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Co-Editor-In-Chief Erin Leverington Creative Director Kendall Jackson Art Director Taylor “Plum” Plummer Editorial Director Cali Artigues

Photographers Augusto Silva Alliegro Emma Craft Lucy Hewitt Cat Nguyen Max Pollak Angie Stone Christine Vszczepaniak Fashion Kendall Jackson Cali Artigues Lian Najarian Taylor Plummer

Producer Anthony O’Baner

Legal Deposit B-124797-2018 ISSN 2730-2411 Printed in U.S.

Thank You! Flagpole Savannah Arts Acadamy Thread & Onion Susan Mason Roberi & Fraud Kendra Scott

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Editor-In-Chief Troy Allen

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INDIVIDUAL RAW NON-TRADITIONAL POWERFUL LIGHTNESS

These are words that describe how we see this magazine, for power comes in many different forms. There’s the traditional forms of power, like the superhero who sweeps the damsel away, but that’s not what we consider true power.

POWER is a way of expressing, as a way of getting what you want and not shying away from breaking out of traditional social norms.

This is why Book Five is the power issue.

In working with the photographers, stylists, designers, and models, we are able to identify and understand what makes each of these people feel powerful and maximize each person’s strengths in doing so.

With POWER being the main focus, we decided to look past that with each new page showing that idea in a new way that isn’t the most typical take on the idea.

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INDIVIDUAL RAW NON-TRADITIONAL POWERFUL LIGHTNESS

Power is defined as an ability. It is how we control a situation in a specific way. This magazine was created to showcase how human beings from all walks of life can come together to show that through the human spirit we are powerful..

The images that you see in this issue reflect the people that created this magazine. We represent artists. We represent humans. We represent ourselves.

We’re here to show you that power is a reflection of human existence. You are power.

We exhibit power through individuality, through our senses, through our natural born ideas, and through our talents. It doesn’t matter who you are or why you are. It just matters that you are. You are you. You are power.

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BEAUTY COMES FROM STRANGE PLACES

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Two years ago I started

“The Sex Series” as a gi-

ant #MeToo project veiled by the wanting to make sex inclusive and comfortable. It never felt this way to me. I never felt fully safe being intimate with any of you. Contrary to what most of y’all think, I did not start this project because I’m sexually progressive or because I love the d or because I like tight crop tops and am comfortable shaking my ass in front of a camera. I started it because there was an issue with being 22 and not being able to kiss any of you without my body physically rejecting the idea of sex.

I started it because I never wanted you to take me on a date for fear of what would come after. I didn’t want to give you my real number because I don’t want you to text me every night after I don’t respond for two weeks. I “friend zoned” you because we’re fucking friends. You slept on the couch because I didn’t trust you in my bed. I started this project because it took my ex boyfriend weeks of asking if it was okay to kiss me and if it was alright to take my top off- something very few, if any, of you ever did-

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before I could let my guard down. Sex was scary, is

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Visual Stuff

Is the power of brands or the power the brands give?

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BEING GOOD DOESN’T GET YOU ANYTHING

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The millennial ideal is forcing designers to be differ-

So how do brands keep up with us? This is the

ent or die. In a society where every individual strives

million-dollar question that could decide which

to be special, owning the same brand names as ev-

brands stand on top of the rest. Personal cus-

eryone else just doesn’t make you cool anymore.

tomization is the direction that we are heading

Fast fashion is thriving due to their ability to keep

in. Customization doesn’t mean choosing what

their shelves stocked with trendy items that last just

colors your laces are, it means having an artist

long enough to be worn and then thrown out to

create a one of a kind design on your shoes

make room for the new. But even at this level, we

that allows you to stand apart from everyone

are still struggling to represent ourselves.

else on the street. It isn’t easy, and that’s the point.

