The Culture Vault//RAD Store

The second installment of The Culture Vault see's us catching up with Justin Lees of Rad Store. You will see a lot more of this sort of stuff coming under The Culture Vault heading, we are working on building a database of the freshest stores and labels, not only in Aus and NZ, but around the world, so where ever it is you find yourself, you'll know where to hit up when you want to deck your shit out! I suppose you could say Rad Store is among the new wave of stores that we are seeing (or...

Buffet

Before I begin my rant on what was an awesome weekend, I have to extend a huge thank you, congratulations and props to Andrew Montell and the rest of the crew at Acclaim Mag, you have created the best thing that has ever happened to streetwear in Australia,  Buffet the corner stone in the building of a broader community amongst Asia-Pacific streetwear aficionados, , which in my opinion can only be a good thing and something that you cannot put a dollar value on, I hope to see this event...

Orlandini Gianni

I'm always on the hunt for artists and tattooists from different parts of the world, apart from giving you all a reference point for some of the most incredible tattooists on Earth, something that always interests me is speaking to people, particularly those from non English speaking backgrounds, it's always a good read, and on the most part their ideas and perspectives on a lot of things seem to make a whole lot more sense than a lot of ours do. As you read through this interview you will...

Buffet

This Friday we will be heading down to Melbourne for the Buffet Tradeshow, if you've got anything to do with the street wear game, you're not going to want to miss this. Buffet is the brain child of Andrew Montell of Acclaim Magazine, with speakers such as Jeff Staple, Jimmy Bligs and Luca Ionescu there is no doubt that this event is the raddest thing to happen to the Australian streetwear and independent fashion related communitie since......Forever. Check out the site for more, for...

Politicians..Ha!

Early last week, Australia's Deputy Idiot Prime Minister Julia Gillard, (or “J-Gillz” as she shall henceforth be known), again proved what an oppressive, tyrannical power whore she is, slamming heavily tattooed women, saying that they were "making a mistake" in exercising their rights to get tattooed then going on to say that Australia's "Raunch Culture" has gone too far. Now, there are a lot of things the Government says and does that piss me off, but so far I have restrained myself...