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SUBBACULTURE - MAYBE IT ALL STARTS WITH REDUNDANCY
We recently caught up with our good friend Mark Hynds. Mark is the zine pioneer, creator and founder of what is perhaps the coolest subculture zine on the globe. He let us (and you) in on some of his coming of age influences and the path that led him to create the constantly improving Subbaculture brand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the early eighties they shut down the Midlands car factory my dad worked at. With no options locally he travelled to Newcastle for work. Needs must. Away from our family for the first time he returned the following weekend with a present. A cassette of the...
Our only politics is street politics: Working-class power.
With the use of our clothing we'd like to think that we can change the world, especially with those that inspire us and feature powerful working-class slogans and imagery. Of course we fully understand that on the grand scheme of things, even in the clothing world that we're just a small drop in a vast ocean. However if we can evoke emotion in just some of the people who share our passion when they wear our garms, then in a sense, we are changing the world and having an impact, even if it is just a relatively small one. After a browse of our store and...
CTM - Philosophy for commoners.
No matter how much success I may or may not experience in life, I don't think I'll ever see myself as anything but working-class. I'm proud of that. Regardless of what happens I'd always consider myself that way. In fact, if you look around, some of the best innovations and biggest global brands out there arise from people who were otherwise considered an average Joe, with no academic qualifications to boot. The problem for me is that more often than not when they "make it", a large portion of those people forget where they came from. Looking back , I had always...
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