There's a reason Chloë Sevigny was dubbed the "coolest girl in the world" nearly 30 years ago. Her effortless style caught the eye of Sassy's fashion editor Andrea Linett as just 17 years old. Since then, Chloë has been an enduring fixture in New York's downtown cool kid culture. The "it girl" has modelled for brands from Marc Jacobs to Louis Vuitton and acted in cult film classics from Kids to Gummo. In honour of Chloë’s creative influence, here are some of her most iconic style moments. Kids, 1995 In one of her earliest roles, Chloë Sevigny starred in the 1995 film Kids directed by Larry C ..read more

Last summer, Shoichi Aoki, the founder and editor of STREET magazine, uploaded 100 issues to its website, granting access to one of the most comprehensive archives of street style in existence. “I had noticed that there weren't enough photographers documenting street style in the world back then,” Shoichi told us of the magazine’s origins. “I did not know about Mr. Bill Cunningham at the time, but I knew that there was good street fashion in Paris and London.” Following its success, Shoichi has now made the TUNE archive available, an offshoot magazine that focused on men's street fa ..read more

Since February, Daisy Davidson has spent her Sundays traipsing around Camden looking to snap thex most extravagantly dressed individuals she can find for her Instagram account @hystericsnaps. In an homage to Shoichi Aoki’s FRUiTS and STREETS, two legendary but now defunct street style magazines, Daisy has taken it upon herself to document the spectacular style of London’s youth. The project is an extension of her Instagram account, @hysteric.fashion, on which she shares pictures of Japanese street style, plus images of emo and scene kids found while deep-diving online forums and blogs. The nam ..read more

With an official headcount nudging 12 million, and public transport infrastructure that makes a midsummer Central Line commute seem a dream, getting around Kinshasa is not for the weak of spirit. It’s a city where gridlock is an accepted part of the urban rhythm, provoking an ingenious, though not altogether legal, solution. Meet the Wewa, the renegade motorbike taxi force that keep the cogs of Africa’s third-largest city turning, getting its citizens from A to B by weaving between the bumpers on the city’s choked streets. And all with the peacock-ish flair you can only expect from the city th ..read more

Whatever its legacy as a piece of art, it’s hard to deny the aesthetic impact of Larry Clark's Kids. Both the wider New York skate-streetwear subculture it tapped into (a then-fledgling local clothes shop and skate team called Supreme provided a few of the film’s mostly-amateur cast) and its gritty, lo-fi cinematography have shaped two-and-a-half decades of fashion editorials and street-style portfolios. But perhaps Kids’ most significant sartorial contribution is its elevation of ordinary youth cool – and the endlessly diverse, constantly shifting cool of young New York in particular – to the ..read more

Since 1985, Japanese fashion magazine STREET has published the best global street style on its pages and forged links between the different subcultures and style tribes that govern the trendiest corners of London, Paris, Tokyo and beyond. Three decades later, a lot has changed in the way we capture street style (and smartphones have all but replaced cigarettes) but its founder and Chief Editor Shoichi Aoki, the genius mind behind FRUiTS magazine as well, is still just as committed to documenting these trends. “I had noticed that there weren't enough photographers documenting street style in th ..read more

It’s news to no-one that fashion month’s glitzy veneer is a bit of a scam. Well, it is for most at least. For a select few, it’s but a couple weeks of being shuttled from show to show in sponsored Mercedes-Benz towncars, the greatest stress they might endure being a neck strained from air-kissing. For the rest of us, it’s weeks on end of running around like headless chickens, sacrificing sleep to meet impossible deadlines, and trying to look like our strained necks are the result of air-kissing, not sub-editing on the bus on an iPhone with a malfunctioning screen. Chic, n’est-ce pas? Anyway, d ..read more

Mowalola, Kenneth Ize, Orange Culture: these may all be familiar names, but how much more do you know about the fashion culture of Lagos, Nigeria’s foremost cultural hub? A hot, bustling urban sprawl counting upwards of 22 million inhabitants, it’s a city that brims with both creative dynamism and tradition. Paired with the sturdy confidence of its residents, the result is a city where dressing is valued as highly as any major fashion capital, if not more so. There are few places this manifests more clearly than at GT Bank Fashion Weekend. Held annually since 2016, GT Bank Weekend offers Lagos ..read more