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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin SS/22 - I'VR Isabel Vollrath

Lauded for her strong sculptural design-language, I’VR ISABEL VOLLRATH’s creations straddle the divide between fine art and haute couture, resulting in an arresting aesthetic equally suitable for the red carpet, as for the ballet stage. For her SS 22 collection, she transformed Kraftwerk Berlin into a shimmering jungle clearing, accompanied by the soothing sounds of the rainforest and dry twigs snapping under prowling feet.

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin S/S22 -- NEO.FASHION

The show was an unbridled celebration of brilliant, innovative and daring new designers—and a welcomed energy-boost—ranging from otherworldly, apocalyptic creations, to super-oversized knitwear, gravity-defying tailoring, big-shoulder energy, gorgeous silky fabrics, luxe leathers, decadent fringes, and every possible colour under the sun. It was fashion with an important message, pushing the envelope for sustainable practices and out-of-the-box thinking. But foremost, it illustrated that the future of German fashion design looks very bright.
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Chinatown Market: What to Know About the Clothing Brand

The now-cult LA-based streetwear brand and bootleg label Chinatown Market is the brainchild of Mike Cherman, which since launching in 2016 is turning fast fashion literally on its head and spawning a devout following in the process. Tapping into the rebellious spirit of New York’s Canal Street – a place where Cherman spent many afternoons with his dad as a kid – think of it as taking the most in-demand references and viral moments in popular culture and mashing them together.
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The Internet: What to Know About the Music Group

The LA-based band The Internet has been on a stellar trajectory since forming in 2011. Their distinct, critically acclaimed sound is a blend of R&B, hip-hop, funk and jazz laced with electronic elements pushing the envelope of the neo-soul movement.

The five-piece band was initiated by former Odd Future members Syd tha Kyd (now just Syd) and Matt Martians producing together, Syd laying down the vocals with Martians on keys. The super collective also contains production-prodigy and guitarist Steve Lacy, bassist Patrick Paige II, and percussionist/mixer Christopher Smith.
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Snoop Dogg: What to Know About the Rapper and Actor

Snoop Dogg was as ubiquitous as PlayStation and Michael Jordan to anyone growing up in the ‘90s. The smooth idiosyncratic drawl coupled with his laidback demeanour and wit made him instantly likeable. Adding to that, his name which he got from his mother, who called him Snoopy after the popular cartoon. The Long Beach-native brought a whole new gangsta rap to the table, and also branched out into Hollywood, making him a cultural icon and one of the most successful rappers of his generation.
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Blood Orange: What to Know About the Musician Dev Hynes

Blood Orange is one of the guises of Dev Hynes, the New York-based multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and record producer, who’s been captivating critics and music fans alike for the last decade with his genre-bending output. Stitching together everything from jazz, funk, soul, R&B, hip-hop, classical music and field recordings with a soothing falsetto voice and 80’s synths, his smooth sound is both nostalgic and futuristic. Adding to that, his poignant lyrics (partly autobiographical, partly highlighting broader socio-political agendas of race, culture and sexuality), makes the charismatic virtuoso not only unequivocally culturally relevant, but prompts comparisons with icons like Prince and Michael Jackson.
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Tony Hawk: What to Know About the Skateboard Legend

One of the most influential skateboarders of all time, Tony Hawk is a living legend and pioneer of modern vertical skateboarding. He is the first ever to land the 900 – twice – once in 1999, and then again in 2016, at 48. He has skated across the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and on the grounds of the White House (yes, legally). He is also known for his philanthropic work with the Tony Hawk Foundation, which helps to build skateparks in underprivileged areas. Moreover, Hawk has featured in an episode of The Simpsons. The guy is even his own video game.
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Steve Lacy: What to Know About the Rising Musician

The guitarist, bassist, singer-songwriter and record producer Steve Lacy’s meteoric rise to stardom is the stuff of legend. It tells the tale of a young man straight out of Compton, who started out playing the guitar at the age of seven through the video game Guitar Hero, while feverishly wanting a MacBook Pro for Christmas to produce beats. He never got the MacBook, so he ingeniously perfected the art of music production using his iPhone and a plug-in piece for his guitar, called an iRig, instead.
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Futura: What You Need to Know About the Famous Artist

