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FOREWORD We can do this! And have been able to for a longtime. New Zealand has a long, proud history of backing women into positions of power and taking up their call for action on all manner of issues. When the New Zealand Governor General, Lord Glasgow signed a new electoral act on Sept 10, 1893, New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women the right to an equal vote. This was largely due to a great New Zealand woman called Kate Sheppard (03/13/184713/09/1934) who was globally recognised and in turn revered as the leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Little did current New Zealand’s 40th Prime Minister, Jacinda Adern know the pertinence of this to her rallying election campaign call some 150 years later; ‘We Can Do This!’ At just 37 years-old she is the country’s youngest Prime Minister since 1856. Black Magazine have a history of celebrating women. Many of our crew and teams are women, leading, not following. This issue BACK IN BLACK, welcomes a new female member to the whanau, Abbey Gould, featuring as our new Design Director. Taking a journey back with Creative Director Rachael Churchward, they explored our archives from the last ten years and Abbey explored many of the simple, visual, design and memorable moments that has made up our DNA for Black. Respecting our past Art Directors, Abbey modernised our vision. Back in Black Rachael, Grant and the Black whanau
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CONTENTS BLK STAR
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Abrand Denim x M.A.C Cosmetics
Kiri Nathan
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Melancholy Mood
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In This Mess, Precious Dust
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Destination Victoria Station
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Photography CAROLYN HASLETT Fashion RACHAEL CHURCHWARD Hair SARA ALLSOP Makeup R ICHAR D SYMON S using M.A.C C OS M ETICS Model DAN I at U N IQU E MODE L MANAG E M E NT Words G RANT F E LL
DENIM AND BOLD, RAINBOW RADIANCE, TASTEFUL PATTERNS ON SHEER, STRIPE AGAINST STRIPE, CAMEL CHAMELEON, PATTERNS UNITE, PERFECT PORTRAIT, DAISY DELIGHT, TARTAN AND RED – MOTHER AND CHILD, A GIRL WITH A PEARL ON RUNAWAY PLIGHT
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ABRAND BONNIE JACKET, RAINBOW PALETTE by M.A.C COSMETICS
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Photography CHARLES HOWELLS at WHITE STUDIOS Fashion RACHAEL CHURCHWARD Hair SARA ALLSOP Makeup R ICHAR D SYMON S using M.A.C C OS M ETICS
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Photography and words DAV I D K S H I E LD S Hair and makeup VE R IT Y G R I F F ITH S at 62 MANAG E M E NT for STEVI E E NG LI S H HAI R using O&M and M.A.C. C OS M ETICS Models TALEA and JAMIE at CLYNE MODELS All clothing and styling by KIRI NATHAN Pounamu by JASON NATHAN
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The last few years have seen Kiri become a regular contributor to many causes in the aid of furthering the growth of those less fortunate, and raising the profile of the underdog. Amongst the situations she applies herself to, include sitting on the Advisory Board of Super Diverse Women (NZ), and the Board of the I Have A Dream Charitable Trust, which supports the education of up to 1500 children in Decile 1 schools in Northland. She is also a Hawea Vercoe Leadership Programme mentor, headed by The Moko Foundation’s Dr Lance O’Sullivan, who was the 2014 New Zealander of the Year, and was a recipient of an invitation to participate in the International Visitors Leadership Programme (IVLP) – an American initiative which in the past has included six previous Prime Ministers of our country, as well as many of the world’s foremost politicians, entrepreneurs and leaders. Kiri is at this moment participating in the latest edition, of which US Embassies worldwide were asked
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to nominate one woman from each country, to represent them in the IVLP for Women in Entrepreneurship. The US Embassy headquarters in Washington DC selected forty-nine from this group, to be invited to four American states for a three week programme, funded “by the people for the people” - even though it entailed a huge amount of rearrangement and juggling to make it happen. It was an opportunity that just couldn’t be missed. While in the process of finalising this, another of her ambitious ideas was approved, and with the timelines so tight, she will fly directly from the US to China after this sojourn. In between this, there was a trip to New York to meet with US Vogue, HSN TV Network and prominent New York stylists (to discuss her fashion business), and a meeting with the Metropolitan Museum and Parsons School of Design, where she will discuss the exhibition of He Kaakano Ahau. Kiri then heads to Los Angeles to visit the team she worked with at Disney’s, film Moana. She will again meet with local stylists to introduce
