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FASHION - MUSIC - STREET - ATTITUDE asbomagazine.com 07 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DESIGN Davide J Wheller Art Director [email protected] James May PUBLISHING [email protected] Commercial/Partnership Director FASHION Andrew Cleminson Fashion Director [email protected] Ash Allibhai Head of Marketing [email protected] Ruth Walker International Fashion Editor [email protected] Adrien Yakimov Roberts Revenue Director [email protected] Chris Seth Fashion Editor [email protected] Roisin O Hare Strategy Director [email protected] Rob Lawrence Stuff Editor [email protected] Isabel Collins DIGITAL [email protected] Online Editor Fashion Assistant Gemma Tadman Yasar Torunoglu [email protected] In-house Photographer Web Developer Sara Barrow Rob Harper [email protected] Social Media Editor MUSIC Rob Lee Music Editor [email protected] Emily Fortune ASBO TV [email protected] UNKNOWN Andre Taylor Contributing Music Editor [email protected] Jacket by Jacket Seneo Muamba ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR Nicole Wallce Humza Hussian (EDTORIAL) INTERNATIONAL EDITORS [email protected] FASHION - MUSIC - STREET - ATTITUDE THEM New York WORDS Adrian J Ramos Lithemba Velleman, Nailah Dossa, [email protected] Amy Eskenazi, Henry Blair, Abbie Weight, William Bennett, Caitlin Lower, Beijing Julia Gessler & Kit Keane Xi Joa IMAGES [email protected] Mike Lowe, Vanya Sacha, Kane Emmanuel Roberts Seoul Emmanuel Roberts, Jonathan Wood, Jay Rabanal, Anna Grodskaya, Danila Judy Lee Romankov, Hayley Louisa Brown, Isaac Roisin O’Hare Roisin [email protected] Dann, Jordan Hardy and Edvin Kalic Photography Sarajevo SPECIAL THANKS Eleni Parousi Fashion Works International, Rooney’s KIDA KUDZ KIDA Direction/Styling FASHION - MUSIC - STREET - ATTITUDE [email protected] Boxing Gym & University of East London 08 ASBO MAGAZINE ISSUE_3 ISSUE 3/ CONTENTS Spring/Summer 2018 10 stuff. - Stussy, Brujas x 1971, Chuck Taylor, Brain Dead, Addidas, kenzo, Liam Hodges & Le Fix // Check out our insta @asbomagazine for exclusive content # 14 Exposure - Zlata Alekhno - WORDS Henry Blair 16 Angie PHOTOGRAPHY Vanya Sacha STYLING Mariana Abella WORDS Michael Sumsion 20 Brutalism PHOTOGRAPHY Jonathan Wood WORDS Ash Allibhai 26 Censored - China opts to censor a burgeoning hip hop culture - WORDS Roisin O’Hare 30 Lucky Little Blighters PHOTOGRAPHY Jay Rabanal STYLING Ramario Chevoy 38 Dama Scout - Curious kids with off-to-the-circus theatricality - WORDS Kit Keane 40 Tyler Bate PHOTOGRAPHY Vanya Sacha CREATIVE DIRECTION Mike Lowe WORDS Humza Hussian 46 THEM PHOTOGRAPHY Kane Layland STYLING Roisin O’Hare 56 Hex - London’s ‘wavey-ist’ new rapper shares the importance of not giving a f*ck - WORDS Seneo mwamba 58 Jason Ebeyer - Making the Third - WORDS Julia Gessler FASHION.MUSIC.STREET.ATTITUDE 62 Sydney Wyatt - A collective for the DIY generation - PHOTOGRAPHY Emmanuel Roberts STYLING Roisin O’Hare 66 House of Romanov COLLECTION @ Nina Veresova, Lina Bouxdorf & Anastasiya Pavlovich PHOTOGRAPHY Anna Grodskaya & Danila Romankov 74 A E S T H E T I C - Vapourwave is a cocktail of musical theory, politics & blatant plagiarism - WORDS William Bennett 76 Alma WORDS Molly Davis 78 Super fly - Ugly is human. It touches the bad and the dirty side of people - PHOTOGRAPHY Isaac Dann 84 Kida kudz - The Era of Afro-swank - PHOTOGRAPHY Emmanuel Roberts STYLING Roisin O’Hare 90 Street style PHOTOGRAPHY Sara Barrow 98 Rachel foxx - Bringing her husky electronic-soul to the UK scene - WORDS Emily Fortune 103 Shelly - Norwich university of the arts - PHOTOGRAPHY Jordan Hardy 110 Gabba kids - A youth subculture formulated to fight back against the repression - WORDS Abbie Weight 114 Taya WORDS Seneo mwamba 116 David Olshanetsky WORDS Amy Eskenazi 118 Michael Hone PHOTOGRAPHY Vanya sacha STYLIST Ash Allibhai 122 Ash Mammels WORDS Kit Keane 125 Confession PHOTOGRAPHY Edvin Kalic CREATIVE DIRECTION HIVE ISSUE_3 Spring/Summer 2018 //Check out our insta @asbomagazine for exclusive content #FASHION.MUSIC.STREET.ATTITUDE 10 ASBO MAGAZINE asbomagazine.com 11 stuff. GET IT WHILE ITS HOT KENZO MINI STRIPED TIGER BACKPACK £tbc www.kenzo.com £11.95 3 PAIRS STUSSY SLOANE TRACK SKIRT £TBC www.stussy.co.uk www.addidas.co.uk BRAIN DEAD MISSILE HOODIE £60 www.goodhoodstore.com/braindead ADDIDAS CREW SOCKS CHUCK TAYLOR ALL STAR CONVERSE £85 www.converse.com BRUJAS X 1971 WWW.1971.NYC 12 ASBO MAGAZINE asbomagazine.com 13 £35 PROCTOR DROP SUADE CAP www.proctorclothing.com LE FIX SPLAT PATCH CREWNECK €134.40 www.le-fix.com CANNOT BE DESCRIBED TROUSERS LIAM HODGES £295 www.liamhodges.co.uk CAMO PATCH DUFFLE BAG £34.99 www.haddonpr.com £144.99 www.nike.com NIKE AIR MAX PLUS TN TIGER ROKIT www.rokit.co.uk 14 ASBO MAGAZINE asbomagazine.com 15 EXPOSURE ZLATA ALEKHNO IN ASSOCIATION WITH IN ASSOCIATION Coming to the UK 4 years ago with only £500 and no work experience and no experience