In her latest project, the decade-spanning photo series titled Broken Mirror, New York-based visual artist Samantha Sutcliffe peers through her camera into the black mirror of American life.
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To the Floor: Sam Besca’s Dichotomy of Dance
New York native and director Sam Besca’s To the Floor, a short film written by Electra Artemis, unearths the menacingly cannibalistic femininity cultivated beneath the glitzy norms of European ballroom dance tradition.
Dupe or Twin: The AI Fashion Model Creeps In
It seems we were expected to clap and cheer and act impressed by the fact that in a meeting of the editorial staff at Business of Fashion (BoF), only a “slight majority” correctly guessed which image of model Mathilda Gvarliani, provided by the Swedish multinational retailer H&M, was a photograph and which was generated by artificial intelligence.
‘Kissy Face’: Jake Santos on the Blur of Intimacy
Titled Kissy Face, Toronto-based artist Jake Santos’ new solo exhibition, showing at Blouin Division until early May, presents a series of miniature, close-up portraits rendered on wood panels.
Demna Takes Over Gucci: Can His Balenciaga Strategy Revive Sales?
Beauty and War in Chloe Majenta’s “Enantiodromia”
“I think I was really craving something a little bit more like banging my head against a wall without me actually doing it,” Chloe Majenta tells me.
Matières Fécales’ Fearless Paris Fashion Week Debut
Paris has long been a crucible for fashion’s most subversive auteurs, yet few debuts have felt as seismic, as wholly transgressive, as the arrival of Matières Fécales onto the hallowed runways of Fashion Week.
Long Xi Vlessing’s Queens of the Night
An interesting fact about Montreal-based photographer Long Xi Vlessing lies in his own self-description. In an interview with Liminul, he confesses, “I have always been really attracted to people and strangers especially, even though secretly, I am very socially anxious.”
“Beauty Is Also Gore”: Venus Superstar on the Violence of Aesthetics
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.
Selling Sexy: The Secrets Within Victoria’s Empire
“There are no paved roads here to follow. There is no road map.” (p. 151) This quote from Grace Nichols, the former chief executive of the Victoria’s Secret stores division, sums up the revelations shared by Lauren Sherman and Chantal Fernandez in Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon.