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Stefano Padovani Editor & Ideator production@fashink.com Lucia Capelli Director Giada Raucci Creative Director editor@fashink.com Davide Lo Presti Media & Social communication Andrea Tisci Fashion Editor Stefano Guerrini Fashion consultant Cristine Dupuys Beauty consultant Claudio Pittan Story Teller Vittorio Raucci Video communication Talita Savorani Writer & Accessories contributor ViralXpress Digital & Communication

info@fashink.com STAFF CONTRIBUTOR

Andrea Amara, Cori Amenta, Mario Chiarenza, Samuela Nova, Kerri Ryer, Shelly Wahweotten

SEASON CONTRIBUTOR

Giovanni Ciraudo, Valentina Claudio, Samuela Maggi, Paolo Nebuloni, Marco Pavone, Jiro Schneider, Yvonne Troiano

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CONTRIBUTORS

ANDREA TISCI

Artist, fashion blogger and stylist, graduated in Political Science. He loves to dedicate his life to the magic of the world and to every expression of art it conteins.

Everyday he paints the picture of his life with the palette of his wardrobe.

VALENTINA CLAUDIO

Born 1992, she ended the studies in the American academy Make Up Designory. Passionate about special effects, particularly in creation and customization of new characters.

Her job is leaded by precision and searching of proper stoke and color for feature of models.

GIOVANNI CIRAUDO

Born in Milan on June 1993. He’s been working as professional assistant to many photographers for fashion shoots.

Young and dynamic, he’s currently working as staff in the major photographic equipment rental supplier in Italy.

SHELLY WAHWEOTTEN

Midwest American Tattooer since her high school years, Shelly continues to learn and grow in her field of arts, occasionally dabbling in music and literature, and as much traveling in between. When not working on the road, she enjoys time at home in Kansas City with her puppy dogs.

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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. 14 We Believe p. 24

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Tattoo Icon p. 32 Fashink On The Road p. 40 p. 40 4

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inked people for alternative fashion

winter

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Jewels Seduction p. 44 350 km/h Style p. 54

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Forget About Black Tie! p. 68 Combact Club p. 80 Room Of My Own p. 94

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Bits & Pieces p. 108 Flash Of The Season p. 114 p. 80 5

EDITORIAL Stefano Padovani

Everything surrounding us it’s a fragile thin line migrating from truth to false in an instant.

Sometimes I feel so old as if I’ve seen everything, as if I’ve been through so many experiences that nothing can surprise me anymore, but in reality it’s not like that: I still rejoice in what life has to give us, all the good things and the moments of pleasure that our world offers.

I like to relate myself to the animal world because it’s so unique and sincere. Rationality, survival instinct for animals can’t be false, they just need to make themselves opportunities to survive, to eat, sleep and rest before the new day We calculate instead, we make long term plans and often we step over everyone and everything in order to to reach our goals and destinations. We’re regardless of all the damages we may cause.

I’d like to see something else in the mirror; I wish that we could stop and think about it for a moment and perhaps go back to a social and sentible contact with each other. Sometimes I like to go back in time and think about the past, when I used to see elderly peolpe making statements such as “when I was young” and how nostalgic they seemed to be. Now it’s my turn to do that with immense nostalgia and melancholy.

This editorial wants to be a call back to our values we now miss. Life is unpredictable, my thought is to live each day as if it’s the last and smile at everything because it could not be there tomorrow.

Stefano Padovani

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Davide Gariboldi (athlete/etrepreneur)

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Fashion Moment

by Stefano Guerrini

“Destroy, disorientate, disorder” and “ Wanna be your dog” are words that were branding his clothes, echoing an irreverent mixture of street and club culture that made the success of the collection called “Destroy”.

We all know him for his rock style that gives liveliness and good vibes to Milan’s fashion week, but a closer look to John Richmond’s style reveals that there’s way more than the world of music and the iconography of some rock icons that he loves and he dressed through the years, Mick Jagger firstly.

A young Richmond, just after his studies at the Kingston University where he graduated in 1982, reached the top of the european fashion system in the second half of the decade, spearheading the new british avant-garde.