One of the founding fathers and key players of the graffiti movement, New York born and bred Futura grew up in Brooklyn in the early 1970s during the heyday of trainbombing. He started out tagging subway walls under the superhero pseudonym Futura 2000 (an ode to his favorite movie 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick), and would go on to paint an entire subway train pioneering a radically expressive, signature style. This gained him a lot of traction and would become a catalyst, introducing a more abstract approach to graffiti and a shift away from the formerly letter-based art form.

Together with the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Dondi White he belonged to a new generation of NYC artists. Today, something of a living legend, Futura is an acclaimed illustrator, photographer, sculptor, fashion and graphic designer who continues to straddle the line between street, commercial and fine art.
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Brendon Babenzien: What to Know About the NOAH Founder

Brendon Babenzien is the founder of the environmentally conscious menswear brand Noah. He is also the former creative director of Supreme – James Jebbia’s streetwear and skate culture behemoth, which is arguably the most influential streetwear brand of all time.

Babenzien’s streetwear trajectory is a long and notable one, starting out working at his local surf-skate shop as a teenager, via moving to Miami round 1991/1992 to help his friend Don Busweiler with his influential Pervert brand, and landing at Supreme in the mid-’90s where Babenzien was responsible for about 15-years worth of designs and subsequent hype.
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Diet Prada: What to Know About the Instagram Account

Diet Prada is the Instagram account acting as fashion watchdog on a mission to call out copycat design, and has amassed quite a following on its crusade to expose fashion foul play. Counting Gigi Hadid and Naomi Campbell as two of its 1,4 million followers, Diet Prada has established itself as one of the most influential critical voices in the industry. Fashion historian Bronwyn Cosgrave dubbed Diet Prada “the Banksy of fashion. They’re ruthless, and that’s so rare.”
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Ronnie Fieg: What to Know About the Kith Founder

The retail mastermind behind streetwear giant Kith – and the guy that made Asics and velour tracksuits cool – NYC-based designer Ronnie Fieg started from humble beginnings flogging boots at downtown footwear shop David Z. in the mid-90s. Sneakerhead culture as we know it was only in its nascent stages, and he was slowly working his way up the ladder, as a junior buyer then as a buyer opening up athletic footwear accounts. Asics was one of them, and in 2007 the brand tapped Fieg for a collaboration. The result is one of the most long-standing and prolific sneaker collaborations in history.
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Wu-Tang Clan: What to Know About the Legendary Hip-Hop Group

The year was 1993, when a nine-man group from Staten Island in New York would change the face of hip-hop – and the rest of the music industry – forever. As avid martial arts fans, they called themselves Wu-Tang Clan, after the 1983 movie Shaolin and Wu-Tang, and their sound was revolutionary. It was raw and grimy, laced with kung-fu movie-grabs with explicit, tongue-in-cheek lyrics over dusty, distorted soul samples. It sounded like nothing ever heard before and it ushered in an East Coast revival at a time when the West Coast sound was largely populating the radio
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The Shoe Surgeon: What to Know About the Sneaker Customizer

Dominic Chambrone, AKA The Shoe Surgeon, is the humble self-taught cobbler who managed to turn his obsession for sneakers into a stellar career and is responsible for some of the most genius, in-demand customs of all time. The celebrated sneaker virtuoso deconstructs shoes, takes them apart and rebuilds them with premium materials (and sometimes even a better fit), along with building samples and prototypes from scratch
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Elon Musk: What to Know About the Visionary Billionaire

A 21st century visionary, multi-billionaire, businessman and entrepreneur at large, Elon Musk is held by Forbes at number one as the most innovative leaders in 2019. Musk is the founder of Tesla, and CEO and lead-designer of SpaceX – the rocket company with plans of colonizing Mars and flying people to the moon, and he has already sent up a spacecraft docking at the International Space Station.

