Contributors Creative Director Lindsay Cousins Design Director Mike Magliochetti Producer Tenielle Adderley Stylists Erin Wilbur Chelsea Nabergall Photographer Tori Walls Cinematographer Mike Magliochetti Models Lindsay Cousins Ryan Gambel Emily Oot Ethan Sellars Special Thanks to Taryn Ford
“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.” -The Virgin Suicides
appears to be on fire but it is only a trick of the light. It was June 13, eighty-three degrees out, under sunny skies.
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Sometimes we caught sight of tattered knee socks rounding a corner, or came upon them doubled over, shoving books into a cubbyhole, flicking the hair out of their eyes. But it was always the same: their white faces drifting in slow motion past us, while we pretended we hadn’t been looking for them at all, that we didn’t know they existed.
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Vintage Belle Lace Top $119 Ivory, midnight black, enchanted teal
Hand Embroidered Top $131 one color
Whenever
we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.
Their desire
was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.
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We knew the pain of winter wind rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other.
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Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.
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We had loved them ...and they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us... calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.
When she jumped
...she probably thought she’d fly.
What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: A clock ticking on a wall. A room dim at noon. And the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.