Produced from 1995 by Saverio Moschillo, Richmond’s fashion is able to tickle the wishes of those who are looking for contemporary tailoring as well as those young people looking for a urban and bolder style.

Those were the years of brit-pop and Richmond’s fashion style, heavily influenced by tattoo art, rolls in the wardrobe of stars like Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Axl Rose thanks to his slogan t-shirts and jackets with sleeves decorated with colorful drawings.

Season after season we’ve seen confirmed the success of the Manchester’s stylist and now we’d like to remember his beginning years when his fashion was all about slogan that seemed to come from a daring and biting post punk philosophy.

Those jackets are the ones that affect us the most because they create, 8

a symbol of a certain kind of style.

Watching Neneh Cherry music video of “Man Child”, directed by Jean Baptiste Mondino, in which a young Barry Kamen (who sadly left us not many weeks ago) dances completely dressed by “Destroy” giving relief to those years lovers.

thanks to hearts, swords and snakes drawings (borrowed by great artists of old school tattoos) a new pop iconography that winks at bikers’s world and makes them supercool for UK music bands and their fans!

In the beginning of the 90’s every fashion addicted in his 20s, from London to Milan, used to have at least a “Destroy” item of clothing that often mixed the iconography of tattoos, comic style fonts and coats of arms, all in black and gold as well as hyper coloured.

Anyway, as we all know, f a s h i o n always looks forward and Richmond now is no longer just “the Distroy one” neither the one of the universal success of jeans branded “Rich” on the back.

Richmond is a certainty in our fashion week and for sure we’ll keep on enjoying him and his rebel rock spirit!

It is precisely the long sleeve tee with the brand “Destroy”, or the one with the “tattooed” sleeves, that stucks in the fashion world during those years and that stays in everyone’s mind as 9

Claudio Pittan

Let me tell you a story...

I have always loved art and since I was a child I’ve been always fascinated by oriental art in particular and those images showing a distant world and mysterious creatures…

When I began to tattoo in the 80’s I discovered the importance that Japanese art had in the world of tattoos and I wanted to know every single aspect of that culture but I found that hard because at the time just a few of photo books about Japanese tattoos were published and they featured information that were mostly wrong. That made me decided to go to Japan to know the truth!

In 1994, I took part at the International Tattoo Convention in Amsterdam and one of the most important guest was Horiyoshi III°, one of the very best among the greatest living masters of Irezumi, the traditional Japanese tattoo.

I was lucky to meet him; I had the chance to know such a skilled artist that could have helped me knowing his culture.

I approached him when he was taking a break, he was short with

long black hair tied in a ponytail and he was wearing eyeglasses. Every part of his body, shown up by his clothes, was covered with tattoos.

He looked serious but also kind. I told him “master, I want to come to Japan and be tattooed by you!”.

I remember he gave me the address of his studio in Yokohama and told me that I was welcome.

Back to Milan I packed my bags, took all the money I saved and in a week, I set off to Yokohama with my girlfriend Betty.

In Tokyo, we found an accommodation thanks to some Japanese guys we met during the flight. They had to guarantee for us at the hotel because in Japan they were not used to welcome foreigners from the West: “Gaijin” as they sometimes call western people with a hint of despise.

Finding Horiyoshi’s studio was way harder than I thought: traditional tattoo artists hid their studio to avoid the contempt of society because of Japanese mobsters of Yakuza, which used to tattoo their whole body to intimidate people.

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Even if I had the right address, Betty and I got lost thousand times. I have been asking people for directions and though they tried their best to help us, many Japanese people do not speak English and they had trouble understanding us. A guy offered to take us to the studio but took us to an alley and then left us there.

We began to lose all our hope.

Right after a suspicious guy passed by us: he had a scar across his face and even if it was summer he was dressed like Al Capone, probably he was a Yakuza, a member of Japanese most dangerous mafia.

I was scared to speak to him, he could have easily reacted aggressively but we thought that maybe he was going to get a new tattoo and so we began to shadow him.

After a couple of minutes he suddenly turned around and looked

us dead in the eyes, he realized we were following him and the situation was very tense: there were no people around and we couldn’t hear any sound. He reached for his gun under the jacket and asked me something I couldn’t understand in Japanese, for sure he wanted to know why we were tailing him.

