Jordan Brand collaborates for the first time with a European brand, Patta
Patta‘s super colored patterns have been an integral part of the Nike label for many years and finally – we dare to say – they collaborate for the first time with Jordan “Jumpman” brand, the same time that the latter collaborates with a European brand.
This year will also celebrate the 15th birthday of the Dutch brand that marks, along with the world sportswear giant, the “three-point” choosing the iconic silhouette of Air Jordan VII – which will come out in two colors – also creating a capsule collection, brown and blue tones that refer to the hip-hop style of the late ’80s, which includes a tracksuit, shorts, t-shirt and a boonie hat. The garments feature co-branding on the chest and along the sleeves of the tracksuit.
“The products that we worked on come straight from a short Jordan clip from Barcelona that became super famous. It features a segment where Michael walks past a huge billboard of himself where he’s got the shoes on, and that image has been forever etched in my memory…it was a golden era for hip-hop. It was a big time for me, a lot of very important albums that I carry with me still came out between ’92 and ’96. And aesthetically, those years had such strong, colorful and connected relationship to black empowerment. The VII also has a reference to Africa,” says Guillaume – one of the co-founders – from Suriname who grew up in Hertogenbosch near Amsterdam. The silhouette of the shoe made its debut in 1992, affecting the culture of the period a point of transformation in male youth that was mainly related to basketball and lifestyle of the boys of that period.
The first colorway of the sneaker – Shimmer/Mahogany Mink/Velvet Brown/Tough Red – was released on April 23 exclusively in the Amsterdam flagship store, while for the capsule there was a flash drop on May 18, but if you still want to have it at all costs, don’t worry, from June 15 all the items will be available on SNKRS app, on the official website of Patta and from selected retailers. In addition, there will be the second color of the shoe that could be: Icicle/Sequoia/River Rock/Light Crimson.
Maybe it will be on the occasion of this amazing goal that Edson Sabajo and Guillaume ‘Gee’ Schmidt have decided to open another store, this time in Milan, in the capital of Italian fashion, close to the official release of the collaboration. What must have motivated them to make this choice? Maybe to celebrate their birthday? Stay connected with us to find out more.
Gender Theory, the photographic project by Rossella Agostini
“How would we live if we didn’t have pre-established gender models?”
This is the question posed by the project Gender Theory by the photographer and filmmaker Rossella Agostini. After graduating in photography from Columbia College in Chicago, the artist decided to focus her research on the celebration of the individual as such and his relationship with the surrounding world.
The exploration of interpersonal relationships is highlighted by a type of aesthetics that prefers subjects visible from afar placed in empty spaces: together with the enhancement of beauty out of the ordinary Rossella thus creates a narrative coherence. The artist has described her photographic series as follows:
“Gender Theory” is a photo series that rejects the idea that gender is strictly binary by exploring a reality where identity is not socially constructed. It touches upon the issues of gender and sexuality and demonstrates how the biological sex, gender identity and gender expression are not always aligned”.
Through an elegant role-playing game, Rossella’s images tell a story capable of reaching the public immediately, it is no coincidence that Gender Theory won the London Photo Festival in 2018.
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Everything we saw at Linecheck
We have already talked about Linecheck, the event dedicated to the Italian and international music ecosystem. We attended the event ourselves, and – through the lens of Andrés Juan Suarez – this is what we saw. We breathed in an air of novelty in an occasion for meeting and discussion that allowed us to discover new talents and many of the emerging musical trends. In short, an unmissable event within the framework of Milan Music Week. Our favorite performances were those of Daniela Pes, 72-HOUR POST FIGHT, and Post Nebbia. This year’s theme was #ManyKisses, with the intention of seeing music as an ecosystem: a polyamorous community that grows through continuous dialogue among its members, the circulation of inspiring and creative energy, along with the exchange between established personalities on the scene and emerging artists.
Lucas Cerri is a French photographer, born in Cannes, who ranges from travel photography to portraits, but the vocation for this art came almost by chance.
In fact, Lucas was born as a musician, then over time, in addition to expressing emotions, thoughts and feelings through notes and melodies, he also began to do through images.
Since then, whether analogue or digital, the camera has always been part of his days.
Scrolling through his website and delving into his portfolio we can immediately see how Lucas Cerri manages to range from travel photography, with which he takes us to every corner of the world, from Iceland to the United States, from warm Portugal to cold Norway, to intimate and delicate portraits.
Among his works the nude plays a predominant role and the body, with its shapes and lines, becomes almost a sculpture to be captured in all its naturalness. Often, the bodies he takes are immersed in nature, almost overwhelmed by it, and looking at Lucas Cerri’s photographs we feel that sense of freedom that we feel when we dive into the deep waters of the sea, or when we run through desolate fields.
Below you can find a selection of shots, but to discover all the works of Lucas Cerri visit his site and follow him on Instagram.
What happens when the phone gallery becomes a photo project?
«A risky project, a bit like writing,» Catanian photographerSalvo Sibilla explains when talking to us about his street photography project entitledSani e Salvi. It is a project that was not born to be so. A collection of private amateur shots, taken with an iPhone, that take on a public dimension. It all begins in 2020 when Salvo starts shooting on the street, partly to seek company in a new city-which in the case of Milan is capable of making you feel very lonely, and partly to capture the extravagance around him that he was not used to. In the summer of 2022 he decided to go public and share part of his smartphone gallery. Salvo encapsulates in one project his amateur shots “full of lights, faces and lives,” as his collaborator and friend Loris Di Bella puts it. Stripped of their intimate dimension, the “anti-ethical” photographs – using Salvo’s words – come to life by dialoguing with each other and realizing the presence of a great common denominator: immediacy layered with extravagance.
Sani e Salvi does not stay only in Milan. He travels different streets and different cities, from Milan to Amsterdam, from Rotterdam to Sestri Levante, from Finale Ligure to Pedara, and finally from Bologna to Catania, Salvo Sibilla’s hometown. Salvo’s favorite subjects are elderly people, he himself tells us the reason for this choice. «The first reason, the most human one, is because they remind me of my grandparents, the people I miss the most since I moved to Milan. I am a very romantic person, so I look for this aspect in my shots as well. In older people I find the same pure and kind soul of my grandparents».
This project becomes for Salvo Sibilla a kind of adaptation therapy in a new city. Coming from Catania and landing in Milan, the cultural differences are many. «I liked walking in the street and observing everything around me. Coming from a small town like Catania, unfortunately you are born with stereotypes and mental limitations. When I arrived in Milan, these visual limits began to fall away, all those aspects that I initially judged as extravagances became normality today». The photographs thus become a way of relating to the new everyday life and, at the same time, of discovering a new city. In this sense, it is interesting to emphasize Salvo Sibilla’s photographic approach, which he himself describes as “somewhat anti-ethical.” «My technique is to act like a tourist. I stop by pretending to look for a street and take the photograph of the person, very closely,» he explains, «Very often older people do not notice it, as well as my grandparents although they, with time, have learned to recognize my methodology and now they are very happy when I take them, they feel a bit like the protagonists».
«Sani e Salvi can be said to have been born recently and still has everything to discover and to have come to the end, gaining wisdom,» we read again in Loris Di Bella’s text. Therefore, the project does not end here; on the contrary, it becomes for Salvo Sibilla a starting point that has taught him «to never give up,» as Salvo confesses to us, who closes the interview by quoting the phrase of a friend of his: “keep doing what you do regardless of everything and everyone.”