Streetwear has become an easy category to enter. A loose T-shirt, a striking graphic and the right references can quickly establish a familiar look. Building a world that remains interesting across years of collections takes longer. So, is Wasted Paris a good brand? For us, its strongest argument is [...]
I’ve been around skateboarding and what we now call streetwear since the early 1990s. Back then, at least for me, streetwear was not a clearly defined category. There was skateboarding, music, shops, magazines, videos, shoes, brands and people sharing references. Everything overlapped. Even skateboards themselves felt different. I remember [...]
Remembering the first time I heard Def Con Dos. In 1993, a classmate gave me a recorded cassette of Def Con Dos. I pressed play and heard something new, fresh and defiant. It caught me immediately. That was how music reached us then: passed from one person to [...]
MADRID, 1996 I first saw La Haine on VHS in late 1996. I was a teenager in Madrid, and the film immediately felt closer than something taking place in another country should have felt. Paris was not Madrid, and the banlieues were not our neighbourhoods. But there was something [...]
Before the algorithm, you had to find the culture. There is something about all this that reminds me of The Neverending Story. Bastian Balthazar Bux hiding in his school attic, opening a book without knowing that, little by little, he would become part of the story he was [...]
Berlin, 1978. A divided city. Concrete, neon lights, train stations and underground clubs. West Berlin feels like an island surrounded by a wall — isolated, restless and alive. Teenagers move through its nights looking for music, escape and somewhere to belong. David Bowie is part of the soundtrack. So [...]
Kavinsky (1975–2026): The Soundtrack of Endless Night Drives On July 29, 2026, the electronic music world lost one of its most distinctive voices. French producer Kavinsky, born Vincent Belorgey, was found dead at his home in Paris at the age of 50. French authorities have opened an investigation, with [...]
Wasted Paris Fade Away: A Skate Video Rooted in Independent Culture There are brands that borrow from skateboarding. Then there are brands that actively contribute to its culture. Wasted Paris has always belonged to the second group. Their latest full-length skate video, Fade Away, proves that skateboarding is about [...]
How Berlin Techno Shaped a Generation When people think about Berlin, they often think about music. However, Berlin's techno culture was never only about clubs or DJs. It was a social movement born from freedom, creativity and the desire to build something new after decades of division. Few books capture [...]
Deva States: Jakarta's Alternative Vision of Streetwear In recent years, some of the most interesting voices in streetwear have emerged far beyond the traditional fashion capitals of Paris, London and New York. One of those voices is Deva States, an independent brand from Jakarta, Indonesia, that has built a global [...]
