Happy Monday! The new week is here and with it comes the chance to delve deep into some fresh culture and fashion. Here’s your latest look at the i-D Guide.
Wear… everything from the SSENSE sale!
Everybody’s favourite luxury e-tailer delivers one of the best sales out there, and it’s back again just in time for your Spring wardrobe revamp. Everything from JW Anderson to Marine Serre, Stefan Cooke to Comme des Garçons is up for grabs. Check out menswear here and womenswear here.
Snag… Pictures for Purpose
In an effort to raise money for those affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, photographers like Lea Colombo and Harley Weir have contributed work as part of a fundraising print sale. Check out the full selection here.
Read… Biography of X
Described by Detransition Baby author Torrey Peters as “the most ambitious book I’ve ever read from a writer of my own generation”, Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X is a swirling narrative about the widow of an artist constructing a portrait of their now-dead partner. In her effort to find out the minute details of her life, one she knew very little about, her grief shapeshifts into something else. Buy it here or download the audiobook here.
Watch… God’s Creatures
Paul Mescal’s usually touching turns are spun on their head in this dark tale of family alliances, in which a mother is forced to confront the behaviour of her son in a small fishing village. An A24 movie in the US, it finally gets its release in the UK on Friday 31 March.
Listen to… Sky Tellie
Producers Sasha Frantz and John Eatherly, based in Paris and New York respectively, have spent the past year quietly collaborating on an experimental project called Sky Tellie. Today marks the release of the duo’s debut single, “Stay”, a hazy track peppered with pitched vocals and warped guitars. The accompanying visual, directed by Luminescent Films (Benjamin Cooper & Toto Vivian), is a series of cinematic vignettes that come and go like a half-forgotten dream. Keep an eye out for future releases here.
Liniker
A history maker as the first trans artist to win a Latin American Grammy, Liniker has made a firm mark on the Brazilian music scene with their blend of soul and samba-rock. It harbours a huge importance to young gender non-conforming people in Brazil who see her as a deity. But now, after nearly five years, she’s making her return to Europe with an upcoming show at KOKO in London on 29 June. The best way to experience her music would be in a crowd of Brazilian ex-pats who see her as the blueprint. Buy your tickets here and follow her IG here.
Go to… A Little Life
After weeks of tabloid hyperbole built on hypotheticals, the first English language adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s revered and brilliant A Little Life arrives on the West End this week. Those brave enough to handle Ivo Van Hove’s visceral stage adaptation can grab last minute tickets, either for its run at the Harold Pinter Theatre until 18 June or at the Savoy Theatre from 4 July until 5 August. Buy them here.
For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide…
Another knock-out play opens in the West End this week. After a successful, five-star run at the Royal Court and two Olivier nominations (wins, surely, impending), the talked-about new play from Ryan Calais Cameron, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy, kicks off a short run at the Apollo Theatre. A riff on the seminal 70s play For Colored Girls… by Ntozake Shange, it’s a revealing, moving look into a group therapy session shared by six young Black men. Buy your tickets here.
We Grew Closer as the World Fell Apart
Young London artist Isaac Andrews debuts a new collection of oil paintings inspired by, as he puts it, “the complexity of human connection and emotion in a dystopian society, and the emotions that define the human experience in an increasingly unrecognisable world”. His past work comprises of vulnerable self portraits and unrecognisable depictions of young men. Now, there’s bridesmaids and schoolchildren, and couples embracing for their last dance. It runs at 9 Club Row from 31st March to 7 April. More information here.
Stay… at Bunkhouse hotels
As the weather warms up, we’re feeling the urge to book summer holidays left and right. While in Austin for SXSW, we were lucky enough to check out Hotel Magdalena on Music Lane in the popular South Congress neighbourhood, which features a must-see vinyl bar in the basement called Equipment Room. But with hotels in California, and hot spots like Mexico City (opening this spring) and Todos Santos, if you too are looking to get away, you need not look further than Bunkhouse hotels. See for yourselves, here.