032c. This site linked to the art-directors' favorite magazine 032c from Berlin offers a great newsletter featuring must-reads for everyone working in the frontiers of contremporary culture.
www.032c.com
Ashadedviewonfashion. Cult fashion reporter diva and former Disciple films collaborator Diane Pernet started a new blog about her encounters behind the scenes of fashion and related gatherings. Get an in depth, raw and shaded view on today's style makers and breakers.
www.ashadedviewonfashion.com
Blammo. This fun local streetculture site features our Nike Hit & Run video made by Machine and Maurice Scheltens.
www.blammo.nl
Bless. Fashion and design explorers Desirée Heiss (Paris) and Ines Kaag (Berlin) keep inspiring us with their smart 'zen' concepts.
www.bless-service.de
Butt. International Dutch fag mag made by Hollands most celebrated designer/art director Jop van Bennekom and fashion journalist Gert Jonkers.
www.buttmagazine.com
Capricious. A brand new magazine showcasing an up & coming generation of photographers from all over the world.
www.becapricious.com
Contemporary Fashion Archive. This brand new site joins the forces of fashion powerhouses like Central Saint Martens (London), Unit F (Vienna), Dutch Fashion Foundation (Amsterdam), Flanders fashion Institute (Antwerp) and more.
www.contemporaryfashion.net
Culiblog. Artist Debra Solomon shifted her focus on her favourite obsession: food. Check out her excellent blog and discover the wonderful world of oral fetish. It's a feast for the eye as well!
www.culiblog.org
David Gilmour Girls. Robin van der Kaa and Jasper Uhl (also known from punkrock band Oil) bring some fine glam in the Dutch music scene.
www.davidgilmourgirls.com
Experimental Jetset. Our favourite Dutch designclan Danny van den Dungen, Marieke Stolk and Erwin Brinkers.
www.experimentaljetset.com
Event10. These two Parisian graphic designers rank among our all star favourites. Best Company had the honour of presenting their work at the very first Capital Exchange event held in March 2005.
www.event10.com
FANTASTIC MAN magazine. From the makers of Butt magazine, our good friends Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom. FM is an entirely different bi-annual publication on men's fashion, or 'a gentleman's style journal' as they call it themselves.
www.fantasticmanmagazine.com/
Flipflopflyin'. Huray to the one and only pixel-artist Craig Robinson. Last summer we invited him for an exclusive 'mini-pops on canvas' expo in Amsterdam: "Yummi Yummi Yummi, I got love in my tummy". See his Amsterdam diary on
www.flipflopflyin.com
Carmen Freudenthal & Elle Verhagen. This Amsterdam based fashion photography duo persistently created a unique universe of style and fun. They're famous for their lookbooks for designer Bernhard Wilhelm but there's much more on
www.freudenthalverhagen.com
Funky Projects. Check out our Basque 'evil twin brother' Asier Perez on
www.funckyprojects.com
GLU (Girls Like Us) A brand new class international lesbian quarterly by Best Company's Jessica Gysel and designer Kathrin Hero
www.glumagazine.com
Hendsum and Young. These lovely young lads bring perfection to 'urban' style partying while they give their 'sponsors' a couture style treatment. Thumbs up.
www.hendsumandyoung.com
JOFF. Our favourite Dutch fashion designer Joff explores exciting new cross-dicipline economic models for his trade.
www.joff.nl
Like. Former Rietveld academy design students Edwin van den Dungen & Joey Kops present their work (Like Nike for Best Company) as well as their network.
www.like.nl
KesselsKramer. By far our favourite advertising agency and dear friends, just don't expect to get any wiser from their website.
www.kesselskramer.com
Mannschaft. Our favourite neighbours and always around when our Macs go all jibberish but more importantly: they design excellent websites like www.viktor-rolf.com!
www.mannschaft.org
My Little Underground. Our favorite local 'it' girl Femke Dekker organizes some of the best underground parties in town, that is both in Amsterdam & Rotterdam.
www.mylittleunderground.com
Patta. Amsterdam's biggest sneakerheads Edson & Gee started this excellent sneaker-devotion palace networking their socks off from LA to Tokyo. A definite one-stop spot if you love kicks.
www.patta.nl
Steim. This Amsterdam based organisation is one of the best kept secrets of the new electronic music wave but with it's new artistic director Jan St Werner we notice a catchy murmur swelling in town.
www.steim.nl
Tagbanger. Apart from the wicked T-shirt range by this odd graphic art couple Rafael Rozendaal and Jonathan Maghen their brand new site features, ehm, much more oddities to lighten up your day.
www.tagbanger.com
Thisisnotparis. Open source user oriented fashion projects by former Casco member Maaike Gottschal.
www.thisisnotparis.com
Tsunami-Addiction. Parisian underground answer to Best Company with a specific focus on music and undercovered arts. Very 21st century material.
www.tsunami-addiction.com
Viktor & Rolf. Our lovely local fashion duo, adding a zest of glam to our oh so Northern European existence.
www.viktor-rolf.com