SHIFT MAGAZINE Issue 3//Vol. 1

VOLUME 1 // ISSUE 3

SHIFT MAGAZINE

MORNING GLORY / LA VIE EN ROSE / BARE

MARCH 2015

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MANAGING EDITOR Alex Holmes DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION Zoha Momin DESIGN EDITOR Haley Fox

CONTENT EDITOR Melissa Freeland

PHOTO EDITOR

FEATURES EDITOR

Paige Comrie

Lauren Guldan

EDITORS-AT-LARGE

SHEI SALES EDITOR Samantha Zwick

Sola Muno & Aaron Pelo

MARKETING EDITOR Shannon King EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Anna Fuller

Mary Molepske

Our mission is to inform, inspire and engage deeply with the University of Michigan campus community at the intersection of student and professional life within the fashion industry. SHIFT is intended to provide a marketable media platform for students to push the boundaries of what has traditionally been possible within print without compromising the level of quality associated with the SHEI brand.

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L E T T E R F R O M T H E E D I TO R

SPRING AWAKENING

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Rarely does a season capture the imagination as throughly as Spring.

hroughout history, from the Greek’s personification of Spring as the goddess Persephone, to the continued celebration of Easter’s resurrection, we are culturally obsessed with semblance of eternal youth that spring seems to offer and have tied the season irrevocably to the ideas of revival, renewal, and rebirth. This March, in SHIFT’s Awakenings issue, we examine the season through this lens of renewal, with an eye to the natural world, and an ear to the runway.

Finally free of winter’s icy grip on Michigan’s campus, we are drawn towards light, playful fabrics and nude palates as we explore the season’s historical and cultural association with the dawn in Morning Glory. Our examination of the natural world continues as we interview author, speaker, and National Geographic photographer Tom Clynes about the growing awareness of climate change and emerging environmental challenges in this month’s RADAR column.

Nature proved to be a heavy influence on the Ateliers at this month’s Paris Fashion Week, from Dolce and Gabbana’s heavy-handed use of florals to Valentino’s “butterfly camouflage”.

Designers also drew inspiration heavily from the human form, as Donatella Versace demonstrated, exploring the landscape of the female body with plunging necklines and large cut-outs.

Further, Awakenings takes time to examine the cultural tendency to associate the season with sexuality, and particularly,

with the awakening of female sexuality. Traditionally, the sale of fashion, particularly lingerie, has been driven by the culturally imposed beauty standards with the aim of attracting and maintaining male desire. In Bare, we chose instead, to celebrate self-awareness and the process of falling back in love with one’s self, mind, body, and spirit by removing female sexuality from the male context. With this issue we hope to inspire women to take ownership of their sensuality by understanding the intrinsic value of self-worth. We discuss regaining one’s own sense of identity and self-worth after the breakdown of a relationship in The Beauty in Break-Up. This March, step out into the sunlight and...

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CONTRIBUTORS

SHIFT MAGAZINE

SHEI MAGAZINE’S DIGITAL MINI STYLING

elden maynard

sabrina zayec

hannah waserman amily yang

kaityln moore

olivia mandell

marlee goldman

simone pierce

christina oska mara moldovan

madeline rabe mackenzie kimball

LITERATURE lotte hurkmans alex rakestraw

lauren guldan

eleni mouzakis

erika bell

PHOTOGRAPHERS caleb bohn

shannon maiers

charlitte munder

rachel beglin

ain muhamad nor

lexie rechan

DESIGN tara lewis

MODELS sola muno

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natalie tarrant

yan theros

IN THIS ISSUE

TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S

ABOUT THE COVER:

Fashion // In this issue we aim to renew and rejuvinate our day-to-day rituals. We looked to the sun and the heavens and everything in between, exuberantly welcoming warm weather once again. Bare opens our hearts to the joy of finding oneself, whereas this month’s RADAR interview with Tom Clynes invites you to find something amazing out there. It’s time to stretch out your feet, roll your shoulders, and wake up! Because you are alive, and life is beautiful.

