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Editor’s Letter 8 The Natural - editorial 12 Coco Rocha - cover story interview with the top model 26 Back to Work - editorial 32 Fashion Trends what we're going to love this season 46 The Beautiful People - editorial 64 ART Exhibitions not to be missed 75 Timeless Youth - editorial 76 Digital and Art Exhibitions 86 Strawberry Fields - editorial 88 Fashion Future in a Digital Era 98 Home Office - editorial 102 Rebecca van Bergen from Nest talk to us about her ethic brand- interview 116 In conversation with future of music: Malou - interview 126 Ocean's Voice - editorial 140 Bonazzi of Aquafil talk to us about sustainable nylon - interview 154 New Luxury - editorial 158 BEAUTY Beauty products for this winter? The answer is Green Lines - 170 In conversation with Sanne Vloet from Izé Skincare - interview 180 Lines in the Sand - editorial 190 ACCESSORIES The perfect guide to what wear on this fall winter - 202 Reflection - editorial 208 PARADISE Our sustainable holiday: Discover with us top places to visit in Italy - 220 Runway Bride - editorial 226
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assword: Futurism 2.0. If in the twentieth century the new reality was speed, leading to a new artistic current, today we find ourselves more than ever in an unrepeatable historical moment that is inevitably creating enormous changes. Ours, at the moment, is defined as an uncertain future (but when is it ever certain?), and if it's true that we don't know how many job categories will be lost along the way, it's also true that every sudden swerve can also lead to new horizons. The important thing, as we know, is to be able to be multifaceted and not fossilize when something already programmed becomes utopia. This is our Futurism version 2.0 therefore, where the continuous growth of digital will be fighting (or maybe not) with a stop on this frantic search for speed at any cost. Editor-in-chief Facebook: @marta.forgione Instagram: @martaforgione
Marta Forgione
NEWLOOK.COM
The NATURAL Once again Nature is at the center of one of our photoshoot. Despite what many people think, Nature for us is more than a background. It is indeed protagonist. Thus, model and Nature around her that she belongs to - follow each other until merging together. Roles revers and a bunch of flowers pops out a trench. To feeling connected to Nature is an experience many are looking for now. Proximity is important: to feel the elements around us. Clothes then can bring us together even more, if chosen with care. Eco leather, cotton and shaved wool are a warm hug that makes us feel better and that should persuade us that, today more than ever, quality and respect come before anything else.
Photography Oliver Beckmann Style Elke Dostal c/o Nina Klein Model Priscilla c/o Mirrrs Hair Style, Makeup Jane Jakobi c/o Nina Klein Shot at Naked Studios
Dress Rotate Birger Christensen
Photography Matt Priestley Full Look Christian Siriano Hair Style, Makeup Coco Rocha
oco C ROCHA Among the rebellious and revolutionary figures of the fashion system, you probably remember Coco Rocha. The same girl that few days ago took a bath in the pool, closing Christin Siriano’s fashion show and the New York Fashion Week and who, at the beginning of her career, spoke out loud about the absurd and often harmful rules models and fashion workers have to submit to, in order to gain a place in the glittering fashion system. The gut is, obviously, the same and the top model is a bright example for people wishing to remain true to themselves without abdicating to the fashion dream. Her story may be the recipe for success. It is, for sure, inspiring.
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back to work
Postponed fashion shows, live streamed runways, face masks on the sets, antibacterial gel between a look and the other, when will we be free to travel for work again and shoot in open places? For the professionals who went back to team work - for real, in presence - precautions are never enough. While we are waiting to see what is going to happen, let’s think about what has changed and what has not. What is the task of people who does fashion and communicate it? Despite it is comforting to go back to habits abruptly abandoned last March, the least we can do today is to question their legitimacy. Several designer have already done it, asking themselves if it is okay to produce so many collections, with so many pieces and with so tight rhythm. In addition to the abundance of ready garments, creatives are trying to reduce raw materials’ waste, using more discarded cloths for example. Topics are countless and everybody face them according to its own possibilities. We, working in communication, promise to create and share committed, honest and useful contents only. We want to preserve the Beauty of an art - fashion - we deeply love and respect, but we also want to left behind, without regret, harmful traditions.
