A rose by any other name would smell so sweet. Like a true Renaissance woman, Yi Zhou is an adept artist with multiple skills.

Adding to the long list; filmmaker, animation innovator, writer, composer, poet and muse, Zhou has just lent her eye and skill to a new line of jewellery for Gripoix, a revered fashion archivist’s top source for poured glass jewellery since 1869.

Rachael Barrett

Randy Randall and Dean Spunt make up No Age, the Los Angeles-based musical duo whose sound has expanded radically over the last seven years, from humble punk beginnings, to the point where generic definition is near impossible. Genres only serve to pigeon hole, after all, and No Age - musically, and in a wider artistic sense - have never been content to sit still and put out ordinary records.

Jack Smylie

Karley Sciortino is the vixen behind the cult sex blog Slutever. Growing up in upstate New York with religious parents, she moved to London where she squatted with a group of friends that ultimately inspired the blog. She hones her literary skills writing for the likes of Dazed and Confused and Vice to name a few.

Megan Christiansen

Photographer - Clement Pascal

I see all sides to everything: the downtrodden, the rage, the free spirits rising and wrapping themselves around everything, tying it all up in a knot. Like Scratch Lee Perry, I came I saw I conquered, but it was only when I’d bounced from Moscow to the Cape Flats to Jo’burg to Sao Paulo to Shanghai to Gurgaon to Jerusalem to Hastings that I began to understand the difference; to get that there are so many disparate strands to our glorious global culture that – often-or-not these days – is used to peddle sneakers, soda, and other digital dreams.

King Adz

So, it’s one thing to discover that culture and consumption have become intertwined, and make a call on that, but being a positive forward-looking oake I wanted to see what authentic stuff was out there that wasn’t just a brand moment, but something, well, ‘real’. It’s sounds rather mental to be here in 2012 and talking about looking for the real. A bit like when Paul Simon went out to look for ‘America’ or when Hunter looked back to see the high-tide mark left by the broken-wave of the 60s counter-culture.

King Adz