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i-Dentity
Welcome to i-Dentity, an i-D podcast where we celebrate subculture in all its forms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nedávné epizody
28 epizod
S3 E10: Honey Dijon
“40 minutes? You want to maybe reduce a lifetime of struggle, and art, and sex and music and fashion into 40 minutes?!” An indisputable force of natur...
S3 E9: Casey Cadwallader
His work is the unofficial preserve of seemingly every female superstar – his graphic, curvilinear jumpsuits in particular a staple in the tour wardro...
S3 E8: Fecal Matter
Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran – better known as the fearless artistic duo Fecal Matter – join us in this conversation following Earth Da...
S3 E6: Diplo
In this episode, Diplo discusses how growing up across America’s South shaped his eclectic perspective, his thoughts on cultural appropriation in musi...
S3 E6: Bruce LaBruce
This week, we dig deep into queercore, the contemporary value of shock and the line between arthouse and porn with modern cinema’s queer punk provocat...
S3 E5: Susanne Bartsch
She is a party producer and community organiser who has been responsible for some of the most memorable nights – and looks, for that matter – that the...
S3 E4: Martine Rose
In Episode 4 of the i-Dentity podcast, we’re joined by fashion designer and subculture connoisseur Martine Rose, known around the world for her distin...
S3 E3: James 'Jeanette' Main
This week, we’re back with none other than James ‘Jeanette’ Main, the former Boombox host and East London nightlife legend. In the mid-2000s, he becam...
S3 E2: Cosey Fanni Tutti
This week, legendary British artist Cosey Fanni Tutti joins us to discuss her lifelong commitment to counterculture, and five decades of breaking down...
S3 E1: Liz Johnson Artur
i-Dentity podcast is back, and this series we’re dedicating each episode to an artist we feel truly personifies subculture. Kicking it off is seminal...
Ballroom: The defining QTPOC subculture
We are closing out series two with the defining QTPOC subculture, ballroom.
'Serve’, ‘read’, or ‘throwing shade’ – whether first heard from the...
Gabber: How Fashion Turned Hardcore
Shaved heads, wrap-around Oakleys, neon tracksuits, Alpha Industries bombers and Nike trainers. This is the story of how hardcore changed contemporary...
Alté: How A Small Lagos Scene Took Nigerian Culture Global
What is alté, you ask? Well, let’s start by saying this: it’s probably easier to describe it in terms of what it isn’t than what it is. In the years s...
The Crows: How a Trio of Japanese Designers Changed Fashion History
Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo: these are some of the biggest names in fashion today. Even for the novice fashionista, the very mention...
Indie: The Last Subculture of the Pre-Digital Era
Skinny jeans, holey cardigans and eyes sticky with kohl that many vowed never to tout again after the financial crash of 2008 have all made it back to...
Bling: How Hip Hop Birthed The Idea Of ‘Bling’
i-Dentity is back. Welcome to Series Two.
In Series One, we covered the genesis of hip-hop style. But what about the bling? From the streets of...
Ibiza: How a Small Island Changed the Course of Club History
Once a hedonist’s hidden secret, Ibiza found itself in the spotlight in the late 80s when its unique Balearic sounds intersected with British club and...
Vivienne Westwood: The Making of a True Punk Icon
Grande Dame of punk, visionary fashion designer, lifelong activist, Vivienne Westwood is one of the few people for whom the word icon barely scratches...
Berlin: How One City Transformed Techno and Club Culture
On the 9th of November 1989 the Berlin wall, which had split the German city in two for almost three long decades, was pulled down. Within a matter of...
How Skate went from the Outsider Sport to Billion-Dollar Brand
Aries, Stüssy, Palace and Supreme. These are just a few of the biggest brands in fashion right now and they all have their roots in the countercultura...
Buffalo Stance: how one subculture invented styling
‘Killer’, ‘Hard’ and ‘Tougher than the rest’. These were all phrases adopted by legendary stylist Ray Petri who brought together a small group of frie...
Footballmania: the Subculture of Sportswear
A group of football fans living in Liverpool in the late 1970s were destined to change men’s fashion forever. They were called the scallies and with t...
Harajuku Girls: How Tokyo created the blueprint for Instagram
In the 1990s one area of Tokyo saw the rise of a unique style movement that would go on to change street fashion forever. Harajuku, a small neighbourh...
The New Romantics: Style and Substance
In the dark streets of 1970s Soho, there once lay a club called The Blitz. It was within these walls every Tuesday night that the glitterati of London...
Hip-Hop’s 50-Year Power Struggle
Designer hoodies, oversized logos, luxury tracksuits and the cult of the sneakerhead. It’s likely none of these would exist without the influence of h...
X-Girl to E-Girl: Girlhood goes Global
The e-girl is one of the most pervasive internet subcultures we have today. But the e-girl didn’t appear out of nowhere - her origins lie in aesthetic...
How Dancehall took over the World
Even if it doesn’t always get the credit it deserves, the influence of Dancehall can be felt throughout the entirety of mainstream pop culture today....
Jungle, Garage and the Birth of Grime
Hailing from London’s East End, grime is a genre that exploded into the cultural mainframe in 2014 with Skepta and JME’s That’s Not Me. Speaking to bo...