Issue 11
Letter From The EditorDuring the hundreds of shows we editors see over the course of four weeks, we can become a bit like bored children: Give
us a spectacle! Some magic tricks! Loud music and flashing lights! If models were to walk back and forth across the runway in everyday clothes it might inspire a riot. A fashion show is just that: a show. It is a place where ideas are pushed, risks are taken, where the fantastical or the ideal or the outrageous is engaged. While it is a bit of a caricature, an exaggeration, it is
not without purpose. At its most commercial, the goal is to create the kind of desire that moves less expensive products like handbags, perfumes or cosmetics.
At best, the shows inspire subtler forms of desire that permeate our culture — shifting our thinking and the way we dress. Designers are oftentimes artists or seers who can reach into our collective psyche and either pinpoint a nascent longing or
create a new one.
And yet the standing-in-front-of-the-closet-with-nothing-to-wear problem arises because when gazing at lovely racks of clothing in a store, rarely do we consider those days when we will be running late, feeling fat, or tired or just want to feel cozy.
In the shop, we envision our best selves. In the mirror in the morning, we are faced with our actual selves.But even sensible women with busy lives can still love the mystery and fantasy that fashion affords. And so when you’re
looking at runway pictures and thinking, That is absurd, no one dresses like that! — remember that while there is indeed a disconnect between the catwalk and your closet, it is not absolute. There is also a connection. It is not literal or even linear. It
is ephemeral, but no less real. There is a piece of that dream that comes down the runway, of that longing it inspires, that finds its way into our minds, and onto our bodies, even as we fly out the door.
By: James Nolan
Contributors Earth
Photographer: Catalina BricenoModel: Zinnia Jothi Janif
Hair and Make-up: Shairy Jalil
Innocence
Photographer: Elena Odendaal (Oivie)MUA: Anna Onishko
Model: Angelica DuducalovaStylist: Elena Odendaal
Acknowledge
Photographer/Retouch: Elena OdendaalMUA: Anna OnishkoModel: Ornella Erina
Stylist: Elena Odendaal Dresses: Stradivarius
Jacket: ZaraHat: No brand
Antic
Photographer: David BolducModels:
Amanda LeeAllison WhiteSydney Travers
Jackie CaroeApril Maguschak
MUA:Jolina Goad
Ashley FisherJessica HallJ.G. ArtistryHairstylist:
Brandy MoormanAshley FisherJ.G. Artistry
Innocence
Photographer: Elena Odendaal (Oivie)MUA: Anna Onishko
Model: Angelica DuducalovaStylist: Elena Odendaal
Contributors Innocent Seduction
Makeup & Hair: Bronwyn GillespieModel: Pia Herring
Photographer: Megan King PhotographyStylist: Red Opium By Sandra Rives
Jewelry: Mosquita JewelleryProps/Location: Wed On Beaufort
Femme Tale
Photographer: Myuran Ganesh
Model: Eileen Cassidy @ London Management
Kirstie Beck @ London ManagementChelsea Edwards @ Darley Models
Fashion Stylist: Christabell McDonald
Hair Stylist: Emre Chanela BardanHair Stylist Assistant:
Jennifer WuMakeup Artists:
Liz Jenkinson-MuafxQuyen Nguyen
Nail Artist : Samantha Nichollas
The surrealist world of Achraf Baznani
Day of the Dead
Photography/Digital Work- Elizabeth Parker/ Couture PortraitureHair: Esther Vasquez
Wardrobe: Kustom Kouture/ Vintage AuthenticMake Up: Norma Torres
Models: Heather Mackay, Julie Paige, Kaiva Rose, Arielle Raycene
Verita l’morta
Photographer | Lori Cicchini LORIANA | fotografiaModel - Rhiannon Lawrence
HMUA - @Pro Makeup by Lauren CataldoDesigner/Stylist - LAMADIO
Contributors Altuzarra Makes the
Bourgeois kinkyAward-winning designer Joseph Altuzarra showed off hugely
wearable pencil skirts and show-stopping organza frocksBY Luke Leitch
FOMO to no show at Marc Jacobs
spring/summer 2015The closest he got to the latest collection from New York’s
most influential designer was the sidewalk. So when our correspondent failed to do his job, he bodged together
this sorry excuse for a review
Premoli di Bella BY: nonsolo amore
Ralph Lauren’s Riff on the action heroine for
Spring/summer 2015Khaki tulle and jewel pairings gave Ralph Lauren’s spring/summer 2015 woman a luxurious Indiana Jones feel
BY Luke Leitch
EarthPhotographer: Catalina Briceno
Model: Zinnia Jothi JanifHair and Make-up: Shairy Jalil