Photography Benjamin Vitti Style Vittoria Rossi Provesi Model Justyna Maks c/o The Wolves Agency Style Assistant Irene Zucchiatti Hair Style, Makeup Eleonora Juglair Fashion Collaboraction Giacomo Dini
Dress, shirt Simon cracker / Monica Mazzanti Shoes Fabio Rusconi /s2b
must have words Giulia Greco
Autumn is here again and a quite unconventional year comes to its final stage. It is time for some relief, especially for the ones working in the fashion system, which has been particularly shaken. Future is still uncertain, but going back to the usual routine and appointments can help us feeling better. So, here we are with new seasonal trends, which bring along a wave of wellness to us writing, but also to our readers. Nothing compares new season’s excitement in the fashion field, with its colours and its fabrics, with the adrenaline and the endless possibilities new beginnings always have. In the latest period, the monolithic institution of trends has experimented changes too, as much as anything else. First of all, they last longer. If we want to build a better future, trends are the starting point when it comes to fashion, in order to reduce waste and buy less but better. Our choices are smart and chameleonic, they survive seasons and can adapt to different looks and occasions. You can wear a fluffy sweater in the evening and then pair it with a white shirt the day after at the office. Edgy combinations can be softened with tailored garments, such as a lace bodice worn with a pair of wool gabardine trousers. However things do not get boring, on the contrary. The new season prefers strong tones, literally speaking and not. Colours and prints go together without following strict rules: we can’t wait to wear white in winter and colour block outfits are coming back stronger than ever. Fabrics and shapes are just as good. Velvet is protagonist, together with leather (in each colour you may like) and shearling. Fringes are everywhere and sequin too. The real passe-partout are accessories and jewelry: if well chosen they'll stay with you all life long. Thank to them we can redefine our perception of genre and feminism, with a general going back to uncompromised femininity. Trends fall winter 2020
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4. We fell in love with this Prada dress since the first time we spotted it on the runway. It is easy in the cut, but with a profound colour which becomes precious thank to the soft velvet of the fabric. With the right accessories it can be worn both in the evening and during the day. Here you have a pair of listed white sandals by By Far, and some incredible jewels by Charlotte Chesnais, made with innovative shapes and the contrast between gold and silver. The lingerie must be on point. Slips have to be accommodating, following the shapes of the body naturally, while the bra must have smart strap, in order not to be seen. Marika Vera’s set is perfect.
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Two years ago, down jackets made their comeback and they seem to be more in trend than ever this winter. It has always been associated with a sportive style, and now it is the number one trend. Moncler’s Genius line was a turning point, of course: the collaboration has been the first one giving light to down jacket, which became funny, feminine, over the top. The one we offer you is from Prada and it fits perfectly both in the city and during a sky holiday. The look is easy but sophisticated. The sweater is by ARCH4, in 100% cashmere, while jeans comes from Totême. As usual, the attention goes to details. Watch and belt are both Salvatore Ferragamo. Socks are thick wand slightly tom boy.
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1. Moncler for Simone Rocha FW20-21 courtesy tag-walk.com 2. Toteme Studio high-rise straight-leg jeans seen at net-a-porter.com 3. Prada down nylon gabardine jacket seen at mytheresa.com 4. Undercover socks seen at farfetch.com 5. Arch4 Glenda cashmere sweater seen at net-a-porter.com 6. Salvatore Ferragamo watch seen at farfetch.com 7.Salvatore Ferragamo reversible belt seen at farfetch.com Opposite: #lookoftheeditor Signature 8 Fringed jeans dress
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he tBEAUTIFUL people While Fashion seeks new types of aesthetic and gradually challenges the idea of perfection that has dominated over its production for decades, the cultural debate on beauty languishes and the public splits. The politically-correct trend seems not have that appealing anymore and even the most engaged have difficulties in understanding and getting used to Gucci’s provocative campaigns, for example, or Vetements’ deformations. To individuate the mental schemes that bond us to outdate aesthetic models is not an easy task. They seem to belong to the most hidden part of ourselves, not reachable nor changeable, especially because they are continually reinforced. We face every day perfect bodies on Instagram posts, while filters allow us to soften the peculiarities of our faces and even change the colour of our eyes. Magazines and newspapers suggest us the best ways to have smooth skin, or the fastest diet to lose weight or, again, how to emphasize our appearance and get complimented in the office. In television, the culture of beauty is supreme, constantly reminding us that a woman (possibly wearing little clothes) is always the best entertainment. At the very beginning of this aesthetic dictatorship we find the unpunished intrusiveness of the gaze, the male one of course. It sits in judgement of what is beautiful and what is not, basing all its decision on its personal pleasure only. For this reason pop culture understands not much about Fashion that, on the contrary, defends women’s natural right of feeling good without showing, feeling beautiful without modifications and feeling desired without tricks. And if Fashion is going straight for its path, trying to set us free from the ugliness of beauty, we have the duty to live like rebels, never accepting the role of pleasurable leisure that male gaze reserved for us. Quoting a song from the 90s, let’s ask ourselves “Hey you, what do you see? Something beautiful or something free?” hoping that, in the future, the two can coincide.
