AFTER A DREAM SO REAL

August 2001. 'A concealing stick, a blue lip slick and other major must-haves.'

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Betsey Johnson’s spring-summer 2004

madisen kuhn

slayyyter // CANNIBALISM!

Lithuanian artist Severija Incirauskaite-Kriauneviciene applies floral and decorative patterns to unconventional objects. Instead of going for fabric, she sews cross-stitch patterns onto metal buckets, utensils, and car doors. Each chosen canvas is an attempt to subvert traditional embroidery culture, which is often associated with sweetness and sentimentality. Here, the hard edges and rusty metal balance the cozy appeal of stitched thread.

Seahorse pendant, the pouch is baroque pearl. After a lovely courtship ceremony, females deposit eggs to male seahorses’ pouches and males carry the eggs and give birth.

Zoë Lianne

Deeply complex women whose live become distorted by toxic, possessive relationships. As an advance android programmed to be a submissive parter, Iris is forced to commit corporate-ordered murder, triggering a brutal awakening where she destroys her maker to reclain her independence. Similarly, Nikki loses her autonomy to her "friend's" selfish desire under the curse of a supernatural "One Wish Willow", fracturing into a violent, uncanny persona trapped by male entitlement.

Last light, Mary Mattingly

Klaus Leidorf ≋ aerial photograph — striped crop fields, a curving road, one tree, and the shadow of a plane

Cat Power by Mark Borthwick for Vanessa Bruno FW03-04