Ari versluis biography sample
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TRIBAL GATHERING – TRIBALISING FASHION: THE ART OF EXACTITUDES
They’re a photographer and profiler and if they come from anywhere it’s post-punk fashionland Rotterdam, the ‘street-style’ movement of the late Seventies / early Eighties and the world of little magazines – the late British I-D in particular – that follow youth cultures around the world.
Ari versluis biography sample
They know where to look, they’re fantastically good at pattern-recognition – these trainers, that haircut plus, vitally, that pose – and they know the fashion antecedents of everything from Hedi Slimane 2004 to Rio de Janeiro market designers Fakes.
Peter York
THE INDEPENDENT, LONDON
IN THE HISTORY OF STREET STYLE,
SOME PLACES ARE BIGGER THAN
OTHERS.LONDON LOOMS LARGE,
MANCHESTER IS MASSSIVE, TOKYO’S
HARAJUKA DISTRICT IS LIKE DISNEY
WORLD, BUT NOWHERE IS QUITE SO
HARDCORE CENTRAAL AS LATE
NINETIES ROTTERDAM. THIS IS THE CITY
OF THE EXACTITUDES.IDEA books, LONDON
Photographer Ari Versl