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Stefano Padovani Editor & Ideator production@fashink.com Lucia Capelli Director Cristina Balestrini Creative Director advertising@fashink.com Andrea Tisci Fashion Editor editorial@fashink.com Emilio Bergomi Beauty Editor Stefano Guerrini Fashion consultant Crez Story Teller
Annalaura Giorgio Special Event coordinator Kristen Jayla Santos Social Media & Communication Talita Savorani Writer & Accessories contributor Rachele Obbili Foreing Consultant Michelle Dorrell Baking Master
info@fashink.com STAFF CONTRIBUTOR
Andrea Amara, Cori Amenta, Michelle Azzolini, Mario Chiarenza, Samuela Nova, Shelly Wahweotten
SEASON CONTRIBUTOR
Michelle Azzolini, Eugenio Arneodo, Gennaro Autiero, Massimo Cantarini, Giovanni Ciraudo, Claudia Knyspel, Nika Marchi, Davide Messora, Outside mgt, Paolo Salmaso, Claudio Zonca.
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MICHELLE AZZOLINI
Judoka at professional level, she has always been fascinated by the fashion world; from 2015 she attended a master degree at the fashion academy in Milan, specializing in fashion editing and styling.
MICHELLE DORRELL
Illegally got started to get tattooed at the age of 15, this English mother of 3 has now become a baking master.
PAOLO SALMASO
Born and grew in the south of Italiy. reportage photographer,now based in ZĂźrich, he love to take pictures of people and landscapes
GIULY VALENT
Giuly Valent, Milan based make up artist, built her career between London and Milan. She works for fashion shows, editorials and campaigns and she’s actually teaching fashion makeup trends at Istituto Marangoni.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial p. 6 Fashion Moment p. 8
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Let Me Tell You A Story p. 10 Mind My Own Business p. 12 We Believe p. 24
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Tattoo Icons p. 30 Fashink On The Road p. 38 p. 42 4
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Sculpure of Silk p. 42 Sea Mood p. 54
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Body Jewellery p. 66 Bonjour Madame p. 78 Hollywood Dream p. 88
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EDITORIAL Stefano Padovani
From the moment we leave the womb we are subjected to others’ judgment. What a nice baby! But indeed, maybe it’s a little monster and in everybody’s thought the truth remains secret. We are surrounded by taboos, religions, family, friends and acquaintances, even our neighbors affect our freedom of expression. You have strange and blazing colored hair, you dress eccentrically, you think differently from the crowd and from what the system teaches us, and probably you’ll be judged as “weird” or as a maladjusted person and sometimes even socially dangerous. Fashink issue #04 wants to show off and a bit against the tide it comes up with a garish colored cover, leaving the black/white classic rules used in previous editions. A number focused on bodies, on provocation of looks and inner feelings that the human being is capable of giving when he’s not forced to follow the rules of society. I have often experienced the great universal judgment too, the one that should have put fear on me and prevent from being who I am. A free man. So once again we go against the system and let’s see who follows us in our never-ending story called life. With our mind we always keep free, because it is the only thing that no one can ever dare to judge. Stefano Padovani
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Fashion Moment by Stefano Guerrini Versace. Old school tattoos, emblem of one particular lifestyle, meet the frets and the jellyfish by the Maison Versace as a perfect representation of the meltin’pot Gianni hoped in a book like “Rock & Royalty”, but also on the catwalk with bondage-punkinspired collections, a fictional that a rock star as Rose were certainly not unknown. That walkway to which were seated names like Prince, Elton John and the same lead singer of Guns N’ Roses. And the singer began performing in Versace total look, with the addition of the bandana on his forehead that makes him seem like a modern Joe D’Alessandro, often showing the audience wearing underwear only and, although we cannot know if it was the calabrian stylist who created the combination, here it appears at his side the beautiful Stephanie. Let’s go back to the video of the ballad that marked an era, which is remembered for the couple who is the protagonist: the model just dropped from the
That year’s MTV Video Awards he won many technical awards for photography for example, but when in 1991 they released the “November Rain” video everyone noticed not much, or not only, the impeccable visual approach, as the supermodel who was the protagonist, Stephanie Seymour. Guns N’ Roses were the cutting edge in those years of heavy metal rock band that in the 1980’s had flirted with the style, but had never driven over to high big hair and makeup even for him, preserving the symbols of a music for “very bad people”, studs, skulls, boots and leather pants and many tattoos, but never go further. Then Axl Rose came and things changed a bit unexpectedly. With William Bruce Rose Jr, Axl’s real name, we are witnessing a combination until then almost unthinkable: hard rock meets Haute Couture and the name of Rose is associated with the designer who in those years most embodied the rock spirit: Gianni 8
Versace catwalk and the rebellious singer. They will break up shortly thereafter, he will keep fighting with his ghosts, she will marry the multimillionaire Peter Brant; but together, while the strains of “November Rain� they pretend to walk down the aisle of a cathedral to get married, they will remain forever iconic symbol of two worlds that met. 9
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Let me tell you a story... Venice, October 1992
at that catalogue, thinking over and over about the choice I was in the process of making, a steel coil tattoo machine, two complete grips, a pack of needles and one of temples, a clipcord wire (a cord tattoo machine connection) and a set of colors (7 colors plus 1 black ink).