her brand to a wider audience Westside. There is a quick stop in Park City Utah, where good friend and personal champion of her work, Nancy Gilbert, has created introductions to administrators of Sundance Institute’s newly created arts platform which will sit parallel to their acclaimed Film Festival, as well as meeting with the local Ute Indian Tribe. A week of whanau time has been arranged with husband Jason and their children, to visit Disneyland and tick off another of her long held dreams to give their children the chance to share in her work adventures. She then heads directly to Guangzhou where they will be hosted by the Mayor, and curate a fashion show as part of the Tripartied Agreement between ATEED (Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development), Los Angeles and Guangzhou. Kiri has created an initiative to take seven Maori designers to China, introducing them to the largest fabric markets in the world and they will be given support to seek agents
to import goods used in their production. To also facilitate the ability to generate trade, import bespoke and custom made fabrics home to New Zealand. Enabling them to be competitive within the marketplace against those with more established systems. Her reasoning behind this is to see a culture of change in the local industry, from purely selfinterest and isolationism, to a more inclusive feeling of support for each other, ultimately benefitting the sharing of knowledge and the creation of a different dynamic, within the culture of the Maori fashion industry. The best way to make this happen is to lead by example, with no ulterior motive other than to create avenues for Maori fashion to excel globally. Kiri’s vision for her own work is international, and she aims with this initiative to grow the visibility and knowledge of the entire communities design, by connecting Maori designers to China’s vibrant marketplace. With the support of
ATEED and the Poutama Trust, she begins this enterprise on her return home, meeting the lucky recipients of her time in China. Her connection at ATEED stated, “we don’t usually have anyone come here and say, this is what I know, and I’d like to share that for the benefit of others”. She pursues this, without the need to push her own agenda. She is more for the benefit of others than herself, illustrating quite obviously that the motivations for her are generous in spirit, and highlight the nature of the person we know her to be”.
dedicated to her grandmother, (the person directly responsible for her participation in the world of fashion) it seemed a foregone conclusion that her work would be included in the collections of other national institutions as a leading example of contemporary Maori fashion and art. Watch out for our Kiri Nathan. There is a lot more to come from this incredibly driven and humble New Zealander, whose work for the benefit of others, will create avenues of growth for the wider community at large.
This year Te Papa Tongarewa in their wisdom have added fifteen pieces of her work to the National Collection, including her trademark weaving, and one piece of pounamu, carved by husband and collaborator Jason Nathan. After the Auckland Museum initially purchased her Supreme Award winning Style Pasifika gown,
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It’s a balmy Friday night perfect for the opening party of the Underbelly Arts festival at Sydney’s National Art School and we’re inside a veritable bunker of a building, The Cell Block theatre. Within imposing 10 metre high sandstone walls, you could be in a cathedral, belying the space’s former nature as the notorious women’s wing of the old Darlinghurst Gaol. The cells that held criminals have long been removed; cut away to create a vast space. Soon a dark yet shimmering presence emerges, opens their laptop, taps a key or two to cue a backing music and stalks up to the microphone. Gussy is onstage. There is no one else there to pull the focus and they command our full attention. Their voice is confident and melodic, dynamic yet gentle. In the morning, I get up I move some muscle. Getting up is such a struggle We fought all night And I cried cried cried cried On the telephone “All my songs are about the same things, I’m surprised anyone wants to still listen,” Gussy quips turning away from the audience briefly to tap at more buttons and begin the next track. “It’s basically a confessional style of song writing that is just me purely explaining an emotion I feel rather than describing things outside of me or being lyrical about beautiful experiences or heartbreak or love. It’s a bit narcissistic. I just sing about the way that I feel about
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myself, which is not particularly positive at times. Which could get boring to listen to as the songs overlap in subject matter,” they laugh, “but I also feel that people respond to that candour.” We are now seated in my living room a few weeks later recording the interview and this is the response when I repeat that quote back. Gussy is at once songwriter, producer, singer and performer of their work – the quintessential solo artist. Coming up through an intersection of the queer performance and electronic music scenes, Gussy is fast gaining wider notice and this is certainly due to the DIY self-published approach via the reach of the world wide web they’ve taken to spread their sparse yet romantic and unashamedly pop sound. “I started writing songs, vocal melodies, when I was in high school. Making up songs without any accompaniment, writing lyrics in my head. I’ve never learnt to play an instrument or read or wrote music. Then in 2014 I started to use Garageband and began to figure out basic chord structures, so I could get the ideas down. I want to be a performer and I’ve always enjoyed performing, always wanted to have a creative output of some kind. That’s the way I’ve always thought about myself, so I have the confidence to do it. As an output, music is the most immediate and encompassing mediums of storytelling.” Blending their key musical touch
