AG Rojas is a young director on the rise. He believes that we’re at the beginning of a new time in music videos where directors will be given more control and allowed to take more risks. And he’s more than willing to be the one taking them. Labels aren’t paying his rent so why should they [...]
Jay-Z himself spotted in our men’s SS12 Cooper Denim Jacket V1 a couple nights ago at the New Jersey Nets game!
The CS-80. We thought that we’d give you a look at some of the gear that we love. First up is the Yamaha CS-80; the beautiful beast of modern music! The CS-80 was used by everyone from Michael Jackson to Toto. Released in 1977 (with only 2000 units produced); it was first championed by [...]
Roman Signer is an artist. And for us, at Surface to Air studio, he is a genius. His staged events may make you laugh; but that is not their express intention. Roman himself says that he will find things funny afterwards, but not at the time. And therein lies their beauty. His work, often involving [...]
We think Jonathan Zawada has a pretty good thing going on. He seems calm and at ease having recently relocated from Sydney to Los Angeles. And while he is no newcomer to the world of design, he is eager to see what he can shake up in the more established art world over there. [...]
Our friend Bertrand de Langeron is a man of many talents. Better known by his pseudonym SO-ME; he is the man behind many music videos and designs for the Ed Banger/Cool Cats crew. You might have seen him drawing along to a Busy Pictionary show or DJing the world over. A self-confessed party animal with [...]
Our friends Simen and Stian run the store Freudian Kicks nestled away near the center of Oslo in Norway. They stock a whole number of great brands including our very own! We asked them about how the store came about, about their favourite pieces from our AW/11 collection and what their favourite place in Oslo. [...]
Xavier and Gaspard have spent the last months working hard to release their critically acclaimed sophomore record ‘Audio, Video, Disco’. The photo above was taken with the model we built for the cover of the first single off their new album, ‘Civilization’. They are currently busy preparing for their world tour beginning on the 1st of [...]
Our close friend Leslie David is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator living in Paris, France. She works for high-profile clients worldwide and has a very impressive body of work. Aside from this she continues to design patterns for the Surface to Air fashion label. She is also a lover of green tea and isn’t afraid of the odd [...]
Our long-time friend Mehdi used to practice in the basement of our old office in Paris with his band Scenario Rock. At the moment he produces music and dj’s under the name DVNO. You would have heard him sing on the Justice track of the same name. I asked him about what he’s been up [...]
Our friends Antoine & Florent are the guys that make up Parisian rock band JAMAICA. I met up with them at Flo’s place in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris; where in-between his bikes, records and old synthesizers, they’ve set up their own home studio and are in the process of writing the follow-up to their first [...]
Our friend Antoine Wagner co-directed the Phoenix tour documentary ”A Mess To The Masses” (trailer below) with Francisco Soriano. I talked to Antoine about the making of his clip for Phoenix’s ‘Lisztomania’ and how he ended up on the road with them for the last two years. Karl Henkell: How did it come about that you were working together [...]
HBTV had a chance to recently sit down with the creative minds behind the French rising star, Surface to Air. Founders Aldric Speer and Jeremie Rozan so humbly brought us through the inception of their brand, their vision, the recent Kid Cudi collaboration and the opening of their latest store in New York. The video [...]
Our friend Ariel Kleiman is an award-winning Australian filmmaker and director of music videos and commercials (through Partizan). He currently resides in London and among other things, enjoys blended meals for breakfast. Being an equal advocate of the blended meal and sharing the same hometown of Melbourne; I was interested to know more about how he does what [...]
In what is basically the wet dream of every high school nerd; Scientists can now read the minds of others. Or at least piece together a very blurry window into their brain. In a recent study scientists were able to link video images seen by subjects to a corresponding brain activity. This leads to technology [...]
Last night on Conan O’Brien, our beloved Cudi was invited to sit down and talk about his music, upcoming projects and his new Back To The Future kicks. Cudi surprised fans by giving Conan the “Fire” jacket from the Kid Cudi x S2A Leather Jacket collection. Hope you all enjoyed Conan looking fly in our [...]
On Friday 9th September I met up with Alexandre at Metro Odeon in the 6th arrondissement of Paris to take some photos and have a chat. In case you didn’t know, Alexandre shares vocals with his sister Josephine and plays with S2A art director Alberto Cabrera and graphic designer Andrew Woodhead in the band Singtank. He had his [...]
An incredible side-story to our Fitzcarraldo post and Werner Herzog‘s extensive filming in the Peruvian rainforest is that of plane-crash survivor Julianne Koepke: ‘In 1971, a plane with 92 passengers aboard dissapeared into the Peruvian jungle without a trace. After ten days, the intensive search was abandoned. On the twelfth day, Juliane Koepcke, a seventeen year old [...]
One of Jeremie’s favourites is Werner Herzog’s 1982 masterpiece, Fitzcarraldo. A tale of epic proportions, it sees the maniacal European (Klaus Kinski) enlist natives of the Peruvian rainforest to pull his 340 ton paddle steamer over a mountain, in order to harvest an untouched expanse of rubber trees on the other side; all in the ultimate [...]
Our good friend Toby from Le Château en Couleur is in town for the RDV tradeshow. They are based in Munich and make sleek unisex bags and accessories. Here are some tracks he’s into at the moment: 1. Ford & Lopatin – World Of Regret 2. Yacht – Waste Of Time 3. The Death Set [...]
