LANGUAGE IS THE MESSAGE
Language is an irreplaceable tool for understanding and documenting our lives.
Written, spoken and visual, language mirrors who we are. It reflects our histories, narrates our experiences, and traces our existence beyond a cycle that is destined to end right from the beginning.
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!”
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.
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!”
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!”
There’s something unsettling about obsession.
It’s an energy that powers action from the depths of the deepest blue and drives us to create, interpret or worship without explanation.
When inspiration strikes, obsession drives us on.
This issue of Dapper Dan is an homage to sources of rapture and joy, to the people, places and objects that keep us enthralled.
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.
This season, Givenchy presents an avant-garde, statement-making men’s fashion sneaker conceived by Creative Director Matthew M. Williams as his “dream shoe” and developed exclusively by Givenchy.
First spotted on the runway for Spring 2022, this unique style now has become an essential component of the Givenchy Pre-Fall 2022 collection. In naming the sneaker TK-360, Matthew M. Williams alludes to its singular “total knit” construction while hinting at exciting possibilities to come.
The TK-360 is an original, fully knitted piece produced using completely new, state-of-the-art technology. Its radical shape and bold lines firmly place it in the style vanguard, further consolidating the designer’s daring vision for the House.