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LETTER FROM THE EDITORS

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CONTRIBUTORS

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MUSIC & CULTURE Missed Hozier when he came to the Royal Oak Music Theatre? Not anymore!

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RADAR: TOM CLYNES Explorer extrodinaire and Ann Arbor native, Clynes’ many travels will certainly inspire your next getaway.

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LA VIE EN ROSE

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BEAUTY OF BREAKING UP Sometimes ‘the end’ isn’t hte end of everything.

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SHIFT gets ‘taken to church’ by Irish singersongwirter Hozier at the Royal Oak Music Theatre

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rowds lined up around the block at the Royal Oak Music Theater on February 28th. Some attendees arrived as early as four in the afternoon, braving the plunging temperatures and sub-zero wind chill to experience Hozier’s first show in Metro-Detroit. Fifteen minutes after the doors opened the floor was packed. From date-nighters to hipsters snapping polaroids and even older generations, the crowd contained fans of all ages. “Even my grandbabies love him,” said a woman who had brought her husband to the show.

Opening for his final stop on tour with Hozier was twenty-one yearold Icelandic artist, Ásgeir, whose melodic folk blends keyboards and vocals eased the crowd into the show. The young artist who recently won European Border Breakers Award from the European Commission played songs from his 2014 release In the Silence including his hit “King and Cross” which has over two million views on YouTube and hit number 77 on the ARIA chart last year. Despite being relatively unknown state-side, he received a warm reaction from the crowd and cheers and applause as he left the stage.

An hour and a half after the doors opened, Andrew Hozier-Byrne walked onto the stage. Despite the fact that only a few days previously he had shared the stage with Annie Lennox at the Grammy’s, the young singer-songwriter from County Wicklow addressed the crowd almost shyly as he introduced the band by name. His less than slick stage presence came across as genuine rather than awkward and he carried that refreshing honesty into his songs. The set began with a rocking version of ‘Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene’. As the show wore on he began to relax, grinning all the way through the crowd favorite, ‘Jackie and Wilson’.

“His lyrics, when you listen to them can be quite dark,” one woman

told me, her favorite song ‘In a Week’, which has almost a lullaby quality to it, is about a couple who are, in Hozier’s words “lying down in a field to do what must be done.” “Generally,” he adds, “In Ireland, when you hear about the Wicklow Gardens on the news it accompanies the phrase ‘a body has been found.’” The song fell right at the midpoint of the set, where the room held its’ breath as Hozier accompanied singer-songwriter Alana Anderson, who had been playing cello earlier in the performance, matching her harmonies and playing off of her vocal range. The two stood, cross-lit by pink and blue spotlights as if they were the only ones in the packed theater.

He paid tribute to Skip James and the midwest with a rendition of ‘Illinois Blues’ and set the crowd writhing with a searing rendition of ‘Arsonist’s Lullaby’ before the set drew towards its natural conclusion ‘Take Me to Church’. He stepped offstage for a moment, returning with a fresh cup of tea in hand and addressed the crowd, thanking each of the members of his band, and beginning the encore set with ‘Cherry Wine’.

Two songs later he paused one final time to address the audience.

“Sometimes, there’s this voice in the back of my head that says ‘don’t mess this up,’” he confesses “ and then, that distracts me and then, well, that’s when I do mess up,”. He paused for a moment before announcing that tonight was a little different, and directed the crowd to the tech box at the back of the theater where a young man, Robert, got down on one knee and asked his girlfriend Carrie to marry him. They danced to ‘Work Song’ when she said yes. BY MELISSA FREELAND

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RADAR T O M C LY N E S

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eeting Tom Clynes for the first time is like peeking through the keyhole of a door. Beyond that door lies certain adventure, the kind that most people going about their daily lives only read about in books or see in movies. His mere presence, combined with the obvious passion he exudes about the topics he reports on, is enough to inspire anyone to open up their mind and take action.