Betty was deathly pale and she grabbed my arm with all the strength she was capable of. I realized I screwed up: I was tailing a mobster t h r o u g h the alleys of Yo k o h a m a w i t h o u t even having the chance of communicating.

Desperation gave me the courage to show him my tattooed arm, he gave it a glance and said “irezumi”, I nodded, he smiled…we were safe!

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I soon realized what it meant: I used to have little experience about tattoos: I only had four and all on my arms and it took no more than a couple of hours to make each one of them. The sessions we made were close in time and I had to go to his studio every two or three days after the previous one so I was tattooed on the sore skin that was still healing.

The back is one of the most painful part of the body to tattoo and the pain of tattooing the skin still sore from the previous session was excruciating but I managed to make it through ‘till the end and to this day, I still bear with pride the tattoo made by the master Horiyoshi III°, my master.

and finally we reached the studio of the Master!

Still pale we got into the studio, leaving our shoes at the door as custom, Horiyoshi greeted us warmly and we avoided telling him our little adventure, we drank the tea he offered us. He said we were welcome to his studio and he asked me which tattoo I wanted to have.

I told him I wanted the whole back tattooed and he was puzzled: usually, he told us, this request takes a year of working with sessions every two weeks. Obviously, we couldn’t stay for such a long period of time so I asked him to tattoo me as fast as he could. I didn’t knew then what I was about to face! He agreed and he told me laughing “You strong man!”

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C L A U D I O Claudio: My adventure started in Turin and it spread all over my family.

My grandmother made piercings and with my cousins, I had my first Indian ink tattoo experiences. I was interested in this field also in my early ages, I was very young and my first direct experience has been in the army service. During my whole life I had a lot of exciting meetings but when I met Gianni Agnelli my life completely changed. He has given to me a precious advice, to keep on going on with my passion, so in 1993-1994 I started my first tattoo studio, near Turin and I had several collaborators since that

Claudio definitely minds his own business. He opened is tattoo parlour in 1994 and now he’s a professional tattoo - and other body mods - expert all over Italy.

He’s looking for more regulations and he chase to purpose to give everybody a personal tattoo.

Something special, like all individuals living on this planet.

He got it when he toured the world with his backpack and his life completely changed, revealing him his shamanic pathway.

Fashink: Hi Claudio, tell us about yourself.

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day. I opened it in an old former workshop and I had to persuade the location’s owner; I said I had no money for the bail and after a couple of days, suddenly he said he agreed. Therefore, I started my passion and it became my mission.

I had 4 or 5 collaborators, 2 of them are now beautiful friends, and they gave me a lot of energy; they’re fond of realistic tattoos, portraits and I’ve also a piercing apprentice at my studio. I restyled it in 2006 with a metal layout, pipes and a factory look.

the studio and with your life from that moment to recent times?

C: In 2005 I bought everything, now I got the tattoo studio on the ground level and my “home sweet home” at the first floor. I can combine everything and give the right amount of time to everybody, it’s easier. That place now represents 100% of my life and I live there with my family. My wife Daniela settled there and we had two beautiful and lovely children: my son Paolo Nishi is 5 years old and his name was a present to a Japanese tattoo artist and friend. My daughter Moorea is

F: Then, what has happened with

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C: This pathway is something I had to do, had to follow until the end. I’m lucky, I’ve understood my mission and that represents happiness to me.

I’m not really interested in a business or money-related logic, I’m looking for something deeper. That’s why I do not usually answer “yes” when they ask me a portrait, lettering or a date tattoo; I’m looking for something special for each person, they deserve it.

3 years old and her name has been inspired by our love in the heartshaped Island near Polynesia, called Moorea.

F: What do you think about travels?

Are they important for you? Tell us something about your adventures and tales all over the planet.

C: Travels are mandatory for my life. I had a beautiful experience, I toured the world and I left Italy with my rucksack to chase my passion.

