Mamuor Awak in RICK OWENS AW 2017; Photography by Vassilis Karidis and fashion by Nicholas Georgiou
WISH FULFILLMENT
What is home? Surely not a house, the building that contains us, our families and our material belongings. What is the “home” of our hard-earned, tried-and-tested beliefs,morals and ideas that we share with our tribe? The abstract space that encircles our chosen communities. The nucleus of the all-important group feeling, the “Asabiyyah”—the natural affection towards our fellow group members, which is the base for the rise and fall of a community, according to the 14th-century Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldun. Continue reading “Dapper Dan 32 is out!”→
Alvar af Schulten in SAINT LAURENT BY ANTHONY VACCARELLO; Photography by Alvaro Beamud Cortes and fashion by Gro Curtis
When we first published Dapper Dan, we wrote a manifesto proclaiming how much we enjoyed opinionated men. Men with a sense of purpose and a soul. Intelligent, creative men with ideas and ideology. Men who didn’t fit—and didn’t want to fit—the standards set by others. Misfits, in other words.
Kit Butler in Gucci; Photography by Alvaro Beamud Cortés and fashion by Anastasia Barbieri
Everybody has some form of daddy issues. Fifteen-year-old teenagers are extremely prone to them. They revolt against and complain about the very figures they depend on. Fifteen years ago, we imagined and created a very different magazine to the one published today. Continue reading “Dapper Dan 30 is out!”→
Atomise Onasanya in Dior Men; Photography by Johan Sandberg and fashion by Mattias Karlsson
Fear: An overwhelming awe towards the divine; the dread we feel in our everyday existence; an experience of the unexpected that leads to panic.
This powerful emotion has long been immortalised in art and poetry. And now, for its 29th issue, Dapper Dan explores the important relationship we have with the cult of fear today. Continue reading “Dapper Dan 29 is out!”→
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.
In issue 25 of Dapper Dan we explore the idea of disruptive pleasure – the moments of indulgence that we cherish on a personal level, out of context from the realities around us. But also of communal pleasure, of how we find joy in collective action and exploration.
Pleasure feels a rarer commodity these days, which makes moments of release even more transgressive and delicious than ever. In this issue, Angelo Flaccavento celebrates a more selfish, private form of pleasure against the codified enjoyment of social media performance.
Notions of space, the permanence of place and the transgressive allure of location are explored. Cyprus-based artist Efi Savvides and independent curator Marina Christodoulidou unveil and reflect on their recent collaboration, the project A territory without terrain, exploring the practice of socially engaged art. Luke Forbes talks to artist Tino Sehgal about his practice of creating “constructed situations” in visual arts spaces; and fashion curator and historian Valerie Steele talks to Filip Motwary about the allure of the closet and we visit the studio of Athens-based artist Alexandros Tzannis to discuss his compelling investigation of natural landscapes.
Our contributors also chronicle texture and composition. José Cuevas and Paul Maximilian Schlosser explore balance and poise in Of Lillies and Remains, William Waterworth and Michael Darlington unpack emotion in Man is Held and in Aponia, Arcin Sagdic and Elena Psalti play with presence and solidity.
After a year (and more) of lockdown and distance, Dapper Dan’s latest issue is dedicated to doing. To the energy of creativity, to the urgency of activity.
In issue 24, we revere the heart over mind. Sensual memories are evoked through Objects. David Zilber explores the ultimate emotive artefact: NASA’s Voyager Golden Record – a record of sounds from Earth that could communicate our planet to other species if discovered.
Essays by India Doyle and Kiriakos Spirou explore skin and touch, the former through an ode to bodies and impulse, while Spirou writes a sensual piece about the power of bath time.
An active life takes many forms, and in this issue critical thinkers, artists, fashion designers and dancers including Amelia Horgan, Ajit Chauhan, Daisy Collingridge, Nicolas Andreas Taralis, Benny Nemer, Euripides Laskaridis, Lenio Kaklea and Philippe Malouin share their creative practices as we explore what drives them.
In this issue, we’re on the move. In ‘Roadside’ Antoine Harinthe and Jack Borket capture curbside style. In ‘Heaver’ Vassilis Karidis and Nicholas Georgiou investigate the physicality of labour, and in ‘Arena’, Johan Sandberg and Chiara Ficola pay homage to the tactility of play in the sand. Plus Johan Sanberg and Paolo Zambaldi take fashion into sensory overload with two major series.
It’s a sensual issue, a tribute to what we’ve missed the most.
In issue 24, Dapper Dan looks forward to a time of total physicality. To a time of limitless action, tangible touch and bodily instinct.
In the absence of physical touch, the imagination flourishes. Spending time apart and away from each other, we crave connection and seek it in new forms. Dapper Dan Magazine’s 23rd issue moves away from the real and the physical, and into the subconscious.
In essays on Fashion as Cinema, Your Wildest Dreams, The Art of Solitary Pastimes and Small Albeit Grand Thefts, we’re thinking about pathways to creativity, the power of desire, and the radical potential of space.
Through interviews with writer and artist Panagiotis Chatzistefanou, writer Caleb Azumah Nelson, music producer Jim-E Stack, restaurateurs Jeremy Chan and Iré Hassan-Odukale, costume designer Sandy Powell, artist Olivier de Sagazan, and more we explore passion and craft with intimacy and intrigue.
Through fashion imagery, portraiture, art and costume, the pages of our magazine expand the mind. What you see is only the surface. The subliminal is sublime.
