Jamie O'Shea Jamie O'Shea

Having turned Juxtapoz into a generation and genre-defining art magazine during his ten years' tenure as editor-in-chief, Jamie O'Shea is working independently these days as a Creative Director. O'Shea continues to bring high-end projects to fruition. He's working with his creative partner Darren Romanelli to re-brand classic bands like the Beatles and his pals ZZ Top, and brokering sales for street-credible but gallery-averse artists like KAWS.
Now living in Los Angeles, O'Shea has not entirely given up the less remunerative struggles of being an editor. Post-Juxtapoz, O'Shea has just signed on as editor of Spread ArtCulture, a new quarterly art-and-design magazine from New York, and is lining up his myriad allies to start an art magazine of his own, in which all those careers he's launched in the last decade will be rubbing shoulders with their "official" art-world counterparts.


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LA///STYLE GUIDE///KAZUO RISING…
phofa - 8/23/2007
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Here at Supertouch, we leave the streetwear reporting to the streetwear blogs, but after seeing the debut collection from upstart fashion brand KAZUO we just had to drop a dime. Founded in Little Tokyo in downtown LA in 2007 with a street date of Spring 2008 for their premiere, the company filters classic forms and styles (sorry, no allover prints or size XXL here) through their Tokyo-based design team’s innovative eyes, rendering iconic garments in top quality fabrics accented with modern details like radically engineered seams and hidden iPod pockets and headphone leads, and fabricating them with a couturier’s attention to detail right down to the immaculately tailored seams. Aiming to bring a refined, high-end Japanese street sensibility to the (more…)



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