I’ve been all over the planet for 3 long months, taking more or less 28 flights from Turin to Bangkok, China, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New Zealand and then off to Australia; I spent one month in Polynesia, then to Easter Island and also went to Mexico and Cuba. That trip has been the beginning of my real tattoo life. I was looking for art all over the world and I found it. I exchanged it and I was full of hope when I came back home because I changed so much during this experience. I’m destined to happiness with this world, that’s more or less my mission. During my trip, I understood that I was a wizard’s apprentice, now I finally became a wizard too because I grew up during last 20 years and I followed my shamanic path.

F: What do you think about other tattoos modifications? Are you interested only in tattoos or you like something more?

C: I love the whole world of tattoos; I’m not only a tattoo artist, I’m also a piercer, a body alteration expert and I love hook suspensions. Tattoos are just one of the elements of my world.

I have a 360 degrees view and during my shamanic pathway I deeply looked for diversity and personality.

F: Are you inspired by particular tattoo artists or do you have favorite ones in Italy?

C: I don’t have a “best tattoo artist” prize to be given. All of them are my inspiration because they’re all different and they express their passion with several styles. There’s no “the best” or “the worst” in my opinion; they’re all professional

F: Tell us something more about this shamanic pathway please!

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Claudio working in his studio

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people working for others, there should be no competition. That’s what I realized during my trip to Polynesia and Japan. Some of my “legends” are made to dress people with tattoo stories; they do not care about money as it should be.

but there’s not enough protection in this job in my opinion. I also have other great passions outside the studio such as football: I support Juventus. As I said before, I met Agnelli in 1994 and my dad brought me at the stadium when I was 8 for the first time. I’m bringing my son with me too to matches but I love also nautical ski, bikes and I’m a sportive and active person. I had to move, I cannot be the same forever and I don’t want to.

F: Besides being a tattooist, are you involved in anything else?

C: Yes, I’m one of the 6 tattoo studio founder that created our association for body modification in Piedmont - our region - 2 years ago. We are trying to push it harder and we think we need some ethics and regulations in this field. We would like to create professional courses or maybe a school that gives a certification, as a starting point so all tattoo artists can be at the same level and equalized with the same knowledge. We do not ask for money, we do not care about them; we plans a meeting every month and we self-finance our association with courses and hook suspensions. Updating your knowledge and your career must not be neglected, we need to learn new techniques and new fashions; we need a permanent education.

I’ve been wearing the white coat and the mask during the last 20 years as it should be. I respect my customers and myself too. In this industry, there are no registers and we have to stir the people into action; it’s crazy

F: Last question before ending the interview, are you planning any special event at the studio during next months?

C: We just had a couple of days ago, in November, the Swastika day.

With this event, we are trying to reconfirm the swastika as a innocent symbol. We would like to ennoble its meaning, remembering to the world that many cultures got their own swastika. Buddhist, Indians, Polynesian people got a Swastika too: it’s the ancestral symbol of the 4 elements, it’s not only related to the Nazi period and respective meaning.

We do this event every year, on the 13th Nov and it’s free. That’s our second edition, so please remember it and come to get your free swastika next year!

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we believe

by Talita Savorani

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Davide Gariboldi This time “We Believe” section for the winter issue features a man who completely changed his life. Probably he didn’t expect it but he reacted in a perfect way. Ladies and Gentlemen, pleased to introduce you Davide Gariboldi, former motorcyclist and currently VIP personal trainer, bodybuilder and fitness lover. He opened his gym doors to Fashink editorial staff to be interviewed and to give us a chance to see his world.

Sitting on a chair and facing the table, he starts telling his story.

was in love with motocross and after his beginners years where he gained several minibike championships, he entered the professional level becoming a racer. Everything was perfect, so as you should know, Murphy’s law is always trying to mess up your plans and “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.”, particularly if everything is going right. That moment suddenly came: he was 19 and he had a terrible head accident with his bike, he was diagnosed with view-related problems and he couldn’t compete anymore; since that day his life was completely and unexpectedly changed.

Davide was born in 1969 and by the age of 5, his father who was a grease monkey loving the fuel scent, gave him a minibike as a gift. Then, his life suddenly changed and he became fond of motorcycle racing, that’s why he started doing competitions.