Sweated hands, I’ve been in the queue for 20 minutes, got the number 78, they are serving number 76. All I have is in my pocket right now: 600.000 italian lira gained doing little jobs and especially selling my precious collection of thrash metal and punk records. I’m holding a money order filled in, I’m already “fingers crossed” hoping the money won’t go wasted. I’ve never spent so much money especially for something that I don’t know if it will ever end up in my hands. The lady at the post office is usually distant and sullen, she doesn’t know she is about to initiate my career as a tattoo artist: I’m 16 and a rather ugly boy, fat, with a nose ring and a jacket full of punk patches.
Until that day I just did few tattoos with the aid of a machine I built, under indication of the persons who guided me at the beginning of this path. I remember I had to sacrifice my walkman (a portable cassettes player) to build that machine; it was a “must” for a teenager to have a walkman, it was the only tool that allowed me to isolate myself from the rest of the world which didn’t understand me, and that I was disgusted from. I didn’t feel good in my city, in my country: I was decliche`, I was not a “paninaro” (hipster of the time) I never dressed according to the rules established by others, I went skateboarding rather than playing football, I listened to punk music instead of pop, I felt my personality was represented by rap
My hopes, efforts and passions are in that money order; I’m sending it to an English “Tattoo supplier” , which I have never heard about before, but I was given a small colored photographic catalog of it. From a couple of months now I was looking 10
music and I started painting graffiti around my neighborhood; my look was the external representation of my passions, skateboarding, graffiti and music, so people didn’t like it, but I didn’t care and pulled ahead. It was My life, in the end, and I wanted to live with my rules. So I broke my Hitachi Walkman, took out the engine, and I plugged a 9 Volts battery as a my skater friend told me, through a bracket that I made with the blade removed from a can of beer: I connected the engine to the sleeve of a Bic pen, I sticked a shirt button to the motor shaft, so as to create an eccentric movement to which I could connect my needle. With that “thing” I tattooed myself a little skull on my ankle, and more after that,then I added a written in Gothic .... Some friends began to ask me to tattoo them, but I was so f** scared: the
blood, the hygiene, the rules, I knew absolutely nothing about! I began to read medical books, to study the sterilization systems and convinced myself to invest everything I had into a reasonable equipment. I wanted to tattoo, but I didn’t want to endanger a n y o n e’s health. So here I am in a post office, with almost no money in hand, ready to ship to some British strangers whom maybe will send the equipment to me. Nowadays it’s simple: you go to the online supplier website and within 7 days they deliver to you anything you need. To make a tattoos equipment order in 1992 in Italy was a nightmare: it took no less than 6 months to get it all, but in the spring of 1993, I received my first pack: from then it began my professional career. 11
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A L B E R T O board of a vintage Ketch attracted by the life on the sea. On his return home, he was sure he didn’t want to pursue a career in the family business, so he moved first to Spain with a friend, then to America to develop his other big passion: photography. In New York he establishes a partnership with the some of the biggest modeling agency and in 1992 he marries Eleanora, a Russian model. Shortly after the economic and political crisis that has effect Italy, in the early 90’s he was forced to take part of the family business, with full commitment to help his father who has just retired from the
Born in Milan in 1966, he grew up in Monza in a family operating in precision mechanics. At the age of 14 he won a scholarship for the Naval Academy in Livorno, where the Italian Navy organizes sailing study-holidays for outstanding students. With his family, Alberto spent many of his summers on the island of Stromboli, where a bond with the sea and sailing started growing within. Graduated in mechanical engineering, he drop the university studies in economics/trade in the second year, to go to Thailand on 14
to stop the company activities, that he actually sells off within a few months. In the mean time a friend of him, owner of a boat has an idea: leaving for a trip around the world looking for new spots for windsurfing, his other great passion. To maintain the expenses, they rely on a famous nautic broker who arranges charters on this beautiful Camper & Nicholson entirely rebuilt in Viareggio. From here, thanks to the excellent contacts of the broker, a future career in sailing is emerging, which will lead him to collaborate with the owners of important design and fashion brands (from Vhernier
management. He sadly abandons his career as a photographer and during those years, he resumes his passion for motocross sport, which has always dreamed about since he was young, but never actually practiced, seeing it also as an escape valve from the daily stress. Meanwhile him and Eleonora have two daughters, Alissa born in 1993 and Asya in 1999. The birth of the second daughter give to Alberto a wake up call: the feeling of being frozen in what he never wanted to be. After few weeks he calls the company accountant, announcing to the shareholders’ (his brother and sister) the intention
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to Dolce & Gabbana). Fashink: How have you succeed in the luxury boat industry? Has it been difficult?