Throughout his adolescence, Clynes’ decisions were governed by a haphazard sense of adventure; this sense is what followed him during various hitchhiking exploits across the US and Canada, and it is what brought him to the realization that travel was essentially a nonnegotiable aspect of his future. After finishing up his college degree with two years at the University of Michigan, he hit the road and found a rhythmic balance of travel and work, spending up to six months at a time travelling the world.

At his core, Tom Clynes is a storyteller. But even when asked to tell a story about himself, he can’t help but use the stories he has collected over the course of his life and career to explain the details of his being. The use of his experiences in dealing with the people and places that he has covered over the course of his career is what defines him on both a professional and personal level.

When chasing down a lead for the story “They Shoot Poachers, Don’t They?” which ran in National Geographic, Clynes travelled around Central Africa with a band of eco-mercenaries. He explains the challenges he has encountered as a journalist

through a story that explains his experiences covering this piece.

One of the eco-mercenaries in particular was unhappy with how he was portrayed, and in turn threatened Clynes’ life. Despite struggles like these in dealing with certain people, Clynes imparts the belief that his main duty is to his readers. While he would never sacrifice his journalistic integrity by inaccurately portraying facts, his subjects may not always agree with the way they are portrayed. “No matter what you write about somebody, no matter how sympathetic, there’s always going to be something they will pick up in your story that is different than how they see themselves,” Clynes said. “They’re sometimes not going to like what you do, but on the other hand your first responsibility is to your readers, so you have to tell it how you see it.” The challenge of journalism is not necessarily in being objective; rather, it is going into a story with a fresh perspective, willing to have your mind changed.

As a photojournalist, Clynes’ focus is often on capturing different kinds of narratives. When taking on a new project, the writing and photography complement each other by including details on many different aspects of the subject. “I have to try to capture the environment, I have to try to capture the people, and I have to try to make a visual narrative too, which is very different than a word narrative,” Clynes said. “So I’m looking for things that nobody else is noticing, and often those are what make the best pictures.”

Contrastingly, as a professional speaker, Clynes uses his time in face-to-face environments to electrify his audiences on

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ON ASSIGNMENT FOR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IN THE YUKON TERRITORY: THE MODERN GOLD RUSH, MINING AND PROSPECTING, CANOE EXPEDITION ON THE SNAKE RIVER (PEEL RIVER WATERSHED), FIRST NATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

the topics that he is most passionate about. He delves into the adventurous, but allows each talk to center on one central belief.

Clynes attempts to instill in his listeners a sense of possibility.

While Clynes believes that everyone has the potential to make a real difference in the world, he tends to pick up on a few key ingredients that make up the personalities of people who have done truly extraordinary things. Audacity, tenacity, and vision are cornerstones in unleashing one’s potential for changing the world, and of these attributes, Clynes is most fascinated by the idea of audacity.

“We all do have the capacity to change the world in some way, it doesn’t mean you have to trek 2,000 kilometers across the jungles in Africa,” Clynes said. “You can do it in just a small way to influence the circle you want to influence, however big you want that circle to be. But a lot of us don’t really believe that we have that capacity. When you do, that’s audacity.”

Audacity, among other qualities, is a key element of the subject of Clynes’ book, The Boy Who Played With Fusion, which tells the story of Taylor Wilson’s successful attempt to build a nuclear fusion reactor. At the surface, this book may seem like an extended look into the kind of thematic stories that Clynes is so well known for covering, but what stands out in this book is the element of optimism. Beyond the newsworthiness of a

14-year old kid building a nuclear fusion reactor, the optimistic undertones leak out in ways that rarely grace Clynes’ stories. In covering eco-mercenaries, people who threaten climatologists, and endangered species getting wiped out, among other events, Clynes rarely comes across this kind of positive situation in his journalism. “It’s a very optimistic story, and there’s not that many of those now. What was so interesting about that was his vision; not many people have that vision when they’re that young.” Having done extensive research on this subject, Clynes understands the crucial role that vision plays into one’s ability to remain motivated.

