The Aesthetic Tourist

Cultural philosophy is woven into our clothes, infused in our food, embedded in our art and expressed in our lifestyle. Having a perspective on this is an aesthetic practice. Finding the beauty is the discipline.

[securelyinsecure]

[nefertiti--edgeskinky]

I could not possibly love this more

[80sloveeegalaxy]

my heart just broke… this is beyond amazinggggg

[bajan-lion]

Melanin Excellence

[kinkysista6969]

Beautiful remakes💖💖

[sakura-haruka]

John David Washington as The Protagonist in Tenet

[curlyevanbuckley]

Chadwick Boseman’s look at the Met Gala + Details

[vandell]

Saturation Point

“Saturation Point” by Kosmas Pavlos and styled by Luke Jefferson Day for British GQ

[nyussz]

[wild-bill-jones]

[twixnmix]

Keith Haring body-painting Grace Jones in New York City, 1985.

(Photos by Tseng Kwong Chi)

[memescomedy]

[darkskindchk]

Mona Lisa

[runwaysass]

Valentino menswear FW16

[driflloon]

selam fessahaye ss19

[s-h-o-w-a]

Japanese actress Ruriko Asaoka on a film set, 1963

by Brian Brake

[xtroubledx]

Day trips in the 6ix.

[mellochamp98-blog]

[urbancentury]

New York. Subway Riders, 1966.

Photos by Danny Lyon.

[nubbsgalore]

thank you.

[browngurl]

“At age 42, André doesn’t feel like playing dress-up. Gone are the days of him wearing chaps and football shoulder pads—he just wants to be himself.”

[kingjaffejoffer]

GQ: You know people still think of you as sober and vegan, right?

Andre: Yeah, my life has changed a lot. I was a vegan/vegetarian for like 14, 15 years. After our first album, we were going hard, out on the road, doing drugs, partaking in every woman, and I started to see myself deteriorate. I would look in the mirror and be like, “You look like shit.” So I got to a point where I said, I gotta stop. So I went that way and tried it. What’s funny is this idea that people have of me as being straight-edge. My homie Cee-Lo, from Goodie Mob, he has this joke. He’s like, “Man, I don’t know why these women think we’re sitting cross-legged with incense like some Buddhists, praying with our hands. I mean, we out here fucking these bitches.” [laughs]

GQ: The secret reality of OutKast is that while Big Boi was “street,” and you guys were marketed as “the player and the poet,” he’s always been super on it.

Andre: Big Boi is smart as fuck. We went to the same high school. I dropped out in 11th grade. Big Boi graduated with honors. When you watch early OutKast videos, Big Boi’s the leader. He always had the confidence, where I was kind of like the shy one. Big Boi can rap better than me—I always said that. If somebody said, “Pick who you want from OutKast to go to battle with you,” it wouldn’t be me. ’Cause like, what I’ma do? Say some mind shit? You can’t have thoughts in a battle—nobody gives a shit about that.