For its 28th issue, DAPPER DAN embarks on a journey to The Invisible City—a fictitious metropolis without borders, tied together by shared beliefs, memories and chance. A tribute to the communities, friends and neighbourhoods we encounter within the fertile terrains of the magazine. Continue reading “Dapper Dan 28 is out!”
Is this what “normal” looks like? This issue we’re looking at anger, loss, uncertainty and creative, connective opportunities that come through engaging with the instability of our experience.
Artist Thomas Houseago talks about how Nick Cave inspired him to return to art and how he sees Brad Pitt as his brother. Dr Nelly Ben Hayoun–Stépanian discusses manufacturing the impossible, her work constructing playful experiences that mix science and creativity while challenging the status quo. Canadian artist Terence Koh invites us to explore his new treehouse project in New York and researcher Alfie Bown deconstructs how technology is dictating our desires.
Charlie Porter cut his teeth as an “arts with an s” reporter, at titles including The Daily Express, The Times and Esquire. In 2000, he became deputy fashion editor for The Guardian and following this, an associate editor for GQ and deputy editor for Fantastic Man. A quiet yet perceptible presence at fashion weeks, Charlie’s readers quickly lent him their ears as he documented the industry as menswear critic for the Financial Times. Until October 2018, that is, when—in a manner that may have seemed abrupt to some—he quit fashion.
Charlie has become known in the fashion industry as one of an elite “club” of critics that provide genuine criticism. He has, in the past, been banned from shows—an accolade awarded to those from whom brands take offence. taking an extensive coffee break during a day’s work writing and researching at the British Library in London, Charlie and I talked in depth about criticism; the ethics involved and the love of feeling something for fashion. Continue reading “Charlie Porter talks to Lara Johnson-Wheeler”
Dapper Dan 19 looks at how we—as artists, writers, thinkers—carve out time and space in a world that bombards us constantly, keeping us ever-notified. In the pages of our magazine, we build new rules. We champion those who move against this mechanism, embracing iconoclasm in an Instagram age. We question Raven Smith’s content and commentary, Samuel Ross’s garments and products, and Andrew Bolton’s curation and exhibitions. We showcase duo FAKA’s radical singularity and the structures in tailor Daniel Haworth’s craft. We shoot Celine SS19 and capture Zegna’s collection, placing garments alongside objects to reveal both the inanimate and the human.
Menswear and philosophy are mined. Ideas are distilled. Dapper Dan 19 explores the intimacies of alienation, a new individualism.
McKenzie Wark is an Australian writer whose many books examine hacking, game theory and, most recently, the Situationists. He teaches at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York. Ilias Marmaras is a media artist based in Athens. Continue reading “McKenzie Wark in conversation with Ilias Marmaras”
