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You might not know their names, but you definitely know their music. Meet TEN MUSIC GROUP, Stockholm’s multifaceted music label and production house behind a surprising number of your favorite songs, including Icona Pop’s delightfully shouty club hit “I Love It” and, thanks to Elof Loelv’s production, Rihanna’s spare ballad “Stay.” TEN has built its considerable reputation on Swedish talent, including Icona Pop, Niki & the Dove, Erik Hassle, Elliphant, and more.

There was a clean simplicity to the clothes that came down the runways during the recent Fall 2014 shows at Milan men’s fashion week, as demonstrated by The Last Magazine fashion director Alastair McKimm’s top ten looks.

More than Milan and Paris—and even ever-youthful New York—London has always had a special lock on the current moment.

The tenth-anniversary edition of the annual Under the Radar Festival, New York’s preeminent showcase for emerging theater and performance art, is currently underway at the Public Theater and various other locations throughout downtown Manhattan. Patrick Barrett offers a recap of some of the shows on offer.

For the first time since he was sixteen, anarchist poet-cum-rapper Michael David Quattlebaum, Jr., is homeless. “There’s usually not even a sublet period,” explains the 26-year-old performer from the couch of Williamsburg’s Fast Ashleys studio. He’s just finished shooting the editorial for this issue, a photo session that had him shifting and vogueing as Mykki Blanco, his altogether-more-famous, teen-girl rap alias, and is now lacing up a pair of white, patent-leather ankle boots that put him at an easy 6’4”, ready to run to his next engagement. “On an average day, I wake up in a new city at a hotel, write, soundcheck, eat, maybe explore the city, do the show, wake up maybe in the same city the next day, write, do something else,” says Quattlebaum. “A new city, a new show, a new day.”

Great movies are visual feasts that capture a time, a place, and an emotion with cutting sincerity. Find out why Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty won Best Foreign Film at the Oscars this year as we speak to the director about his dazzling, melancholic masterwork.

Minimalist painter-turned-amplifier designer Don Garber will not only blow you away with the sonic experience of his brand, Fi, but his amps are sure to please the eye as well.

It was in college that Don Garber heard a homemade audio system that changed everything for him. It was quite simple, he says. “It sounded like real music.”

Rising Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts is on a tear. From a starring role opposite Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone to the upcoming Suite Française with Michelle Williams and Far From the Madding Crowd with Carey Mulligan and Tom Sturridge, his profile is set to explode this year. Now, as the new face of Louis Vuitton, The Last looks back at our first interview with the future star.

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson come to HBO this Sunday with the première of True Detective, a new mystery series from writer and creator Nic Pizzolatto. In an interview from our ninth issue, Pizzolatto opens up about the haunting impact of his upbringing in the deep South and the role it continues to play in his work.