Photography Fabrizio Martinelli Style Federica Reali Model Noemi Ercolani c/o Independent Milano Makeup, Hair Style Erica Peschiera
Patchwork silk dress with metal details Marni Knight leggings MRZ
Timeless youth Photographs and paintings share the same basic characteristic, which is stillness. They be the same forever and nothing really happens inside them , even if the artist tried to reproduce movement. There always is a detail though, that opens up a hole in the picture, and it's usually the place where you find the highest emotive component. In the case of an human subject, that detail are the eyes. In the stillness of past months, we had the chance to look inside us and to feel the interior turmoil of our spirit - always moving, always changing. We wish you to start a journey back into you in order to discover and understand, even the smallest and hidden parts of your character and consequently fully live every thing may occur to you. At the end of the process, you will discover that the external time does not wight on you anymore, but you are moving on your own personal rhythm. It flows from you and change your presence in the world, the way you occupy space and engage with things.
Photography Liz van Campenhout Style Inge de Lange Model Dante c/o Wilma Wakker Models Makeup, Hair Style Ellen van Exter Location Huis van de Burgemeester
STRAWBERRY
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Photography Aldona Karczmarczyk Production Van Dorsen Artist Style Kasia Łaszcz Model Daria Zhalina c/o Selective Management Warsaw Hair Style Emil Zed Makeup Aga Wilk
When, at the beginning of the XX century, photography took off, a new esthetic and cultural movement was in the process of processed. It was Surrealism, which eventually gained a manifesto in 1924 (thanks to Andrè Breton), rooted Dadaism and in Sigmund Freud’s studies on psychoanalysis. The temporal alignment brought together photography and surrealism and gave life to a strong and persistent artistic movement. Quite an odd union at first sight, the one between the photographic medium and surrealism. The former depends intrinsically on reality: we can photograph only what exists and film, paper-made-mirror of the world, is the final result of light and materiality together. On the other side, surrealism is based on the idea that there is something beyond what is tangible. The dream, the unconscious, the instincts, something substantially not visible, definitely not photographable, but able to give sense to the whole world. What brings the two together is the desire to question the canonic idea of the “point-of-view”. Surrealist artists believed there are infinite ways of interpreting the world because there are infinite ways of looking at it. The camera confirmed it, enabling multiple perspectives, unimaginable before. Circling around our subjects leads to ever changing focuses, approaching them renders them bigger and bigger until they incorporate the entire universe, by tilting our heads to the side even the horizon looks vertical. Analog photography needs nothing to challenge the limitations of our reality. The only special effect we must own is the imagination to change our sight.
DIGITAL
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words Marta Forgione
Department stores and brick-and-mortar stores have suffered yet another major blow from various lockdowns in the world, during the pandemic. It was obvious that online shopping on the various e-commerce sites would grow, even simply because of the impossibility of doing otherwise. But the truth is that the world population had already taken this direction for some time, and it's only taking shape in a more overbearing way. For decades, anyone who decides to open a shop has been discouraged by anyone in the face of the possibilities offered by internet, and whether we like it or not we must now bow our heads to the future. What we think, however - LATEST was born as a magazine that talks about positivism and possibilities, so we will continue to tip the scales on this side of things is that the only way is to move forward to always look for the right coin side in life changes, or at least the convenient one. Useless to break down, useless to look at the past with nostalgia, always thinking it was better before. It's useless to put your foot down thinking about your work as an absolute and immutable concept.
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Working from home is a dream and a nightmare at once. If you necessarily have to deal with it, better to setting some rules since the beginning. Try to define a timetable and a circums cribed space where to work, in order not to mix leisure time and working hours. Keep your phone away and dress up as if you were to go out. It is incredible how a pair of heels, or a blazer with some jewels, can lift up the spirit and help you to focus. Finally, take frequent breaks and give some oxygen to your mind. Success is assured!