F: Are there many obligations/ restrictions? If so that do you think about these limitations?
Alberto: To get in this world I had the so-called “botta di culo” (Italian slang for luck); I dropped the family business and took a sabbatical sailing time together with some friends.
A: The maritime labor rules are international and very different from the Italian and European ones. The Anglo-Saxon system is stark: you have many gains but few protections, they don’t have any problems in taking a wrong policy as far as treatment of their employees.
We started chartering sailing boat, and then I had an important contact with a famous broker, Princess Isabella Montale of Paterno’, who introduced me to a shipowner who was going to buy a very important vessel: he was the owner of the Vernie brand (jewelry) and that’s how it started, so I worked for him for the next 11 years.
Regarding the crew they do not want girls from eastern Europe on board, sailors completely tattooed are not accepted, because sometimes a seven star environment is required and it can be annoying although it is a seafaring tradition.
I have seen growing their escalation: the first meetings on board where there were only few of them who dreamed to plan an international brand. F: The fact thet you are tattooed has ever created problems in your job?
But today it’s not like this anymore: tattoos are no longer the anchor or the figurehead on the arm, now it’s a trend, in fact when the resumes arrive it’s specified those who have no tattoos, or who has not visible tattoos.
A: Let’s say in the yacht industry there has always been a lot of prejudice about tattoos; the market is hold by Anglo-Saxon, (New Zealanders, Australians and English), who organized qualification courses that we must follow, therefore very conservative mentality.
I have some tattoos that I rather not been seen, because this may preclude any chances of work. Our job does not have protections as other trades have: here we have 2 weeks notice, you can choose to keep working or to be given the cash in your hands and then bye bye... For a young 17
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person it seems to earn a lot of money, since the salary its normally pretty high, but in reality if you do not have a personal protection plan it’s definitely not much considering that from one day to another you can loose your position.
After that I moved to Viareggio to make a major refit, where, however, the environment was still very closed. Only after 17 years I managed to find my own space and be professionally recognized; even though at the beginning it wasn’t easy, I can now say that things are going very well.
This, however, allows a big turnover; the longevity on board is very low, therefore the sailors are normally on a season contract, then sometimes they go away or change boat. In this way we have an easiness of dismissal, but also a great ease of hiring.
For one year, always through Princess Isabella, I worked for Dolce & Gabbana on the “Queen of Italy” which had been their first boat, then they preferred to move to larger sizes yacht (52 m) of which I hadn’t got the proper license yet. Even if, at the time, my thought was to go back to sailing, and so I did it.
Commanders with a high longevity are highly on demand, as they have a big stability and provide experience on board of multi-million dollars ships, and this for me it’s a big advantage, actually it is my strength.
F: Have you always worked on board of luxury boats, or you have done other jobs before?
F: It has been many years you work in this field, how have you been able to emerge?
A: I’ve been a fashion photographer for years. After dropped out of college I lived for a period of time in the United States, first in Miami and then in New York, where I later married a Russian model, Eleonora, who has escaped in 1980 from her country and emigrated to New York leaving everything she had behind. Then I went back to Milan with her and with my work as a photographer. wDue to the italian economic crisis I entered in the family business in 1993 and I remained there for the next 7 years.
A: I have invested considerable time, energy and money in training, which led me to the professional titles I have now. There has been a big revolution at the beginning of the years 2000s till now: before they used to work with a standard boat license, but now it is much more complicated. I took part of the evolution of the career of those who work in this area. 20
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I always remain part of the fashion world in a way or in another first for my job and after with my wife (who continued modeling even after the birth of our first daugther).
had a Riva boat; I used to arrange every June a weekend for the husbands and a weekend after that one for the wives, where they had the habit of partying for two days on the French Riviera.
F: Can we say that fashion is very present on luxury ships?
The ladies were 8 every years, but one year one of them passed away, and so the other wives came with the ashes of the woman to spill them into the sea in Saint Tropez, where we celebrated the funeral.
A: The fashion on boats is a constant presence here in Viareggio: with Valentino, Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Cavalli, Dellavalle, Ferretti’s etc boats ... almost all the major owners of luxury brands have a boat.
Women, however, have managed to turn that sad touching moment into a celebration for the lady.
