Think Tink.
FADER just unveiled the second cover for their February/March issue and it features none other than Tink. If you’ve been paying attention at home, that means both covers for issue 96 from FADER Magazine feature Chicago artists (Chance The Rapper & The Social Experiment are featured on the first cover for the February/March issue). Another great look for Tink, for sure.
Here’s an excerpt from the cover story:
Tink is standing some 1,000 feet in the air, practically nose-to-glass with the windows that wrap around the Signature Room, a restaurant as tony as it is touristy, nestled on the top floor of downtown Chicago’s John Hancock Center. It’s unusually clear and sunny for December, which, according to the Signature’s website, means that nearly 60 miles of city are visible from her vantage. Two of her friends, Necey and Squeak, and her fresh-dressed and dreadlocked boyfriend, Don Marley, inch away from the vertigo-inducing view. But Tink, petite in a tropical print sweater, jeans, and Doc Martens, moves forward, even stepping over a barrier installed precisely for the purpose of keeping people from getting too close.
When traffic cooperates, the Signature Room is roughly 40 minutes from the suburb where 19-year-old Tink—whose real name is Trinity Home—grew up. Gazing down at Chicago’s bounty, a terrarium of skyscrapers and turquoise Lake Michigan, she is pure Daenerys Targaryen: surveying the boundaries of her realm, plotting which territory to conquer next, daydreaming about the day she’ll be crowned queen.
Tink glances back at her crew. “Y’all scared?” she asks, in a voice that is the sonic equivalent of running your hand over impossibly soft velvet. “I’m not.”
Read the full cover story here.
In related news, Tink will be taking over Metro for her homecoming show this Saturday (2/21). More details and tickets can be found right here.