Don’t ever be scared to dream because everything is possible no matter how bizarre.
– Jared Leto
Top 10 Looks From Fashion Graduates At LASALLE x Tangs’ “Post-Fashion” Show 2016
It’s that time of the year again: the time when student hopefuls from the final year of fashion degree programmes in Singapore start churning out their graduating collections and showcasing them on the runway.
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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 the boundaries between the innovative and tradition. 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 handbags crafted from genuine European leather. (Even Diane…
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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…
Read MoreSUBMISSION: Ambivalence of Androgyny by Fashion Photographer Felly Loi
Singapore-based fashion photographer Felly Loi is back with a compelling topic for her latest shoot: ‘Ambivalence of Androgyny’. Citing Grace Jones, Tilda Swinton and Elly Jackson (lead singer of electro-pop duo La Roux) as her muses, she hopes to translate the hybridity of the ‘new gender’.
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ONES TO WATCH: OTHERNESS by Chrissie Pepels Creates Unconventional Jewellery
While there are loads to choose from, in terms of jewellery and accessories, one do get tired from the sea of sameness. Thankfully for us, we have O T H E R N E S S, a Netherlands-based contemporary jewellery brand by designer Chrissie Pepels, and her unconventional collection ‘Misery‘. What caught our attention…
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Irina Dzhus A/W 2015: A Totalitarian Approach to Fashion
As the year comes to a close, it is time to take stock of Ukrainian designer Irina Dzhus‘s Autumn/Winter 2015 collection entitled ‘TOTALITARIUM‘. One who’s never shy of using architectural silhouettes in her fashion pieces, Dzhus draws her inspiration from the cult of the technocratic – a social movement which arose in the early 20th century…
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Unfamiliar Familiarity: A Discourse on the Surgically-Perfect with Mexican Artist Gildo Medina
Gildo Medina flips perfection on its head, exposing the emotional cost of beauty in his striking Beauty Knows No Pain series.
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Throwback: Rodarte x Maggie Cheung Short Fashion Film by Wing Shya
Today, we travel back in time and revel in the poetic short film by Wing Shya, a renowned Hong Kong-based photographer who is famous for his cinematic approach in photography, as well as his exclusive photography works for Wong Kar Wai‘s films ‘In the Mood for Love’ and ‘Happy Together’, to name a few. Produced…
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