#avant-garde

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Editorials

When Fashion Becomes Pure Form

A visual meditation on texture, silhouette, and the spaces between sound and sight.

Maggie I: Lantern

A hooded figure in black gauze moves beneath a cage of lit candles, half monk, half lantern. We keep it quiet, warm and slow, against a wrinkled canvas backdrop.

Resentimiento

Resentment, made physical: a red-haired figure in black leather wrestles a glowing, splintering double across a white studio floor. We watch the fight with ourselves play out frame by frame.

Cordyceps

A body taken over: skin stretches, mirrors and sprouts into pale tendrils, like the fungus the series is named after. We find it unsettling and strangely beautiful.

Calendar

The seasons arrive as envoys from a known-unknown alien world, each in its own months and its own costume. We follow the year from frost to fire, then move in close on the makeup.

The Omen

Hqeivy photographs Jia Huan Zhang in soft-focus, dreamlike frames: iridescent fabric, a crystal fringe earring, glowing cords of light, styled by PiaoPiao.

Sensible Sensibility

Rustynero photographs model Liu Hao in GreyDeng's 2021 collection: sharp-shouldered black tailoring, long braids and sculptural curves on a stark grey and white set.

Crash Test

Margot Debaisieux photographs Philou, Touré Daika and Lou-Anne Mercourt inside a cocoon of plastic sheeting, wearing garments by Angèle Lepolard.

Auburn Love

Inspired by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. "Disastrous events do not have the ability of stopping love, one of the instincts humanity contains that goes beyond time and space."