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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
From the Asphalt to the Runway: Why Modern Streetwear Completely Misunderstands Its Own History If you take a walk through any major city today, you will see the exact same uniform: oversized hoodies, baggy pants dragging on the pavement, thick-soled sneakers, and five-panel caps. What we now call "streetwear" [...]
From '90s Indie Cinema to Clothing: How ’90s Indie Cinema Inspired Wasted Paris Streetwear’ DNA If you take a look at Wasted Paris’ catalog, it’s pretty clear the brand doesn’t get its inspiration from traditional haute couture runways. Their style comes from somewhere else. It comes from skate videos [...]
DJ Hell returns to Madrid on November 29 — and a Look Back at His Collaboration with Vertere Berlin DJ Hell is coming back to Madrid on November 29, 2025, with a show at Club Malasaña. Fans of classic German techno are excited for this event. He is known [...]