Of course, as you can imagine, he

After recovering, he turned his attention into physical training, no longer being able to ride motorbikes.

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he fell in love with bodybuilding and fitness. He starts telling his stories showing his determination to become one of that 5% - a recent survey showed that only 5% of people are completely successful in their lives -. The fitness world has given to him a strong shake and a new life.

I ask him about tattoos too, he states that they are highly interrelated in the motorcycle and fitness fields. He started getting tattooed definitely late, more or less during in his 40’s because he had no need before.

Tattoos are something personal, as you should all know, so he wanted to change something, he needed a change and he got a tattoo on his arm, like a milestone to describe that special period.

Going back to his main business, the gym, which is inspired by the USA concept, giving that place a nickname such the bodybuilding Mecca. At the moment, Davide is chasing his purpose to understand every customer and his special needs. When I ask him what he wants to know about a new or potential athlete, he says that he has to be strong and never give up; at the same time he needs food and lifestyle information but also sport and accidents dossiers to deeply know that person.

One day, in the future, he would like to improve his gym too: adding new huge windows to get more sun from the outside, getting a new floor

for proper equipments and new machinery, but also even more space to take better care of his customers.

Aside of his business, he also became a wine expert. If he hadn’t worked in the bodybuilding industry, he probably would have worked in the food service fields. Fond of highprotein food and he still has a future project for a high-protein restaurant but also a food supplement chain, recently he founded a new project called HEROES DNA with the FEED THE MACHINE metabolic drink, focused on anti-aging effects.

He had beautiful and terrible experiences in his life, like everyone else; his most remarkable experience was when he won the Italian bodybuilding championship in 1995 and of course the worst one, as you could imagine, was the terrible accident he had. He’s always looking at the future and his plans are to build an anti-aging clinic and to create his own metabolic drink line. Davide got no regrets and his passions are American cars. His mantra, which has to be daily respected, is to be always the first, win and fight as strong as possible in everyday life.

More info about Davide and his lovely passion can be found here: www.heroesdna.it .

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Photo by Tom Buisseret

Tat ico

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Sunny Buick has been tattooing for 23 years. She lives in Paris, France.

She served a 6 year apprenticeship with Henry Goldfield in San Francisco. She met Lyle Tuttle when she was 15 years old. Sunny is an artist above all. She has been involved in the Low Brow art scene on the west coast, she has organized art shows, published catalogs and been published herself many times in art and tattoo books.

She works in her private studio in Paris called “A la Belle Pique”.

SB: Such as a designer using inked celebs, perfumes called tattoo and so on? Two things: humans like to decorate themselves and nothing is original. Tattoos are eye catching in a publicity because we don’t see them very often (for now!) Tattoos evoke a kind of exoticism and have cache.

Tattoos mean danger, they’re erotic, you know sex sells! A lot of fashion inspiration is culled from what people are wearing in the streets.

I can understand that designers are looking for authenticity and street credibility. Another one of fashion’s inspirations comes from studying history, looking to the past. I’m thinking of the influence

Fashink: What do you think about the relationship between fashion and the tattoo world?

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of the ‘20’s on ‘60’s fashion and the huge trend for the ‘40’s in the ‘70’s.

There’s not too much originality to be found in fashion, I guess because people must have a reference to comprehend. In an era where branding is so important, one off tattoos have everything that consists of a good logo, so many messages symbolically coming through one image. So I think designers are smart when they steal from tattoo culture.

That doesn’t mean that I have an easy time accepting what fashion is doing to my proffession. Sailor Jerry Alcohol/Ed Hardy Clothing, people have no idea that these men were tattooers and what they did for

the history of tattooing. People see tattoos and fashion and think I want to buy that! But hey, I’ve got to eat so I’m glad tattoos are in fashion!

F: Do you think that the future of the tattoo design will develop into a more fashionable style and a cool looking design rather then a cultural and symbolic act?

SB: Tattooing is part commercial part mystic. As a service industry we have to tattoo what the client wants.

