Photographer Zoey Jacqueline is serving a major y2k renaissance
Photographer Zoey Jacqueline teams up with Grace Miller, creative director and founder of UK-based fashion label, Girls Girls Girls, in this y2k-esque editorial featuring Agency 7 models, Anya Pasternack, Alice Warre and Akemi Foxx.
How this musician is confronting the patriarchy with her fungi fantasy
Delilah Holliday is the North-London artist navigating ‘mind-bending’ symphony through her sound, with soothing tolls that tease at a spiritual journey, alluding to the elegant, healing qualities of mushrooms.
Arnaud Lin captures Alix Bortoli’s dreamlike world of fashion and art
Creative duo Alix Bortoli and Arnaud Lin collaborated with London-based emerging jewellers Rebekah Bide and Matilda Little to challenge the physicality of drawing by creating a visual universe embracing the spirit of their work. The organic quality of these pieces entering Alix Bortoli’s hand-crafted worlds composes a dreamlike lost island for the subjects to explore.
Parnell Mooney on shunning the pressures of the fashion industry
After creating his eponymous label Parnell Mooney in 2015 and a breakout stint at Fashion East, the Irish-born designer found himself at a crossroads. “I don't think I ever really took time and thought…what do I actually like? What am I into?” explains Parnell-Mooney. Now the designer has shaken off the shackles of the industry and is imagining a future where making clothes he wants to wear is simply enough.
DaddyBears is the alt-teddy bear brand exploring our need for physical connection
Daddy Bears is the 2-year-old, London-based, handmade alt-teddy bear brand - run by a person who goes by the name of Daddy. Exploring our need for physical connection, Daddy’s pieces were designed “to soak up your tears and sadness forever.”
Ghosts of noughties past: Revisiting the genius of Disney Channel’s stylists
The outfits worn by some of our favourite ‘00s Disney Channel characters have lived rent-free in my head ever since my fashion-hungry 8-year-old self first feasted her eyes on them. They’ve been the subject of much ridicule, but I always admired their audacity. The clash. The jangle. The sheer number of layers. Could it be that we’re finally reaching the peak of this big old y2k renaissance?
How Sun Woo used her pop-up tent garments to communicate a lack of belonging
Sun Woo Chang is the designer whose eponymous brand has quickly found its fun and joy-bringing role in the fashion world through its lively, bright and experimental designs. In conversation with Ella Bardsley, the Central Saint Martins graduate sees creativity as something to play with; a reminder of being young and toying with imagination.
Johannes Warnke is the CSM grad dressing Grammy heavyweights, Lady Gaga and Post Malone
Central Saint Martins graduate Johannes Warnke is the designer who has captured the attention of Grammy heavyweights, Lady Gaga and Post Malone. Committed to treating his craft and couture as an artistic process, rather than manufacturing for a consumer, the emerging designer is dedicated to sustainable production and saving the planet.
Meet Ave, the drag artist donning Hollywood glamour with a side of insanity
Hailing from America’s heartland, Ave is the 22-year-old’s make-up artist whose signature drag traverses every notable reference of the last century – tracking through Jean Cocteau’s hallucinatory art of the ‘30s; to 1950s old Hollywood glamour; ‘70s psychedelia; a quick pit-stop at the 1980s heavy metal bands, before landing in the present day with an added flourish of facial hair.
‘Where Love Lives’ is the new documentary celebrating the queer nightlife community
Speaking to performers Tete Bang, The MX Fit and Lucy Fizz, we discuss the important role the dance floor and night life play in the empowerment and creation of queer safe spaces, spotlighted in the new documentary, ‘Where Love Lives’ by Glitterbox.
Photographer Rodrigo Oliveira captures the intimate moments of Rio’s Queer BIPOC community
Like many countries around the world, Brazil may be governed by intolerant, harmful politics, but its queer community is defiant in the face of adversity. Photographer Rodrigo Oliveira documents the courage of the thriving queer culture.
Designer Kasia Kucharska on the language of lace
Bringing on the lace revolution, Kasia Kucharska is the European designer merging her interdisciplinary vision of architecture and fashion to create hybridised garments from scribbled cycle shorts to bralets.
Meet the designers putting our grandparents in leather and spikes
For Kévin Nompeix and Florentin Glémarec of EGONlab., the Parisian brand dedicated to supporting social movements, conversation and self-love, the trick to understanding our future is looking back at our past. Following their AW21 collection, we spoke to the designer duo on viral Octogenarians, design inspirations and the ups and downs of working with someone you love.
Lily West’s dizzying display of colourful crochets and knitted balaclavas
“This editorial was conceptualised from hiding my sad emotions and my false reassurances. It’s how I cope with unsure emotions; using excessive colour and collaging when feeling dull,” explains photographer-turned-model, Lily West.
Caitlin Yates is the designer making clothes for an attitude, not a gender
Caitlin Yates is a fashion designer with change on her mind. Addressing political, moral and social issues, Yates wants her menswear pieces to help question the world around us, break down stereotypes, and expose the true nature of our societies.
Maya Golyshkina’s papier-mache planet of bog roll bras and butt-naked Barbie miniskirts
In the space between childhood pop culture and arts-and-crafts class, you’ll find Maya Golyshkina’s imagination. The 19-year-old artist both makes and models her up-cycled fashion creations, the beauty and uniqueness of her designs even catching the eye of fashion icon and designer, Marc Jacobs.
Sabby Lou Knit is the Black-owned business proving knitwear can be sexy
Sabrina Lousoir asserts that knitwear can be figure-hugging, sexy and empowering. From cut-out tops to dresses and crops, Sabby Lou Knit, which Lousoir founded five years ago, is the Black-and-female-owned business that wants to make it clear that Black women can be whoever they want to be. And while wearing an SLK piece; who’s to say you can’t be?
Kaiwen Shi on turning her childhood fantasies into sartorial realities
Kaiwen Shi is the Chinese designer and Parsons graduate who looks way back for inspiration, right towards her infancy from the days of dressing up dolls. “I like to maintain the childish feeling in my work,” she shares. “It makes me feel warm and authentic.”
A one-of-a-kind trip down memory lane: Clare Ngai’s nostalgia-driven jewellery brand, BONBONWHIMS
Described by Hong Kong-born, NYC-based jewellery maker Clare Ngai as “small-batch custom nostalgic & whimsical goodies”, the BONBONWHIMS business is a one-woman show inspired by all things ‘kawaii’ and ‘kitschy.’
Joshua Onabowu is the photographer exploring the ‘intangible’ aspects of life
24-year-old photographer Joshua Onabowu will not let one style alone define him. An avid fan of Tumblr and Megan Thee Stallion, his fashion and portrait work toys with human emotion and dependency, all with the goal of uncovering the truth.