Open Canvas; Empowering the Homeless, Disabled & Trauma Affected Artists
Open Canvas is a Melbourne based philanthropic organisation that focuses on empowering artists who have experienced homelessness, a disability or some other adversity that has prevented them from being able to exhibit and sell their work. We caught up with founder Daniel Rath to discuss the ins and outs of Open Canvas, and exploring the […]
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Misha Janette; Globalising Japan’s Subversive Culture
Originally hailing from Washington, United States, bilingual Japanese fashion blogger Misha Janette is an influencer who is playing a major part in globalising Japan’s subversive culture. Her avant-garde style has lead to her iconic status in the fashion world, where she focuses on promoting independent and alternative designers. Misha’s blog ‘Tokyo Fashion Diaries’ has bridged […]
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Voting on the Right to Love; Dystopia is our Reality
I had a terrible dream last night, a surreal nightmare painted in lucid awareness. It was set in a futuristic dystopian society, one in which people had been stripped of their basic human rights and placed into a lottery system, where their peers got to vote on how they could live, and under what conditions. […]
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Modern Life; Empowering Subcouture
The editorial ‘Modern Life’ was taken with analog film by Berlin based photographer Luciana Damiao, with the film being made by Matt Freiheit from 93degreesmedia. The election of analog photography and two historical locations as backgrounds, allow art and architecture to be the extra tools that help us explore and understand our connection with creations […]
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Cocoa Butter Club; Bringing Talented Queer POC to the Forefront
And on the 7th day the Queer Spirit created the Cocoa Butter Club, to answer our prayers crying out for greater visibility for queer people of colour. Acknowledging the fact that there is still a serious lack of diverse representation in the Australian arts & entertainment sector, the CBC merges two significantly marginalised groups to […]
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The Shock; Remoulded and Remastered Through Space and Time
The chance to change only comes along in great occasion. For many people changing geographical location allows them to reassess who they are, what they want, and the direction in which they are headed. These acknowledgements of the inner self can be influenced by exterior experiences and affect the way one perceives themselves and moreover […]
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Who Gets to Define Identity: An Open Letter
The irony in seeking identity is that there will always be people who try to define it for you, when it’s something that can be practically indefinable. Identity can be synonymous with the word label, except the word label suggests only one facet of someone’s truth, and identity suggests a multi-faceted, multi-layered, and interchangeable truth. […]
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Opulence; Twisting Gender Identity, Glamour & Sustainable Clothing
‘Opulence’ is the frugal hedonist’s interpretation of fashion and luxury. Resulting in a fashion show to be held on Saturday the 2nd September in Melbourne, Australia. A one-night, ‘rogue’, ‘off the books’ panoply coinciding with Melbourne Spring Fashion Week 2017. Designers Chelsea Hickman and Hayley Van Ree describe their intent behind ‘Opulence’ – “We have […]
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Wild Dreams; Freedom Through Our Way Of Living
In the editorial ‘Wild Dreams’ Mexican artistic director/stylist and model Andres Morenov explains his intent; “Seeing how June just went by and knowing that in much of the world last month Pride was celebrated, we wanted to make a small contribution by presenting a different, yet simple, kind of beauty and aesthetic. We talk about […]
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“Bougainvillea” Explores the Emergence from Emotional Darkness
Lloyd Galbraith is a Los Angeles based photographer who focuses on the abstract editorial elements of fashion photography. In Bougainvillea he describes how he “really focused on the concept of being bound and confined. Lyena, the model, starts out in a robe and then is consumed by the background in the set. She emerges in the […]
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