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