The tech-rebel is behind the NeuraLink neurotechnology startup – which is gearing up for planting chips into human brains – and he is also the real-life inspiration for Marvel hero Tony Stark from Iron Man.
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Lizzo: What to Know About the Genre-Bending Singer & Rapper

With an electrifying stage persona, a voice straddling soul, hip-hop, rock, R&B and gospel, along with a string of undeniably infectious tunes to her name, the American singer and rapper Lizzo has been making headlines. Her anthemic feel-good funk number “Juice” was one of the biggest summer hits of 2019, and the classically trained flutist’s signature brand of twerking while playing the flute has brought down the house everywhere from the Ellen DeGeneres Show and the Jonathan Ross Show to Coachella and Glastonbury. Her flute – named Sasha Flute after Beyoncé’s Sasha Fierce album — even has its own Instagram account, and Lizzo has been winning over social media in spades with her larger than life personality, humor and a healthy dose of self-love. The flute also spawned a brilliant “Juice” Anchorman parody flute scene.
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Olafur Eliasson: What to Know About the Multimedia Artist

Olafur Eliasson is a lauded Danish-Icelandic artist and architect known for his large-scale installations and mesmerizing immersive spaces, manipulating light, water and air temperature. Motivated to challenge the way we experience the world – and to not take our environment for granted – Eliasson is reimagining art’s role in society and uses it to highlight broader issues, such as climate change and the lack of electricity in off-grid areas around the globe.

He has put large arctic ice blocks from Greenland on the streets of Paris and London, created an enormous waterfall under the Brooklyn Bridge (and an equally dramatic, freestanding waterfall at Versailles), and installed a huge sun-like monochromatic light at Tate Modern. He employs over 80 people working alongside him in his Berlin-based studio, which functions more like a laboratory delving into science, architecture, the environment, geometry and space.
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Shia LaBeouf: What to Know About the Actor & Style Icon

American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker Shia LaBeouf, born 1986 in Los Angeles, California, first shot to fame as a teen in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, which won him a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003.

Growing up in LA’s Echo Park district, his formative years were turbulent; the family was struggling for money, and his father was abusive, dealing with addiction. Acting became LaBeouf’s way out. Many years later he would open up to the world about his childhood traumas, and manage to turn it into something positive.
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Timothée Chalamet: What to Know About the Actor

The American actor Timothée Chalamet was catapulted into the public consciousness with his stellar role in Call Me by Your Name in 2017, a broody coming of age movie – with a very famous peach-scene. Chalamet’s critically acclaimed role resulted in a string of nominations, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor making him the third-youngest actor ever to be tapped in the category, and the youngest in 80 years.

He is hailed as the most exciting face to emerge in a long time and a new generation actor of the same crop as Leo DiCaprio, with “Chalamania” ensuing across the globe. Tyler, The Creator even rapped about him in his song “Okra.”
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Aleali May: What to Know About the Influencer

Stylist, fashion blogger, model and most recently sneaker designer Aleali May is a fashion tour de force bar none. Known for her effortless fusion of laidback streetwear and luxury, the self-professed sneakerhead (boasting 300-something sneakers) snagged an exclusive collaboration with Jordan making her one of only two women to ever design for the Nike-owned brand – and the first woman to create a unisex Air Jordan.
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Mini Swoosh: What to Know About the Indie Designer

Technically speaking, the Mini Swoosh is the tiny embroidered Swoosh that’s been adorning the side of the Nike Air Max 1 since 1997. More recently however, Mini Swoosh has taken on a life of its own. Alexandra Hackett, AKA @miniswoosh on Instagram, set the internet on fire in 2016 with her deft repurposing of everyday objects into cutting-edge streetwear (for instance turning an IKEA bag into a bucket hat), but foremost her unapologetic love of all things Nike.