Individuality is the finish line. We strive to be

just as cool as everyone else, but our fashion tastes

dare not compete. Sneakers are a great example of

having an identifiable label on your shirt. It’s

how we compare ourselves to each other. Adidas

about having a piece that might as well be in a

versus Nikes? How limited is your pair? The only

museum. Unique, eclectic, and personal items

way to compete in the fashion universe is to thrift

will be the most successful. It’s no longer just

something so unique that no one else can find it, or

about fashion, it’s about representing our be-

to buy something so expensive that no one else can

liefs in our everyday clothing decisions. Fash-

afford it. The middle lane is for the people that set-

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Branding should no longer be about

“Fashion is change.”

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A LOT CAN BE SAID IN THE ABSENCE OF WORDS

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What may be perceived as a superficial industry that is only obsessed with making people look pretty, fashion is one of the largest and most important industries in the world. The global apparel market is currently valued at 3 trillion dollars and employees one out of every four people. As the second largest polluter in the world, next to the oil industry, the apparel industry plays an important role in lessening the world’s footprint. It is more than just sequins and stilettos. It is an integral part of many of our lives.

When I first started saying I wanted to work in fashion, I felt like I needed to explain myself so that I did not come off as a shallow girl that cared more about Prada than Putin. I’d be out with friends who dreamt of studying pediatric oncology or third world economics so, when it was my turn to answer the inevitable question “what do you want to do” I felt like I needed to rethink my plans.

Fashion is so much more than a bunch of girls sitting around talking about florals. It has the ability to define an entire era, culture, movement, job,

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In life, the trivial things that matter most. Think about it. Who are you closer to, the person you only talk to when something big happens, or the person you send pictures to get their opinion of a shirt you just bought? What about the friend who notices when you dye your hair from blonde to pink versus the friend who notices when you get two inches cut off? Little seemingly unimportant things are what keep our relationships (human or material) together.

If you are opening a store and spend months creating a business plan and curating product but quickly throw together the store layout – aka what people see when they walk in the door- who will buy what you’re selling? In a runway show, a designer can have an amazing well thought out concept, but if it is not executed with an acute sense to detail it will fall short. Attention to detail on a dress can take it from a mere tailored piece of fabric to a work of art. Look at Lagerfeld, Allessandro Michele, Galliano, Raf Simons, and Phoebe Philo. They are all incredible designers who wow onlookers every season, but if their ideas had not been executed with a scrupulous attention to detail by a team of hard working individWithout attention to superficial things, there would be no fashion. We would be back living in the stone age when clothes were merely a way of covering up. There would be no expressing yourself, art would be less interesting, celebrity would lose its appeal, and boundaries would be pushed slower than before.

What’s on the outside does matter, but it doesn’t add to or take away from what’s on the inside.

Fashion has taught me that and now when I get asked “what do you do,” I am not embarrassed to say I work in fashion. After all, every industry is superficial to some degree. Fashion is just the only one that admits it.

“what do you do”

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And God planted the Garden of Eden in the East and their God put a human being whom God had made out of the ground. God made every tree grow and every tree that is pleasant to the sight is good for food and the Tree of Life which is the knowledge of good and evil. God commanded Adam you may freely eat of every tree in the garden but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge for on the day that you eat of it you shall die.

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“The power of hope and faith will save us from ourselves.”

A concept for the process and progress on race in America. As humans we must know the difference between good and evil, between what is right and also what is wrong. For this knowledge is called Strange Fruit. Strange Fruit is powerful enough to see pain and powerful enough to dish it to others. *Ques Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit* A protest song against the Terrorism known as lynching. Billie Holiday took the terror and turned it against itself and what was meant for terror, it was now turn into faith. Took the art and degradation and reversed it remaking into the art of dignity and indignation. The Art of hope and Justice.

The power of hope, of faith will save us from ourselves. Seeing beauty in yourself, seeing beauty in your culture, seeing beauty in your black skin, taking what others meant for bad and turning it into something good and also using it to save us from ourselves.

Our Strange fruit (African Americans) will heal the land. For we are made in the image of the one who flips the scrips again and again to work for our good.

We are all made to love.

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