Saturdays NYC & Porter Reflective Line

Our ongoing partnership with Everlast continues this season with an all-new capsule collection inspired by the memory of Floyd Patterson, “The Gentleman of Boxing.” The contrast between his athletic prowess inside the ring and his calm demeanor outside of boxing influenced our 14-piece collaborative collection, which includes satin coaches jackets, boxing shorts, mock-neck sweats, and…

The exclusive SSATURDAYS capsule collection for SSENSE expresses the shared DIY culture found in various metropolitan cities across the globe. Durable canvas bags are crudely modified with a coat of spray paint, resulting in unique fluctuations in color that higlight the process each bag is put through. T-shirts and sweats are reworked by over-printing ink…

I first met Vava Ribeiro in 1996. We were in Amsterdam, covering the 9th Annual High Times Cannabis Cup. We both worked as journalists—he in São Paulo, me in Los Angeles. A mutual friend had given us vague physical descriptions and told us to look out for each other. In an airy banquet room, a…

Introduced in 1951 during the Korean War, the M-51 parka was designed to keep soldiers warm from the Korean peninsula’s cold weather and freezing rain. The rugged design featured a removable heavy liner jacket paired with a weather-resistant cotton-nylon outer shell to provide both warmth and protection from the elements. The “fishtail” moniker often associated…

Ahead of the premiere of his debut documentary film, “Big Mike Takes Lunch,” we sat down with Nicolas Heller, the man behind the captivating Instagram account @NewYorkNico, which he uses to chronicle the lives of the New York City characters you need to know. COLIN TUNSTALL: Can you tell us a little about your new film,…

Boxing, kick-boxing, and cycling are sports we take seriously here at Saturdays. Jumping in the ring to spar with friends or just hitting the heavy bag is a great way to shake off the day’s stress. When we visit Japan, we make it a point to get a workout in at Hayato Gym in Meguro….

Francis Ford Coppola is a filmmaker who needs no introduction. A quintessential innovator in American storytelling, Coppola shifted paradigms with his two ‘70s epics, each of which proposed a distinct thesis on the state of the human condition. Widely regarded as one of the greatest works in cinematic history, The Godfather is an intricately woven…

Few footwear styles have withstood the fickle trends of fashion like the penny loafer. The classic design dates all the way back to 1930 when the Norwegian shoemaker, Nils Gregoriusson Tveranger, first introduced the silhouette after being inspired by the moccasins of the Iroquois. Worn religiously by men fishing along the Norwegian fjords, the slip-on…

thomas bettridge: What’s your process like when you’re taking these Polaroids? Do you just wander around with a camera? lucien smith: When I originally started them—when I was doing them in New York—I was always going on these bike rides in the early morning, or late at night, while I was walking home. At first…