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Exquisite corpse. Interview with Artist Asger Carlsen
Nothing disturbs us more than our own bodies. Their tendency to break down, their weird smells and shapes, the inevitability that they will decline and eventually decompose and disappear. Nietzsche described it as the root of ugliness. “What does man hate?” he asked, ready with a catalog of the body’s potential failures: heaviness, exhaustion, convulsions, paralysis – the smell, color and form of decomposition. “There is no doubt about this: man hates the twilight of his own type.” By Julie Cirelli
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Fashion Story: Something Out With The Blue
Photography by Nala Luuna and fashion by Carl Seven.
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Escaping the Womb. Essay by Antonia Nessen
Maternity and nursing clothes are an overlooked chapter in fashion history, but in the 1930s the symbolic value of clothing was considered to have a deep connection to motherhood. One of the reasons for our obsession with fashion is our unconscious desire to return to the womb. This is one of the conclusions in J. C. Flügel’s famous book “The Psychology of Clothes” from 1930. Essay by Antonia Nessen
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SHORT STORY: CARS
A short story by Stephen Moles from our latest issue. Photography by Ninja Hanna and fashion by Hanna Holmgren. Click to read the whole story.
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Fashion Story: The Bra Boys
Photography by Spiros Poros and fashion by Ivana Martyn-Zyznikow. Click for details.