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Intersection of Chaos / Inside the World of Lady Tazz

Music | Interview
Born in Montreal, raised in Dhaka, and shaped by Toronto’s underground, Lady Tazz has lived more lives than most artists ever dare to. Her presence is deliberate, and her sets are defined by speed, sensuality, and control. She founded Mind Medizin as a platform for artists who challenge the conventions of the electronic music industry, a space for sound that is stripped-back, forceful, and unconcerned with mainstream appeal. Lady Tazz approaches music with intent, and everything she builds is made to last.

Fragments of the Self / Francois X

Music | Interview
In a time where identity is often packaged, flattened, and made palatable for algorithmic feeds, François X resists easy definition. Born between Corsica and Benin, shaped by sounds that stretch from the vinyl stacks of Fania Records to the raw pulse of Parisian club nights, his music is neither fusion nor collage. It’s something more elemental, a process of remembering, returning, resisting.

Glenn Martens’ debut at Maison Margiela

Fashion | Spotlight
For his debut at the helm of Maison Margiela, Glenn Martens stages a ghostly procession inside crumbling walls. Between echoes of Martin Margiela’s legacy and the romantic dissonance of John Galliano’s spectacle, Martens delivers a couture collection that is both deeply autobiographical and politically charged.

Past-self

Fashion | Exclusive
Before the hum of machines and the rush of minutes, the world moved with a quieter rhythm. Trees unmoved by passing empires whispered secrets in a language of leaves, and rivers sang songs worn smooth by centuries. A fashion story photographed by Andrea Mauro.

A Liturgy for Disruption / Balenciaga by Demna

Fashion | Spotlight
Hosted inside the former chapel of Kering’s Paris headquarters, Balenciaga by Demna is an exhibition that reads as a fragmented anatomy of Demna’s vision for the house—marked by displacement and irony

Echoes Under the Skin / Madwoman

Music | Interview
MADWOMAN is a presence, part instinct, part ritual. She sketches tracks in moments of emotional chaos, paints to ground herself, and finds energy in unexpected places like American football.

Silhouettes of Sound / Kate Miao

Music | Interview
Raised on metal riffs and post-punk distortion, sharpened by the architecture of code, and softened by surrealist brushstrokes, Kate Miao—the Copenhagen-based DJ, label head, and creative technologist—moves through sound like static on silk: sharp, sensual, and unpredictable. Under the banners of Miao Music and Unlinked Recordings, she sculpts multidimensional spaces where techno, trance, and ambient dreamwork glitch, collide, and are reborn. Between control and collapse, between the logic of systems and the chaos of art, her sets become emotional architectures—her parties, living organisms.

Breaking the Mask / DeathbyRomy

Music | Interview
Raised amid the sun-drenched illusions and hard realities of Los Angeles, Romy channels the city’s beauty and brutality through an uncompromising lens, revealing the many versions of herself that have survived and evolved.

Midsummer dream

Fashion | Exclusive
Inspiring the desire to never go back home. Muses Camilla and Delia in a summer story by Marco Giuliano and styled by Anca Macavei with Permare Swim.

La plage

Photography | Nude
Black and white impressions of a day at Spanish beach with muse Nuria Oliu, captured in black and white film by Maurizio Pedroni.

Eclipse

Fashion | Exclusive
A quiet intensity pulses through Eclipse. Captured by Yair Sigron, each look is a moment suspended between light and shadow. Raw, composed, and charged with rebellion.

Ahead of Upclose / A chat with MARRØN

Music | Interview
In the pulsating world of techno, few artists infuse rhythm with roots like MARRØN. Drawing from his rich Surinamese heritage and the unyielding spirit of the Maroon people, he transforms dance floors into spaces of remembrance, resistance, and radical joy. Ahead of his much-anticipated appearance at Upclose 2025, he continues to push boundaries through projects like NDYUKA, his storytelling podcast series, and Eerste Communie, the Sunday ritual that redefined Amsterdam’s party culture, he doesn’t just play music — he reclaims history, challenges norms, and amplifies voices often left unheard.