Earlier than he hits the fitness center, Austin Mahone has some critical sartorial choices. Like, which of his hundred pair of sneakers he needs to pair with excessive socks and basketball shorts. He may go along with his Air Mags, these $50,000 plus, self-tying sneakers Marty McFly sported in Again to the Future Half II, however he doesn’t wish to scuff them. Similar goes for his first version Louis Vuitton all pink Yeezys. (Mahone’s favourite piece of clothes, which isn't a shoe: a gown gifted to him by Stefano Gabbana in Milan after a vogue present, which is nearly as stylish a sentence you may utter.) This time, he goes along with his Air Jordan Futures.

The San Antonio native first blew up on-line in 2010, when he was fourteen. Mahone had began posting pop cowl songs on his YouTube channel. Two years later, he launched his personal single and signed with the identical file label as Taylor Swift. Then he toured with Swift. And now, at 23, Mahone resides that pop star/vogue ambassador life, which, in his case, apparently means splitting a Miami house with a number of different guys who cook dinner one another eggs within the morning and drink chardonnay earlier than mattress. The excessive life.

We caught up with Mahone in Miami. His is the form of seaside view Miami house you stroll round in carrying a tank prime and holding a basketball—which Mahone does, your entire time, as he exhibits us his kitchen, fitness center, and recording studio, the place he is at present at work on his first full album.