For a gigantism problems of the boats they have moved to larger ports which are making the conversion from commercial to the luxury. I currently work on a 52m Veletti that 20 years ago was considered one of the biggest ships equipped with a landing deck for the helicopter. F: Working on luxury vessels is there a possibility to take part of very funny and/or bizzarre situations? A: Once, I remember, we taught Naomi Campbell to swim with flippers, or when Stefano Gabbana found a dead body in the sea and we had to call the police to pull it out.
Thanks to: Rossi navi - www.rossinavi.it Sergio Craviotto
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Veronica Calilli When I talk with someone who doesn’t know me, I often get interrupted and I get asked the same question...“excuse me, but how old are you?”. I’ll always be a do or die lifestyle person, living my life at 110%. Until I turned 15 I wasn’t the girly type, since my mother wanted a boy as a first child. My parents have always been very sporty people, we lived in Bardonecchia, in the mountain of the Turin province, where you almost have “no choice” but doing sports, so I began to ski at the age of 3, and I pursue this passion later becoming a pro athlete. I competed at the highest levels in the European cup as downhill and super G. My everyday life was only about study and skiing. I spent hours on the snow training to be the best until the age of 19; during a downhill race in Sella Nevea I had a very bad fall resulting in dramatic injuries that stop my professional career. Prior
to that I was in Canada for a whole year for skiing and racing with the greatest champions, to compare and study new techniques. I had already planned my future, but with the accident everything changed in a second. I couldn’t walk for almost 8 months, but I never gave up! My mind went back to my childhood trying to find the same sensation as when I was at the starting gate of a race when my thoughts where just about to get to the finish line as fast as possible. Later in the time I needed something that would give me the same magic feelings and I found this in my natural element; the water. I remembered when I was a kid I used to spend hours in the bathtub, I was always the first to jump in the sea: hot water or cold I didn’t care. At the age of 6 I was in a resort on the Red Sea, I went to the pool for a scubadive class with other children. That was another passion passed from 24
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my father. Thanks to my study at the University of physical education of Turin I undertook all the available license for scuba-dive instructor. I went to Thailand working as a dive master for 6 months and that is where my passion for sharks born. After six months I went back to Italy, but I knew it wouldn’t be my final destination. So I moved to Sharm El Sheikh and stayed there for 7 years, teaching diving at the famous diving center Scubadreamer. I used to spent a few months or so in Italy only around the Christmas season because, no matter what, I was missing the snow. I thought my life would be in Sharm El Sheikh but, as many time before, plans have changed. This time for something positive: love. I met a person who became the turning point in my life, because he was exactly like me. One year ago I decided to leave Sharm El Sheikh to follow my heart. Fashion has never been too far away from my family, as one of the greatest desires of my mother when she was young, was to be a model. When I was a baby she took me to a Milan modeling agency and I soon became a very successful child model working for brands such as Trussardi jr. Armani jr. Valle Verde, Ciunga, Parmalat, and many
more. One of the highlight of my child modeling career was to shoot for Vogue Bambini with the great photographer Luciano Pergreffi. I worked so much so that at the age of 18 I was able to buy the car of my dreams. As the years passed I wanted to distinguish myself in the model industry where all girls were skinny and boring, and this was not my style since I had an athletic body and outgoing mentality, and so I became a “so called” alternative model. This is when I decided to get tattooed. I started working with Custom Chrome riding their bikes during their commercials. Perhaps my experience in fashion has made me think that I could even take advantage from it. Often traveling with my partner I couldn’t get a regular job, and so I decided to create my own vintage shop called Cheyenne, where I began selling a bit of everything. We have now opened an online shop called Juanitos Pecas advertised on the major social networks along with an app called Depop. In my future I would love to have a family with a lot of children, maybe living abroad where my projects would be to open others Juanitos Pecas Shop.
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Jaqueline Spoerle finished her study in graphic design in Lucerne, Switzerland and worked after as freelancer. She has been tattooing since more than 20 years. Travelling and working in studios all over the world, she opened “Corazon Tattoo” since 10 years. Under the roof of “The Tattoo Studio” she work together with Calen Paris and Salomon Nägeli and several regular guest artists.
Mikwe the Athens and he had work at LTW in Barcelona for 10 years. Guitar player of many bands such as Great Coven, Atman-Acron, Aeonsgate and now, Babilonian Temple... Also very present at several international tattoo conventions as well as regular guest at Tin Tin, Filip Leu, Into You, Temple, NY Adorned and many more. In the past years Jondix opened his own studio in London called Seven Doors Tattoo. He’s now preparing a new book called SHAKTI-7 that will change the tattoo scene. It will be introduced in the next London Convention...
