Vice Style

Andy Capper, VICE's global editor in chief, recently co-directed A$AP Rocky's new music video for "Wassup"—an ode to Harlem, 40s, OG Kush, and gold teeth—which is premiering on VICE today.

Amanda Morgan Jansson, art editor for Honk! magazine, and her buddy Emma called this shoot Marian Apparitions because it's all Virgin Mary-ish, if the she was locked in a bathroom with a huge bag of make-up, a homemade Burger King crown, a Fuji Instax, and a Holga.

Martine Rose manages to mix sportswear and tailoring without it looking like some ill-advised corporate tactic of appealing to men in the midst of their mid-life crisis, something which seems like a tricky prospect, but she's nailed it with every single collection so far, which seemed like a good enough reason to have a chat.

Azis is a noted Bulgarian popstar and former deputy leader of Euroroma, Bulgaria's super-liberal gypsy party, and 21st greatest Bulgarian of all time. But it's not his amazing repertoire of perfect pop songs, or his politics that has me hooked, I'm more enchanted by his appearance.

As well as being the most exciting store in one of the world's weirder fashion capitals, Ra go out of their way to stock new young and obscure designers, sometimes even financing the first production run, exhibit weird artists, and throws amazing parties. It's run by Romain Brau and Anna Kushnerova, two designers in their twenties.

What do you do when you want a shirt featuring your favorite musician but it either doesn't exist or a vintage one costs more than Greece's national debt? Well, you do what Ranks did and set up a label making the shirts you've been lusting after all these years.

2011 saw a dude tattooed like a skeleton break into high fashion, VICE went to London Fashion Week on acid, and to the Blonds presentation, which made us feel like we were on acid. Here are a few of the best and worst things that happened fashion-wise in 2011.

Afrofuturism's building blocks include serious doses of the already pretty futuristic ancient Egyptian style, blended with something more space age: massive, visor-like glasses, colored hair, and anything remotely sci-fi. Early afrofuturism was always colorful and metallic, while late afrofuturism meant face masks and other accessories that featured mecha-style merging of man and machine.

If you've ever asked yourself why waste time on planet Earth trying to look a bit like James Dean or some other homo when you could be working on your superhero look, then you should read these interviews with the stars of photographer Peter Tangen's Real Life Super Hero Project.

The one thing that really made the scene, apart from a newspaper headline naming the clubbers at Blitz, New Romantics, was that every single person dressed like a fucking lunatic, regardless of their band or sartorial choices, and they were all trying to move beyond the straight-jacket that a lot of people thought punk was becoming.