points of Kelela and Yazoo by way of Roisin Murphy and Kate Bush, it just all comes out sounding unpretentious, personal and right. “What I like about pop music is that you can reduce an idea to its most purest, most accessible deliverable form. They are my references in terms of the music… but it’s evolving so much. The music I’m writing now, I’ll think it’ll just keep changing, in fact I worry sometimes that it changing to much, to constantly ‘cause that’s how I feel like I’m working and that I should probably reel it in a little bit,” [more laughter] These changes have meant that this solo artist is now just beginning to bring other producers into the fold. The tracks “Mornings“ with Strictface and “In Order To Love” with Lonelyspeck have come out of a co-production workflow. “The newer music is now mostly influenced by the practise of me as a songwriter working with a producer. To have them bring their specific point of view that no one else could bring to the music. Being purely DIY in an insular sense can send you mad because trying to get what’s in your head to come out of the speakers is somewhat impossible if you’re not working effectively.” Acknowledging collaboration in the visual side of the work is also important, in that each track is released simultaneously on YouTube as well as online music stores and Soundcloud. The videos, like the songs, are simple yet striking, with singular images
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that stick with you: Gussy sculling wine right from the bottle on a rainy rugby field at night in “Away from Home”, the “Mornings”, dance sequence in a bathrobe inspired dress, the wide shots from “In Order to Love” of a dancing figure on rolling green hills under a blue sky full of fluffy clouds. “Joe Brennan has shot the last two videos; and then also I’ve worked with Dylan my partner on the styling and imagery. But it’s mostly me, I end up pulling it all together and coming up with the approach to the images and the locations and the rough storytelling that is central to it.” This leads us to start discussing the power of fashion and outfits and as a key part of Gussy on stage and Gus in everyday life. “Clothing is very important to me and so I really like to play with it, playing with the levels to which this gendered expression is performed. To me it’s equally political and not political at all because I also go out at night wearing the same kinds of things and that’s not a costume, it’s what I like to wear, it’s my wardrobe. To me, if Shirley Bassey wore sequins onstage it holds the same meaning
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as if I do. I want to look good, I want to look glamorous and I want to look sparkly… it’s simple in that respect. I’ve always driven home that this is not drag and it’s not costuming. But because I’m not a cis-woman and I am perceived as a guy, to wear a variety of different looks on my own terms, a political edge comes into it via my experience of gender.” Identifying as they do as non-binary is key to this experience and is a very conscious part of image making, hand in hand with the sound. “I like the idea that I look good in the music videos and on stage while at the same time I’m being variant or being non-binary, and anyone could objectively say that. I’m someone that was assigned certain things in the world and then rejected those things and I’m still looking good, as opposed to it not working.” Within the musical legacy Gussy harks back to, there is undoubtedly a trace back to 80’s androgyny along with a punk and DIY ethos. Do they relate to that idea and how does it move forward? “I shy away from the word androgynous because it has such an attachment to aesthetics: how
a person looks in their body and clothing and their relationship to that clothing. The reason I find the term non-binary so important is that androgyny is about both sides coming together or swapping, which is binary thinking. But to say non-binary is to say ‘I don’t acknowledge’ or ‘I’m actively against’ or ‘I’m dismantling’ that. It’s about questioning binary thinking. And it’s not just about gender; there are so many binaries in our culture that need to be examined and dismantled. We could live without a binary and we should have that option. To be able to be emotional and connected and empathetic that all requires a lateral way of viewing the world. Rather than imposing the structures that prevent, there are just endless possibilities. Once you break through the feeling of not needing to be safe within these structural binaries prevalent in our law and in bureaucracy it’s an easier way to be thinking about the world, it’s just all so much better to be feeling hopeful and see many options for the future.” It’s a beautiful thought once voiced, and our interview comes to an end at the perfect place.
