"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.
Qu’est-ce que c’est?
AMERICAN PSYCHO The Musical “My first impression is that it’s strange that something I wrote 30 years ago is a musical on Broadway,” Bret Easton Ellis said. “To witness its tortured history, from this thing that was a quasi-victim of...
MUNICH DISCO DAYS
Accoording to South Korea's MCM, former Michael Cromer Munich. https://youtu.be/xWi8ozJ-jPA "Referencing Bauhaus-inspired designs & David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era, the exclusive campaign presents a modern narrative where disco becomes...
Excellence = Basic Commodity x Excess Commodities x Delight / Cost
A real architect is also good with constraints, whether they be constraints of materials, site, budget, etc. I like Ove Arup’s line: “To me, the skill of an Architect, and the excellence of an architectural solution is measured by the...
Ham Kyung – Ah
at Art Basel Hong Kong.
“They Never Smiled Again.”
The Ramones “made it a rule never to smile for official photographs,” The group held that attitude in official photographs throughout their career, through 14 studio albums, two dozen music videos and 2,263 shows. For four decades,...
曹斐 Cao Fei
Cao Fei, COSplayers 2004. From the underground of Guangzhou to the underground of the New York subway and to PS1 Queens, NY. Klaus Biesenbach has curated the sleeper show of the spring: a high-impact...
HEIZER WERDEN
Dig Into Munich Depression. The Ins And Outs And Ups And Downs of Digging a Gigantic Hole on The Outskirts of Munich. It is one of the great 20th century works of art you've never seen, and it was developed and constructed—dug, really,...
The Blitz London
Flash & Trash
Watch this video on The Scene.
“We need to explode all the shit once more.”
The son of the late Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren is planning to burn his collection of punk memorabilia, estimated to be worth around £5m. Joe Corré, who set up lingerie brand Agent Provocateur, says the ceremonial burning is a...
Lucid
Dreaming x Iris van Herpen and Nick Knight. https://youtu.be/0u4QF6cUjCM Continuing van Herpen’s vigor of fusing technology with handcraft, the collection features two 3D printed Magma dresses that are combining flexible TPU printing,...
Last Man Standing
Josh Homme on Iggy Pop: ‘Lemmy is gone. Bowie is gone. He's the last of the one-and-onlys’ At 68, the punk icon has recorded a new album with the Queens Of The Stone Age frontman. In a frank conversation, the pair discuss sex, death and...
NEW ORDER
The original “Blue Monday” never quite won me over. We celebrate the song's 30th birthday. The original “Blue Monday” never quite won me over. I was never a New Order kinda guy, though New Order had good art...
In a Manner of Speaking
"One of the greatest underground bands of the 80-ies" Photo: Thomas Elsner Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new wave band from San Francisco, California, United States. The band formed in the late 1970s at the beginning of the...
The Fundstück of The Month
Im Pop-Archiv von Pop-Zeitschrift.de werden jeden Monat Fundstücke aus der Pop- und Populärkulturgeschichte dokumentiert und kommentiert. Den Anfang macht die Zeithistorikerin Anne Kurr mit Anmerkungen und Analysen zur Elaste. ...
Heaven
Depeche Mode has come a long way since its 1980s debut as part of Britain's New Wave scene, and as it prepares to tour behind its 13th album, no one appears more surprised at the group's longevity than the...
Freak Flag Fly
U.S. Girls is the recording moniker of American-Canadian musician Meghan Remy. "Damn The Valley", a song about the loss experienced by partners of servicemen and women.The video contains ferocious imagery from the widow’s perspective,...