“Living in New York City… has taught me to be extremely compact and intentional about the things I carry with me,” says Maximum Henry Cohen, the slight, unassuming 22-year-old mastermind behind Brooklyn-based leather goods brand Maximum Henry. “There’s a lot of baggage that we carry around with us out of habit.” Cohen is sipping Coca-Cola from a glass bottle, sitting in one of the sweeping factory windows of his Williamsburg waterfront studio, a loft space shared by a few other artisans and draftsmen. In the background, the dull hum of various machines cutting wood and shaping metal creates a strangely comforting white noise. Outside, a tranquil snow of the early-March variety falls on red brick scrawled with graffiti. One of Cohen’s goals in creating his own artisan leather goods brand was to downsize, to eliminate that unnecessary extra baggage, “to make something… that someone could carry and really consider their own.” Everything about Cohen—from his humble, down-to-earth personality to his streamlined workspace to his (more…)

A lesbian couple (Marisa Tomei and Elodie Bouchez) on the brink of divorce attempts to divide their possessions through mediation. Directed by Stuart Blumberg and featuring the Co Spring 2013 collection.

Do Bananas Decompose? is a new editorial by European photographer Tsasha Olivier. See more photographs after the jump. [CLICK HERE...]

Issey Miyake Dress/YSL wedges

This editorial comes to us all the way from Hollywood, California and photographer Austin Ellis. See more photographs after the jump.  [CLICK HERE...]

Video for the Portugese hand made women’s show company Xperimental for the Spring Summer 2013. See video after the jump.  [CLICK HERE...]

Enchantments Like Spices Embalming the Air is an editorial photographed by Adarsha Benjamin featuring We Are Handsome’s 2013 Enchanted Collection. Starring Breanna Box and Nana Agyapong. Make up by Bethany McCarty.  See more photographs after the jump.  [CLICK HERE...]

Creatures of the Wind Fall 2013 at NYFW @ Eyebeam. photographs by Mekko Harjo. See more photographs after the jump. [CLICK HERE...]

Fashion Film, starring Lizzy Caplan and directed by Matthew Frost, for the line Viva Vena! takes a satirical look at the traditional fashion film in all it’s typical ubiquitous corniness and pastiches of the hipster chick lifestyle in an abashed attempt to market to a very obvious demographic.

Fashion week is almost here and for some people that means models on the runway, but for other people that means models in the bedroom. Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Mick Jagger, Mickey Rourke, and Madonna have all been there. It seems models just can’t resist. In fashion, film and finance it’s par for the course. New York-based artist Skye Nicolas has a knack for taking the ironic and the ridiculous and mixing it with the pure, distilled fuel of gossip (sometimes about himself) and notions of celebrity (sometimes his own), and turns it into socially poignant pieces of art. Nicolas’ new series, fittingly called M*DEL F*CKR, which includes 90′s style logo tees and beanies, is a tongue-in-cheek ode to those who partake in certain dalliances with the aforementioned genetically gifted. Even Nicolas himself has been caught in the rumor mill with his own trysts caught on a webcam at The Mark Hotel in New York leaving some to call him a M*DEL F*CKR. Transforming the colloquial term into a recognizable logo graphic playfully de-stigmatizes its instinctively incendiary context and replacing it with affectionate banter intended to praise, becoming the ultimate compliment promising unabated adulation. It’s no surprise that a handful of top agency girls have already gotten hold of the merchandise, and have been spotted at New York Fashion Week castings wearing M*DEL F*CKR tees and beanies. Head over to Induced Nostalgia and get yourself a logo tee for $30 bucks (same price for beanies). The tees are truly authentic in their 90′s style cut and Loosey-Goosey Sizing™, uniquely coined by the artist. Grab one now for Fashion Week before they’re gone forever! See more photographs after the jump.  [CLICK HERE...]

Skater Braydon Szafranski and model Chelsea Schuchman star in Maison Kitsuné’s Spring-Summer 2013 collection that includes their collaboration with Oliver Peoples for a new range of sunglasses. Shot at the Chateau Marmont hotel, in Los Angeles by Brad Elterman with art direction by André Saraiva. See more photographs after the jump.  [CLICK HERE...]