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Opening and this page, Jack wears: jacket by ABRAND, hoodie by ZAMBESI, jeans by ROLLAS. Winter wears: coat by NOM*D, scalf by KATE SYLVESTER
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Yohanis wears: blazer by HELEN CHERRY, jeans by NEUW, earrings by HOMAGE. Winter wears: knit by KATE SYLVESTER under dress by ZAMBESI Thanks to WHITE STUDIOS Song title: Queen
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Opening page: Alana wears: shirt by ISABELLE QUINN and overalls by MATIN STUDIO Nya wears: shirt by WHITE STUDIO Georgia wears: dress by BASSIKE at CAMARGUE This page: Alana wears: shirt by MOYURU INTERNATIONAL at CAMARGUE
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This page: Top by HELMUT LANG from WORKSHOP, bag by DEADLY PONIES, shoes by MM6 MASION MARGIELA from THE SHELTER, pants by CURRENT ELLIOT from WORKSHOP, hat by PARIS GEORGIA BASICS, chains (throughout) by JIMMY D. Opposite: Coat by OKEWA, bag by ALEXANDER WANG from WORKSHOP
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This page: skirt by PRADA, top by ON GOSSAMER. Opposite: Y’S BY YOHJI YOMAMOTO Location: JJ LOCATIONS
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Photography CINDY LEONG Fashion CINDY LEONG and SAMANTHA LA PORTE at STYLE UNION Hair and makeup SARAH MCFADDEN using M.A.C COSMETICS Model NARISSARA at CHADWICK MODELS
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Opening and opposite: Jacket by JACINTA JAMES, top and pants by COS, earrings by LOVISA. Previous page: Dress by JACINTA JAMES, earrings by WAYNE COOPER, shoes by COUNTRY ROAD. This page: Top and pants by JACINTA JAMES, earrings by H&M
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Opposite: Top by JACINTA JAMES, pants by H&M, shoes by MI PIACI, earrings by LOVISA This page: Dress by JACINTA JAMES, earrings by WAYNE COOPER
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Photography TINTIN HEDBERG at HELL STUDIOS Fashion SANDRA EKENSTAM Hair and makeup JUSTIN HENRY at VIVIEN’S CREATIVE using ORIBE HAIR CARE and URBAN DECAY COSMETICS Model MATILDA at MIKA’S STOCKHOLM
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Opening page: Top by BERGGRENS STUDIO, long sleeve by WOOD WOOD, pants by BITTE KAI RAND, belts by BOOMERANG and STYLISTS STUDIO, shoes by STEVE MADDEN, necklace by EBON LI, rings by IAMELENI, bag by MARC JACOBS. This page: Jacket and jeans by NAIM JOSEFI, blouse by ONETEASPOON, boots by ACNE STUDIOS, bag by PELLOBELLO Opposite page: Dress by FOR LOVE AND LEMONS, knee high boots by PRIMEBOOTS, ring by IAMELENI
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Opposite page: Mongolian collar coat by PELLOBELLO, heels by RIVER ISLAND, bracelets and rings by IAMELENI This page: jacket and turtleneck by ACNE STUDIOS, jeans by MIH JEANS, belt by STYLISTS STUDIO, boots by ACNE STUDIOS, bracelets by EBON LI, ring by IAMELENI
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Opposite page: jacket and trousers by SAMSOE & SAMSOE, tank top by ESPRIT, cap by NAIM JOSEFI, necklace by MALIN HENNINGSSON, bracelets and rings by IAMELENI, BAG BY MARC JACOBS This page: jacket by SAMSOE & SAMSOE, tank top by ESPRIT, necklace by MALIN HENNINGSSON, bracelets and rings by IAMELENI, bag by MARC JACOBS
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MELANCHOLY MOOD
Photography TINTIN HEDBERG at HELL STUDIOS Fashion NATALIE OLENHEIM at ROCKSON Hair and makeup JUSTIN HENRY at VIVIEN’S CREATIVE using KEVIN MURPHY and KRYOLAN COSMETICS Models HUGO and LISA at MP MANAGEMENT STOCKHOLM
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Opening and this page: Dress by IDA KLAMBORN, jacket by WEEKDAY Opposite page: Sweater and suit by WHYRED
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Previous page: Lisa wears: Jacket by WHYRED, shirt by WEEKDAY and pants by MALENE BIRGER. Hugo wears: t-shit by WHYRED, jacket by NIKOLAJ D ÉTOILES and pants by NN07 This page: pants by L’HOMME ROUGE, coat by WHYRED and shoes by OSCAR JACOBSON
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Opposite page: Pants by L’HOMME ROUGE, coat by WHYRED and shoes by OSCAR JACOBSON This page: Skirt by WEEKDAY, top by MALENE BIRGER
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JUST EAST OF MARS Photography DAVID K SHIELDS Fashion RACHAEL CHURCHWARD Hair MAGGIE PANG at COLLEEN using KEVIN MURPHY Makeup LOCHIE STONEHOUSE at M.A.C COSMETICS Models ETHAN at RED 11 MODELS and MAX at N MODEL MANAGEMENT
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Opening page: Max wears: Hoodie and shorts by WORKSHOP, top by ZAMBESI. This page: Jacket by ACNE STUDIOS from WORKSHOP, shorts by JIMMY D, scalf by SALASAI. Opposite: Ethan wears: sweater by MM6 MAISON MARGIELA from THE SHELTER
