“I want it all”: VTSS' no-holds-barred approach is inspiring her artistic evolution

Features Megan Townsend speaks to Poland's breakout DJ star about developing a brand new sound, standing up to internet trolls, and straddling the worlds of high fashion and underground rave Words: Megan Townsend | Photography: Marta Michalak | Creative direction: VTSS | Art Direction: Vassilis Skandalis | Style: Ada Matylda Korolczuk | Hair: Christopher Hutton | Makeup: Madeleine Virginia Brown | Production: Agnese Ghinassi | Sinistre font by Jules Durand 1 November 2021 VTSS will not be constrained by any box you put her in. With one foot in the ‘big room’ and another in the avant-garde, the high-octane maven is just as comfortable commanding the colossal soundsystems of EXIT as she is soundtracking the boldly experimental dancefloors of Unsound or a high fashion party in Milan — all with time to spare to enlighten the Sunday morning congregation of Berghain. First cutting her teeth as a sound engineer in Kraków, the turbulent and uncompromising queen of the rave made a name for hers...