Jondix, born in Barcelona in the 70’s he studied at university of architecture for 7 years. Soon after Tas teach him to tattoo and later become apprentice of Ph: Paolo Salmaso
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Also presenting his first art-show in New York opening July 8th 2016 at the Three Kings Art gallery.
to be patient because I always want to make a person happy: this is very important to me. So I would say patience and transformation.
FASHINK: Which adjective better describes your job?
Jondix: Careless, creativity, passion plus heart and soul!
Jaqueline: The most important thing that I have to do is to put an idea into something graphic; I don’t work so much with pictures, but I have to transform that idea into something simpler. Clients often give me lots of ideas about their feelings or stories, and basically what I have to do is to transform them into a particular graphic form. It is also important
F: When people come to you to get tattooed usually they already got an idea. How much do you affect there choices with your creativity? JA: I have never liked drawing, i only draw or design for the person I’m speaking to, for the client I have in front of me; I don’t like “ready to go” and I don’t do paintings just Jondix’s archive
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Ph: Paolo Salmaso
I’m not interested in just giving them a solution, I want to do it together and I want they realize how strong a tattoo can transform the body and the person. In this way it become interesting also to get them totally involved, and the tattoo becomes theirs and mine.
to sell them to somebody. It is very important to me to see the persons and listen to them; I also ask them to make a picture of their body part where they want to get tattooed and then I make different design so they can better see how it could be the final idea; that’s a difference when they see themselves at the mirror! I want they can really take a part in the decision they make. For me the worst thing would be if they come back to say “no… actually I think its too small or too big or something like that”. I always tell them “ make a picture of your leg or of your back”; I don’t have to do just a drawing, but make right proportions. I tell them
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F: Nowadays there are different style of tattoos, where also technology sometimes interfere. Is there something you prefer, you like or dislike in particular?
fashion can make you look better or it can make you look worse. To follow fashion is not for everybody; you should never just follow it, you need to find what suits you, you shouldn’t take care about what color is in fashion and what is not: you have to find your own style. The same to me works with the tattoo.
JA: I think there’s a big problem when people don’t realize that the skin of our body changes. So when you do some sort of tattoo sometime either black or color once you get older it all became like some sort of mixed broken pixel picture…so I think it’s not a matter of the style I like more or less but it’s about trying to find a tattoo that will look good also 10 years later no matter what style it is. Many people do check
JO: None! Fashion is the total opposite, generally is for people who follow trends...tattoos is forever till death and more ... That’s why maybe people get them, cause they can’t get that feeling out of clothes or jewellery... 35
at what it’s in trend at the moment without thinking about what it will look later. Also many tattoo artists should be educating their customers to this bunt in reality as quite many artists are going only for money so this is not a good thing in the tattoo world.
and get less tired and be able to work more hours on the customer Time shapes the way a tattoo looks... F: Based on your experience, what differences do you see between new artists and the old school ones? JA: In these days there are many super-talented people but nobody really wants to learn and take enough time to start from the basic: everything needs the right time to become better. The difference from old school is the using of internet because a lot of people don’t need to travel all over the world to get more experience which, in my opinion, is missing.
JO: Don’t care if the design is done with computer... I just care about the final result on the skin... I’ve seen amazing computer guys doing horrible tattoos and vice versa... technologies tend to create cold stuff, but I like passion in life. F: If you have to, what would you change about your way of working/ creating?
JO: New guys don’t even take the effort to learn the creators of why they are doing... In general I hate all this new graphic designers becoming tattooists cause they can’t get a living out of their initial career... the first steps are wrong already... they don’t really taste the ritual part of tattooing and that’s sad... I believe in the God of Tattooing.
JA: I just would like to have more time. Fifteen years ago it was different, but this is the progress, you have to do everything beautiful and quickly at the same time. I think that good tattoos sometimes need a little bit more time, sometimes you can just do them but sometimes you have to focus on the right object. Unfortunately, you often can’t do the best you would like to give to the people. JO: I would love to have personal assistants that help me during the whole process so I can focus more on the actual tattooing 36
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and have interests in working together sometime very soon. So I utilized what I had to work with.
I have been home for short periods of time this year, sometimes two weeks solid if I’m lucky. Packing and unpacking, checking my bank account, checking my flight schedule, checking my tattoo schedule, and somehow fit in a regular life....constantly. But hey!! It’s what I live for! The best thing about tattoos is that everyone in the world wants one…just like haircuts and libations.
After a short night of sleep and a wild hair crawling up my back-side, I bought a round-trip ticket to Milan. I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do with my time. Going completely alone on such a short notice, working the Milano Tattoo Convention wasn’t in my cards for this time, but I tried. Booths were full, and even trying to weasel my way into a booth with someone who was already set up with one came with no luck. But that didn’t stop me from asking around about sitting in as a guest artist at a few shops and where I could make it to by way of wits.
