"EIN JAHR (ES GEHT VORAN)."

Not as a revival act. Not as an archive sealed in glass. But as a living magazine—once born in club nights, Cold War Germany, oversized layouts and restless curiosity, now returning with the same appetite for culture in flux.

This is where fashion meets theory, where images argue with politics, where style is treated as a system rather than a surface. Where new work sits next to old instincts. Where rebellion has aged into something sharper.

ELASTEMGZN is not interested in trend reports.
It prefers aftershocks.

Essays, visual archives, manifestos, forgotten futures, and contemporary signals—all running in parallel. Past and present in conversation. No nostalgia. No obedience.

Baby’s On Fire

Baby’s On Fire

DECLINE x Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno. – We’ve been in decline for about 40 years since Thatcher and Reagan and the Ayn Rand infection spread through the political class, and perhaps we’ve bottomed out. Brian...

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Paul Jarvis Manifesto

Paul Jarvis Manifesto

Evil and hate are circling back around to mainstream, and it’s not just in one place or one country either. It’s everywhere. While this feels new, it’s not. It’s just come round again. There’s lots of talk about what we can do, or how we...

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Ecotricity

Ecotricity

After having shown her clothes on the runways of Milan and Paris since 1982, Dame Vivienne Westwood made a dramatic return to the city that made her a fashion star for London Fashion Week Men’s. “The last thing I’m interested in is...

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GOOD ARTISTS STEAL

GOOD ARTISTS STEAL

Julia Kim Smith with Banksy. Smith has had the pleasure of working as a chef for the James Beard Award-winning Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York, and visiting Ferran Adrià in his kitchen at elBulli in Roses, Spain. She lives in...

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THE NORTH

THE NORTH

Essay: The Constructed North Adam Murray explores the way the North of England has been presented in fashion imagery, referencing editorials involving Corinne Day, Kate Phelan, Alasdair McLellan and more. The last decade has seen an...

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Project for the Affirmation of the New

A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde December 3, 2016–March 12, 2017 Covering the period of artistic innovation between 1912 and 1935, A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian...

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Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers

Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers

“Art is changing — I don’t know if what I’m doing feels like it belongs to an older era, one older white man having a show,” Mr. Leckey said, standing by the sink throughout an interview. “The idea of celebrated artists is being rightly...

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Eight Tales of Our Time

Eight Tales of Our Time

Eight projects commissioned by younger artists from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China present startlingly fresh points of view in this show at the Guggenheim Museum. "Tales of Our Time" highlights the unique aspects of several Chinese artist’s...

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The New It Boy of the Art World

The New It Boy of the Art World

At the age of 22, the Chinese it-boy Michael Xufu Huang has positioned himself as one of the most important names in the young art world, navigating, seemingly seamlessly, between NYC gallery dinners, Gucci fashion shows in Milan,...

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