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CONTRIBUTORSTonee Roberio Aydin Momtaz Zuzana S. Ghalib Omar Al Zaabi Chrystel Livolsi Cally WhithamWilliam Castellana Martin Beck Punam Rani Nikolaus Gruenwald Sam Kientsch Guillaume Nallet Sophie Leach Kristina Steis Josh Brandao Katerina Samoilis Lindsey Williamson Gene Gino AlducenteHussain Jian Matthieu Belin Joanna Lily Wong Rebecca Wang Masson Ge Jemmy Nitesh ChakravartiCarmelo Vanadia

Special Thanks Furne Amato Couture Michael Cinco Crispin Dominic Action Filmz studio Dubai Land Sara Allen Bareface Emma Rymer Billie Mobayeb Valeria Baigacheva@ artistic perfomersBillie Mobayeb @ LMManagement Nevs Models Becc Bloody Gray Zeina El Dana Milk management Z7 Communication Shawn stephens Vessaokoar Melina Mitri Atyeh BashirRob & Lian Trace Publicity Sanober Bhojani Zainab Gibrine Mumuni Al Tayer groupHafida Ben Moumen @ Ginza fashion Lay Tang Hermes Sun Ting Ting Rocky Liang

Earth Wind & Fire issue => The Great Escape. We’ve searched long and hard to put into words the great imagery we present in this issue about Earth, Wind and Fire. Eventually we went back to a source of wisdom from a Native Indian American prayer. In-spired by George Caitlin exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, he made us dream about soul searching, adventure, epic stories and beauty.Enjoy!

“My grandfather is the fire My grandmother is the wind. The Earth is my mother The Great Spirit is my father The World stopped at my birth and laid itself at my feet And I shall swallow the Earth whole when I die and the Earth and I will be one Hail The Great Spirit, my father without him no one could exist because there would be no will to live Hail The Earth, my mother without which no food could be grown and so cause the will to live to starve Hail the wind, my grandmother for she brings loving, life-giving rain nourishing us as she nourishes our crops Hail the fire, my grandfather for the light, the warmth, the comfort he brings without which we be animals, not men Hail my parent and grandparents without which not I nor you nor anyone else could have existed Life gives life which gives unto itself a promise of new life Hail the Great Spirit, The Earth, the wind, the fire praise my parents loudly for they are your parents, too Oh, Great Spirit, giver of my life please accept this humble offering of prayer this offering of praise this honest reverence of my love for you” - a Native Indian American prayer

GUILLAUME NALLET Left brain Partner

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CHRYSTEL LIVOLSI Right brain Partner

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photography by Cally Whitham

PHOTOGRAPHER GUILLAUME NALLET @ SUPER DELUXE STUDIOFASHION STYLIST CHRYSTEL LIVOLSI @ SUPER DELUXE STUDIOHAIR N’ MAKEUP TONEE ROBERIOMODEL ZUZANA @ LMM DUBAI

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We LOVE Catherine Malandrino be-cause she’s a woman like us! She’s sexy as much as clever, she’s strong but yet sensitive, she’s young and graceful but also a generous responsible mother, she’s funky and ener-getic but has a French classic elegance, she’s doing charity work but she’s also a success-ful business woman and most of all she has a big heart and understand women with all their strengths and contra-dictions… the proof in our special interview and her phe-nomenal success in images!

Super Deluxe: What is your mo-tivation and general inspiration when you create a collection?Catherine M. : First, I like to find a balance between what is the most refined but also the raw and tough in a woman. I want to empower women through their femininity.It translates in my collections, like in my work with leather which is always done with very soft leath-er, like a “second skin” allowing transparencies, to play with co-lours or also the association with silk, light cottons or wrap around in floating fabrics like jerseys. My vocabulary is coming from a very feminine approach and wardrobe and not from a masculine ward-robe like the suit that could be translated in a woman universe. “Ma piece maitresse c’est la robe!”.

SD: All the women I talked to adore wearing your designs be-cause they are lights and com-fortable and make them feels beautiful as women regardless of their size and age. We can ad-mire this lightness and feminin-ity mixed with more rock n roll pieces like the ones in leather, which nonetheless stays and feels light…Catherine M. : Yes because I work on the leather skins to make them very light and thin to be able to wrap them around the body like jerseys… but also because I really want to express this duality in the woman personality.

Where she can be at the same time feminine and strong or even raw and find her place in our society today as an indepen-dent woman, a mother and also a woman in her couple. It’s all these roles and aspects that I try to translate in my collections.

SD: Talking about strong wom-en, you’ve had a long friendship with MJ Blige. It started with one of your first collections that you decided to present at the emblematic Apollo Theater in Harlem in 2001. Could you tell us more about your current involvement and common proj-ect for the FFAWN foundation (Foundation For the Advance-ment of Women...Catherine M. : OH yes, the FFawn foundation helps women to trust themselves and achieve their gaols and dreams. We designed together a T-Shirt collection which is sold in the US and that I will present in my shops in Dubai and carry-ing messages like: “I’m Love/I’m power/ I’m confident”…. For me the message is to put the accent on the woman and inspire her to push the limits. It’s also to raise funds for the education of young women across the globe. We started to help girls schools in the US with very talented young women who want to continue to study at a higher level but don’t necessarily have the means to do so. We are convinced that it’s through education that we can solve many problems of equilib-rium between men and women.

“my key piece is the dress!”

CATHERINEMALANDRINO

I was very glad to see that this message is also supported by the Queen Rania of Jordan whom I met recently at a conference on the matter and the education of young girls and women in the world.