The Mini Swoosh account sees her
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Bloody Osiris: What to Know About the Celebrity Stylist

Bloody Osiris, the New York-based fashion maverick hailing from Harlem, is steadily carving out his own place in the industry. Gaining recognition for being ahead of the fashion curve, he’s earned his fashion stripes as an A-list stylist for celebrities including Travis Scott, but also by walking runway shows for renowned fashion houses, starring in Kanye West’s YEEZY Season 3 launch in 2016, and his close affiliation with Virgil Abloh.
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Bearbrick: What to Know About the Japanese Design Toys

The first BE@RBRICK was birthed by MediCom Toy in Japan in 2001, and no one could have anticipated the subsequent impact it would have on popular culture. The bear-like figure has attracted an impressive array of star-studded collabs, which bridges streetwear, fashion and art in a colourful flurry of desirable collectibles, and it has moved into art galleries as well as the homes of A-list celebrities. (Pharrell Williams and BAPE’s Nigo being just two stalwart fans.)
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Medicom Toy: What to Know About the Designer Toy Brand

Japanese MediCom Toy has since its humble beginnings in 1996, then sharing premises with a tonkatsu-spot in Tokyo’s Ebisu district, turned into a global phenomenon. The cult-declared toy manufacturer’s insanely coveted collectables/design objects tap into anime and mainstream pop culture, and are sold in very limited quantities. Their most famous lines of toys are the Kubrick and BE@RBRICK series, the latter a bear-shaped figure in different sizes, which has turned into a cultural icon on its own and spawned a devout following, including high-profile personalities like Pharrell Williams, Grace Coddington and DJ Khaled.
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DJ Khaled: What to Know About the Hip-Hop Producer

A self-professed music mogul and global internet phenomenon, DJ Khaled is an American DJ, celebrity producer and record label head-honcho, who’s taken the collaboration game to a whole other level. His never-ending list of collaborators reads like a who’s-who of popular music: Jay Z (who also acts as his manager since 2016), Kanye West, Beyoncé, Drake, Chris Brown, Ludacris, Future, Justin Bieber, Snoop Dogg, Nelly, SZA, Travis Scott, Cardi B and Nicki Minaj and the list goes on.

He’s a two-time Grammy Award nominee with 11 studio albums and 20-something Billboard ‘Hot 100’ singles below his belt.

In addition to his music career, omnipresent Khaled is a New York Times Best Selling Author, an Air Jordan III sneaker collaborator, streetwear don and the face of Weight Watchers – who also dabbles in luxury furniture design.
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Kevin Parker: What to Know About the Tame Impala Frontman

Kevin Parker is the musical genius-cum-one-man-band behind Tame Impala, writing, recording, singing and producing the music of one of Australia’s biggest musical exports that’s been courting the charts worldwide for a decade. The Tame Impala inimitable brand of psychedelic rock sprinkled with disco, pop and surf rock sensibilities – with cues from various musical eras – spawned the infectious bass riffs and off-kilter rhythms on songs, such as “The Less I Know The Better” and “Let It Happen,” from multi-award winning album Currents in 2015.
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21 Savage: What to Know About the Grammy-Nominated Rapper

Atlanta rap royalty 21 Savage is a success story straight from the streets. A two-time Grammy nominee, his verses are often based on traumas from his own turbulent past, and it is – in many people’s eyes – this authenticity that allows him to maintain his underground cred, while being a commercially successful artist.

Outside the realm of music, Savage is lauded for his philanthropic work, actively involved in the Atlanta community championing different programs to help underprivileged youth. And he’s become a role model in the process.
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Metro Boomin: What to Know About the All Star Producer

St. Louis-native Metro Boomin has lent his production prowess to everyone from Nicki Minaj to Drake, Future, 21 Savage, Gucci Mane, Young Thug, Wiz Khalifa and Migos scoring 10 tracks on the Billboard Hot 100 – simultaneously.

