Light Up The Sky, the band’s producer points to the first ever photoshoot of Jennie, Rosé, Jisoo, and Lisa as BLACKPINK, which hangs framed in his studio. In the shot, the quartet are caught mid-jump wearing distressed denim shorts, slip-on checkerboard Vans, and paisley bandanas knotted at the waist, as if someone had typed “girl band” into a stock image search.
Fast forward four years and no one is doing it quite like BLACKPINK. Last year, their bombastic “How You Like That” became the highest ranking single of any girl band on the Billboard charts, they had the biggest music video premiere on Youtube (twice), and they even had a hand in derailing a presidential campaign rally. As well as front row seats at every major fashion show, as of last week, each member has a blue-chip relationship with separate Parisian fashion houses: Jennie is the face of Chanel, Rosé of Saint Laurent, Lisa of Celine, and now Jisoo’s at Dior.
The Song Cave is running a print sale offering you the opportunity to purchase prints by an illustrious list of creatives. The US-based independent publishers – which focus on producing beautifully-bound works of poetry, translation, and art criticism – are raising money to fund their ongoing projects.
For this year’s annual fundraiser they approached photographers, writers, artists, actors, musicians, and filmmakers to provide a photograph on the enigmatic theme of ‘mirages’. Contributors include the likes of former Sonic Youth musician Kim Gordon, celebrated photographer Nan Goldin, actor and writer Tavi Gevinson, and Dazed 100 alumni, Coco Gordon Moore, who ve each responded to the topic in their unique and evocative ways.
Labour MP Stella Creasy questioned why the measure was decided upon when it bears no relation to the circumstances of Everard’s murder. “The idea that putting plain-clothes police officers in nightclubs is going to solve this problem doesn’t recognise that women get abused, assaulted, and intimidated in all sorts of places,” she told Radio 4 earlier today (March 16).
33-year-old Everard went missing on March 3 while walking home to Brixton from a friend’s house in Clapham. The journey should have taken her 50 minutes – the last known sighting puts her just 20 minutes away from home before she was kidnapped. Her body was formally identified on Friday (March 12); 48-year-old Met police officer Wayne Couzens has been charged with her murder.
Jenny Zhang considers intimacy between generations of immigrants, Torrey Peters grapples with the prospect of queer family, and Jenny Offill examines ambivalence to motherhood against creating art