Hooligan
Hooligan was originally set up in 2002 as a tongue-in-cheek zine-style magazine running features on, for example, how to torture your neighbor's cat. Now, it's literally the only magazine published in Russia that even touches on obscure fashion, music and art from around the world. Style mag Hooligan is a vital source of information in a country where the pressure to conform, even creatively, is immense.
Catering for the weirder end of fashion and pop culture isn't a big business idea in Russia. In fact, running a magazine like Hooligan in a country where state control is foreboding and overbearing - both subtly and not so subtly - means putting together a style mag is a way more political act than it would be in the US or UK. Socially censored shit, outsider ideas, and general weirdness get a bit of space to breath in the pages of Editor, Igor Zinatulin's Hooligan.
andrew
January 14, 2011 11:45pm
penis stuff is mind-blowing. i wonder how did they manage to get off with it
tim
January 15, 2011 02:23pm
the title sounds a bit confusing but the rest looks it was done with an eye on vice
DJ
January 17, 2011 09:04am
Oh my god! Penis and boobies. So political!
laura
January 17, 2011 01:43pm
this is political, i totally share this point of view. aren't u sick with protests and clashes with the police??? it's a different approach and it works
BOZO
January 17, 2011 05:08pm
lAURA are you a fucking idiot. You think designing a dress is better than going on a protest. Just maybe if you live in Russia and your government are KGB fucks then you need to subvert shit. But in a democracy you don't need to be scared to say what you think. You don't need to hide behind weird colored socks. Do you? Or actually do you Laura? Maybe you're too scared to have an opinion. So you just design shit. I hope the shit you design is actually good. Cos otherwise you're just Samantha fucking Camerontard.
JIM
January 17, 2011 07:47pm
WOW DIDNT KNOW THERE WAS LIFE IN RUSSIA
CIARRA
January 18, 2011 11:45pm
BOZO, go and fuck yourself, she is right!!!
eleda
February 08, 2011 01:48am
bozo, laura. if u design a pair of fucking flower power hippy shoes or run around smashing windows like the big hardman you are - there'll always be someone to rip you for it. as long as you do SOMETHING. its better to try and fail than not to bother at all??? the penis drawbridge is a good simple solid "FUCK YOU" "suck my dick" - g i jane
forty-1
February 19, 2011 01:57am
Well, guys...at the beginning i can tell you something, which can disappoint you..KGB doesn't exist more than 18 years already. Now it has a different name and structure - F??- Federal Security Service. Guys who drew that penis were from Moscow Art-Group "The War". These guys made a lot weird stuff, once they pelted McDonalds with cats. They thrown homeless cats to McDonalds staff! Sorry for my english, i'm russian student in London)