Metro started out making music at the tender age of 13 while still in school, messing around with FruityLoops – inspired by Nelly’s “Country Grammar” – with a second to none work ethic, which saw him produce about five beats a day.
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ASAP Ferg: What to Know About the Rapper & Style Icon

Darold Durard Brown Ferguson Jr, known worldwide as A$AP Ferg, is a rapper and songwriter from Harlem, NYC. Aside from a blinding solo career, he is also a member of heavyweight hip-hop collective A$AP Mob, alongside fellow rap superstar and long-time friend A$AP Rocky. In tune with the multi-disciplinary zeitgeist, Ferg is also an accomplished designer and artist with deep-running fashion roots – his swag and big personality making him a permanent fixture on the fashion circuit – and we’ve tapped him more than once as one of the best dressed celebs.
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Megan Thee Stallion: What to Know About the Rapper

Unapologetically brimming with big dick energy, the proud Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion spits rhymes about sex, pimpin’ and female empowerment in equal measure, all the while exploring different alter egos and juggling Health Administration studies at Texas Southern University.

Owing her artist name to her impressive stature (she’s 5’10”), the emcee’s ascent to rap stardom started with a rooftop cypher over Drake’s “4pm In Calabasas” back in 2016, which went viral
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Helmut Lang: What to Know About the Fashion Brand & Designer

“Quintessential minimalism” springs to mind when thinking of Helmut Lang, the namesake label of Austrian designer Helmut Lang. He is arguably one of the most influential designers of the last three decades (although Lang himself retired from fashion in 2005 to fully focus on his art career,) and his legacy still resonates across runways today. The iconic designer pioneered minimalism in the ’90s with his sharp-cut tailoring and androgynous, utilitarian pieces adorned with bondage straps and harnesses.
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Loewe: What to Know About the Spanish Luxury Fashion Brand

A fashion brand that is killing it at the moment is Loewe. The Spanish luxury fashion house was founded in 1846 in Madrid, originally specializing in leather purses and handbags and even producing them for the Spanish royalty. Fast forward to the present and the label is often seen on the backs of rap royalty, having undergone a radical transformation under the helm of forward-thinking British designer Jonathan Anderson.
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Sies Marjan: What to Know ABout the NY Fashion Label

Sies Marjan is the NYC-based ready-to-wear label that stormed onto the fashion circuit almost overnight in 2016, positioning itself as a luxury brand, and garnering accolades right left and center. Spearheaded by the label’s Dutch creative director, Sander Lak, it has since amassed something of a cult-following.

A flurry of rainbow colors, lush silks, fine tailoring and statement footwear the brand started out with womenswear, adding a highly-anticipated menswear line in 2017 with Lak’s goal to evoke that comfortable “pajama type of feeling, even though you’re not actually in pajamas” very much in tune with the menswear zeitgeist.
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Eckhaus Latta: The NY + LA Brand Pushing Boundaries

Hailed as the underground vanguard of New York’s fashion scene, Eckhaus Latta – the influential New York and Los Angeles-based label – has been pushing boundaries since its inception in 2011.

It is the brainchild of friends Mike Eckhaus (former accessories designer at Marc Jacobs) and Zoe Latta (knitwear designer at Opening Ceremony and former head of a textile company that supplied fabric to Calvin Klein and Proenza Schouler), who met while studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
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Action Bronson: What to Know About the Rapper & Chef

You could say that Action Bronson has a finger in every pie. Bronson (born Ariyan Arslani) is the ubiquitous fiery-bearded gourmet chef, writer and TV presenter at large turned rap sensation from Flushing, Queens. Known for his boisterous, likeable persona and tongue-in-cheek humour spitting rhymes about haute cuisine, seedy scenarios and the occasional jabs at himself, he is equally known for his crass straight-talking and controversial comments landing himself in hot water more than once.
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LVMH: What to Know About the Luxury Conglomerate

The French retail empire LVMH (LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton) is the largest luxury conglomerate in the world, its revenue surpassing a record-breaking $51 billion in 2018 alone. It is headquartered in Paris and was founded by Bernard Arnault in 1987 under the merger between the iconic fashion house and Moët Hennessy (which in turn was the result of an earlier merger between the emblematic champagne producer Moët & Chandon and cognac manufacturer Hennessy.)