There is a particular intimacy that happens when fashion enters the home, especially a home that feels slightly wrong. Our December cover starring Rebecca-Jo Dunham-Baruchel and featuring garments by Atelier Artifact leans fully into that unease.
EDITORIAL
Transmission
Late afternoon light stripes the concrete at Lignes De Fuite studios on a rather hot late September afternoon. Pattern paper curls on a cutting table; a hem is pinned and unpinned; someone laughs because the zipper refuses to obey.
The Dreamer is Still Asleep
To dream is to hover between presence and absence, to drift into the liminal space where the body is neither fully there nor fully gone.
Crude Semiotics: Absurdity as Cultural Exhaust
There comes a point in any saturated system wherein meaning no longer accumulates. It combusts. Contemporary culture functions less like a cogent symbolic order and more like a refinery under pressure, endlessly processing images, aesthetics, affect, and identity into liquid form.
Les Corps En Déplacement
There’s a distinct kind of silence in the parts of a city not meant to be seen. The loading dock behind a shuttered shop.
Pump Fiction
Enter the Void
The promise of visibility, once associated with recognition, agency, even liberation, now arrives heavily mediated. To appear today is to be parsed: through lenses, platforms, and systems that do not look so much as scan.
LIVE: The Aesthetics of Digital Intimacy
In an era oversaturated with digital imagery, curation has become its own form of performance. LIVE explores this paradox—where spontaneity and construction collide, dissolving the boundaries between authenticity and artifice.
Andy + Jialin
Toronto-based fashion and beauty photographer Jamie Brockie captures the elegance of structure and the artistry of form in ANDY + JIALIN.
Aime-Elle Explores Isolation and Intimacy In Echo
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.