This summer El-P drops Cancer for Cure, perhaps his most accessible record. Also known as El, El-Produkto, and Jaime (on official documents), the rapper/producer’s reemergence is a welcome return, but beware if you’re looking for radio-ready jams
ARTIST TOM SACHS AND NIKE CREATE A COLLECTION OF INTERPLANETARY PROPORTION PORTRAIT SUSANNAH HOWE The final frontier has long fascinated polymath Tom Sachs, whose artwork deeply embraces the majesty and mechanisms of space travel. This summer, Sachs is taking over NYC’s Park Avenue Armory for the latest iteration of his space-program series: “SPACE PROGRAM: MARS,” a four-week installation that turns the 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall into a massive Martian odyssey. Sachs is known for detail-oriented plays on functionality, and while working on his latest port of call, a necessity dawned on him: uniforms for the fearless travelers to the Red Planet.
FLEXING UNBRIDLED AGGRESSION AND CRISP 808 PRODUCTION, WAKA FLOCKA FLAME REINVENTED GANGSTA RAP’S SOUND.
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ANDREW GARFIELD BY INEZ & VINOODH Hollywood’s emerging leading man speaks with Tobey Maguire about the pitfalls of fame on the eve of this summer’s The Amazing Spider-Man VMAN NEWS Gym equipment for the outdoors. DSquared’s destination-packed Summer collection, a day in the life of decathlete Bryan Clay, a look at Nike’s Tom Sachs treatment, puls all the music to know, all the places to go, and all the products you’ll want in tow ART OF DARKNESS Breaking Bad actor Aaron Paul doesn’t know much about brutality…he just embodies it on tv ALL THE KING’S MEN HBO’s Game of Thrones has set a new precedent for television drama, thanks in no small part to these polished performers THE SECOND COMING OF DIEGO BONETA The Latin-American entertainer finds crossover with summer’s Rock of Ages movie but likes to let his music do the talking GAME CHANGE Rufus Wainwright’s expanding oeuvre moves toward the mainstream with the help of Mark Ronson THE SAVAGE AND THE SERENE BY SAM TAYLOR-WOOD For Oliver Stone’s Savages , Aaron Johnson enters a seedy world of drugs, kidnapping, and threesomes.
A DECADE AFTER SPIDER-MAN —THE GAME-CHANGING BLOCKBUSTER THAT BROKE ALL THE RECORDS—ANDREW GARFIELD STARS IN THIS SUMMER’S REBOOT, THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. WHO BETTER TO GIVE HIM ADVICE THAN TOBEY MAGUIRE, THE ORIGINAL SPIDEY? HERE, THE TWO IMPASSIONED ACTORS DISCUSS THE NATURE OF SUCCESS, STORYTELLING, AND CELEBRITY PHOTOGRAPHY INEZ & VINOODH FASHION NICOLA FORMICHETTI TEXT ELLIOTT DAVID INTERVIEW TOBEY MAGUIRE It was a perfect Southern California day last summer when the British actor Andrew Garfield walked into Comic-Con, still—in his mind, at least—just another super fan
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Designer Bumsuk Choi has carved a unique niche within the arguably over-saturated collaboration market; he is the creative director of both his own label, General Idea, and the global sportswear brand HEAD (Korea), and he’s partnered the two for Fall/Winter 2012. The results are an excellent product of total control, a synergistic and modern blend of both high-fashion athletic wear and every-day basics, without the slightest air of disconnect. Using the 1968 Grenoble Olympic Games as his jump off (how timely), Choi’s overall aesthetic skews a tiny bit mid-meets-mod century, but the HEAD pieces are totally 2012—and they range across the design board, from accessories to ready-to-wear.
THE LONG, OFT BRUTAL BUT ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL BALLAD OF RUFUS WAINWRIGHT CONTINUES THIS SUMMER WITH OUT OF THE GAME, HIS SEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM. THIS TIME HE’S GOT HIS EYE ON THE MAINSTREAM AND A RONSON TO BACK HIM UP PHOTOGRAPHY MACIEK KOBIELSKI FASHION TOM VAN DORPE TEXT GIANCARLO DITRAPANO Throughout the past decade, Rufus Wainwright has been shaming most other musicians on the scene in an awfully bad way. It’s not a contest, but yes it is, and sometimes one can hardly bear to look at how far Wainwright is pulling ahead, ensuring that long after all of us are buried his music will be played
Today sees the release of Alien Workshop’s new Gang Gang Dance skate deck (above), designed by pro-skater Jason Dill, and it can be yours for about $55 HERE .
