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Zach Sokol

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Writer/Editor 🌿🌿🌿

Currently Deputy Editor of Hypebeast's print magazine.

By-lines and projects zachsokol.com — though my website is outdated at the moment!

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The Best Vintage Bookstore You've Never Heard Of

The Best Vintage Bookstore You've Never Heard Of

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Björk Wears Tomikono Wigs. So Does a Humanoid Robot.

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By Zach Sokol Verified
| HYPEBEAST
In an age of facial recognition algorithms and digital verification, Tomihiro Kono asks a pointed question: what happens when the face is no longer a fixed marker of who you are, but a changeable surface designed to be read, sorted, or deliberately obscured? The Tokyo-based artist, working under the name Tomikono, has spent years treating hair not as decoration but as a transformative medium — one capable of disrupting how we’re seen and classified by both human eyes and machine vision.
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Jet Lag, Mystery Cigarettes, and Rabid Esports Fans: Brutalismus 3000's China Tour Diary

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By Zach Sokol Verified
| HYPEBEAST
Brutalismus 3000 are the Berlin duo of producer Theo Zeitner and singer Victoria Vassiliki Daldas, who met on Tinder in 2018 and have since built a band around fast, abrasive club music that undeniably bangs. Their sound — gabber kicks, punk snarl, distorted yell-along hooks — always ran too rowdy for Berlin’s techno purists but caught fire everywhere else, situating them in the same sonic family tree as forebears Crystal Castles, but also acts like Marie Davidson, Bassvictim, and Snow Strippers.
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How ssstein Became the Most Essential Wardrobe in Menswear

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By Zach Sokol Verified
| HYPEBEAST
The clothes reflect that thinking. Fashion writer Ashley Ogawa Clarke, who has covered ssstein for Vogue over the past six or so seasons, notes: “At a glance ssstein’s clothes might look simple, but when you try them on you can tell a lot of thought has gone into them.” Still, the designs are hard to pin down in the best way. Silhouettes read oversized, but on the body feel exactly right. They’re both never restrictive and never shapeless.
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