What does the person who designed the Tim Hortons logo have in common with Addison Rae, Nathan Fielder, and a scientist studying the origins of the universe?
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Maya Klingelschmidt: “I Don’t Really Make Clothes for Everyone”
Colour, for Maya Klingelschmidt, is non-negotiable. “I can actually be quite psycho-rigid about colour,” the designer admits. Material is where that control begins to loosen.
STUDIO RYBKO Finds Its Form
Jewellery often arrives already carrying meaning: a declaration, an inheritance, a marker of intimacy or status. At STUDIO RYBKO, meaning begins somewhere more elemental; with form.
Araki’s Sex is Not the Same as Levinson’s Sex
*Fuck. Fuck, oh fuck. Fuck-f-f-f-f—*the overlay audio plays, the sitting ducks of the I Want Your Sex audience bracing themselves for a salacious opener.
Process Visual’s X Refuses Resolution
Fashion depends, to some degree, on the disappearance of its own labour. By the time a garment is presented as finished, the traces through which it was cut, fitted and assembled have usually been removed.
Nii Hai Is Growing Up With Its Girls
There is a particular problem that confronts any independent fashion label fortunate enough to survive its emergence: how to grow without becoming generic.
Rare DM Wants More Than Your Attention
There is a peculiar kind of movement that belongs only to the night. It reveals itself in headlights cutting through rain-soaked streets, in trains rattling beneath sleeping cities, in bodies slipping between dance floors and sidewalks long after midnight.
FACE VALUE: LORENA BAY / gata.ilusion
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.
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.