The New Year now

Here at Supreme, we pride ourselves on being slightly ahead of the curve. While others are busying themselves sweeping up the remnants of 2010, we’ve decided to mark this first weekend of December by gazing beyond the horizon and listing down who’s about to break and what you’ll most likely be into in the near future. You can definitely thank us later.

Where To Go

The well-traveled folks at Lonely Planet have anointed Vanuatu, the Gili Islands, Chiang Mai, Japan, and Delhi as some of the world’s top destinations for next year in their latest Best In Travel 2011. New York may be their number one pick, but the list also has some surprises: Wellington, New Zealand (“Year-round you’ll find arts and cultural events in abundance.”) and Ghent, Belgium (“…might just be the best European city you’ve never thought of visiting.”) 

Put a ring on it: Ryan Reynolds stars in the highly-anticipated Green Lantern.

Surprise, surprise. Despite the recent “Pilipinas Kay Ganda” debacle, the Philippines winds up sixth among Lonely Planet’s “Best-Value Destinations for 2011.” Bangladesh — take note of the places we’re inevitably clumped with — scores the top spot.

What To Watch

In a bid to update its fuddy-duddy image, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Anne Hathaway and James Franco will be hosting the 2011 Oscars. Compared to this year’s comedic duo, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, the two appeal to a much younger, Internet-savvier demographic.

Speaking of, every week between now and January 25, 2011, when the nominations are finally announced, movie nerds will trip over themselves in predicting who will be part of the Oscar race. Some leads: 127 Hours, Black Swan, Inception, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, and True Grit for Best Picture; Natalie Portman in Black Swan and Annette Bening in The Kids Are All Right for Best Actress; and Colin Firth in The King’s Speech and James Franco in 127 Hours. I have yet to see all the buzzed about films, but The Kids Are All Right, also starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, and Mia Wasikowska, was surprisingly well-made.

The Francis Ford Coppola-produced On The Road is slated for a 2011 release; Walter Salles’ adaptation of the Jack Kerouac classic stars Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst. Other book-to-movie projects include Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights, featuring my personal favorite Kaya Scodelario, and The Woman in Black, with a post-Potter Daniel Radcliffe.

Summer 2011 looks to be the biggest since 2008 in terms of potential Hollywood blockbusters with Thor, Priest, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, X-Men: First Class, The Green Lantern, Transformers: The Dark of the Moon, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and Captain America: The First Avenger all vying for the contents of your wallet. If I were you, I’d prepare for one giant box office nerdgasm.

Whom To Watch

As for actors on the rise, there’s a halo of awesome PR surrounding 25-year-old Rooney Mara, who won the coveted lead role in David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Dave Franco, also 25 and a certified Tumblr icon, appears next in the reimagining of 80s slasher flick Fright Night. And British actress and former model Imogen Poots, who was in Chatroom with Aaron Johnson, headlines next year’s Jane Eyre.

More names to store in your long-term memory: Reece Thompson (The Assassination of a High School President) in Daydream Nation, Johnny Simmons (Jennifer’s Body) in The Conspirator, and Lily Collins (The Blindside) in yet another big-screen adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.

What To Listen To

As NME’s Jamie Hodgson asked in October, “Are you ready for ‘the future of music’? If not, leave now.” He was, of course, referring to Brother, an English band with distinctly Gallagher-esque douchiness. On a self-proclaimed mission to rescue the pop charts from “two-dimensional, completely regurgitated electric pop music” and “all those bands with beards,” the boys from Slough have earned kudos from BBC Radio1’s influential Zane Lowe, who said that “if Britpop is going to make a revival, then Brother is the band to start it.”

The SXSW music festival turns 25 in 2011 and to celebrate this quarter-life crisis, organizers of the Austin, Texas shindig have released a preliminary roster of international acts. The ones that first grabbed my attention were Ebony Bones, an electro rock act from the UK; Iceland’s blasé-cool electro pop band FM Belfast; and Spain’s El Guincho, making his mark with tropics-sampling electronica and remixes for acts like Architecture in Helsinki.   

That said, a couple of groups I’ve been digging heavily lately are I Blame Coco, fronted by Sting’s daughter Coco, and Sleigh Bells, a Brooklyn-based noise-pop duo signed to M.I.A.’s label, N.E.E.T. 22-year-old Lauren Pritchard, a London-based American alt-soul singer – her debut “Wasted In Jackson” features the excellent single Not The Drinking – is also worth some space in your hard drive. Let the hype begin!

What To Wear

It seems that fashion folk never let the next season start before they begin looking beyond it. Then again, that’s what makes fashion fascinating.

Dudes can look forward to a spring/summer saturated with Jil Sander’s unapologetically vivid hues, Viktor & Rolf’s ’40s beach chic, and Prada’s inventive — and colorful — work outfits.

The ladies, meanwhile, should keep an eye out for biker clothing, the antidote to a decade of military-inspired springtime styles, as was shown at the Burberry Prorsum show in London. The silhouettes of the past make a strong return, with shapes from the 1950s to the 1970s. During New York Fashion Week, Derek Lam brought the high-waisted flare jeans back into the spotlight while ringer tanks, jumpsuits, and rompers by Marc Jacobs evoked ’70’s casual cool.

As for a new group of stylish people to ogle post-Alexa Chung, there’s Annabelle Dexter-Jones, half-sibling to Mark, Charlotte, and Samantha Ronson; Atlanta de Cadenet, 18-year-old daughter of Duran Duran’s John Taylor and actress Amanda de Cadenet; Teresa Missoni Maccapani, Margherita’s little sister; and Tallulah Ormsby-Gore, daughter of Chanel muse Amanda Harlech.

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In December, drinking Horchata: ginobambino.tumblr.com.