SSENSE

SSENSE is a global fashion website that offers a range of products from various independent, luxury, and streetwear designers, along with its own unique editorial content. Established in 2003 by three brothers—Rami, Bassel, and Firas Atallah—this Montreal-based company caters to customers in 114 countries and provides services in French, English, and Japanese.

International, Consumer

English

Online/Digital

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Domain Authority

Ranking

Global

#4681

United States

#1765

Lifestyle/Fashion and Apparel

#84

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Articles

Everyone’s Gone to the Movies

1 week ago | ssense.com | Brian Karlsson |Ross Scarano |Amy Taubin |Patrick Dahl

Last summer, the Brooklyn Academy of Music hosted a restoration of No Fear No Die, an early and seldom-screened noir from the French iconoclast Claire Denis. It’s a spare tale of cockfighting and colonialism set at a tawdry truck stop-slash-nightclub outside Paris. J. Hoberman, that living legend of film criticism, celebrated the release for the “Rewind” column at the New York Times.
Newish Jeans

2 weeks ago | ssense.com | Lawrence Cortez |Connor Garel

A dear friend recently shared with me a memory from his adolescence. At 14, just as he’d started thinking about sex (which is not to say having it), he sprouted a large cyst on his scrotum, a rash that kissed his inner thighs, and, like all reasonable people with access to WebMD, determined that he had testicular cancer. “You been getting your dick sucked?” asked his stepfather, pride bloating his voice.
The Spencer Singer Method for Styling Famous People

4 weeks ago | ssense.com | Tyrell Hampton |Marisa Meltzer

Spencer Singer is not a stylist who cares about where he sits at a fashion show. In fact, he doesn’t really go to fashion shows at all, which makes him something of an enigma in the attention economy. At 27, the stylist already has Gracie Abrams, Lily-Rose Depp, and Billie Eilish as clients, but the work is not about him or his signature style.
Leon Xu’s Distortions of Time

1 month ago | ssense.com | Sirui Ma |Chris Gayomali

In person, Xu speaks with an unhurried drawl, and his eyes seem to always be scanning the environment for abnormalities. That day he was wearing a vintage Armani Exchange sweater with an almost Victorian lacing system at the collar, and a black T-shirt, black baggy jeans, and black Comme des Garçons Foamposites. Dangling from his neck were two skinny chains: one with a small bulldog charm (his old roommate had a Frenchie) and the other of the letters SF, where he spent most of his childhood.
Leon Xu’s Distortions of Time

1 month ago | ssense.com | Sirui Ma |Chris Gayomali

In person, Xu speaks with an unhurried drawl, and his eyes seem to always be scanning the environment for abnormalities. That day he was wearing a vintage Armani Exchange sweater with an almost Victorian lacing system at the collar, and a black T-shirt, black baggy jeans, and black Comme des Garçons Foamposites. Dangling from his neck were two skinny chains: one with a small bulldog charm (his old roommate had a Frenchie) and the other of the letters SF, where he spent most of his childhood.
The Confessions of Cameron Winter

1 month ago | ssense.com | Adam Powell |Matthew Schnipper

Tonight, when Cameron Winter performs the first of two sold out shows at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, there will be no opening act. Nor will Winter be joined by any backing musicians. It’s just him. That’s in a few hours. For now, Winter’s in the backyard of an empty bar, his tall frame is folded into a small metal chair. He seems pained. Maybe he’s nervous. Or maybe he’s always like this. It’s been four months since Winter released his debut solo album, Heavy Metal.
Alice McNally Is Too Cool to Post

1 month ago | ssense.com | Ava Van Osdol |Alyssa Vingan Klein |Alyssa Vingan

Alice McNally has three vapes on her person today: a nearly kicked sour watermelon as her primary, with blueberry cotton candy and strawberry banana as backups. She keeps the first within reach atop our table inside Forgtmenot, the Dimes Square mainstay where we meet on an unseasonably freezing April afternoon.
I Love Lamp

2 months ago | ssense.com | Sami Reiss

The long, slow reign of blobby lamps and way too neutral lighting is over. The sun is setting on harsh, noncovered overheads, and, while we’re at it, anything at all that flickers. No more LEDs, no more off-colored squiggles, no more cold, construction-white tones like in most offices. Well, in an ideal world, anyway. If the new age of lighting isn’t equally distributed yet, it’s bubbling up and can be seen in fits and spurts by individuals who pay attention to these things and who work in it.
Teenage Dreams and Dr. Martens

2 months ago | ssense.com | Benjamin Taylor |Delia Cai

My high school friends in my hometown of Dunlap, Illinois, and I always agreed on one thing: Sunday mornings were for God, but Friday nights were for shows. At the end of the week, once everyone survived the total drag of home-cooked dinner with our families, we’d pile into someone’s Camry and head off to the latest concert we’d heard about from Myspace. The venue situation was never sketchy, but it was always rough around the edges.
The Making of a Modern Fashion Critic

2 months ago | ssense.com | Adam Powell |Eliza Brooke

When we met up for lunch shortly after Valentine’s Day, my first question for Rachel Tashjian was where she got her outfit. We were at a French restaurant in Midtown, near her apartment. Tashjian was happy to oblige, clothes being her business as fashion critic at the Washington Post: her shirt and jacket were vintage Romeo Gigli. She bought the pieces off Etsy, from a woman who was raised Amish.