Leigh Bowery originally got here from a sleepy Melbourne suburb called Sunshine, before moving to London in 1980 where, after a short-lived stint working at Burger King, he made his name on the underground club circuit. Between nights at Heaven, Asylum, and his own lurid enterprise Taboo, Bowery began to radicalise his appearance, dressing his hulking 6’1 frame in gimp masks, towering platforms, and ratty pubic wigs. He’d carve holes in his cheeks for safety-pin piercings, gaffer tape his flesh into impossibly feminine silhouettes, and drip his bald head in hot glue. By day, Bowery designed costumes for Culture Club, Michael Clark’s dance company, and dabbled in art direction for Massive...
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