Welcome To The Written Archive Of 713 Magazine. Essays, Reflections, And Observations That Define Our Language.
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The Story Of Kanye’s Dad Long before Kanye West became one of the most documented artists in the world, his father had already spent decades moving between art, politics, business and service. Ray West had been a Black activist, photographer, newspaper photojournalist, entrepreneur, counselor and teacher before most people outside his immediate world ever knew…
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A 713 Magazine Interview Before Dee Santiago became a recognizable presence around some of the most influential figures in music and fashion, he was a kid from New Orleans trying to survive an environment that could narrow a person’s future before they had the chance to imagine one. Born in the Ninth Ward, Dee eventually…
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An Exploration of Sound For one night during New York Fashion Week, The Gathering took over Silence Please and brought over 200 people from across fashion, music, art, design, media, hospitality, photography, and culture into the same room. The idea was never to create another event just for the sake of having one. Fashion Week…
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YZY SHDZ started as something much bigger than a pair of sunglasses. During 2022, Yeezy was experimenting with eyewear that could alter the entire shape of the head rather than simply sit on the face. Surviving samples from that period include oversized mirrored visors, covered heads and pieces that blur the line between sunglasses, headwear…
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How Sleazy built Seventy-Four Is War by making the clothes and the lifestyle impossible to separate. Seventyfour Is War makes sense before you ever reach the product page. Sleazy wears the brand and moves through the world like its clearest reference. His taste is present in everything, from the clothes and cars to the people,…
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How Galliano turned memory into a new language for Margiela By Spring/Summer 2019, John Galliano had reached a point at Maison Margiela where the house’s original language and his own were beginning to feel almost inseparable. Four years after arriving as creative director, he was no longer simply applying Margiela’s ideas of deconstruction and transformation…
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Sasha Gordon’s paintings feel familiar until they do not. A face might initially read as a portrait, a bedroom as an ordinary interior, a body as something completely human. Then the proportions begin to shift. Skin turns blue, green or almost translucent. Eyes grow too large. Limbs bend into positions that feel slightly impossible. Multiple…
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Kyle Lindgren on the World of PALY HOLLYWOOD We sit down with PALY HOLLYWOOD co-founder Kyle Lindgren to talk growing up around skateboarding, learning under Jason Dill, Hollywood’s hidden histories, building PALY with James Franco, and the obsession behind the clothes. Kyle Lindgren did not grow up around fashion. In a small town in Colorado,…
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We sit down with Emanuel Ricci to talk Muso Kuso, building a world of his own, and why fashion was only ever the beginning. For Emanuel Ricci, fashion was never supposed to end with clothing. The designer behind Muso Kuso spent his early life moving between Italy, France, Belgium, England, Ireland and eventually the United…
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Born: 1994, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada Current Location: New Brunswick, Canada Website / Portfolio: gabriellebrownart.com Instagram: @gabrielle.k.brown Gallery Representation: Anima Mundi Gallery, Cornwall, United Kingdom Biography Gabrielle K. Brown has been making art since childhood, driven by a lifelong desire to create. As she grew older, she continued making time for her practice, eventually deciding to pursue it full…