We docked ship in the Bahamas while it was entirely too windy and raining, only a few months ago, tattooing zombies at sea. Funny to think that you would rather stay on a ship with flesh-eating dead people than getting blown over on a small island. But that was then, and this is now. I got back to Detroit and tattooed a few more days, then returned to Kansas City, with 11 days to spare.
The Internet is a wonderful tool. Social media is too, when you use it as such. A few short posts about visiting Italy and a handful of responses came back with welcoming offers.
My next adventure was to be my biggest. I have never been overseas; I hardly speak another language to call myself ‘fluent;’ I don’t actually KNOW anyone I’ve contacted on social media - outside of their profiles and willingness to communicate with me,
The killer people who put this magazine to reality were at the very top of my gratitude list. Singularly, without the opportunity to
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So, to Milan we go.
timeless beauty. The current visionaries, artists, lovers, families, pairs and groups of friends hustling around a city with centuries old, deep, passionate and strong history. Centuries of blood, sweat and tears to build what is currently before me. I am finally here. Where so much began in history.
Once landed and off the plane, I was greeted with open arms and a giant smile. It was like seeing a friend from another lifetime, picking up where we left off, even though this is our first official meeting in person.
How do you simplify explaining that moment, without cheapening the value of the experience that it is? You just can’t. There is still so much to see. Then I was off to my next destination of Vicenza, Italy.
Food, conversation, settling-in, and gathering my work life all over again was all coming back.
Again, I had never met my upcoming new friends, but chatting back and forth about the shop, work, ourselves, and what we are doing over the weekends was our means of getting to know each other beforehand. I knew very little about where I was going, as well, other than it has an American Army base there. With that being said, I tattooed mostly Americans while I was in Vicenza, by the coincidence of the base. For the first part of my trip, I was graced with home-cooked meals, and a few snacks
write for FashInk, Italy would have remained a long-time dream until I mustered up the courage to try it out, work or no work. But here we are, continuing a beautiful friendship that brings us together from all over the world.
I had a couple days to wander around a little with my host, and meet a few people who work with the magazine as well. I made my way around the central part of the city, walked around the Duomo, saw the museum of how it was built, and luckily wandered into the Alfonso Mucha exhibit. Visually, I was overwhelmed with
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in between, as I tried things out. I can be a picky eater most times, so seeking out certain foods on my trip wasn’t high on my list.
more not knowing when I can visit again. But filled with more determination than ever to not let those moments pass me by.
Experience, however, tattooed, we danced, Pretty much a normal the lower key of the morning.
I returned back to Milan and stayed another couple nights before returning back to the states. Once home, I spent another 2 weeks in a mild, post-Italy depression, but I had more to look forward to only another couple weeks away.
was priority. We we ate, we slept. life, waking up to Swiss Alps every
After Vicenza, I was back to Milan for a short visit to repack my personal bag and hitch another train to Bergamo. Bergamo is close to Milan and also another city full of romantic history and architecture. But with the habits I seem to harbor, I stay close to the tattoo shop and my room, cause that’s what I’m good at: working and sleeping. The shop was intimate in size and friendships, learning from each other daily, trying new techniques, and examining new styles to apply to their arts as well.
Full circle comes back to my first article with FashInk, writing about a rocking cruise with bands and crazy festivities at sea. It happened again, one year later, only this time was amped up for US as the tattooers. We pre-planned our own docking party and it was up to our wits to make it happen, as always. We went to sea, this time heading to Jamaica for everyone’s first time. Kid Rock, Steel Panther, Machine Gun Kelly, Tone Loc, and a couple dozen more bands were at sea with us, partying each night away. Another opportunity for a tattooer to get to do awesome things, with awesome people, all over the world.
I still had all my things with me in hand and needed a place to unwind and properly shower myself. I was taken to a nice hostel nearby, with a nice room to myself that was close to all the places I needed to be - work and the train station. Perfect for me to unwind after work and catch up to do it all over again the next day. I gathered another couple of tattoos myself, gave a few away, made more friends, connected with another homie from Detroit, and got a chance to experience more nightlife around a city with new people.
We sail a few days, each night providing us entertainment of various kinds; from themed proms, costume contests, bellyflop contests, speed-painting exhibits, body-painting events, etc. Again, we are the sole providers of tattoo magic. This time we were moved into the casino, in a high-rollers corner. Our space was bigger, more well-lit, and more accessible to people wanting to get tattooed. Our rooms were being set up more efficiently for the
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mock-up shop, and gave us more time to get tattoos done, versus setting up to get them done, properly.
in and out of the cave more so. Next came our own primitive tribal tattoo show. We gathered the equipment we needed to use on each other for this new hand-poke tattoo we were about to give ourselves, and went back to the rocks where it was clear enough for us to perform. Each of us rigged our own little contraptions for the tattoo, a small ink cap each, and a few drops of black ink.
