MATTO, an Italian photographer and graphic designer.
“We wanted to do a magazine that was mainly about contemporary art, but a bit more accessible in terms of the text,” he says. “So we do studio visits and conversations with the artists or designers themselves. We don’t want it to be overly academic, so that it becomes completely impenetrable for anyone to read. We wanted to make a magazine about contemporary art that was a bit more inclusive. When we started the magazine and it went into shops, they had really hard time to placing us in a category. It was quite interesting that sometimes it would like end up in the erotic section, sometimes we would end up in design or architecture. It was interesting how everyone saw it as something different, even though for us contemporary art is the core of it.”
8February 2021
Palace has a long history of teaming up or otherwise paying homage to iconic musicians. Last year saw the label drop a Whitney Houston-inspired collection, and join forces with 90s Madchester legends the Happy Mondays on a collab, and in 2021, it looks like we’re in for more of the same. Dropping its new Frank Lebon-lensed lookbook today, this season sees the skate label tip its five-panel cap in the direction of heavy metal goth icon Alice Cooper and his album
Constrictor, on a jacket dubbed the ‘Palace Cooper’ (loving your work boys).
Elsewhere, this week saw Virgil Abloh debut his latest collection for Off-White via innovative, content-rich platform
7February 2021
Timothée Chalamet may or may not be in the running to play Willy Wonka, but either way it won’t be his first time following in the footsteps of Johnny Depp. Today (February 7) Chalamet premiered an homage to the titular character from Tim Burton’s
Edward Scissorhands, for a new Super Bowl ad.
Also starring Winona Ryder – reprising her role as Kim Boggs from the 1990 film – the advert sees Chalamet reimagine what life would be like for Edward Scissorhands in 2021. Specifically, the
Call Me By Your Name actor is cast in the role of Edgar Scissorhands (Edward’s son who has, inexplicably, inherited his father’s scissors-for-hands).