Beauty has never been a neutral category. It functions instead as a shifting system of recognition, produced through environments, cultural repetition, and the increasingly accelerated feedback loops of visibility.
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Yabu Pushelberg Explores Queer History and HIV Activism in Don’t Stop. Stand Up!
Design is often asked to imagine the future. Rarely is it asked to remember. This Pride Month, Yabu Pushelberg is transforming its Tribeca studio into something altogether different.
FACE VALUE: ANGELINA MASICH
Beauty has never been more visible, nor more mediated. Between algorithmically curated feeds, AI-generated imagery, cosmetic technologies, looksmaxxing, and an endless stream of trend cycles, contemporary beauty increasingly exists within a landscape of optimization.
Claude’s World
While driving along the highways that branch out of Toronto’s downtown, one witnesses a bewildering contrast of forces; nestled in rolling hills of wheat lie mammoth-sized shipping and logistic hubs.
MRKNTN Reimagines SAINT-MAURICE Through a Gothic Dystopia
Last September, Montréal-based label MRKNTN unveiled SAINT-MAURICE, a collection rooted in the textures, silhouettes, and cultural mythology of Québec’s working-class identity.
Inside RCHIVE and the Rise of Toronto’s Own Fashion Week
For years, Toronto fashion has existed in a strange contradiction. The city possesses an enormous concentration of creative talent, stylists, photographers, designers, musicians, and image-makers, yet its infrastructure has often lagged behind its ambition.
KALIKA REDEFINES “SEXY” ON HER OWN TERMS
Kalika didn’t build her career by playing it safe. Born Mia Kalika Rosello, the French artist first appeared publicly on Nouvelle Star before stepping away from that trajectory entirely.
Charlotte Cardin Ignites Pop with Hypnotic New Single The Way We Touch
Montréal’s own Charlotte Cardin continues her remarkable international ascent with the release of The Way We Touch, a smoldering new single accompanied by a striking music video that deepens the singer’s signature fusion of intimacy, sensuality, and cinematic pop.
AMARA: The Body as Ritual
In DESIRA’s AMARA, the body becomes a threshold, wherein language recedes, narrative dissolves, and what remains is a symbolic choreography of gestures, textures, and psychic states that unfold like a ritual.
the “moorcore aesthetic” industrial complex
In the past few years there has an indelible rise in gothic aesthetics. From Yorgos Lanthimos’ whimsical Poor Things, to Robert Eggers’ exploration of female desire in Nosferatu and his upcoming folk-horror take on medieval werewolf mythos The Werewulf, to the controversial Emerald Fennell adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” released earlier this year.