Home Office
Photography Frauke Fischer Style Lisa Marie Lohmann c/o Bigoudi Model Ella Eckersley c/o Louisa Models Hair Style, Makeup Anne Marie Wittchen c/o Bigoudi
Blazer Nobi Talai Trousers Blanche X Christian Lacroix
FashInnovation 2nd edition: in conversation with
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VAN BERGEN words Ludovica Mucci
courtesy of Nest | Rebecca Van Bergen
LATEST INTERVIEW
Fashinnovation held, in June, the second edition of Worldwide Talks. The event was full of very interesting and stimulating talks around some of the crucial issues that fashion is facing nowadays. We had the pleasure to talk with some of the guests invited and we are now sharing what came out of such inspiring conversations. Fashinnovation is a digital platform based in New York that aims at bringing together many creatives, designers, and entrepreneurs of the fashion system, creating exciting dialogues around several topics.
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We had the pleasure to interview Rebecca van Bergen, Founder and Executive Director of NEST. This organization is a nonprofit 501c (3) whose aim is to build a new hand worker economy to increase global workforce inclusivity, women’s empowerment, and to keep cultural traditions alive. Rebecca participated in the talk named: “Fashion is: Sustainability & Artisanal Brands via Ethical Practices”. Together, we discussed social sustainability, her work in promoting artisanal practices that are also ethical and culturally vibrant, the role of art and design in promoting the importance of diversity, and much more.
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Photography Patrick Schwalb Style Markus Galic Model Malou | www.malou-music.com Makeup, Hair Style Dennis Brandt c/o Bigoudi Digital Operator Lucas HĂśllmĂźller
Malou In occasion of this new Latest Magazine Issue, the team has had the wonderful opportunity to speak with a super talented young artist. Malou, the Hamburg-based emerging talent with Hawaiian roots, has already made the first steps in the music industry with her Pop and Electro pop captivating sounds. Everything started with a guitar, which she taught herself, and with some lyrics to warm up the long Canadian winters. Since then, the twenty-one-year-old musician has never stopped and made of singing and songwriter her reason. What really stands out of her words is her determination and resilience, as well as the care for every detail of the process of music making. Her commitment is what brought her collaborating with several artists and playing on stage at festivals, such as the Elements Festival in 2017, which counted about 15,000 spectators. We talked about her personal style, how she copes with the downsides of the creative industries and much more. words Ludovica Mucci
Dress Traffic People | Boots Ash | Earrings Nylas
Photography David PD Hyde Style Emily Evans Model Georgina Solly c/o Milk Model Management Hair Style Ryo Narushima Makeup Laura Ones
OCEAN'S
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau - navigator, explorer but also director used to say “people protect what they love”. To support love we need knowledge and knowledge needs, in turn, presence. It is the constant flow of informations that keeps our love growing and our care perpetual. Oceans, when clean and healthy, clean the atmosphere from carbon dioxide, which is absorbed by a little seaweed named phytoplankton and then travels along the food chain - from mouth to mouth, from the plankton to the whale - until melt completely in the water. Oceans also soak up atmospheric heat, preventing the planet from overheating. Oceans and air live in an ongoing exchange and the wellbeing of the first cannot prescind the other. It is important to know it, because this is the only possible way for us to understand and act in order to stop the oceans’ destruction and give a cleaner future for our World.
Green velvet jumpsuit Kata Haratym
Full look Diane Von Furstenberg
White faux fur coat Erinn Hayhow
Editor’s letter
It takes very little to be a better person and do something good to our planet and to us. All you need is, after all, to spend some time getting informations, reading the labels and making conscious choices. When it comes to clothing, confusion is pretty high. It is because of greenwashing of course, but also because of the complexity of the topic. To prefer natural fibers seems to be the best solution in this sense, but cotton, linen and co. present some problems too. Let’s try to not demonize certain fabrics in favour of others, because it never is the solution. Better to try to understand what came before your t-shirt (who made it, how and with what resources) and, especially, what will come next, once you have discarded it. We had a chat with Giulio Bonazzi, president and CEO of Aquafil, and we made up our mind on nylon, a quite dangerous synthetic fiber which can be, with the right precautions, very light on our planet.
Aquafil’s motto is “We begin with the end in mind”: can you explain to us why this approach is so important in today’s production and consumption? In a circular economy industry, we should manufacture everything with the end in mind, and ECONYL® is one powerful ingredient in this pivotal journey. It is always important to think about what comes next, just like in nature, where there is no waste, but instead everything is transformed in something else. ECONYL® is a product that respects the environment by not taking anything from it. It is an infinitely recyclable and extremely versatile resource that offers endless possibilities.
