This is an interview with founder of the limited edition vintage label Human Made. Nigo who is also the force behind cult brand A Bathing Ape and a long-term vintage enthusiast reveals the details that distinguish a collector’s item. (interview from Nowness)

Archival selection Generally, I’m only interested in things up until 1950. It’s hard to explain how I select pieces. From a vintage-history viewpoint it’s a weird selection, but it’s just the things that speak to me most.

Vintage longing I don’t tend to search for things because I like the idea that you come across something and decide at that time if you like it or not. But I want a Lee cowboy jacket, a denim jacket with blanket lining. I found one but it was damaged, and the dealer had repaired it so I couldn’t buy it.

Memorable story The first time I ever bought a vintage garment I was 15. It was a Levi’s Type 2 jacket. The thing was shredded, falling to pieces. My mum was totally pissed off and couldn’t imagine that I’d bought a jacket with holes in it. She gave me hell for it. I’ve still got the jacket now.

Man-made inspirations I didn’t want to make anything for Human Made without actually having the garment to look at, inspect and see how it’s put together. Nothing has come from photographs. Pretty much everything is from my own collection, but rearranged.

We talked to our friend Astrid Andersen about life, music and her new AW13 collection. How would you describe your brand in one sentence? I just wanna make men look hot. What inspired you while designing your AW13 collection? I found a book about danish bodybuilders by Joachim Ladefoged, who is an amazing photographer and it had a quote on how the sprinter has the time to race against but the bodybuilder only has the mirror and I found a lot of power and fragile elements within this. Those are basically the two emotions I wish to combine in my work. Strong yet vulnerable. Powerful yet sensitive. Top 5 songs at the moment? Ukendt Kunstner - Langt Væk, kanye West - Guilt Trip, Tyler The Creator - Yonkers, Redman,Method Man - Da Rockwilder, Jay Z - crown Best advise you ever got? Go with your gut feeling. Check out the new AW13 collection here

A few weeks ago we were honored by the visit of Baptiste Bouygues, the man behind French-based fragrance Maison Ormaie. The brand that transforms perfume into a piece of interior design. All of their fragrances are composed solely of natural ingredients with the ultimate goals of elegance and quality. After a detailed presentation of perfumes and staff training, we had the opportunity to ask a few questions which you can find answered in this blog.

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We are honored to publish this interview with Joanna Ryglewicz, the founder and brand creator of Oio Lab, a premium skincare brand from Poland.

Since their founding in 2018, Oio Lab have been using innovative methods to produce skincare for both men and women. What is so special about the products is the combination of a scientific approach with natural ingredients. Oio Lab is where nature meets science.

The products include organic, cold-pressed oils of the highest quality as well as plant extracts obtained using innovative methods. They also enrich the natural base with highly selected active ingredients of proven effectiveness.

Click through the pictures to find out how the brand was created, her future dream projects, which products Joanna uses herself and much more!

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In the sexiest episode of VICE Meets ever, Vice interviews stylist and Editor-in-Chief of Richardson Magazine, Andrew Richardson. See his home/studio and get a preview of his latest issue, which features former pornstar Belladonna without hair.

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Austrian Nana de Bary has created scents for more than a decade, but recently she has launched her own perfume brand: Liaison de Perfume. Big fashion magazines like Vogue has kept a watchful eye on Nana de Bary and in connection with the launch of Liaison de Parfum, American Vogue called the perfumes for "Highly Addictive". All fragrances from Liaison de Perfum are made in France using traditional refined methods of classic perfume art.

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All the fragrances from Liaison de Perfum are a tribute to life. For her five new perfumes, Nana is inspired by both people and places she loves. It is the aroma of her elegant grandmother from Vienna, who enters a ballroom wearing a couture dress in silk. And it's the smell of a walk along Sardinia's coast a spring morning many years ago. It is the aroma of self-confidence a dear friend finds in the success of her new career path. It is a world that recognizes a life of remarkable presentations. There are five seductive and mysterious fragrances, inspired by periods in a lively life full of love, and created by romantic essences.

The five fragrances are: As If, Stay With Me, I Dare You, Resist Me and No Matter What

"YOUTH AGAINST ESTABLISHEMENT"

Noon Goons is the Californian -born and bred- label quietly taking over the ruling class, will it be in fashion or world order.

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Genuine to its skate and surf roots (a noon goon is a group of tourists that shows up and crowds a beach at noon, when the real surfers have already gone about their day), the LA label also heavily displays its punk attitude, allowing it to seep into the designs, and serving as ultimate moral compass not to wander away from authenticity.

photo credit: Gogy Esparza

Dima Leu takes sportswear to the next level. Born in Moldova and raised in Italy, Dima completed his Fashion Design degree at the University of Venice and subsequently developed his Sport Suit project. This project explored the boundary between suits and tracksuits and resulted in the development of tailored sportswear. According to Dima Leu, clothing is a powerful tool through which we can explore and express our identities.

”Hanrej is an old and condescending term for a man with an adulterous wife.” The word originates from German hahnrei, which is a castrated rooster.

HANREJ is a Danish brand with its main focus on jewellery.

The designs are clean and elegant, while still communicating an abstract, reckless and distinctive appearance.

