You can find inspiration in everything. If you can’t, then you’re not looking properly.

– Paul Smith

 

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

– Warren Buffett

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.

– Oscar Wilde

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

– Leonardo da Vinci 

Don’t ever be scared to dream because everything is possible no matter how bizarre.

– Jared Leto

ONES TO WATCH: EXOCET Paris Merges Savoir-faire and Avant-garde with Innovative Leather Bags

For the final leg of our ‘Hybridity’ issue, we look to EXOCET whose brand ethos transcends a sense of merger between the innovative and the traditional. Based in Paris, EXOCET is a bag label responsible for creating sensational hybrid animal and vegetal figure designs – fictitious creatures – on its convertible box-shaped genuine European leather handbags (even…

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Ausra Osipaviciute Challenges the Limits of the Human Anatomy in ‘Fantplastique’

Counting Solve Sundsbo, Paolo Roversi, Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott as some of the photographers who inspire her, fashion photographer Ausra Osipaviciute who is based out of London, UK uses her images to translate her imagination of a different fantastic universe to the world. She often conceives this vision of hers with the aid of post-production…

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