SD: what was your inspiration and motivation when you created the famous “Flag dress”?CM: It was spontaneous. I creat-ed it during my fist year in New York. Coming from Paris, I was amazed by the American women enthusiasm and fresh look on my collections that I just presented. I wanted to pay them a tribute. I’ve always thought that women should be very individualistic and express themselves through their own style. At that time, there was more a phenomenon of mass produc-tion around the clothes. I found it very interesting that suddenly they were paying attention to a French women showing them something different, talking about feminini-ty, personality, high heels, shapes and figures still finished by hand, traditional craftsmanship and know-how. It was therefore a new and different vocabulary for them and for me. The dress is also a reference to the movie “Easy Rider” (link) that I love because it’s a tribute to self-ex-pression, freedom and big open space. When I used to live in Paris, I used to dream about it and this America of all freedoms. That’s the message in the Flag dress…

It’s also my ultimate tribute to the king of Pop ART, Jasper Johns and his interpretation of the American flag.

SD: Between the movie Easy Rider, the hat, the ambiance is very Rock n Roll aS.M: There are always musical references in my collections as for me fashion and music are extremely linked, as they are sometimes offbeat compare to our routine. They reflect our emotions and one cannot live without. There is always a song or a sound in my head associated to a dress or a silhouette.

SD: You colour palette, as your designs are always coherent and harmonious. Is it important for you?S.M: When I start a collection I always have a certain palette in my mind. This winter I wanted to work around rich and dark co-lours of precious stones like ame-thysts, Jade, Rubies because there is something rich and intense. I wanted to express like also in the mix of navy blue and black. I wanted to talk almost in a royal way about dark colours. For me, it’s a love story full of emotions, romance between women and colours…

SD: Do you have some new projects that you’d like to share?I want to create and present more accessories with bags, shoes and jewellery because they are so important to complete a look.

I also want to focus even more on the Middle Eastern women that I know better and better through my travels. She’s unveil-ing her mysteries to me and I discover how international and open to the world she is. In my new projects, I’m collab-orating with Lacoste to design a Lacoste-Malandrino collection around the casual and active wear for women.It’s not necessarily to do sport but more for the woman to relax during the week end without compromising her femininity.

SD: We wouldn’t expect you there… what gave you the idea and the envy to work with a traditional sport fashion house like Lacoste?SM: It was such a surprise and a challenge for me when they approached me as it has a mas-culine heritage. I find it really interesting to work with Lacoste traditional French know-how. I wanted to create a casual collec-tion for women to wear during the weekend that I have myself difficulties to find. I wanted to create alternatives to the jeans or the sweat pants and to work around Lacoste image to create dresses, tops, and shirts….

interviewed by Chrystel livolsiPhotographed by Siddarth Siva

“A TRIBUTE TO SELF-EXPRESSION, FREEDOM AND OPEN SPACE”

Photography by MARTIN BECK @ barefaceHair n’ Makeup by PUNAM RANISuperman GHALIB @ bareface

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photo assistant Jey “Baby” Jeyendren

Special thanks to : Crispin Dominic @ Action Filmz & Mr Ravi Shankar for the venue

Photography by Matthieu BelinFashion Editor Rebecca Wang

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STONES photography by NIKOLAUS GRUENWALD

February 2013

VENUS IN FURS.

Photography by Christele Jacquemin

FASHION by SOFIA MARINO

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ANIMAL FARM

Cally Whitman lives in the rural hinterland of New Zealand. Her work is concerned with finding value in the every day combined with identifying some of the things we may have forgotten from earlier times.

“MUCH OF THE ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE THAT LIVES THERE NOW WAS BROUGHT HERE (RIGHTLY OR WRONGLY) BY THE EARLY SETTLERS OF THIS COUNTRY. AT THE TIME OF THEIR IMPORTING THEY WERE OF GREAT VALUE, PEOPLE WERE PAID HANDSOME SUMS TO BRING LIVE ANIMALS AND BIRDS WITH THEM WHEN THEY CAME. NOW THAT THE COUN-TRY IS OVER RUN WITH EXOTIC SPECIES THE GEN-ERAL PERCEPTION OF ‘VALUE’ HAS CHANGED, AND WHAT WAS ONCE CONSIDERED PRECIOUS OR VALUABLE IS NOW CONSIDERED A PEST OROVER-LOOKED. MUCH OF WHAT WAS INTRODUCED HAS SUS-TAINED US BUT WE NOWTAKE IT FOR GRANTED AS WE GO ABOUT OUR MODERN LIVES.”

Her work attempts to bring back or remind us of some of that value or shine.

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THE VIGELAND PARK : OSLO :

The Vigeland Park is the world’s largest sculpture park made by a single artist, GUSTAV VIGELAND, and is one of Norway’s most popular tourist attrac-tions.

The unique sculpture park is Gustav Vigeland’s life-work with more than 200 sculptures in bronze, gran-ite and wrought iron. Vigeland was also in charge of the design and architechtural layout of the park. The Vigeland Park was mainly completed between 1939 and 1949.

All the original plaster models for the bronze and granite sculptures in the Vigeland park is in the Vige-land Museum.

In the Fountain Hall, all the original full size plaster models for Vigeland’s bronze fountain in the Vige-land Park are displayed. The central group with six giants supporting the large basin is surrounded by 20 tree groups. These individually formed tree groups, with figures, recount the history of mankind from cradle to grave. The portrayal of life begins with a tree entwining newly-born babies and ends in a tree with a skeleton figure, barely recognisable from the tree itself. In the 60 reliefs on the gallery’s four walls, the life cycle of the tree groups is repeated, but with more details and greater variation in subject matter.

In the Monolith Hall stand several of the original plaster models to the 36 granite sculptures on the Monolith plateau, as well as the Monolith itself. This sculpture was carved in one piece (hence the name Monolith), but it was first modelled in clay, and then casted in plaster in three parts, as displayed in the museum today.

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