It was the normal routine of scramble and tattoo that we normally have, only with a little more structure of having ironed out some things in the past. The event staff had excursions planned for those that wanted, some people stayed on the boat and recovered for parts of the day, some of us wandered off in a taxi by ourselves and wound up at a less travelled road.
I waded in the water while my arms rested on some rock to use as an arm rest. My friends each got their own set ups and we all traded a small cross while sitting in the cove. Some of the locals were intently watching the event happen and had make comments that they had never seen anything like this happen, and probably never would again.
Last year, we hand-poked small tattoos on each other while on the high seas. This year we wanted to do the same, only more unique than the last year. We wanted to tattoo each other in, or around, a waterfall while on land.
Each of us left with a small token of Jamaica. A piece of us was left behind as a story to carry on between someone.
We found a place recommended by our taxi driver where there would be less people, but just as beautiful of a waterfall that it should fit our needs. If not, we can try another place.
Maybe Every professional in the world knows the proper procedure of sterile chain of events, and we do too. But to go back to a minimal amount of primitive basics with our profession makes what we do now so much more intimate.
Say no more. This place was remote enough, and amazingly beautiful that we almost didn’t care to do what we came for, only to jump off this waterfall cliff a few times and swim under the cavern of the fall.
The experience is intimate. The setting, the friendships, the memories you keep from that time, and the marks you have to prove them.
I may have already forgotten what we came here for. All I see is waterfall…… We all jump, of course. Some of us jumped a few times. I was slightly afraid of losing what little bikini I did have on, so I swam
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Photography Stefano Padovani @ Outsidemgt Stylist Andrea Tisci Models Joseph @ I Love Models, Greta M. Make-up & Grooming Samuela Nova Shooted @ www.baldelli-company.com Decorations: baldelli-company/fatto-su-misura/ Sculpture “Cloni� : www.marziaratti.com
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Jewellery The art of body decorating has always represented the creative need to define the external look of people. From the begin of the time, man has transformed natural materials at his disposal such as stones, shells, wood, plant fibers and more, into jewelry. These creations often matched with body painting made using natural pigments, beside beauty, was also used to show a social status that defined hierarchies within the community. All this seems to be lost in our world, but indeed it is still alive and symbolically powerful in places where the ownership of a jewel can tell the story of a family. This selection of ornaments represents the synthesis of a cosmetic made from “poor” and “recycled” materials, that became precious for impact and style. The use of shells, teeth, small silver and aluminium disks made these objects full of meaning and harmony.
Photography Stefano Padovani @ Outsidemgt Stylist Andrea Tisci Models Felisja “Fishball” & Veronica G. Concept & Make-up/Hair Emilio Bergomi and Giuly Valent Jewellery by www.akanartgallery.com Thanks to Claudio Zonca
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Head Decoration: Aluminium ARUNACHAL PRADESH, INDIA
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Head Decoration Aluminum, pins, real hair fixed YAO, CHINA
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Corselet: hemp, coton, aluminum AKHA, BURMA/THAILANDIA Bracelet Aluminum ORISSA, INDIA Necklace Aluminum YAO, CHINA
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“Victoria Sponge Cake”
I’m Michelle Dorrell, i am tattooed mother from England. Ever since i was a very young girl i developed passion for cooking and tattoos. To this days i still enjoy baking for my family and friends just as much as getting ink on my body. From this issue of Fashink i will share with you some of my recipes; Starting with a victora sponge cake, a light and fresh summery dessert. portrait by The Fashink Group - teatro7|Lab 104
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ink Victoria Sponge Cake with Strawberries and Whipped Cream You Will Need 2 20cm Sandwich Tins Non-Stick Baking Paper Ingredients For The Sponge 200g Softened Butter 200g Caster Sugar 200g Self-raising Flour 4 eggs Beaten 1 tsp Baking Powder 1 tbsp Milk For The Filling Half a 340g Jar of Good Quality Strawberry Jam 300ml Double Cream 400g fresh Strawberries A Little Icing Sugar For Dusting Method 1, Per heat the over to Gas 5, 190c, Fan 170c, 373F. Line the 2 tins with the baking paper. 2, Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, gradually add the beaten eggs to the sugar and butter mix, add a tablespoon of flour if the mixture starts to curdle. 3, Fold the flour into the egg, butter and sugar mix, if its to stiff add a tbsp of milk. 4, Divide the mixture between the two lined tins, smooth the surface with a spatula, then bake in the center of the oven for about 20 minutes until golden and the cake springs back. Turn out onto a cooling rack and leave to cool completely. 5, When the cakes are completely cold, remove half the jam from the jar and spread it over one of the cakes, in a clean bowl whip the double cream until its at the soft peak stage and spread over the jam. 6, Take the strawberries and cut them into quarters, put them onto the cream and jam then place the remaining cake on top, dust with the icing sugar and enjoy.