Pursuing a career in journalism is not always the painless path, but then again, changing the world is no easy endeavor either. In regards to either of these pursuits, the ability to follow an established future vision can be the most valuable asset. “A lot people give up [a career in journalism], and for good reasons,” Clynes said. “I almost did myself, but I kept pushing.” And that is what makes all the difference. By pushing the limitations of experience beyond familiar cities and countries, changing the world comes down to a determination to keep going; Clynes bases his career on the philosophy that this sense of purpose leads to the belief that changing the world is well within the reach of anyone who finds the audacity to accept his or her own purpose. Refuse to be a bystander. BY LAUREN GULDAN

PHOTOS COURTESY OF TOM CLYNES CHECK OUT MORE OF HIS WORK AT TOMCLYNES.COM

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Synapse (n.) – a structure that permits a neuron to transmit an electrical or chemical signal to another nerve cell You’ve been jolted awake every morning of your life. Every time your eyes opened, a choreographed series of bolts and arcs has yanked you from a deep sleep back into the realm of the consciousness. Synapses fire; systems restart. Darkness into light, through light. In a dream, details don’t matter. Everything not immediately seen - clothes, shoes, the inkling in your peripherals - is shadows. The intangible, surreal dream state conjures faces to match its untempered nature. While your dreams crumble, your body readies itself for motion.

While the black behind your eyes slowly becomes your bedroom, lightning courses through your skin.

The ancients penned sleep as a metaphor for death, and wrote of great heroes being reborn unto the day.

She is a heroine in her own right – bold, different, and unafraid. She dreams in color, she dreams in red.

Now she’s woken up. Her dress, radiant as the dawn; her face, awake and ready. Every day begins with an act of courage: opening one’s eyes. And every time she awakens, she is born of light. BY ALEX RAKESHAW

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SUN SALUTATION Natalie is wearing a sheer blouse and loral shorts by Topshop 19

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BREAKUP There are a few people in the world who get lucky with their first love, but for the rest of us there is a lesson to be learned from lost love.

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hey say every end is a new beginning, but things may feel different if the thing coming to an end is a relationship. Many people have experienced the thrill and joy of being in a romantic relationship, but that happiness also inevitably goes hand in hand with difficulties and compromise. Relationships are a true balance of the good and bad, and the only time you know you have found the right fit for yourself is when the scale is balanced. In these times, you don’t mind the compromise or difficulties of the relationship because you are working through them with your partner and teammate.

The two of you work your way through life together as a team, winning and sometimes losing together. There’s no one definition to describe the perfect one, but there are plenty of components that are able to make or break a relationship.

If the balance is off and the relationship ends, you are left facing the world as an individual, a lone wolf of sorts. At this point, you’re usually left with innumerable questions, and these questions bring along the negative side effects of sadness and loneliness. Suddenly you go from spending time with your partner to standing in life alone once again, and this change can be incredibly hard to cope with.

There are a few stages of grief that the world has come to accept; these stages are what teach us to adapt to difficult situations, in the end being able to accept what has come to pass. It’s probably more accurate to assume that every individual deals with a breakup differently. Maybe you go out and buy as much Ben & Jerry’s as your freezer can

hold; maybe you re-watch your favorite romantic comedies and cry your eyes out; maybe you throw yourself into social interactions by going out for drinks and spending time with friends and family as a distraction. Whatever your coping mechanisms are, there are a few things that do happen after a relationship that prove they can leave you a stronger, smarter, and better individual. As hard as it can be to believe, a breakup can truly open your eyes to bigger and better things.