As artists we can sometimes succeed in convincing people to express something new or to wear one of our creations. The mystic act is when

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the tattoo has deep meaning and as the tattoo itself you create? magic. At least the general public is starting to understand that tattoos SB: Tattooing someone famous should have some deep personal gives the tattooer enormous meaning and it’s not like shopping validation. Normal people will for a t-shirt. I’m afraid that even choose a tattooer because he was the stupid roman numberal dates have one that tattooed so and so. It helps meaning for the client. Some people a tattooers reputation to have a few are not able to do the soul searching big names under his belt. Now that that is required to so many actors and have a really mystic athletes are tattooed being tattooed tattoo, so they just has becaome very mark the dates of democratic. People birth of a loved one. with no ideas of Something I fear their own like to is that the emense copy their favorite popularity of celebrity. But when tattoos today means you look through tattoos will soon the portfolio of a go out of fashion. tattoo artist there Each generation are no faces, just rejecting what the that part of the older generation body tattooed. represents.

The It all becomes so mystic side will much canvas and always hold out the work shines even after tattoos through.

Every go out of fashion. client is different, People have gotten Photo by Tom Buisseret famous or not. tattooed since time Some are great to talk to and the began, it is a very primitive urge. appointment goes very well, some are horrible and your day is ruined.

F: Does working with famous people It doesn’t matter if they’re famous or VIPs such as athletes, musicians, or not, it just depends on who they actors and celebrities in general gain are and what they have to offer, out more visibility to the artwork rather of themselves, their brain. From a then something done on “every day commercial standpoint it is great to people” or it doesn’t matter as much 36

tattoo celebrities, it brings the other customers in!

motivation for me. I’m lucky in that Paris has some of the best museums in the world. I always feel like going home to paint afterwards. I have a huge collection of books, and still find so much inspiration inside, even years after owning them. I find a lot of inspiration and trends on the internet but I don’t like to spend too much time there. I find that it wastes all my time that I could be spending on personal projects.

F: What inspires you the most when you design for work or just for your personal research?

SB: Everything is all mixed up! I’m lucky because my clients bring me great projects, they have some really great ideas. This makes you grow as an artist to hear an idea and then translate it visually.

F: Today the tattooer But everyday at is considered one of work when the the most “ common” client is the artistic job if we can say director and wants it. This helped to change this or add the industry to that and you don’t expand to a larger think it will look amount of people good, it becomes but it seems like the frustrating.

That quality decreased to is when personal some extent making work keeps me everyone becoming sane. There is a a tattooer. Many of balance between Photo by Matthieu Vilasco them do copies or the comprimises just try to emulate the masters rather you have to make sometimes so then get inspired from themselves that the client is happy and having to improve their style. What is your something that is 100% your creation, point of view about it? no editing. Then the personal work allows the clients to see what you are SB: Tattooing has a blue collar capable of, they will want to tattoo history. Blue collar is the workman’s something from your personal work. clothes, white collar is the business I find that museums are the biggest 37

man. In the past many tattooers F: Do you think the fashion industry were alcoholics, some couldn’t even will ever accept the tattoo as a social draw well, but they could trace. status since they are a bit reluctant They were sign painters when there to use models with tattoo as their was no military in town. They were testimonials? frustrated artists just trying to make a living. Or there were those who SB: Some models are chosen for their couldn’t hold a real tattoos. But they better job, so traveling from hope that the casting town to town with the dirrector is looking for circus was the only tattooed people or else way for them to eat they don’t have a lot of and get money for work. So models avoid drink. Today young getting tattooed except artists are no fools. for discreet places.

They know that you I find there is real can’t make a living problem of bad taste. as a painter. They see I see fashion spreads tattooing as a way or ads and the tattoos to make a living as are terrible! I think, an artist. The tattoo how hard is it to find lifestyle is glamorous. someone good looking The tattooer is like a with good tattoos? rock n roll star. The It’s not hard! So I hopeful tattoo artist think that the casting Photo by Tom Buisseret to be thinks: you can director chose people be irresponsible, get up late, get laid with bad tattoos on purpose! I don’t and do drugs all day. But the reality think it will ever become 100% is that all the best tattoo artists that acceptable. Each photo or project is I know are very disaplined. They a different story. With makeup and are workaholics, they are married clothes you could make the model to their job. As for copycats, there look a 100 different ways, but if they is a huse problem today, but as are tattooed, maybe they aren’t as I said before some people lack a malliable. The model has to become personality of their own so they must such an icon that they are searched copy others. But it’s a very fine line for just who they are, to bring their between being inspired by someone audience to the label. else and being a rip off.

