While at his Miami studio, Pharrell sat down with GQ Mag and provided them with a few updates on what he’s been up to. Topics include his new book Places & Spaces I’ve Been, being a music consultant for the Oscars, his upcoming collaboration with shoe designer Mark McNairy, working on Jay-Z’s dedication “Glory”, BBC Girls, and more. Read an excerpt below and view the full piece here.
“GQ: On Rick Ross’ Rich Forever mixtape you rap, “Black boy scoring his life/ I’m scoring the Oscars.” How excited are you for this opportunity—especially since you’re still essentially a music nerd from Virginia who made it big.
Pharrell: I’m just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that’s the most important message. I answer questions the best I can. But most of the answers usually feel the same. And that’s just me being very appreciative of the opportunity, because, like you said, I’m from Virginia Beach, VA. I’m glad that I can exhibit what we can do.GQ: Academy rules won’t allow you to say what your current favorites are, but what are some of your choice Hans Zimmer-scored movies? He’s done plenty and won an Oscar for The Lion King.
Pharrell: The Dark Knight music was genius! I mean, Gladiator was great. Pirates [of the Caribbean] was great. But Dark Knight? That was, like, a whole different level of… Read more »
While at Community 54 for Taz Arnold’s in store, Jungle Gym caught up with the man briefly to speak about his opinion on east coast and west coast style, his music, and of course the Dr Romanelli collaboration. Shouts to the homie 40ozVan!
The Rocksmith team headed down to New Orleans for a spring 2012 lookbook video, shot by Lazlo and featuring the team of premiere skate boutique Madsoulz. Their chant of “Swag Gumbo” was exactly what we were thinking, so we scored the video to Clams Casino. The video features a clean selection including the Rock Lauren woven, Academy oxford hooded button up, Signature raw Japanese denim, and Heritage cotton twill Ninjas jacket.
Featuring: Madsoulz Crew (www.madsoulz.com)
Video by: Lazlo (www.lazlo.tv)
Music: Clams Casino – I’m God
I don’t know about you guys but I love a good, sleek looking pair of sunglasses. SUPER always seems to nail their designs. Now they have decided to release a revamped version of the Poissons America and Poisson Palomas. Cop your pair over at their online store.
Video by: Mike Carson
Music by: Travis Scott
Photography by: PDA Studios
Over the past few months the boys over at ILLROOTS have been hard at work putting together their new merch line, ILLAMERICA. After much anticipation, they have finally presented the look book and good lord did they kill it. From tank tops, tees, crewnecks, windbreakers, sweatpants, fitteds and beanies to even 20 different colorways of stickers. Watching the power duo Mike Waxx & Mike Carson continuously kill the game has been awesome! As much as they’ve already done and only being 20 years of age still amazes me. The online store goes live this weekend, make sure you support. I mean, it’s pretty f*cking ILL anyways.
Log On to ILLAMERI.CA to peep still shots of all the new merch.
And yet we have another A$AP Rocky post today. Complex just revealed their February/March 2012 cover featuring A$AP Rocky and fashion icon, Jeremy Scott, remaking the Andy Warhol x Jean-Michel Basquiat poster. The issue hits stands on February 7, but you can read the complete cover story now by clicking here. Hit the jump to get a behind the scenes look at the cover shoot.
Why do you think hip-hop is so fascinated with fashion and vice versa?
A: As black people it was our thing to show that we’re not living in poverty and that we can afford extravagant things—that kind of stuck with us. So when our great-grandparents were putting on their favorite outfits, it was to put on a front for the hard times. And hip-hop is a bunch of people that never had nothing. Fashion is just an expression. It’s an art. It expresses your taste. Good taste is important in hip-hop. I wake up saying I’m going to look the best I can and do what the fuck I want to do. And that’s what it’s all about. I don’t know if I articulated it good because I’m pretty high right now—and I have a lisp and I’m going to Mars right now.J: [Laughs.] The thing is hip-hop is one of the only communities that really started its own trends.
A: Wow.
J: That’s why I’ve always been inspired by hip-hop artists, because they transform things—even just the jean, turning it around, inside out, sagging it—all these different things. Yes, of course we get little things from other music movements, but hip-hop has been like, Pow! It’s really inspiring and it’s the only new music that has come along in eons. Rock and roll has been around—it’s changing forms. But hip-hop is major.
Tastemaker NJ lifestyle brand drops their new Winter hoodies and of course they never disappoint. I love the colors and I have one already and it’s super comfy!
The hoodies will be on sale tomorrow on, 1/18/12, so for now enjoy the Lookbook Video.
The hoodies will be available HERE.
Photo by 'Riel
While at the recent 9th Wonder event held at the local BboySpot I also had the chance to check out a new space called The PXL Plus Gallery, a diverse platform for art and fashion which happened to be next door. I can’t stress enough how necessary a place like this was in the urban artistic/streetwear retail desert that is Orlando. The brainchild of Bluemotion Production Company and veteran Artist Nakanari of Mai Hiro, PXL Plus offers our area a first hand experience in the streetwear, vinyl toy, and art world by featuring international heavyweight brands such as Kidrobot, Coarse, Bearbrick, and even custom creations that are exclusive to PXL Plus. Enjoy the interview with Nakanari and Michael (Bluemotion) below, courtesy of our friends over at CultureClimax. Take the jump for the address, other contact info, and more photos.
The JBC family has been on a roll lately! Make sure you visit their shop and take a look at their new crewnecks, hoodies, beanies, and more that you LA residents probably got a peep of at their pop-up shop during the holidays!
Haha! Highsnobiety TV took their cameras over to the Golf Wang Pop Up Store in Los Angeles for a little visit! While up there, the manager, Lucas Vercetti, showed cameras the stock room and talked a bit about the clothing sold there. I love Tyler’s random drawings in the store and how much they are actually involved in it!
Also, their homie Lego explains the infamous photo (below) he took of Jay-z, Kanye, Tyler, Aziz , Justin Bieber, Kid Cudi and the “Random White Girl.” haha!
