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ISSUE 39
DECEMBER 2014
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ANDRES PELAEZ - THE HUNGER GAMES BREANNE MARIE - DREAM WITH A DREAM CHRISTINA LAZAR-SCHULER - BECOMING... MARC AUGUSTIN-VIGUIER - GRACE DHRUMIL DESAI - VESSEL ELENA SAVCHENKOVA - COLD SENSUALITY LIABELLA PHOTOGRAPHY ANDREI GONCIULEA - DE BEAUT ANNA TURANOVA - WOMEN POWER BOB MANS - SINS JENNIFER ESTEBAN - NEW RELIGION GARY W. BROWN - THE STRANGER GIRISH TEWANI - THE GILDED CAGE DONNA LEWIS - BLACK ICE QUEEN MOHSIN KHAWAR - LADY FROST GABRIELE VIERTEL - BENEATH THE TIDE H. JAMES HOFF - LA SYLPHIDE THENYFREQUENCY - ALTERNATE REALITY DEDALUS&CRANE - DEMONIA AND CELESTE HOLLY Q - FIGURINE GERALD LAROCQUE & JILLIAN XENIA - CHILDREN... JADE LOU SAYERS - A NEW GETAWAY JULIAN AMIEVA - NEW FOUND FREEDOM JAPS RODRIGUEZ - GLAMOROUS JULIO MURIAS - COLORS JUSTIN KEMPLE - SILVERS OF TIME KINK FOTO GRAFIC - SWANS NOIR KATRIENA EMMANUEL - WHAT LIES BENEATH RACHEL SIMMONS - FLICKERS OF HOPE RED REFLECTION PHOTO IMAGING - ARIEL KITTY GALLANIS - PLUMAGE EMILY BARNHART - TATTOO RENAISSANCE RACHAEL WEBSTER - COLD LUXURIES LAURENCE TROLET - VINTAGE SWING MARTA LITERSKA - UNTOLD STORIES FELS PHOTO & RETOUCH - MALLEABLE KOFI KUMI - ILLICIT INTENTIONS JASON PENTECOST - WICKED JEWELS CHAD MICHAEL WARD - KETANIKA KAREEM QUOW - KITCHEN MADNESS STEPHANIE BELL - DUALITY TIM CADENA - DOLLY SIMON LEIPELT - COCOON SIMPLE-T PHOTOGRAPHY - WHITE UNICORN MARIE COPPS - CONCEALED VICTORIA CHAN - CELESTIAL MICHAEL BRISCOE - DARK JEWELS PIERRE HEINEMANN - KANIA MILA JACKSON - FOREST NYMPHS NINA PAK - WHY SHE LEFT OLAF PITZER - MAÎTRESSES DU MANOIR RICHARD SANCHEZ JR. - GRANDEUR SILKE SCHLOTZ - VIXEN REJEAN BRANDT - ONNA-BUGEISHA TITIK WAHYUNI - LESS IS MORE CARLIE DAVIES - SEA TEMPEST RICO SCHWARTZBERG - HYSTERIA FRED GÖLLESCH - TRANSCEND SAMEEP SINGH - CASSIOPEIA TIM ENGLE - IN THE LIGHT EMMANUELLE BLANC - I AM FRENCH, DEAL WITH IT! EVELYN KRIETE - IRON SKY: THE COMING RACE BAILEY HARADA STONE INFORMATION SOCIETY JONNY JOON FLO LEGEND RONIIT DEBRA LAMB - DARK STRANGER, PART XII
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Dearest Dark Beauties, This is our last issue for 2014, can you believe it?? WUT, WUT! I am so proud of this issue. It’s the culmination of all the best of our content for the year. As you may know, 2015 holds a new format for us as we embark on something new, something different, something smaller, and something filled with so much more. Starting in January 2015, Dark Beauty will no longer be called Dark Beauty Magazine. After months of back and forth with the owner of the domain, we finally settled on a price and purchased www.darkbeauty.com. We are working hard and moving forward to bring you the best in the alternative, avantgarde story telling inspiration content around the globe. Our growing pains are never unnoticed, as we have to keep up with the growth of our brand and the awareness we continue to make the appropriate changes and shifts to maintain our place in the market. I am super excited to have so many new INDI mags following our lead. It’s such a flattering compliment when you see smaller independents starting their mags as we did back in 2010. It’s rewarding to know you did something in your lifetime that left a mark on our history, in whatever way possible. Here is to many more successful years to come. As we close out 2014, we are open armed to 2015, it means we are finally crossing over the to our fifth year. Business making their fifth year is huge. It means we have succeeded on so many levels. Now with that behind us, we are looking forward to more changes for the better. Newer website, our new layout and format for the mag and so many fun opportunities for upcoming artists to be involved. With monthly contests, awards, online tutorials, and the list will keep on going. It’s our hope that we continue to inspire generations to come and share our uniqueness with the world that is so inundated with over-saturation of content. We will continue to separate it and find the best for your reading, and viewing pleasures. Happy New Year to you and yours, party, celebrate, be safe, and create! Topher Adam Editor-in-Chief
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THE HUNGER GAMES
Photographer/Retoucher Andres Pelaez Stylist Jasmin Wooden Hair Dior Sovoa for Salon Grafix Makeup Sami Rivera for MAC Cosmetics Models Rubiel Taborda @ RED, Olga Kuz @ Adam, Stephanie Blanding @ Adam, Snow @ MSA, Josh Owens @ ELITE, Mishka @ Adam, Ashley Sweeney @ Wilhelmina, Jessica Sawtelle Imbriglio, Erica Smith, and Parker Pogue. Assistants Angela Civale Abate, Alkidania de Los Santos, Tomasina Byron, Taldman Pagan, Ricardo Delgado, David M. Morales, Michelle Figueroa, Omar Portilla, and Inbar Shenkal. Videographer Carlos Alva
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She wears: Shirt by TODD ODHAM. Pants by ZARA. Fur stole and bustier by MALAN BRETON. Brooch and necklace are stylist’s own. He wears: Shirt by CALVIN KLEIN. Suit by MALAN BRETON.
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Fur collar blazer and shirt by MALAN BRETON. Hat by SAMUELS HATS. Ring by H&M.
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Dress by CACHE. Hat by SAMUELS HATS. Handbag by INBAR SHENKAL. Vintage necklace.
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Hat by SAMUELS HATS. Vintage blazer. Earrings are stylist’s own.
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Shirt by CALVIN KLEIN. Suit by MALAN BRETON.
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Shirt and suit by MALAN BRETON.
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