Thanks to Claire Marie Christerson for styling help; and to Claire, Sepeed Emambakhsh, Mars Hobrecker, Angela Munoz, and Mike Bailey Gates for modeling.
Thanks to Claire Marie Christerson for styling help; and to Claire, Sepeed Emambakhsh, Mars Hobrecker, Angela Munoz, and Mike Bailey Gates for modeling.
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*speechless*
They are so pretty…….
YAYAYAY! just what i needed..
some beautiful images to gaze at while i’m doing maths homework-!
Ok i really don’t know what to say BECAUSE IT’S JUST TOO AMAZING. Such an inspirational photoshoot. And OMG in NY. Amazing amazing amazing. Thank you so much for that!
Great photos – not my usual taste, but they seem so authentic!
LOVE
LOVE
LOVE
u Lauren
Those photos are absolutely lovely! Thank you rookiemag for showing us ART, and not some photoshopped fake shit.
yes good
i love these! so much size/color diversity!
Wow, these are amazing! I feel like their should be a soundtrack to go along with them.
The collages are badass!
Oh my god I LOVE this. It’s trashy in such a perfect, too-cool-for-school 80’s way. This is awesome!!
the badassery of this is incredible!
I hope my life looks like this in my early 20s
Looovin numba 9
(and the rest too duh)
Was that inspired by Rayanne from MSCL?
Anyways it s amazing.I m definitely buying a pair of coloured tights.
coolest gang ever
perfect photoshoot is perfect.
one of the best shoots yet! lovin the vibe…
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I take that train like every single day! I will never be able to look at it the same way now…
LOVE!!! <3
and #18… what!! mike is flying!! wow wow
These are incredible! Number 19 was my favourite it just looked like a scene from my ideal life.
Wow. That’s some great models and photos and it’s a different aesthetic than the other shoots.
It reminds me of people who went to my middle/high/whatever school when I was still schooled, except they are older!
This is amazing. It makes me want to hang out with all those people. And I love a boy in eyeshadow!
When I saw the first pictures I was thinking “CULTURE CLUB” then you have the Boy George pictures in the background. This slideshow is a dream and I neeed to learn how to do ribbon braids.
LOVELOVELOVEADORATIONYES These are so spectacularly full of splendor.
Reminds me of Kids (1995) so much. Lovely, lovely!
Love it! Oh and, the girl with the black hat rules! She reminds me of Boy George!
Oh my gosh. They’re emulating Boy George. *cries* I want to be their friend! No one likes Boy George but me…
Love love love the flow of the photos. Did you guys take the first few photos on the N train?
Boys wearing makeup = HOT!
Agree!
P.S. #18 boy, you are perfect.
Why can’t I be this cool? Or my town? Or my state? *Sigh* Lovely photos though
Awesome! You really captured the particular spirit of youth and friendship in these photos. I love them!
I love these!
WHAT is going on in pic 18?
So awesome!
Oh Yeah! Love this 90-ies gypsy-style mix, the hats and the make up and just the way they look- like they are the kings of the city! That really reminds me of my brother, too because he had a similar style and attitude as a teen.
SO FABULOUS! THIS! This is amazing and awesome and true and has real people of different sizes and colors and gender-looks and non-traditional beauty and oh oh oh! So good. MOAR PLZ! This is the stuff that is worthy only of the coolest of mags… like roooookie! <3
This is actually amazing! Beautiful photos. ROOKIE IS THE BEST!!!
super ochentas (:
i like how real life they look hah like it’s just friends out. or maybe it is?
Do you shop at metropolis vintage? The sweater and Jacket look like they are from there.
What book are they looking through on the 20th picture?
OhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGod.
I pay a lot of money for that big gold chain. Let me buy it off you?
i got one at a yard sale for ten cents. look for gold chain belts and wear them as necklaces!
Hey, are the girls in the 16th photo sisters?
LOVE THIS!
it’s like they raided the closets of boy george and ricky vasquez (my fashion idol) and then decided to throw a fashion show!
This is SO Cool !
god, this is awesome!
kinda reminds me of spike lees “do the right thing”.
These are like nothing I’ve ever seen before!! What an incredibly talented and creative photographer. Wow. Just.. Wow!
Caden x
so so so good!
I can’t stop looking at these photographs… haha! Simply Awesome.
I feel like from 24 onwards there is more of an “aesthetic thread” that binds everything together, and the collages are super duper badassery, but other than that I’m sorry but I really am not that crazy about these. :(
Ohhhh these pictures are sososo amazing, i can say this is my favorite rookie photoshoot!!
That guy is gorgeous!! This shoot is so new romantic and Boy George esque
Incredible!!
Amazing!
Looks to me like a mixture of mods, chavs and ‘hipsters’.
Does anyone know what label the multi color jacket is?!?!
ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!
I remember having similar impromptu photo shoots in high school after school.
Take me back to the days…