Unknown Union will be at the Agenda Show in NYC on January 23rd premiering our Fall/Winter 2013 collection. Featuring design from Anees Petersen, Ben Johnson and Daniel Jackson, UU will be in good company alongside such brands as OBEY, BLVCK SCVLE, MISHKA and many more. UU will also be visiting (capsule) and Project to make sure we bring the best brands back to Cape Town next season.
We’ll be updating the blog with shots of our trip this week!
Friends of UU, Lemonade, have an amazing new album out on True Panther. This is the video for first single, Neptune. Download the album now from iTunes
Union member Sean Hanratty reports on the making of the new Santigold album cover for The New York Times T Magazine.
Mr. Hanratty just spent a lovely two weeks at Union HQ in Cape Town and has been threatening to write his first blog post for UU soon. Watch this space….
Unknown Union founding member Sean Hanratty is a busy man. When he’s not curating mixtapes for the New York Times or putting together events for MOMA’s PS1 or Santos Party House he’s busy listening to and discovering more music than anyone else we know. Here he blesses us with an exclusive mixtape for UU. Enjoy!
Can’t believe I’m missing the first hurricane in New York City in my lifetime. Bad enough I had to miss the blackout of 2003. Stay safe everyone.
The subjects of Laura Levine’s iconic rock photographs were in constant search of expression. To her, musicians were not airbrushed spectacles, but vulnerable, energetic, highly personable creatures worthy of our gaze. She captured such culturally salient figures as Boy George, Grace Jones, and Joe Strummer in a state of rawness and urgency – before, say, Madonna really knew she was Madonna. For a time, Levine was one of post-punk and New Wave’s most avid chroniclers, the eye of a certain place, time, and way of existing.
Laura Levine: Musicians, a sprawling collection of Levine’s vintage music prints, runs through August 19 Read further...
Longtime Union collaborator Derrick Cruz of Black Sheep and Prodigal Sons and Sean Burford have created a glowing tribute to a true icon. There is a light that never goes out….