Eunica Escalante

Feb 6, 2025 | fluxhawaii.com | Eunica Escalante

Images by Nani Welch Keliʻihoʻomalu and Courtesy of Michael Vossen and Rocket AhunaFor four months, last winter, a small Waikīkī hotel room functioned as the designer Rocket Ahuna’s makeshift atelier. On the fifth-floor of Kaimana Beach Hotel, tables and a sewing machine had taken a couch’s place and the detritus of a nascent fashion house in production littered the space.

Mar 14, 2024 | fluxhawaii.com | Jack Truesdale |Eunica Escalante

Images by John HookIf the sparse volume of bookstores indicates these days, then there are countless other things people in Hawai‘i might prefer to spend their money on than books. O‘ahu has Barnes and Noble, Native Books, Da Shop, Bookends. “But other than that, there’s nowhere to get new books,” Travis Sasaki said on a recent winter morning inside of Bās Bookshop, the two-year-old store specializing in niche art and design titles that he started with Aly Ishikuni, who was beside him.

Mar 14, 2024 | fluxhawaii.com | Naz Kawakami |Eunica Escalante

Images by Lila LeeThe useless wooden toy that is the skateboard comes packaged in a culture of fun that permeates and dominates every aspect and every hour of its user’s life. Unlike the weekend tennis player or casual smoker, skateboarding, for those deep in it, is the most important thing in their life. From clothing to music to humor to media, skateboarding is less of a hobby and more of a cult, and like all good cults, they require adequate facilities.

Nov 21, 2023 | fluxhawaii.com | Arriana Veloso |Eunica Escalante

First came the beating of horse hooves. The cacophony of half a dozen steeds at full gallop reverberated over the thrum of newly arrived steam ships and crowds of disembarking tourists and harbor merchants hawking their wares. Then, a whirwind of color: silks in scarlet, orange, and white bedecked the riders, as if they were set ablaze in the midday sun. The riders were congregated in downtown Honolulu for steamer day, when steam ships docked at Honolulu harbor to let off their passengers.