

Countless cool kid-hangs have begun with the words “let’s meet at Tompkins Square”, referring to the leafy park in New York’s East Village that’s long been a haven for outsiders and rebels and drag queens and punks. But the cool kid on this – day a breezy afternoon in May – who wants to link up there happens to be the coolest of them all: Mr Evan Mock, the 24-year-old pink-haired skateboarder who Mr Frank Ocean (more on him later) helped catapult from niche fame on the sport’s circuit to global visibility as a fashion model and soon as an actor, debuting this summer as one of the leads in a new reboot of television show _Gossip Girl_. Indeed, his growing fame and near-ubiquity on billboards and airport fragrance ads is really what makes out-of-the-way Tompkins an ideal hideaway. “I like it here,” he says, “because I can come and not be bothered.”

Countless cool kid-hangs have begun with the words “let’s meet at Tompkins Square”, referring to the leafy park in New York’s East Village that’s long been a haven for outsiders and rebels and drag queens and punks. But the cool kid on this – day a breezy afternoon in May – who wants to link up there happens to be the coolest of them all: Mr Evan Mock, the 24-year-old pink-haired skateboarder who Mr Frank Ocean (more on him later) helped catapult from niche fame on the sport’s circuit to global visibility as a fashion model and soon as an actor, debuting this summer as one of the leads in a new reboot of television show Gossip Girl. Indeed, his growing fame and near-ubiquity on billboards and airport fragrance ads is really what makes out-of-the-way Tompkins an ideal hideaway. “I like it here,” he says, “because I can come and not be bothered.”


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