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F: How much do you think fashion and trends influenced the tattoo world and vice versa?

designers. Sometimes tattooers are searching for authenticity and they start studying primitive cultures, mystic imagery. Just like fashion designers! Sometimes tattooers are inspired by the client’s ideas, the client was inspired on the street or in their travels. With the internet there is so much access to influences that it goes back and forth and inside and out. There are no clear drawn lines anymore. I wonder with all this multiculture that one day we won’t be able to seperate where what came from, what it all means and where we are going?

SB: Tattoo is fashion- humans love decoration. Old school tattoos are very popular now. It is ok to like old school! I was always trying to adapt old school to modern tastes when the original designs are just perfect. I’m so happy that more people want that type of work now. It’s what I’m best at, maybe because it’s easy! Tattoo fashion trends are created in the tattoo community. Every ten years or so there seems to be a new genre that developes. Sometimes tattooers look to the past just like fashion

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ink on the road

FASH

by Shelly Wahweotten

States to Miami, Florida. The temperatures ranged from -17 below zero Fahrenheit, to over 90 degrees and sunny. Ten states passed us by, over a day and a half trip to the ship we were to tattoo on, and we boarded upon a rock and roll cruise to Cozumel, Mexico, for 6 days total. This was just the beginning of the adventures that were to begin at sea.

Day 1 consisted of setting up shop and getting bombarded with 1000 pre-party attendees trying to get tattooed immediately and book for the rest of the week, before we picked up the other 2000 people the next day. Scatterbrain ensues as we tackle other obstacles such as

Luxury Pirates On The Deep Blue Abyss

A friend called me a few months back, asking if I was interested in tattooing on a cruise ship for a few days. Room and board were included, as well as meals, drinks, fun and sun. After getting some mild details from my friend, of course I agreed, and was in!

About a month passes and I get the official call for duty and pack up my supplies in Kansas City and drive myself to Detroit, Michigan.

Once in Detroit, my friend and I packed up the tattoo shop into the smallest compact cases as possible, crammed everything into an old van, and drove halfway across the United

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We worked from waking hour, till sometimes dawn. Once we ported in Mexico, the fans departed to land for an 8 hour shopping day. As workers, we turned our day into tacos and naps. My friends and I worked our fingers to the bone and finally had a break when the fans were too occupied with the actual events at hand, rather than to put us to the grindstone.

Once the half-day break was over, and we set sail back into the Atlantic, immediately we were back to tattooing.

At closing, one night alone, I had completed 11 tattoos. A normal busy day for me at my regular land shop usually consists of 6

power fluxuation on generators that the ship runs on. Another GIANT obstacle was that we were on a floating ship‌no matter how many experiences with conventions I’ve acquired over the years, tattooing with inconsistent power, and swaying back and forth while trying to create permanent art, nothing would have prepared me for this, even if I had been prewarned ahead of time. But the show must go on!!

The cruise consisted of 3000 fans, 10 bands, a promotional staff, the ship staff, myself, and two other famous guest artists from across the United States, sailing to Mexico and back, over the entire week. All for the love

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After all the hard work, long hours, daunting distances traveled, separation from friends, family and land, I gained the most beautiful experience I never knew existed. The, seemingly intimidating, job paid off immediately with the sights, cultures, music, art, new friends and memories. Money could never buy the memories we shared as an entire crew.

Fans came together for love alone and I wouldn’t change a single moment of the chance I was given to become a luxury pirate and share my memories with you.

tattoos, tops! A few more days at sea had passed by quickly and we were back to Miami, after what seemed like 10,000 tattoos and events later.

Back in Miami, returning to solid ground, my sea legs failed to balance for almost a week.

I was running into walls, I still felt like I was swaying back and forth, and bloated from all the salt from the sea and foods.