There are a few people in the world who get lucky with their first love, but for the rest of us there is a lesson to be learned from lost love. Reflecting back on a past relationship can allow you to understand what you truly want. There may have been actions, qualities, or expectations that you had in your past relationship that you now realize are things you don’t want in the future. Through a breakup you learn a little bit more about yourself, and you receive the opportunity to refine your taste and your hopes for the future in regards to what you truly seek in a partner. The post-relationship clarity you will experience may hit you as a surprise. After a breakup, there’s a realization that love can at times be truly blinding, as you most likely did not see detrimental flaws in the relationship until you got out of it. A breakup can therefore be key to seeing the difference between the single version of yourself and the version of yourself in a relationship, which, for many people, are two completely different individuals. Learn from these different sides of yourself, and think about how these qualities can 28

“After a breakup, there’s a realization that love can at times be truly blinding, as you most likely did not see detrimental flaws in the relationship until you got out of it.” be combined to improve upon who you are. If you believe that the way you were in the past relationship is not at all who you are, take this knowledge and remember it for when you put yourself out on the market again. Learning to understand yourself better can be incredibly important in solidifying your happiness in your next fling.

Much like the clarity you receive with yourself, there’s an even bigger chance you will see your ex in a completely different light. Maybe their immature or mean side got uncovered through the breakup itself, and you suddenly realize the person you had been spending your time with is completely different than you thought. Quite possibly, you should have realized this in the relationship, but once again, you were blinded by your partner’s charm, witty jokes, and cute date ideas. No need to be embarrassed or worried about the realizations you refused to make; instead use this knowledge to your advantage when your next suitor comes knocking at the door.

So after the self-realizations and many nights out with friends at the bar digging up those flirting skills you forgot you had, you will feel on top of the world. Even with the combination of freedom, loneliness, and confusion of a breakup, these nights will leave you feeling stronger than before. The good thing about a breakup is that you no longer feel tied down, and you can begin to accept opportunities and plans that you would never have considered when in a relationship. Take your reclaimed freedom and enjoy nights out where you dance your heart (and feelings) out, plan a 29

trip to the city or a warm beach, or maybe begin applying to that internship on the other side of the country. Realizing you can seize these opportunities is one of the most important clarities coming with a breakup. This is the time to focus on you and you only, so do what feels right to you.

As you can see, it comes to show that a breakup creates a time for you to focus on the most important person in your life—you. Take all the energy and time you put into your old relationship and put it towards you. Begin those Pilates workouts you’ve been waiting to start and work toward getting some rock hard abs, or instead throw yourself into your studies. Whatever outlet you find, take this time alone and create a better version of you. Combine your newfound knowledge from your self-meditation and reflection with all this freedom and new opportunities to put yourself in the most powerful position possible.

This better version of you will be better able to conquer the world. The key to the whole process of a break up is to keep your head up. There is no way to take away the pain of a breakup, but keep in mind that there is always something positive to take out of a negative experience. A breakup can sometimes open your eyes to a whole different world.

Treasure every minute you get to focus on yourself, your friends, and family. Take the time to create the person you have always wanted to be and surround yourself with love from the people you care about.

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Keep quiet. You have always kept quiet.

Softly attacking your body for all its faults and flaws. Secretly scorning the unwanted folds and indents, hiding the curves and bumps you so despise. But you have kept quiet for long enough, and a new era has arrived. It is time to bare it all, uncover you, and discover the true meaning of beauty. Over the course of the past century, lingerie has permeated its way into society; this movement brings with it an acceptance of nudity and an understanding of the magnificence and grace of a woman in lingerie. Companies like Victoria’s Secret have built empires based on the public’s obsession and fascination with women draped in lacy lingerie. Much before the success of companies like Victoria’s Secret, Madonna and other famous figures opened the door for increasingly revealing clothing items that bared the female midriff and increased acceptance of a less modest brand. Ever since the mid-tolate nineties, modesty has taken a backseat as lingerie is now seen as a luxury good, as well as an item that can be gracefully worn on a night out. The bareness brings wave after wave of selfrealization, along with mountains of acceptance to build a self-tenderness that will always trump the past questions you were so troubled over.

The magnificence of your body that had been waiting for your discovery is finally found, and at long last accepted, creating the internal peace that had been so long sought after.

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