IN CONVERSATION WITH GIULIO BONAZZI OF
AQUAFIL Words Giulia Greco - up to page 156 Here: Giulio Bonazzi and wife at GCFA 2018, ©David M. Benett Getty Images for Eco-Age Ltd Opposite: fish nets for recycling | aquafil.com
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In today’s economy the possibility of lowering consumption is hard to achieve. We live indeed in a society based on consuming, in lower or higher degree. How can circular economy answer to the need of new products while creating un-sustainable mount of pollution? While the appetite to create and enjoy new products is infinite, the planet’s resources are not. At Aquafil, we are helping to develop new products and a better environment. Nylon wasted from landfills and oceans around the world is transformed into ECONYL® regenerated nylon. It's exactly the same as brand new nylon and can be recycled, recreated and remolded again and again. That means you can create new products and buy new products without having to use new resources.
Nylon used to be one of the most polluting fibers in the fashion industry. Synthetic fibers in general are denigrated today, because they are considered notsustainable options. Why is it important to maintain synthetic fibers in the industry and what are the aspects of their production that should be controlled in order to reduce their footprint? One of the great advantages of ECONYLÂŽ is that it can be regenerated an infinite number of times without losing quality, it is therefore a recyclable fiber unlike most synthetic fabrics on the market.
Where do you find your raw materials? We have partners all around the world, such as waste collectors and fish farms. We also founded, back in 2013, the Healthy Sea initiative, whose purpose is to clean oceans and seas from marine litter such as derelict fishnets, then used in our production. Another special project we are really proud of is Net-Works, which is an innovative business that help costal communities from developing countries to rescue and then sell discarded nylon fishing nets. These are the main way we collect raw materials. Garments made with ECONYLŽ release way less
microfibers in the water when washed. How do you make it possible and how do you control this important aspect of your product? Any type of fabrics can release tiny fibers or particles when washed, which can end up in our water systems and oceans. This is a risk for marine life as well as human health, so we are following studies on this issue to seek solutions to microplastic pollution. Currently, various industries and sectors - from laundry detergent developers to washing machine producers - are involved in researching on the issue too. We are carefully monitoring all materials that we incorporate into our products and the ones we use in the production processes, to avoid negative impacts on people and the environment. We also regularly perform analyses on our products by third-party laboratories and obtain product certificates such as OEKO-TEX 100. Aquafil has worked first-hand to elaborate an analytical methodology for the quantification and evaluation of microplastics coming from textiles industry, as there is not an official method yet. Since one year now, our proposed methodology has entered the bureaucratic procedure, which will last 3 years to become an official method according to the international standard CEN and ISO.
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PAAR Photography Style Richard Schreefel Model Silke c/o Touche Models Makeup, Hair Style Charlotte van Beusekom
The definition of “luxury�, on the dictionary, relies on the concepts of expensiveness (economically speaking), sophistication and rarity, but also futility. A luxury product is something not everybody can afford - and not every time - but it is anyways not necessary in our daily life. The idea of luxury is then different for every one of us: it depends on the place, the time and the ambitions of the single, on the social group of belonging. In the following pages you will find vintage clothes only, in an editorial whose aim is to define
more conscious and definitely more appropriate for the time we are living. The new luxury is not anymore linked (only) to the price on the tag. The value of the product comes instead from the values it carries: vintage and second hand garments are the most conscious and sustainable alternative we have today. If refinement and rarity stay unaltered - nothing compare in rarity to vintage clothes, made of refined fabrics meant to last to the passage of time and the natural caducity of things - what does change is the concept of inutility. The new luxury is everything but useless, on the contrary. It is necessary to save our planet and our relationship with clothes, in order for it to come back to love, cure and longevity, despite trends.