of the fashion industry was literally an ALL OR NOTHING moment where I had to either make it or go back home. The past few years have been tough and with little funding I worked all the way through the course to support myself nancially. As a result my graduate collection has a special meaning to me as it is the nal outcome of my journey and experience. The collection expresses the brand values as well as my heritage. The use of Russian language nods to the notion of being ‘ALL OR NOTHING’, which tranlates as ВСЁ ИЛИ НИЧЕГО. The silhouette and gender-neutral designs were developed through the exploration of kimono, a traditional Japanese garment; and the notion of Eastern pattern cutting was explored and compared to the Western approach. This creates a space between the body and garment, allowing the wearer to move and interact freely with the garments. Adopting a minimalist lifestyle and a vegan diet led to more concious and considered choices of the materials and design itself, as a result all the garments are 100% vegan with no leather, fur, wool or silk used. The predominant colour, black, is a timeless, functional colour that has the quality of being trendless in the fashion industry. The designs are then further adapted with bleaching techniques were patterns are organically created by applying bleach intuitively and spontaneously. ALL OR NOTHING. WORDS HENRY BLAIR ANGIE PHOTOGRAPHY VANYA SACHA ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHER FATHIYA ABDALLA STYLIST MARIANA ABELLA COLLECTION LYDIA BOLTON FORGET IMMOBILITY: A Swedish singer & songwriter is going forward, unfettered 18 ASBO MAGAZINE asbomagazine.com 19 The twenty-two-year-old Swedish singer, rapper and songwriter Angie cuts a surprisingly low-key and demure figure. Before she makes her way over to the make- up chair at Crea8 Studio in East London’s Hackney Wick, we sat down together on a quiet afternoon. She twiddles her Scandi brunch in the café. transcendent properties of sex and drugs Pink-haired but modestly attired in utilitarian, with a production style that invokes the norm-core leisure wear, she shows no palpable sound of PC Music and AlunaGeorge. “I signs of wear and tear from a prior sweaty, have forty songs written and recorded in well-received gig at London’s Hoxton Bar And demo form at the moment”, she notes, Kitchen’s ‘Gold Dust’ club night. continuing, “Some songs take longer than others. ‘Spun’ took forever.” “Memories for lyrical inspiration”, the song,which has become her show-stopping signature, was Preferring to sing in English rather than inspired by a painful break-up with her first her native tongue – musing on how, in proper girlfriend. her view, “English is the most beautiful language in the world” – she records In many ways, it represents the catharsis of her musical ideas quickly on her mobile phone recovery from the split. Angie claims to be pan- and then looks for lyrical inspiration. sexual rather than lesbian - the year-long gay More than anything, she gravitates to the relationship alluded to in the song constitutes her candour of those artists who write from only deviation from this fluidity. She has otherwise the depths of their own experience and always been bi-sexual, “falling for people rather she sees herself in this tradition. than genders,” as she puts it. Throw into the mix the influences of an imprisoned father, an Angie is clearly thriving off her time alcoholic mother, mental health issues, attention in the capital, which she loves for its deficit hyperactivity disorder and the rampant architecture and colour. She explains that homophobia of the community in which she was “the cherry blossoms and magnolia trees” raised, and you have enough material for a Gothic are a heavy contrast to the dourness novel, not just a pop tune. of cities in her home country: “It’s so grey.” That said, she feels freer and less Known to her Twitter and Instagram acolytes confined by rules in Sweden, citing the today as ‘Fucking Angie’, the former bartender’s penalty notices for public spitting and the first musical dabblings consisted of sharing tunes volume of the police sirens as things that on Snapchat with a Swedish band that led to the offend and annoy her about the UK. “It’s formation of her all-female rap outfit, Bossa. much calmer in Sweden,” she asserts, “I get stressed by [the sirens].” ” While she’s always played around with melodies in her head, she tells me, she soon discovered As for her forthcoming plans, once the virtues of raw, undiluted emotion when it summer festival performances at festivals came to putting her experiences down on paper including Belgium’s Tomorrowland are “I GRAVITATE and melding them to beats. completed, Angie is looking to complete an album and release a few tracks in Swedish Her formative musical inspirations were the with several collaborators that will see the TO THOSE likes of Eminem and Courtney Love, perennial light of day.