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Age-appropriate is a dreary dress code for an industry that prides itself on imagination. It suggests that somewhere between one birthday and the next, a woman should begin editing herself down, trading experimentation for restraint and making sure her appearance puts everyone else at ease. Reeta Basu, the 80-year-old muse […]
Three Taiwanese creatives based in Berlin explore the uneasy relationship between being looked at, dressing up and feeling that something is slightly wrong. Sometimes a scene gets under your skin before you realize you’re still smiling at it. Horror has always made room for that reaction, and anyone familiar with […]
There is a particular kind of beauty that carries its own history. It resides in the body, in the accumulated traces of experience, in the confidence of a gesture that no longer seeks permission to exist. In the photography of Sergey Reyder, a visual artist from Kazan, Russia, the nude […]
Love outlasts the relationship that produced it and refuses to become a lesson, no matter how many times you try to turn it into one. Jeremie Soyan knows this; you can hear it in the way he builds a song, the way he stays inside the mess of a feeling […]
There is a particular kind of intimacy in Marat Safin’s photographs, one that seems to begin long before the camera enters the room. The Russian-based photographer builds his female portraits around warm light, unguarded gestures and interiors that feel inhabited rather than arranged for inspection. His subjects carry a certain […]
Japanese visual kei band Blaze are heading to Europe, bringing their latest album, “Determination”, and a sound shaped by some deeply personal experiences. Formed by musicians from different bands, Blaze have built their identity around the concept “For the Irredeemable,” with music that speaks to those who have found themselves […]
For Gustaffson, every song begins with a story. Fronted by singer-songwriter and actor Andrew Gower, the Manchester band moves between indie rock, Northern Soul and cinematic storytelling, drawing inspiration from everything from working-class Britain to the films, cities and people that have shaped their lives. Their debut album, “Black & […]
Awe Inspired heads into darker territory for Fall 2026 with “Nocturne”, a collection built around mythology, transformation and women whose stories have survived precisely because they refused to stay fixed. Starring Vivian Jenna Wilson, the campaign unfolds across three chapters, each centred on a different mythological figure: Inanna or Ishtar, […]
There is a moment in Collected XX’s new editorial where two headless silhouettes stand behind a seated woman like witnesses at a trial. They are shaped like trunks, the kind a family fills before a wedding, except they have grown shoulders, collars, the suggestion of a torso. Draped in rose-printed […]
Daria Pentelie found in acting a way to move beyond the boundaries of her own experience and inhabit the emotions, contradictions and inner lives of others. From childhood performances alongside her twin sister to her first film audition, she was drawn to the possibility of inhabiting different histories, wounds and […]