We still had to return 10 states away to get home to Michigan and I had another 4 states back to Kansas City.

Exhausted, filthy, cranky, hungry and sore, I returned home to Kansas City and was directly back to my normal busy routine of tattoos, from one hot seat to

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Silver “FL logo” buckles and silver “RRR” (Rebellion, Realignment, Rebirth) buckle left page “Scorpio Costellation” White gold with mother-ofpearl and diamonds pendant Onix stone and silver leaf ring Gaby and Florence wear Meltin’Pot jeans and jacket

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Jacket: GPC Shirt: Plus Que Ma Vie Trousers: Jaggy Shoes: Araldi 1930 left page T-Shirt and trousers: Jaggy Shoes: Hogan

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Foulard: SCI’M Singlet: Horo24Kt Jewels: G-Fase

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T-Shirt: Levi’s Trousers: GPC Shoes: Araldi 1930

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T-Shirt: Jaggy Trousers: Levi’s Socks: Bresciani 1970 Shoes: Araldi1930 Jewels: SIMONN jewelry

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T-shirt: Les Bohèmiens Trousers: Dockers Jacket: Plus Que Ma Vie

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Jeans: Jaggy Thanks to Dorna Sport Octo Pramac Racing Alex Ghini Giacomo Guidotti Luca Braguti Paul Sannen 67

Forget about Black Tie! Photography Stefano Padovani Model Rita @ 2day Model Milan Stylist Andrea Tisci Make-Up Artist Samuela Nova Hair Stylist Giada Raucci

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Necklace: Christian Correnti

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Jacket: Muusa Trousers: Les Bohemiens Shoes: Menghi

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Dress: Leila Hafzi Shoes: Fragiacomo

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Dress: Joseph Ribkoff right page Shirt: Saverio Palatella Trousers: Parakian Paris Shoes: Via Nolfi 56 Bag: Guarino Guarini

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Glasses: Jimmy Crystal Jacket: Parakian Paris Skirt: Loredana Roccasalva Shoes: Albano Bag: Warloom

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Dress: L’Edition Shoes: Albano

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Luca Starace (Italy) wears Moschino underwear left page Loic Williams (France) wears Replay underwear

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Simone Ravanelli (Italy) wears Boxer Des Rues underwear left page Luca “Swed” Pedroni (Italy) wears Diesel underwear

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Antonello Citterio aka Lello (Italy) wears Philipp Plein Homme right page Daniele Paudice (Italy) wears Replay underwear

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Bits & pieces

by Talita Savorani

Winter issue focuses on new trends for the 2015 cold period with related items that let you think about snowflakes, new adventures and the same old elegant lifestyle that rocks. Let’s first start with the most glamorous make up collection in the tattoo industry: Kat von D products!

They got a glamour packaging and

high quality materials, discover her full collection and pick your color!

Wondering a holiday at the Alps?

Grab your snowboard and your alcohol shot set, a bunch of friends and enjoy Xmas and a Happy New Year’s Eve with a 5-star posh tattooed party.

Kat von D’s make up products are certified as cruelty free and vegan too. You’d definitely appreciate them for those reasons but also thanks to their special packaging focused on tattoos. Tribals signs, lettering, old school, lace and roses everywhere on that make up line created by the famous female tattoo artist. Check

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out all colors inside the Mi Vida Loca eye shadows palette or love the precision of that tattoo liner eyeliner in strong black. Looking for the perfect foundation? Lock-it by Kat is great and has a long-lasting coverage. The Studded Kiss Lipstick shows a perfect packaging in black studs and an exceptional color inside that.

Choose your favorite and put in on your lips for tonight party!

Never forget your first steps on snow with an incredible deck! Your snowboard is going to be customized with tattoos, something unique presented by Erik - Bike Shop - every winter. Volcom, Burton, GNU and other outerwear brands got their snowboard with a tattoo design.

Grab yours and feel original too!

Let’s start playing the Russian Roulette by the fireplace with some friends. Spirits, beer or wine, whatever you like, do it in the proper way. Show your friends the most exciting alcohol addicted shot set

by San Francisco Mercantile and remember them why your style in incomparable .

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