It's Dark & Hell Is Hot

Once again I've teamed up with Boom Magazine on this latest editorial. Working with Boom always gives me the freedom to keep things pretty street, and with this shoot we decided to take things down a sort of modern hip hop route with a greyscale palette.

With this theme I thought who better to get in front of the camera than my homie from Hypebeast, Arthur and one of m favorite Korean models who luckily for me was in town. Vita has been doing big things in Seoul and abroad and I jumped on the opportunity to work with her.

See below for a select few.

Photographer - Mia Haggi

Stylist - Me

Hair & Make-up - Ryan Wing Li

Models - Arthur & Vita

Boom - On The Street - Tokyo

It's been a while since my last update, Ive been extremely busy styling shoots and have been traveling around a little bit too. A little while back I went back to Tokyo and did a special edition street style feature for Boom Magazine while I was in town.

Check out the snaps below of some of my favorite Tokyo peoples.  

Name: Katherine Li Johnson

Occupation: American Apparel Asia Regional Manager
Wearing: Top, Pants, Sunglasses, Coat – American Apparel
Shoes – Chanel
Jewellery – Mom’s vintage honkie jewelry
Favourite band: Listening to CVRCHES and Lorde on repeat right now.
Favourite night spot in Japan: Berry In
Favourite night spot in HK: 001 followed by Racks.

Name: Tsubasa Nomura

Occupation: Knit Accessories Planner
Wearing:
Jacket – Junya Watanabe Comme Des Garçons x Laboureur
Hoodie – Loopwheeler
Shirt – Carhartt
Pants – Visvim
Shoes – Converse
Ring – Goro Feather
Favourite band: Bill Withers
Favourite night spot in Japan: Convenience store on Omotesando
Favourite night spot in HK: Wan Chai

Name: Tess Jung

Occupation: Preschool Teacher
Wearing:
Sunglasses – Karen Walker
Jumper – Bassike
Beanie – Carhartt
Shoes – New Balance
Bag – Celine Trio
Jacket and Hoodie – from Korea
Favourite band:The Black Keys / Miami Horror / Phoenix
Favourite night spot in Japan: Anywhere with yakitori and sake!
Favourite night spot in HK:  I’ve only been to HK twice, Yardbird is definitely a must

Name: Zen Tsujimoto

Occupation: LOSERS/Editor
Wearing: 
Suit Jacket – Crane Brothers
Shirt  - Commes Des Garçons
Tie – Grandfather’s
Jeans – Chord Number Eight
Boots – Loake Chelsea
Beanie – Muji
Favourite band: Tokimonsta
Favourite night spot in Japan: Kaikaya
Favourite night spot in HK: Yardbird

"Modern Gentleman" - Boom Magazine

It's pretty rare in Hong Kong to find models with tattoos, in Australia most would probably have them, but here it's completely the opposite. Since the aesthetic is so clean here, models tend to be as well, so finding one with long hair, facial hair or tattoos, proves quite difficult. I was just about to give up on the search but some how stumbled across Lukas, who was perfect for this shoot. Check it out below or click the link to see the full feature up close on page 26.

Photographer - Sheng Wong
Art Direction & Styling - Juan-Carlos Aquino
Hair & Make-up - Summer Wong
Model - Lukas @Elite HK 

denim overload - boom magazine

i teamed up recently with the very talented dicky manana, he's easily one of my favorite photographers in hong kong and he always understands what i'm after with my concepts. this time around we shot miss bobbi nunes for boom magazine and decided to take the canadian tuxedo one step further and go from denim on denim, to denim on denim, on denim, on denim, on denim…….

check out some of my favorites from the shoot below or pick up the march issue of boom now. 

photographer - dicky manana
stylist - me
hair & make-up - anita lo
model - roberta nunes 

boom - on the street - blohk party

"blohk party", the biggest music festival in hong kong happened in december of last year, it was a dope event curated by pharrell williams and featured performances from the man himself, as well as pusha t, steve aoki, breakbot and grandmaster flash just to name a few. i was at the event snapping some styles for boom magazine in this latest "blohk party" street style edition. check out the shots below as well as a little video recap of the event by the homies at hypebeast and anderson ko.

name: alex maeland
occupation: creative director @ hypebeast
favorite band: currently, cvrches, all time is hard to say lol
favorite night spot in hk: i'm obligated to say yardbird lol. If that's not "late night" enough, I would say lily & bloom.

name: eve speciall
occupation: professional cutie and selecta
favourite band/musician: mandy moore, west life, 98 degrees and jc chases (n'sync) during his solo years.
favourite night spot/club in hk: fly, xxx and your mums place.

name: gee cabalou
occupation: videographer
favourite band: phoenix
favourite night spot in hk: la cantoche

name: courtney norris
occupation: senior account manager
favourite band: grand master flash
favourite night spot in hk: racks

producers - petar kujundzic & iveet shiau
video - anderson ko