A Good Night For Bad Day

Downtown swirled around the OC Men’s shop last night, as the store morphed into a party space to celebrate the release of Bad Day’s seventeenth issue. The publication’s goal is to create “direct dialogues with the international creative community” and “disregard boundaries” between the worlds of fashion, film, music, and visual art—a philosophy evident in the evening’s eclectic crowd. Creators from all disciplines mingled with Bad Day’s friends and family, all of whom were charmed by another brilliant execution of the poised yet minimal zine.

Each edition of Bad Day revolves around its handful of featured artists, and this batch doesn’t disappoint: musician Kelela is the issue’s cover girl. Painter Nathalie Du Pasquier, filmmaker Gia Coppola, musician Sean Nicholas Savage (beautifully interviewed by Ryan McGinley), and photographer Kristie Muller all make appearances. One of the feature’s main attractions is a profile of New York designer Telfar Clemens—which we’re exclusively previewing on our blog—who DJed last night’s gathering after working all day on his new collection. “I’m really influenced by whatever is a basic thing, and kind of revamping that and making it a new staple,” he said of the upcoming line.

So, what’s coming up for Bad Day? “It’s really hard to single out one thing that I’m most excited about because I’m attached to so many different things,” Creative Director Colin Bergh told me. “I can safely say that with every issue, it gets better.” One thing that’s not changing? The tradition of printing each issue in one color (purple for this time around). “It started out as an economical reason because we don’t have a huge budget,” Colin said. “Somehow that’s kind of become the brand. People look forward to what’s going to be the next color.”