Rikesh Chauhan is a multi-hyphenate creative specialising in photography, writing and art direction within the luxury menswear space. Outside of this, he also works as a musician, a menswear columnist and is the Editor of The Accessible Magazine. He has been an ambassador for the Campaign Against Living Miserably since 2012.
He released his debut single, Renegades featuring Raxstar, in 2008 under his stage name, RKZ. Between 2009 and 2012, he gathered prominence with a succession of releases including Defeat Me and Gonna Be That. A remix of the latter featured a host of rappers including Waqas Ali of Outlandish, while the original version featured in the film The Man Inside starring Bashy. Over the next few years, RKZ began splitting his time between music, video, photography, menswear and art direction. The songs Visionaries, They Don’t Know Nothing featuring Chino XL and Notes were standouts in this period, all of which were produced by York-based musician, Handbook. His debut album, Visionaries, was released in July 2019. He released the single Careful in 2020, which has amassed over four million streams on Spotify to date. In 2024, RKZ signed to We Are Home / Aviary Bridge Records and released his first single, All That Smoke, followed by the EP Somewhere In Between.
Outside of music, RKZ has worked in luxury menswear as a photographer and journalist since 2014. He was a Senior Creative at social media agency Born Social before joining British shirtmaker Turnbull & Asser in 2017, and eventually plying his trade at The Rake Magazine until 2021. In 2022, he set up RKZUK Limited—a company which houses his published works, photography and various client work—and also joined The Accessible Magazine as Editor.
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