“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.
ELASTE MGZN 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.
New York’s Fashion New Guard
Elena Velez, Willy Chavarria, and Theophilio’s Edvin Thompson – are three visionary designers shaping New York’s independent fashion landscape. Ahead of their respective SS23 shows during New York Fashion Week, they discuss their brands’ origin stories, what drew them…
Remembering Starman: Mick Rock’s legendary photographs of David Bowie as Ziggy
In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it came Bowie’s alter ego and fellow Londoner and photographer Mick Rock. Ziggy was a glitter-clad, mascara-eyed, sexually ambiguous…
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Forty Years Ago Today, Simple Minds Changed Everything with “New Gold Dream [81,82,83,84]”
Disc of brilliant things… This day in 1982, Simple Minds released their game-changing opus, “New Gold Dream [81, 82, 83 84].” Let’s review our thoughts as written several years ago when we spent half a year poring over the career of Simple Minds on a mighty Rock…
Devo: “Kraftwerk from the waist up, Elvis Presley from the hips down” Gerard Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh on being bombarded by hippies at Knebworth in 1978, being told off by Neil Young, and their unreleased jam sessions with Bowie and Eno in Cologne We are Devo ……
Songs for Europe
What music did Bowie and Iggy listen to in 1970s Berlin? A new compilation, named after one of Bowie’s local haunts Cafe Exil, offers a speculative guide to the pair’s soundtrack favorites. Do your wurst … Iggy Pop and David Bowie in Berlin. Photograph: Rex…
Moonage Daydream review – a glorious, shapeshifting eulogy to David Bowie
What dreams may come … Moonage Daydream. Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream is a 140-minute shapeshifting epiphany-slash-freakout leading to the revelation that, yes, we’re lovers of David Bowie and that is that. It’s a glorious celebratory montage of archive material,…
As Andy Warhol’s $195 Million ‘Marilyn’ Makes Auction History, We Look Back on the Artist’s 11 Priciest Works
Pop artist and film-maker Andy Warhol. Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images. All eyes were on the Christie’s New York salesroom on Monday as Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) sold for $195 million, the second-highest price ever paid for an…
When Andy Warhol Came to China
In late October 1982, Andy Warhol and a small entourage were invited to Hong Kong by Alfred Siu, a young industrialist who had commissioned Warhol portraits of Prince Charles and Princess Diana for I Club, a huge new disco he was opening on the island. Upon arrival,…
Venus in Furs
The House presents the Gucci Love Parade campaign envisioned by Alessandro Michele. Portraying the modern myth of cinema through a sequence of obsessions and desires, the campaign transforms into a tale of characters starring Beanie Feldstein, Deng Lun, Jared Leto,…
Brian Aris’ photographs of Debbie Harry
When photographer Brian Aris first met Debbie Harry in 1977 he didn’t know that much about her and scribbled down the phrase “punk princess” in his diary after the shoot. He could never have predicted that he had just met one of music’s next big icons whose career…
Lorde on David Byrne
On fighting stage fright, staying true to your inspiration, and the mysteries of songwriting It takes only a few minutes after they meet for Lorde and David Byrne to get in sync. The pop star, 24, and the elder statesman, 69, are on the rooftop of…
The Velvet Underground Meets Its Match in Todd Haynes
In the director’s hands, music subjects are as much about their cultural moment as about their sound — a good description of the band led by Lou Reed. Todd Haynes said his music-related films are really about how “the artist, or the genre of music, changes things or…
PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, Madonna: the unseen archives of rock photographer Tony Mott
Rock’n’roll photographer Tony Mott has led the kind of life that for the rest of us seems like a surreal dream. Travelling with Paul McCartney. Partying with Queen. He has photographed everyone from Prince to Rihanna to Marianne Faithfull. But when he talks about…
“I want to be that girl I needed when I was 15”
Beabadoobee channeled teenage misery and drug use into songs inspired by her grunge heroes – and now the 20-year-old is being hailed as the voice of Generation Z. After giving away physical copies of Doobee Zine at Beabadoobee’s sold-out show at London’s…
Welcome to the weird and lucrative world of fake punk.
Anarchy in the Vintage Punk Clothing Market. Over the last 30 years, pretend handmade original designs incorporating S-and-M and dirty graphics, innovative cuts and straps, military surplus patterns, tweed and latex — the stuff of the anarchic era that Sid Vicious and…
Charlie Watts Orbituary
Dapper and Elegant Drummer who was the Rock-Steady Heartbeat of the Rolling Stones. Unruffled amid excess, personality clashes and musical disputes, the Rolling Stones’ exceptional drummer used technique to deepen the meaning and power of their songs. Charlie…