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!”
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 this, our 20th issue, Dapper Dan is the everyman. We explore the sense of self in the individual. We explore the mood of individualism at the core of current fashion. In the pages of our magazine, modern masculinity plays out. Continue reading “Dapper Dan 20 is Out!”
Dapper Dan 19 looks at how we—as artists, writers, thinkers—carve out time and space in a world that bombards us constantly, keeping us ever-notified. In the pages of our magazine, we build new rules. We champion those who move against this mechanism, embracing iconoclasm in an Instagram age. We question Raven Smith’s content and commentary, Samuel Ross’s garments and products, and Andrew Bolton’s curation and exhibitions. We showcase duo FAKA’s radical singularity and the structures in tailor Daniel Haworth’s craft. We shoot Celine SS19 and capture Zegna’s collection, placing garments alongside objects to reveal both the inanimate and the human.
Menswear and philosophy are mined. Ideas are distilled. Dapper Dan 19 explores the intimacies of alienation, a new individualism.
To say Maxime Büchi has been busy is an understatement. Father of three, tattoo artist and founder of Sang Bleu Studio, publisher of the iconic now defunct Sang Bleu magazine and TTTISM magazine, he has also designed fonts for Swiss Typefaces, watches for Hublot and clothes for Sang Bleu Studio. We had a chat in his studio in Dalston to the soundtrack of a continuous buzzing of tattoo needles. Continue reading “Maxime Büchi”
Best known for his lighting creations and his minimal, utilitarian aesthetic, Cypriot-born designer Michael Anastassiades works for some of the world’s leading architects, including David Chipperfield and John Pawson. An Industrial Design graduate from the Royal College of Art in London, his work is featured in the permanent collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the FRAC Centre in France, and the V&A Museum in London, and he has designed products in collaboration with furniture company Herman Miller and lighting manufacturers Flos. Dapper Dan’s editor Vassilis Karidis visited Michael at his home and studio in Waterloo, London, where the designer produces his signature collection of lighting, furniture, jewellery and tabletop objects for his own brand. Continue reading “Michael Anastassiades talks to Vassilis Karidis”
Dapper Dan visited Mirko Borsche, founder of graphic design studio Bureau Mirko Borsche, at his Munich HQ.
VASSILIS KARIDIS: Were you born in Munich?
MIRKO BORSCHE: I was born outside of Munich, near lake Tegernsee. It is a very beautiful lake—it looks like something from Heidi! The whole area looks like that.
VK: Then you went to study in London?
MB: I went to study in London because I had some police problems in Germany doing graffiti. I really had to leave. Continue reading “Mirko Borsche talks to Vassilis Karidis”