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2021 password - yes, we like to get ahead! - will be “to reduce�. Less new clothes, that we do not need anyways, less plastic and disposable products in our houses, especially in our bathroom cabinets. To reduce consumption is indeed the only real and efficient solution when it comes to environmental protection and sustainable lifestyle. Several companies, in the last period, have been engaged to switch to biodegradable plastic in their packages and boxes. Some of them have turned to paper, in the belief that it is a valid alternative with a low impact on the planet. The truth is different. Biodegradable plastic is plant based and comes from specific agricultural crops that require a huge amount of chemicals and water, both in production and in the recycling process. Moreover, packages and boxes are rarely 100% biodegradable, solving the waste problem only partially. Paper, on its side, is not a long term solution. To increase the use of paper also means to increase the pressure on forests, without even mentioning that to dispose it is more problematic that it may seem. If the situation looks far too complicated for you to deal with it, do not lose hope, this article is made appositely for you. Few changes in your routine will greatly affect on your consumption, weighing less on the planet but also on your wallet. They are indeed small investments that will repay your commitment and will make you happy in the long term. Our beauty list for the Fall Winter '20-21 is all about sustainability trend, and it focuses on the essential steps of our daily routine, making it lighter. From the ultimate skincare to the products to use in the shower, passing through personal hygiene and period, here you have the best path to a zero-impact beauty!
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LATEST BEAUTY l mondo della cosmetica è ultimamente protagonista di un cambiamento molto lontano dall’essere
Foto by Daria Shevtsova
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Photography Les Mijotés using FUJIFILM Style Wilford Lenov Model Sanne Vloet c/o Heroes Models NY Hair Style Sienree using Oribe Makeup Chelsea Sule using MAC cosmetics
anne S VLOET To talk with - and to listen to - young generations is important, not only for marketing researches but also for who, like us, wants to leave them a better world, tailored on their new needs. Values have indeed changes, very much and very quickly. Millennials, gen z, x and y grew up in globalization, know well consumerism and have a preferential access to informations, thanks to digital media. The ensemble of these three characteristics build up very attentive and demanding consumers, who buy only brands in line with their believes. Among their priorities we find the environment but also fair production and physical and mental wellbeing. Everything is connected. Sanne Vloet is part of this committed generation, she believes in its transformative power and started herself, together with the peer Bénédicte Bakar, a skincare brand with our skin and our planet in mind. Izé, this is its name, produces nutritive oils for our skin and makes them with the best ingredients possible. Every component is controlled, grown and worked in the US, the packaging is sustainable and the business is involved in social and eco-friendly projects. If we would make a list of must-have-characteristics of raising brands, these would be for sure in the top five.
words Giulia Greco - up to page 189
On back cover and here: Two piece set Lakris | Ring Helenium p.180
Lines in the Sand Lines, especially the ones drawn in the sand, are made to be cancelled and continuously moved. Next seasons’ fashion adopts the same philosophy and invites us to dress more fluid garments, flexible and loose from every possible static definition. It is not only the end of body’s constriction, but also the suggestion to expand our shapes and let them move and meet the world around us. Nature, after all, is in itself made of exuberant elements which do not limitate themselves but, also, grow bigger and change. Omnia Mutantur: waves in the oceans, dunes in the sand, clouds carried by the wind and us too, in a constant flux that links today and tomorrow forever.
Photography Damian Weilers Art Direction Charlotte Watts Style Dee Moran Models Madeleine c/o Elite Model World and Lottie Select Model London Makeup Wendy Turner c/o Frank Agency using Tom Ford Hair Style Rose Angus c/o S:Managment using Maria Nila Stockholm Post Production Emma Balcomb
LOTTIE: Dress Roksanda | Earrings Chloe
MADELEINE: Dress Roksanda | Boots Legres | Earrings MM6 M aison M argiela
a guide to ACCESSORIES trends to PERFECTLY ENTER IN FW 2020-21 This winter will certainly not be a winter like all the others. The upcoming season will be dominated by uncertainty and anxieties caused by the coronavirus pandemic, with which we may perhaps have to live with for quite a while. Here the autumn-winter 2021 accessories decline the not-so-rosy atmosphere we have in front of us with new and interesting trends partly inspired by the historical moment we are experiencing, partly addressed from the opposite side, leveraging on design, materials and chromatic inspirations that they aim at toning down and making us dream of better times.
