Bene Culture is a Birmingham based streetwear shop that is regularly stocking big brands before they blow up. Pleasures, Heresy and Stepney Workers Club are included in that list, along with more local start ups. The brand has it's foundations in the community it has built through events, a sick mix series and just by being genuinely helpful to the people who ask them for help. We chatted to one thrid of the operation, Hemal, about the ups and downs of running a streetwear store, building a community & business and how to stave off boredom in lockdown.
Links:
https://www.instagram.com/beneculture/
Hot Potato News; a newspaper that places easily digestable features covering hot news issues next to beautiful fashion/art photography. We talk to Editor-in-Chief Naoise O'Keefe and Picture Editor Sophie Gladstone about how they make each issue, what their plans for the next one are and where they want to take the publication in the future. If you're looking for some inpiration this might just be it.
https://www.instagram.com/hotpotatonews/?hl=en
Super tasteful, Abraham Campillo is part of Mouthwash.co which is an LA based agency that has a modern take on creative output. Cool creative? Check. Nice merch? Check. Great content? Check. Abraham's got some really interesting views on being creative and puts theory in to practice by creating mood boards every day. Mouthwash will be imminently releasing a magazine of their own so watch out for that and be sure to check the blog too.
https://www.instagram.com/abrahamcampillo/
Music by Ben Sandall.
A 502 Bad Gateway Media production.
In the fourth episode we talk to Marv and Christian from BBUC who we hung out with in Vienna earlier this year. They run pretty much the coolest cycling brand in the world and a beautiful hotel in the city. We talk to them about the similarities between dance floors and road cycling, the challenges of running a brand as well as the hidden design elements within the product.
BBUC and Vienna will also feature in issue two of 502 Bad Gateway which will come out in January.
Music by Ben Sandall.
We talk to Zayyar Win Thein from Newspread about bring the best of contemprorary culture to New Zealand and the rest of Australasia. We chat through what it's like running a website, the challenges of making merch, what makes the Newspread hoody so great and all the usual good stuff. It's tasteful. Then Arjun and I talk about the legacy of Supreme and the A Kind Of Guise IKAT project.
Newspread links:
Website
Instagram
Music by Ben Sandall.