After our initial teaser preview, we get a better look at the upcoming collaboration between Patta and Asics on the GEL Saga. The sneaker landed on the cover of the latest issue of Sneaker Freaker magazine and well deserved. Next to rubberized leather, perforated leather and suede and other great details, the cover also reveals the pony hair panels that the Amsterdam store placed on the sneaker. All in all a fantastic color combination and probably not for the first time, one of the strongest Asics to come out this year. More information on the release and a further look at the sneaker will follow here soon.

Check out the full cover of Sneaker Freaker Issue 23 (pre-order here) after the jump.

Terry Richardson’s new Lady Gaga photo book, Lady Gaga x Terry Richardson, features 350 original behind-the-scenes photos of Gaga taken over a 10-month period. Following nearly a year of her life beginning with Lollapallooza 2010 and ending with the final show of her Monster Ball tour, Terry took over 100,000 images, capturing Lady Gaga in a way never seen before. Released by Grand Central Publishing, the book is now available through various bookstores.

See ten more images from the book after the click.

If you passed through Berlin this summer for Bread & Butter, SEEK, (capsule) or Bright you may have found a copy of the third issue of our elusive hard-copy Highsnobiety Magazine. If you haven’t had the pleasure, you can now flip through all 163 pages here above through ISSUU absolutely free. The cover features Berlin DJ’s Adam Port and Rampa of Keinemusik are wearing apparel from Firmament and the Nike Sportswear Fall 2011 collection. Enjoy.

Fashion photographer and artist Raphael Mazzucco has teamed up with Jimmy Iovine and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs on a new book entitled ‘Culo by Mazzucco’.

“…showcasing an art movement featuring images of the female backside. The mission of the book, which is out now, is to subtly push society’s standards of beauty – showing off a more genuine, bold, and realistic form and figure. Mazzucco was commissioned on a global tour, capturing the natural beauty of women from all walks of life, resulting in a portfolio of 248 stunning images that captures a raw, natural sense of emerging beauty. Here, an exclusive preview at some of Mazzucco’s works, combining abstract movements with compelling photographs.”

The book is out now. Take a look inside after the jump.

For the cover of their winter travel issue, Times Magazine teamed up with artist Sachiko Akinaga to recreate their logo entirely out of Lego.

“akinaga’s largest LEGO work to date, the sculpture measures 6 feet (2 meters) square, constructed over the course of eleven days with akinaga working in shifts of up to 16 hours. in the finished result, an expansive lawn features LEGO figures exercising and relaxing while others play music, dance, eat, and swim on the building’s terrace.
as an ‘easter egg’, the landscape includes four people reading ‘the new york times’.”

Take a closer look at the sculpture after the jump.

The curating designers of A MAGAZINE’s 11th issue is the designer sister duo Rodarte. Paying homage to their home state, they have decided to put the California Grizzly Bear on the cover.

“Hailing from Pasadena, the sisters received their liberal arts degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001, and established the label Rodarte (taken from their mother’s Spanish maiden name) in 2005. The pair debuted their first collection in New York for Spring Summer 2006, to critical acclaim – and have since been lauded worldwide for their artistic, artisanal approach to fashion, fused with abstract cultural references from the disciplines of history, science, cinema and art.

‘A MAGAZINE curated by Rodarte’ explores the world of Kate and Laura Mulleavy across 200 pages of photography, art, interviews, and personal contributions. In an ode to the West Coast and the Mulleavy’s singular vision of America, A#11 weaves a vibrant tapestry of natural and built environments, featuring inspiring landscapes and the characters that inhabit those worlds. Highlights include two exclusively commissioned portfolios, featuring Kirsten Dunst in the Rodarte Fall Winter 2011 collection photographed by David Armstrong, and Elle Fanning in the Rodarte ten-piece Spring Summer 2012 Couture collection photographed by Bill Owens.

With artistic contributions from contemporary talents such as Jay DeFeo, John Baldessari and Buffy’s Joss Whedon, the pages of A#11 offer vivid imagery that plays not only upon Kate and Laura’s own personal experience, but elements of history and the background of their favorite people and places.

Fusing content from the Rodarte archives with never-before-seen imagery and interviews, A#11 is an ultimately personal oeuvre, a ‘carte-blanche’ that Kate and Laura have approached with relish and truly inspired ideas. From the beaches of Santa Cruz to the distant stars to the history of California’s extinct Grizzlies, A#11 is an eye-opening, side-winding work that bridges the worlds of fashion, art, music and film across the last century.”

The new issue will hit newsstands December 2011.

SPIN Magazine explores the changing face of hip-hop in their latest issue, giving Odd Future the cover story.

“They are them. We are us. Fuck them all.” So goes the motto of obscenely groundbreaking hellions Odd Future. The white-hot epicenter of hip-hop’s New Underground take their stage-diving family affair on the road, and we join the caravan.”

Read the full article at SPIN.

See more images from the shoot after the click.

For the 2011 Winter Luxury Issue of Whitewall Magazine, they invited Brooklyn artist Kaws to design the cover in two versions. In addition to the covers, the magazine also included a 12-page Kaws studio visit in the issue, “including an in-depth interview, portraits of the artist, images of his new work, and KAWS’ own sketches and blueprints of his sculptures and paintings.” The magazine will be released in time for Art Basel Miami, December 2011.

You can pre-order the issue here.

Take a detailed look at the 12-page spread after the jump.

In time for the upcoming JR exhibition at Galerie Perrotin in Paris and Murakami’s recent ‘Homage to Yves Klein’ exhibition at the same gallery, Clark Magazine is launching their issue 51 for November/December 2011. For the cover, JR and Takashi Murakami meet on the cover with the Clark logo styled by the Japanese artist in his iconic flower graphics.

Also featured in the new issue are V1 Gallery, Jay One, Aaron Young and more on the fashion pages, musical columns, books, calendar and shopping pages. The issue is now available here.

A detailed look at the new Clark Magazine issue follows after the jump.

Ever since ruffling the feathers of the music industry a little less than a year ago, hip-hop anti-heros, Odd Future, have defied convention with their sound, smashed business protocol with their approach and burned page after page of music industry constitution with their persistent unorthodoxy. Most notable among these transgressions is their continuous redefining of what it means to be a rap group.

As a talent showcase, Odd Future is every bit as nebulous today as they were a year ago—moving more as a mishmash gang of contributing homies than the traditional, band-member-centric model. Sure there’s definitive front men and media darlings like Tyler, The Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Frank Ocean and Hodgy Beats, but alongside them is an army of hard-to-quantify, non-musical, but often equally as prolific featured artists like Taco Bennett, Jasper Dolphin and others who continually make the lines between members and non-members a total blur.

On November 16, Odd Future got even blurrier with the release of Golf Wang—a two hundred plus page coffee table photo book chronicling the last year or so of their lives through a shmorgishborg of live photos, raw, point-and-shoot tour mayhem and an assortment of the otherwise gonzo imagery that’s come to define these youngsters’ crude and unrefined aesthetic. Odd Future photo lieutenants Julian Berman, Sagan Lockhart and Brick Stowell along with comrades Vyron Turner, Wolf Haley, Lucas Vercetti and Taco Bennett all have photos featured in the book alongside unofficial OF general, Tyler, The Creator.

Golf Wang contributors Julian Berman and Sagan Lockhart shared some of their photos that didn’t make the cut, gave us their thoughts on the ones that did and revealed the stories behind some of their favorite featured images.

Read the full Behind The Page of Golf Wang feature here.