Glam AUTUMN Here and opposite: all accessories by Sweet Deluxe Bags: Fringes, Chains and Shearling | Bracelet, Earrings Pearls and Chains
words Ludovica Mucci
An accessory that has dominated most of 2020 and that will continue to be the subject of our daily life is certainly the mask. From an aseptic tool, intended for surgical and protective purposes, the mask has undergone radical transformations in recent months, becoming a multifaceted fashion accessory, to be combined with any dress and occasion thanks to the infinite designs, textures, patterns applied to it. A trend that has emerged in recent months and which will surely have followed in the autumnwinter season is the face mask supported by the chain to wear around the neck. The design is the same as the glasses with a chain (which, as Vogue Italia points out, made a comeback last summer). The idea seems to work, especially because the use of the neck chain seems to be a more hygienic solution than keeping the mask tied to the elbow or hand or worse - folded on the table. The solution is already in vogue abroad, where some international brands have immediately put their product on the market. Lady Gray, Jules Kae and Donni are examples of this. Fringes, among the absolute protagonists of this season. They are everywhere. Chains, extended to dresses, shoes, necklaces and bags, represent one of the dominant trends of the season. Large or small, they are an ornament that certainly does not go unnoticed and that adds that extra touch of aggression even on the most delicate clothes or accessories. The combination of chains with soft fabrics and elegant cuts gives depth to the garments, creating interesting contrasts between harmony and chaos, seduction and constraints. In this regard, it is certainly necessary to mention the current line drawn by many brands which is based precisely on this theme. The juxtaposition of elements belonging to different ensembles creates new meanings and functions, and this is exactly what many fashion players are experimenting with in their collections. Seduction and sensuality, for example, take on different meanings and depths thanks to the combination of less aggressive, more romantic and soft materials. Fetish and fashion have been walking together for a very long time; it is a combination that has its origins from the entry of fetish into popular culture, just think of the Catwoman portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer, and many other super heroines dressed in black leather and vinyl costumes. p.203
REFLECTION Still life theme in art is recurrent and charged with profound meanings. It is the representation of inanimate objects, usually fruits, flowers, fishes and wildlife, which become the symbol of transience, the unavoidable decay brought about by the passage of time. In the same time however, Still Life is also the promotion of objects which - usually subordinated to men’s usage and power - are now autonomous carriers of values, protagonists as much as human beings. Here, accessories are the main focus of the entire story. Shoes, hats and especially jewels fight for the central stage. Their colours are bright,, their shapes are unusual, slightly architectonic. Fun for sure. If everything is temporary, do remember that jewels are forever.
Photography Maria Dominika Style Malin Rickertsen Set design Carina Dewhurst Model Jona c/o Mirrrs Makeup Susanna Helén Hair Style Kosuke Ikeuchi Assistant. Laura Françis
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Opposite: Cala Luna, Sardinia by Adele Claassens
LATEST Paradise words Marta Forgione up to page 225
Our beautiful Italy, known by all in the world for beauty of all kinds. Yet we, Italians, often have the desire to travel elsewhere, discover, get out of our cultural normality. Not that it's wrong obviously, indeed, those born with the curiosity of different will only want to see other realities. This year, however, due to the pandemic that we have all lived and are still living, we felt compelled to sponsor and enhance our beloved country. Do you like luxury? Would you like a trip full of relaxation, shopping in the fashion cities, or discover the wonderful and unspoiled nature of remote areas? Or, why not, succeed to reconcile both to never get bored? So let's talk about the fantastic possibility to take a sustainable journey right here, starting from the eternal city, and with some straight to make the path really rich of unforgettable memories. Rent a car. Here is the first step for an unforgettable journey in which you can enjoy landscapes, stop when you want, but above all choose wonderful sustainable hotels that perhaps, unfortunately, are not exactly close to train stations and airports. Whether you arrive by train or plane, in the immediate vicinity you will find various agencies to rent the car that best suits your trip, depending on how many you are and how much luggage you have. We advise you to book your vehicle before leaving, directly when you buy the ticket. You will save money and be able to choose the best car.
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Runway Bride is a love story in bright colours. It speaks about a new generation of women whose main attributes are freedom and determination. They are married to fashion, they exchange promises of eternal support and they are faithful to themselves only. They do not have any limit and, if find any on their path, they just born it down. Do you remember what happens when Thelma said to Louise “You said you and me was gonna get outta town and, for once, just really let our hair down. Well, darlin', look out, 'cause my hair is comin' down!”
Photography Marina Vengut Style Francisco Ugarte Models Naomy Garcia C/O Elite Barcelona & Oliwia Lis C/O Trend Model Management Hair Style, Makeup Mariona Botella c/o Kasteel Artist Management Production Assistant Alexandru Rus
Naomi (Left): Turtleneck, Dress, Boots Vivetta | Hoodie Balenciaga (Mytheresa) Oliwa (Right): Coat Misbhv | Top And Trousers Didu | Shoes Unif
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