Sep 22

HOOD BY AIR SKID AN ORWELLIAN UNICORN INTO 2010.

Posted in: 2010, fashion, Gallery, Hood By Air, Lookbook, Skids, The Royal Unicorn, Vancouver

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A few years ago we played a skid party in Vancouver at a club called the Royal Unicorn (skids are the straight Vancouver equivalent of the NY banji scene which is essentially a bunch of lesbi-gays making awesome fashion / music / dance partiness. Does that make sense?). Anyway, the Royal Unicorn was an old massage parlor in Chinatown converted into a Karoake club. The same owners still ran the show and did very minor retrofitting to switch over from rubbing to singing which meant rather then being greeted by a bubbly clubgirl you instead paid the cover at the top of the stairs to a man behind a bulletproof glass window who sat in front of a bank of mini tvs that were linked to security cameras throughout the whole place. It was like partying in the future. Blade Runner style. This Hood By Air lookbook for 2010 is like a Blade Runner party at the Royal Unicorn circa 2025. Damn.

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Apr 22

“You walk for me, walk for me, walk for me”

Posted in: 2-step, fashion, Fractals, Gallery, Gucci Mane, Hood By Air, House of Ladosha, Kingdom, Music

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I’m not the one to speak authoritatively on NYC gay culture, but any movement that throws vogueing, 90’s vocal house, men’s leggings, Gucci Mane, happy hardcore & 2-step into a homo-thug blender AND makes sense out of it, is kinda-sorta killing it in every aspect of creativity. Our friend, Patrik North of Acéphale Recs, has been putting me up on what’s been brewing in this scene and I gotta say— I’m pretty gay for it.

If there was to be a unifying aesthetic in this “scene”, it would probably be fashion house, Hood By Air. You might be topically familiar with their designs via H & LA’s “Banjee” tank:

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Their S/S ‘09 Lookbook has been up for a minute now, so go check it out.

On the music front, there’s Kingdom:

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& House of Ladosha:

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As per the description listed above, I don’t really know how to describe Kingdom’s music other than actually being a literal shit-mix of 90’s vocal house, Gucci Mane, happy hardcore & 2-step. All I do really know is that he likes fractals… a lot. Fader describes House of Ladosha as being “the long lost northern kin of Crime Mob”. I’m pretty confident that doesn’t even begin to sum it up… but take a look and see if you can figure it out for yourself.

-M.O.

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