Skin
Photography by Sergey Rogov.
Plain, polished, and frozen fashion photography is a thing of the past. Pristine skin marred with scars and imperfect features have become signs of distinction; the beauty standards that once were are being demolished. Society craves underground edge and new alternative norms. Saint Laurent’s runway is laden with tattooed figures, Alice Dellal claims her role in Chanel’s latest campaign, and Rick Genest, otherwise known as “Zombie Boy”, stuns as the newest muse of Thierry Mugler. Their poses – which at times may appear less than elegant, much like those of the dancers in Degas’ paintings – shock, attract and amaze. As a sculptor, Sergey plays with flesh as if it were wax. As a painter, he highlights the use of contrasts and chiaroscuro. As a director, he depicts the story of a fashion thriller played by glamourous models. The century of pinup girls, Barbies and other unrealistically formed dolls is over. Out of his cocoon made from cotton candy-colored feathers, Sergey depicts the world of today through his choice of models. He sees a world of aggression, cosmopolitan, and violence; a world of contrasts where anything is possible.
Written by: Maria Shakhnova
Love & Vanity
Fashion editorial from Warsaw.
Photo: Krystian Lipiec
Model: Lukasz – actor
Grzegorz – young artist
Retouch: Dawid Zadlo / Kreski Corp.
Green trousers and blue shirt designed by Alicia Konarska
White t-shirt by H&M and black shorts by Wrangler
NULLA DIES SINE LINEA
I saw but I see but I saw you drawing, drawing, drawing.
Antonio Marras, who rises against “purisms”, is about to invite us to embark on the voyage, a nomadic voyage to the land of memory: silence, voice, silence. He questions with intellectual curiosity an anarchic, chaotic and erratic female figure. Antonio Marras, speaking the language of experimentations, takes us through his footsteps, (re)elaborating the seen and unseen artifacts, drawings, paintings (… that do give witness to the emotive realities of the narrator). Through a series of installations, he illustrates his researches, defining and redefining the nature of the fashion alphabet as universal: fabric, frame, fabric.
Antonio Marras: Nulla dies sine linea, an anthological exhibition curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, opens its doors at La Triennale di Milano today October 21.
You saw me, me waiting, thinking, waiting for you to draw me in waters of restlessness.
by Marco Martello