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The term HANREJ and its powerful meaning is the fundamental inspiration for the brand universe, which centres around a humorous and ironic view on gender roles, sex and a general questioning of traditional preconceptions.

Inspiration for the first collection especially lies in the human body. The impulsive and vivid features, that are gracefully framed by something orderly. Like the veins and organs of a human, neatly framed by our exterior.

The jewellery knows no gender and the complementing universe is original, entertaining and innovative.

One of the few female designers on the British Menswear scene, Lou Dalton has fast become one of the most in-demand designers in the fashion industry right now. The label of Lou Dalton was founded in 2005 and she worked as a design consultant with clients like Hamish Morrow, UNITED ARROWS and Stone Island, before launching her own label. Her USP is having an innate and all-encompassing understanding of what men want from their clothes: practicality, a dash of adventure and above all else, something that makes the wearer look damn good.

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Dalton's collections have often been inspired by the men in her life: her father and her partner. Coupled with her Shropshire roots, this ensures Dalton’s collections continually remain grounded in wearable menswear, while pulling on a variety of intriguing curveball influences, from Apollo missions to caravan dwelling farmhands to Texas oil barons to Scorcese’s "Taxi Driver".

OAMC represents a hamonious balance between modern aesthetics and innovative techniques. Taking influence from comtemporary culture, traditional menswear, functional and rational design, nature, technical innovation, material development, and extensive traditional craft, creative director Luke Meier creates modern menswear for the culture and context of now. Respect for the past is important; notions of re-creating the past are not. OAMC is about the present; what is aesthetically pleasing now; what is culturally relevant now; what is technically possible and valid now.

OAMC offers total look including outerwear, knitwear, woven shirts and bottoms, shoes, leather goods, eyewear, and accessories.

OAMC goods are produced in France, Italy, Portugal, and Japan and are offered in limited quantities. The majority of the materials, trims, hardware, and other components are custom developed and produced for OAMC, and the products which are made represent the highest in quality standards. OAMC is designed in Paris and developed at the Milan atelier.

INTRODUCING REESE COOPER

A multi-disciplined artist, Reese Cooper is a storyteller. He documents his exploration and experiences in his label. From fashion to photography, film to furniture, each project or collection tells a story - some fact, some fiction - woven together through powerful imagery and messaging all underpinned by precision detail.

Since launching the first full menswear collection for Autumn/Winter 2018 in Paris, each season reflects a “chapter” in the brand’s journey. Womenswear debuted in Spring/Summer 20. Both menswear and womenswear draw from the brand’s core inspirations—vintage Americana fused with the great outdoors.

SS21 is now available both online and in store.

“Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967. A cultural earthquake determined to trash the previous generation’s old values and embrace a new consciousness of freedom, sex, drugs and rock’n’roll.

The search for enlightenment led the flower children to travel to places like Machu Picchu and Kathmandu using decorated, colorful Volkswagen buses. Ideas on the next hotspot or music festival were collectively shared within the hippie community by the Invisible Post.”

Top notes: Petitgrain, Green Fig, Tangerine
Mid notes: Palm Leaf, Black Currant, Cyclamen
Base notes: Sandalwood, Virginian Cedarwood, Tonka Beans

Specifications - 30ml. / 100ml. Eau de Parfum. 

Please note: perfumes are only shipped within Europe

Firmly based in the Danish design tradition and an appreciation for the values of classic craftsmanship, Mismo unites natural materials with simple yet refined details to create products of true style. Leather constitutes the backbone of Mismo design, and only the best materials of premium quality are used. In Mismo products, functionality and detail are meticulously harmonised with versatility and durability to strike exactly the right balance.

The new perfumes from paris-based brand IRIÉ are a homage to abbreviations, translating the most common latin phrases to strong and powerful scents and packaging them in beautiful marble printed boxes.

To live in the modern world is to be assalled on all fronts by a constant barrage of sensory information. The very thought may make Hypebeast want to withdraw indefinitely into solitude but it is immensely more rewarding to embrace the phenomena which add all the more color to live. This approach formed the guiding principle for the 18th publication tited The Sensory Issue - where today sought out the creatives who sift through the reams of raw information in the wider world, disttilling it into something all the more profound. Renowned airbush master Hajime Sorayama is the cover story this issue, having honed his art down to a science over a four-decade-long career. Sight and sound mix in the next story on animated chart topping band Gorillaz, who took a break from promoting their new album Humanz to fill in on their aural exploratiions during their six-year hiatus in typical devil-may-care style.

Elsewhere in this issue, Hypebeast continued the exploration of the intertwinning of Eat and West within fashion. Keizo Shimizu, founder of Nepenthes, recounts his mission of importing middle America's thrift shop finds to plants tge first seeds of the influential Americana movement back in Japan. Om the "Conversations With..." section, Hypebeast ask San Francisco native Alexander Wang on what it's like having the highest-profile Asian name in fashion.

To both literally and metaphorically reflect the fembot artwork that Hajime Sorayama created exclusively for the cover, The Sensory Issue is the first to feature an entirely metallic cover and comes packaged within a similarly metallic sleeve with special gifts inside.