Steven Julien 

London

Og status! They been in the game for a min, I’ve been going there since they had their lil shop on St Annes Court Soho, with the sliding glass doors and shoes in metal cages. Sometimes I pop in the current location to check what’s new!

A more refined selection of shoes, limited or sometimes hard-to-get sneakers, especially collabs, but overall a chill shopping experience and very well curated.

Family Patta, big the crew up. I was honoured to score for their Nike campaign for the “air max 1 waves”. Great shoe, I got all the colours except one, anyway nice lil shop to cop sneakers.

I’ve been going there for timeeeeee! I even paid my lil bro to queue there for a limited shoe—some MTV Raps Puma Clyde’s—think only 200 and odd pairs made! Fatima, who I collab with even worked in there years ago, as well as some other friends. It's good to see it’s still there, I occasionally pop in to see whats up.

Lil cheeky Sports Direct comes in handy now and then! Getta quick fix on some all black or white air max 95s, no frills, straight to the point pit stop when wanting new simple shoes.

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O Thongthai

Bangkok

I love their book selection and gallery space. Moreover, I love the food at Aksorn by chef David Thompson on the top floor.

Art Resources offers bespoke homeware from bespoke frames, skateboards, humidor and jenga cases. Basically you can customise anything you want there.

Southern Thai food at its finest. Order Southern Thai-style hot and spicy yellow curry soup with young coconut shoot and sea bass, stir-fried stink beans and prawns with Kapi shrimp paste, stir-fried lump crab meat with fresh chilli.

FV stands for fruit and vegetable. The interior is one of a kind. The concept of the store starts from unwanted. For the products, they use local seasonal organic produce. I love the lamduan Thai flower-shaped cookie and mangosteen juice.

E-Sarn or northeastern cuisine. Order dry aged tougeus, larb kon muang (minced beef or pork with northern spice) and yum Kkanom jeen pork jowl (fermented noodle with fried pork jowl and pla la salad).

If you are visiting Bangkok, you must try kakigori Thai tea and my usual spot is After You at Silom Complex because it's just steps away from BTS Saladaeng station. It’s the place that you should visit with a few friends, so you can order many things to share.

A new restaurant and bar owned by the talented Chef Pam. The restaurant is in the Chinatown area and the food is Chinese inspired. I cannot wait to try Chef Pam’s new restaurant and hang out at local bars in Bangkok Old Town.

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KUINA

Santiago 

There are places where they do tocatas—live shows—or where they launch singles. Espacio56 is the first place I went in Santiago, and still used a lot, there's loads of shows there. 

It's so underground, it's clandestine. They go changing locations so you don’t know where it is. They give the address by DM. 

It's a party that rotates venues, but Chismoteka is the place to go party. You're treated well and it's safe. I always go with my friends. 

Mexican food on Avenida Matta, I always get the chicken chilaquiles.

I really like anime and I think it influences my style. Chile is really into Japanese culture, I don't know if its because we're both from seismic countries or why exactly we relate. There's a shopping arcade I love that sells manga and other Japanese things, as well as Korean food, I love that place. I always buy my Sailor Moon and Evangelion manga and and presents for friends.  

I don't really buy things here as I still don't have the money, but I go a lot to look at things. It's expensive but there are clothes by local Chilean designers, vinyls, I always develop my film there. I also like the bookshops there. 

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D Double E

This is the spot for Caribbean food, gets me ready for the day.

This spot is my personal favourite. Especially for a great steak or lamb chop 10/10

When I’m not too busy i go and play basketball need to try and keep fit.

My Brudda Sonny sorts me with the exclusive, always got the bangers in there.

We all need to treat ourselves every now and then, all that hard work needs some therapy lol.

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