Venus Superstar moves within a space where beauty and horror coalesce, entangle, shift, and dissolve into one another. The performer, part drag queen, part performance artist, part auteur” hailing from the San Francisco underground, is the type of queer creative whose work is as much passion as it is intrinsic to their very being.
Memory is both a potent artistic and cultural catalyst. Memory as archive, memory as tradition, memory as meaning-making, and as emotional processing; translated into the sartorial it can represent a second skin of sorts, an embodiment of cultural heritage, and an embodied manifestation of self-hood and lineage.
In a time when connection is both constant and elusive, Quebec based photographer Aime-Elle creates work that speaks to the quiet paradox of modern intimacy.
Raul Lopez’s Fall 2025 collection for Luar, El Pato, emerges as both a personal manifesto and a cultural reclamation, steeped in the designer’s unique narrative as a Dominican-American artist growing up amidst New York’s turbulent streets.
There is something sacred about the ritual of getting dressed for the night—a transformation, an invocation, a declaration of intent. In her Fall/Winter ’25 debut, Tyler McGillivary captured this alchemy with Date Night, a collection that distilled the thrill of nocturnal glamour into 30 looks, each a love letter to artifice, desire, and the reckless optimism of a city that never stops moving.
The body as battleground. The body as armour. The body as weapon. Defence Mechanism, our February Digital Cover, lensed by Toronto-based photographer Lucy Mahoney and featuring model Claire Steven dismantles the boundaries between self-preservation and self-destruction.
For our January digital cover story, Seal of Judgment deconstructs the labels, assumptions, and instinctual judgments that define how we move through the world today.
On a winter morning in Montreal, the air feels dense, like the city itself is catching its breath. The streets are dusted in remnants of salt and slush, windows fog with condensation, and strangers pass each other with practiced indifference.
In her debut photography book, Big City Nobody, Luisa Opalesky captures New York City not as a backdrop, but as a breathing entity—equal parts muse and main character.
An abandoned laboratory in Valencia becomes the stage for State of Dust, an exploration of identity, place, and liminality. Crumbling walls, fractured glass, and the detritus of another time form the backdrop for a narrative of stoic resilience.