Keegan Dakkar Leaves Room For Spontaneity | office ICONS – FESCH.TV

Keegan Dakkar Leaves Room For Spontaneity | office ICONS & FESCH.TV:

For the month of September, office partnered with Alpha Industries to highlight eight icons in New York culture. Each of our September cover stars has shaped the next frontier across fashion, arts, music, and beyond.

Our fourth September cover star iss multi-hyphenate tattoo artist and impossibly cool New York native Keegan Dakkar. Raised in the Lower East Side at the height of the anarchist and punk community of the ‘90s, Dakkar’s practice distills a lifetime of cultural influences and exposure. His visual art defies categorization, with group and solo exhibitions of his drawings in New York and Tokyo, a jewelry and fashion design portfolio including work for Marc Jacobs and Supreme, and a dedicated cult following of his idiosyncratic custom tattoo work.

By his estimation, Dakkar began tattooing “5 or 6 years ago,” and in that time, his art has found its way onto the bodies of hundreds of New Yorkers (including two members of our on-set crew) and the screens of tens of thousands more online admirers. He gives nearly exclusively custom tattoos, creating the design in collaboration with the tattoo’s recipient and embracing the improvisation of the moment. On the eve of Dakkar’s birthday, we paid a visit to Musiquarium, the Greenpoint studio he shares with a handful of other artists. For proof of his love of spontaneity, look no further than this story; Dakkar simultaneously gave an unplanned custom tattoo to our makeup artist Cass Lee while I asked him questions. Read the full article for answers!

Director: JP Blair
Assistant Director: Ian Wishart
Interview: Brook Aster