Interview

Johnny Venus
Johnny Venus
Creators Are Healers

The Atlanta-born artist opens up about his powerful solo EP, “Shooter,” the importance of collaboration, and his mission to heal through music, wellness, and community.

Stella Winter
Stella Winter
Fine Art Meets Internet Culture

The artist splashing the digital world onto canvases sits down with us to discuss viral fame, her cinematic influences, and her first solo show in Berlin.

Ximena Maier
Ximena Maier
Carta de amor al Prado

Lumen reedita “Cuaderno del Prado”, un volumen donde la ilustradora demuestra su amor por este mítico museo madrileño. Hoy hablamos con ella de Goya, humor y cuadros que le gustan (y los que no).

Maher Daniel
Maher Daniel
Always Be Recording

Ahead of his closing set at Sophie Festival, Maher Daniel reflects on his journey, his label’s ten-year anniversary, and the need for ethical responsibility in the electronic music scene.

The Irrepressibles
The Irrepressibles
The Defiance in Desire

Jamie Irrepressible expands “Yo Homo” into a deluxe manifesto of queer intimacy, self-realisation, and radical sonic expression. We discuss dance music, intimacy, and community-led projects.

Zoé Vy Anh
Zoé Vy Anh
A Desire to Create

Industrial designer, bag designer, and now, ikebana student. We speak with Zoé about her recent move to Japan, making bags inspired by shibari or origami, and her love for tabi shoes.

Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović
She Will Always Be Present

Marina Abramović on pain, politics, AI, and the radical new “Balkan Erotic Epic”—a four-hour, 100-performer ritual that reclaims bodies, myth, and emotion.

Sean Nicholas Savage
Sean Nicholas Savage
Music Isn’t Entertainment

After releasing the album “The Knowing” and before his tours across Europe and North America, we sit down with the artist to discuss music, cringe, Iggy Pop, and (not) being prolific.

David Valinsky
David Valinsky
Ruination Fetish

The voyeurism and performance of fashion becomes art in this director’s vision, “to make literature sweat”. He’s a writer, editor and conductor of performance art.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner
I Died a Hundred Times

Eliot Sumner moves seamlessly between acting, music and fashion from “Ripley” and “Vargasommar” to becoming a muse for Miu Miu in Paris.

Aurembiaix
Aurembiaix
Shared Threads

We talk with the designers Flor Violeta Sobrequés and Chloe Campbell about crafting garments as emotional vessels and the quiet power of friendship and memory.

David Koma
David Koma
The Grace in Grit

David Koma, now at Blumarine, shares how optimism, determination and vision shape his journey through fashion and creativity.

Sophia Al-Maria
Sophia Al-Maria
Burning the Script

Sophia Al-Maria fuses pain, humor, and resistance into art, reimagining futures where solidarity and creation become weapons against power.

Floor Fetish
Floor Fetish
Weird Art from the Heart

What started as a pandemic hobby has grown into an established company creating handmade rugs. From snails to Spaghettios, his project fills space with weird art from the heart.

OHHara
OHHara
The Other Side of Fate

On their new mixtape “Ode”, the LA-based duo are rewriting what we thought was inevitable, reprogramming ancient myths into chosen destinies. Recorded in a dojo in Kauai, Hawaii.

Cecilia Pignocchi
Cecilia Pignocchi
Nothing Shines as Bright as the Sun

After eight years under the grey skies in Amsterdam, the Italian photographer quit her job. Now, she’s enjoying the sun in the Mediterranean, and the result is this vibrant series, “Tempo Bello.”

Riot Division
Riot Division
War, Courage, and the Future

Dividing his time between fighting Russian invaders and managing his brand, Oleh Moroz is an example of resilience, pride, and courage, but also creativity.

Laura Ponte
Laura Ponte
One Face, Infinite Gestures

Laura Ponte reflects on fashion, identity, and authenticity in a life defined by metamorphosis, freedom, and the value of simplicity.

Jack Haven
Jack Haven
Navigating the Chaos

Jack Haven explores dreams, authenticity, and vulnerability in life and career, challenging norms and embracing truth in a constantly changing world.

Sean Byrne
Sean Byrne
Stop Being Afraid of Sharks

Are you afraid of sharks? Then, don’t watch “Dangerous Animals” before going to the beach, even if the director is trying to subvert the fear we have of those majestic animals.

Jeffrey Henson Scales
Jeffrey Henson Scales
The Transformation of Harlem

With a series capturing the intimacy of a Black barbershop in the mid 1980s, the photographer and editor tells stories about community, gentrification, and masculinity.

@lotraiart
@lotraiart
Tolkien’s Universe Gets a Makeover

An AI scientist and engineer hides behind this Instagram account that makes the fan art we didn’t know we needed: Frodo as a “Sailor Moon” character or Aragorn as a cute puppy

Nate Langston Palmer
Nate Langston Palmer
On Go-Go Music, Gentrification, and Portraiture

The photographer celebrates the subculture surrounding Beat Ya Feet dancers, Black youth, joy, and community in “Song of Sons,” a series that’s currently exhibited in Washington, DC.

Haderlump
Haderlump
Deadstock as Poetic Dialogue

Berlin-based brand Haderlump presents "Ex Libris," a collection that treats fashion as memoir, using deadstock textiles to explore identity, narrative, and cultural longevity.

Nick Brandt
Nick Brandt
Finding Hope through Photography

In a world in turmoil, the photographer’s series “The Day May Break” is a cry for help. Cinematic, heart-wrenching and artistic, his images shine a light on today’s most pressing issues.

Biianco
Biianco
I’m Just Getting Started

We speak with Biianco, the multi-talented artist behind “Bruv Parade,” about flipping iconic sounds, building community, and thriving through creative resilience.

Cameo Blush
Cameo Blush
Authorship, AI, and the Future of Music

Would you let your listeners into the creative process or a song? Or let AI name some of your songs? That’s what this producer has done in “Grace in Motion,” his newest EP.

Sabrina Santiago
Sabrina Santiago
On Girl and Womanhood

Santiago's street photography, including a shot of Hunter Schafer, documents what it means to be both a woman and a girl. On self-portraits, "everyone should take more pictures of themselves".

Nightfall
Nightfall
Beauty that Doesn’t Shy Away from Desire

From fashion to pleasure, Filip Arickx talks about Nightfall, desire without taboo, and creating intimate objects that blur the line between art and use.

Lever Couture
Lever Couture
Revelation In Motion

We speak with Lessja Verlingieri about her haunting Paris debut and how identity, memory, and resilience are stitched into every piece she creates.