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From a secret lounge in the heart of Milan, there’s a hidden timeless place: 1930 it’s the result of passion and ideas of Marco Russo and Flavio Angiolillo, friends and partners of Mag and of Backdoor43, the smallest bar in the world, both located on the “Navigli neiborgh” (the Milan nightlife area), as well as great admirers of the world art, fashion and tattoo. It come from the idea of creating a place exclusively for friends and regulars, where you can relax from the increasingly chaotic Milan. In addition to chill, they want to offer their guests the chance to experience magical sensations, new scents and flavors through cocktails hold in a novel written by Michael Love: for each season there is a new chapter of a story and a new proposal of drinks. In every recepie we want to enclose an idea, a memory, an emotion experienced on a journey, like in the Indian tear; a cocktail dedicated to the people and to the land of Sri Lanka, born after a memorable trip in this country. Using typical products of that region as the “guanabana” and the “sarsaparilla” we wanted to take a cue from the exotic ideas of tiki drinks, also using the preferred blend scotch whiskey choosen by the experts from that faraway land. 108
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by Talita Savorani
This summer(y) issue of Fashink Magazine celebrates summertime and its hotness so show your tattoos and thrill your friends with your original style! Give a fresh look to your crib and talks about tattoos using furniture too, thanks to a stylish DIY idea that you can copy and repeat during your holidays! Ready for the party? Don’t forget to wear the perfect combo; matching your bag with your shoes, sandals, wedges or whatever kind you like. Iron Fist meets your needs and finds your unique summer shoe pair. After getting dressed, don’t forget your make up and to fix your hairstyle. No frizzy or untamable hair, show off your perfectly straight look after using Ed Hardy hair-straightener carved with old-school tattoos drawings. Ready to discover TAYLOR MADE, a highly-skilled small business from Scotland that loves customizing
old and recycled furniture with tattoos? Grace Taylor is the owner and creator but also a tattoo artist who started with furniture when she and her partner moved to their new place. They wanted to restore stuffs and turn them into something new but with that vintage look. Grace is completely self-taught and
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she loves DIY; her secret is using several fabrics with different. She loves skulls, paper and stencils. At the moment, she’s testing different raw materials and she creates and customizes armchairs, tables and several furniture upon request. Latest IRON FIST summer shoes collection for inked ladies features usual monsters and odd faces that distinguish the brand style but combines pastel colors and baby shades too to have fun in the upcoming season. Cupcakes heels, lick-me platforms and cherry-bear flat ballerinas are just an example of this lovely kawaii - inspired new collection. Remember that this brand has become famous for its creepy but girly look, celebrating Mexican skulls, bones and cat ladies. Tons of shoes for every taste to enjoy the sand and the sea! Show off your personal style for this summer using ED HARDY flat iron for professional hair care and straightened hairstyles. Featuring Ed Hardy tattoos, this design tool is also perfect to keep your hair silky but at the same time to take care of them. It’s a versatile idea and it can be a perfect present too: it can straighten your hair but also flip, wave or curl them. Available in black or white ceramic, it allows you to create a perfect and trendy hairstyle but also to protect your hair from damage by sealing moisture during the use. 111
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Meltin’Pot open Meltin’Pot by You, the first retail and customization space of denim garments in Milan - Piazza Duomo, at annex - La Rinascente store, the space dedicated to the best international brands of the streetwear and sportswear universe. Meltin’Pot By You is a real laboratory of design and a unique experience for the customer, where to receive free counseling on style for a new pair of Meltin’Pot jeans or their own jeans for its customization, with the collaboration of IED (European Fashion Institute of Design in Rome) and their graduated designers in Fashion Design and Fashion Stylist. The space has an industrial inspiration and is characterized by mood-boards, work tables, embroidery machines, presses, machine tools and tailoring, that recreates the creative air of a real style office, where clients can observe designers at work. Through their own ideas or by the suggestions of the ever-present IED designers, inspired by the latest trends, at Meltin’Pot by You you can ask for changes on items, not only Meltin’Pot - such as embroideries, rivets, studs, eyelets, patches and prints transfer and more... In addition to customization, Meltin’Pot by You will offer the chance to upset the fit and design of a jeans: the old boyfriend jeans can become a skirt, a denim jacket, a vest.
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