Letter From the Editor

With our Summertime issue, Gigantic embraces the highs, lows, and existential limbo of what’s supposed to be the most celebratory season of the year.

INTERVIEW

“Scents of Horror”

Elizabeth Renstrom, a.k.a. @basenote_bitch, pairs classic TV and film scream queens—from Linda Blair to Buffy—with to-die-for fragrances

 

CULTURE

Let’s Make a List

A highly subject top-10 roundup, presented as a short film, by Jonpaul Douglass

 

STYLE

I Heart the ’90s

Jessica Pettway celebrates Black beauty looks from 30 years ago

 

STYLE

Planet You

Budding romance meets seductive style in this fashion story by Braylen Dion, shot on location in Atlanta

 

INTERVIEW

Enemy of the Average

In this “as-told-to,” Jessica Antola channels iconoclastic Polish opera singer Gonna Walska (1887-1984) on location at Lotusland, Walska’s famed Santa Barbara gardens

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

If You Steal My Sunshine

Caroline Tompkins wanders through a ‘Fool’s Paradise’

 

FOOD

Food for Thought

Jake Stangel shares recipes and kitchen hacks for even the most reluctant would-be cooks

 

INTERVIEW

Wild Thing

Lucas Garrido on fearlessly following his imagination wherever it takes him

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

Myrtle Beach

Jacq Harriet frames archetypal moments at the famed South Carolina seaside getaway

 

INTERVIEW

The Art of Everything

Viral content creator Rudy Willingham takes questions from his 347,000 Instagram followers

 
 

CULTURE

Vibe Check

An excerpt from Ben Pier’s ecstatic, enigmatic book Teenage Teeth

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

Texas

Brian Finke’s Lone Star series taps in a state of contemplation

 

MUSIC

Full Blast

The songs that got us through quarantine. Interviews and artwork by Alexa Johnson.