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.
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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.
Adhere To Studios: Alexandra Dean’s Outerwear Revolution
It is always a pleasure to watch someone chase a dream, harness it, and wrestle it to fruition. For Vancouver-based designer Alexandra Dean, the dream was to start her own outerwear brand.
Rick Owens FW25: Dark, Yet Deliciously Delightful
It’s hard to imagine how romanticism could succeed in a place like a factory or coal mine. Most of what we know of them are gruelling, dehumanizing labour, a profound lack of inspiration, a suffering working class, and a landscape more suited for machines than men.
Immaterial Girls: Sophie, Murakami, and the Strange Spectacle of Louis Vuitton
The cherry on top of the Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami ad campaign that debuted earlier this month is undoubtedly the odd soundtrack choice of “Immaterial,” the hyper-pop anthem by the late great Sophie.