Shy Girls: 4WZ Mixtape

Dan Vidmar’s R&B project Shy Girls has returned with a moody mixtape 4WZ (following his 2013 EP Timeshare), and it’s everything we’ve grown to expect from the Portland-based musician. Featuring guest spots from Junglepussy, Rome Fortune and Tei Shi—and a tiny cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Wonderful”—the mixtape is unashamedly melancholy, spacey and sleazy—all at once.

Interview: Designer Hugo Passos

Discussing the importance of functionality and purpose in furniture creation

By Adam Coghlan At 32, Hugo Passos is one of London’s most exciting young designers. With a refreshing purity of purpose, he exists slightly outside creative London’s esoteric clique. “When I was growing up, Portugal was a traditional place, almost shocking, and there wasn’t much information,” Passos tells CH. “To this day, there’s not an iconic furniture designer in Portugal.” But through the discovery of …

Studio Visit: Photographer Jill Greenberg

Inside the workspace of the celebrated artist, whose upcoming gallery showcase blurs painting and photography

On the fifth floor of a joint residential/workspace building in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, photographer Jill Greenberg set up shop back in 1997. While she would leave in 2000 for the West Coast, 12 years later she returned and the studio itself has had a resounding impact on her latest gallery show “Paintings.” We’ve been following Greenberg for years now, but this latest crop of calculated …