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Opposite : Max wears: top by ZAMBESI, and shorts by JIMMY D. This page: Ethan wears: Top by JIMMY D, coat around waist by OKEWA, beanie by WORKSHOP, pants by ZAMBESI
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Ethan wears: Shirt, pants, jacket and t-shirt by ZAMBESI
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This page: Max wears: top by ZAMBESI Opposite: Ethan wears: Shirt, jacket and t-shirt by ZAMBESI
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This page: Ethan wears: sweater by WORKSHOP over top by ZAMBESI, scarf by SALASAI. Opposite: Max wears: Coat by MM6 MAISON MARGIELA from THE SHELTER, cap by WORKSHOP, pants by ZAMBESI
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Max wears: Hoodie and pants by ZAMBESI, shorts by JIMMY D
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IN THIS MESS, PRECIOUS DUST Photography NATASHA KILLEEN Fashion Editor CHRIS LORIMER Hair RAE BORIBOUN at SYNC Makeup SHAUNA CROWLEY using M.A.C COSMETICS Models AZLIN, EMMA and KAROLINE at CHADWICK MODELS, KAT at PRISCILLAS MODEL MANAGEMENT, SANDALI at IMG, NIKITA at KULT
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Opening page: Jacket, top, slip and skirt by PRADA Opposite: Blouse, slip, dress, socks and shoes by PRADA This page: Top by ROMANCE WAS BORN, earrings by JASMINE SPARROW
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Opposite page: Jacket and skirt by KAREN WALKER, earrings by PETITE GRAND This page: Dress by ROMANCE WAS BORN
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This page: Coat by ALICE MCCALL Opposite: Choker by Oroton, top by CHLOE from MATCHESFASHION.COM
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Opposite: Jumpsuit and heels by CHRISTIAN DIOR This page: Dress by ZAMBESI worn over bodysuit by REBECCA VALLANCE, earrings by JASMIN SPARROW
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Opposite page: corset by JESS GUZMAN, briefs by LONELY This page: Top by HELMET LANG from MATCHESFASHION.COM, earrings by STUDIO ELKE
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Jewellery by EL MINARA X ROMANCE WAS BORN
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HOME AND B R O K E N HEARTED
Photography DEBORA POTA Fashion Editor VALENTINA FINO Hair and makeup MARIA ELENA MIORI Model KAROLINA TOLKACHOVA at THE FABBRICA
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Opening page: Coat by MANGANO, boots by FENDI, sunglasses by BALENCIAGA, earrings by BLUMARINE This page and opposite: Poncho by KWAY, gloves by SERMONETA, tights by CALZEDONIA, boots by STUART WEITZMAN, sunglasses by MONCLER,
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Opposite: Shirt by BLUGIRL, pants by PRIMARK, boots by STUART WEITZMAN, gloves by SERMONETA, earrings by BLUMARINE
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This page: Dress by DANIELE CARLOTTA, earrings by BLUMARINE
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Opposite: Dress by DANIELE CARLOTTA, gloves by SERMONETA, tights by CALZEDONIA, boots by STUART WEITZMAN, earrings by BLUMARINE
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This page: Coat by DROME, earrings by BLUMARINE
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Opposite: Coat by DROME, boots by FENDI, earrings by BLUMARINE This page: Sunglasses by BALENCIAGA, coat by MANGANO, earrings by BLUMARINE Song title: Cold Chisel
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Photography FILIP KOLUDROVIC Fashion DAPHNE OOSTHUIZEN Hair and makeup BAJRAM GASHI Model BENJAMIN G at AQUA MODEL MANAGEMENT
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Opening: choker by H&M X ALEXANDER WANG, blazer and belt by ABOUT PARIS LONDON, top by ANGEL&MACLEAN, eyewear by GIANT VINTAGE. This spread: blouse and belt by ZARA, suit by OPPOSUITS, coat by JACKED FASHION, eyewear by PAWAKA
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This page: blouse by MARIA BOYAROVSKAYA, jackets by LEVI’S and ABOUT PARIS LONDON, bag by OMAR MUNIE. Opposite: jacket by MARIA BOYAROVSKAYA, vest by STYLEFULLENT, harness by ZANE BAYNE, belt by ABOUT PARIS LONDON, eyewear by PAWAKA
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This page: hat by HOEDENMAKER, nose piece by PRETTY ROCK GIRL, earring and ring by ABOUT PARIS LONDON, blouse by ZARA, belt by LEDAPOL, pants by BLACK KAVIAR
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This page: choker by LADY AFRICA, blouse by ZARA, blazers by OPPOSUITS, scarf by STYLEFULLENT. Opposite: hat by UNITED NUDE, top by ZARA, blouse by FRANZEL, scarf by BOUFFANTE. Fashion Assist: AVINASH DEBIPERSAD
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