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Issue 25: Togetherness
Photography by Alyona Kuzmina Featuring Hermes S/S 2020
A new relationality. With Melati Suyodarmo, CFGNY, Telfar Clemens, Nathan Yong and Forensic Architecture
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Being Human Alongside Covid-19
by Chieng Wei Shieng
What does it mean to be human alongside Covid-19’s disruptions to normalcies and progress?
Thinking out of the Box
by Clifford Loh
Loewe's Show in a Box is a reminder of the power of imagination and the limitless expanse that our minds can afford.
The Birkin of Lips
by Allysha Nila
With a single lipstick from the collection being sold at SGD 103, Rouge Hermès is the Birkin for lips. But it’s not just the price that makes it so.
Hip-Hop & High Fashion: Unpacking the Cultural Contradiction
by Jek Woo
Hip-hop’s evolution into a global cultural force and the runway’s appropriation of it have raised questions around the inherent tension between the roots of hip-hop music and values these brands embody.
One Place After Another
Photography by Leandro Quintero
Walks—actual and imagined—are story-telling in motion. Featuring Gucci Spring/ Summer 2020.
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Of Bodies and Butter: An Interview with Melati Suryodarmo
by Grace Hong
We spoke to the Indonesian performance artist on occasion of her museum retrospective.
No Space Just a Place
by Clifford Loh
The perennial question of how to live together has never assumed more urgency than in our current time.
Planetarity: a relational ethics other than globalisation
by Jill J. Tan
Understanding heterogeneity with humility but not futility via Gayatri Spivak.
The Space Between
Photography by Stefan Khoo
Day and night, land and water, we explore in-between spaces with Chanel's Cruise 2021 and the Coco Crush collection.
How to design for the end of the world: Gucci's Epilogue
by Joshua Comaroff
Fashion finds new footing through unprecedented means.
Objects for an Ideal home
Photography by Prayogo Yoedo
The mundane, accumulated, discarded, ubiquitous and forgotten are all coming to life—and we now finally have the room to witness it.
Open Call: Together as One Another
By Vulture Magazine
What do we need to do now, against the backdrop changing what it means and how much it means to be together?
On Masking
by Joshua Comaroff
The mask is a form of collective care, in a moment of capital that is marked most by the wholesale rejection of human reciprocities and entanglements.
Cultural Crossroads
by Clifford Loh
Nouri’s Ivan Brehm proves that food can also impart an aesthetic and multicultural experience with their new outpost, Appetite.
Mistranslation and Diaspora: The Brilliance of Fashion Collective CFGNY
by Simon Wu
The Asian-American designers embrace alienation as an integral aspect of identity.
2020 Fashion & Culture Retrospective
by Allysha Nila & Clifford Loh
We’ve truly kicked off a new decade in the most absurd way possible—and it just gets wilder with each month.
Cultural Dictionary: Fragmentation
by Olakiitan Adeola
Why fragmentation makes way for newer forms of being.
The Pursuit of Personal Mythology
by Rebecca Tan
Home is where we strive to restore ourselves; where we attempt to shake the alienation of a dead-end job or superficial interactions.
Rituals of care
by Ashlin Ballif
Fresh perspectives: practices to further refine your body and psyche.
Learn how to lucid dream
by Ashlin Ballif
Fresh perspectives: practices to further refine your body and psyche.
What's your pronouns?
by Ashlin Ballif
Fresh perspectives: practices to further refine your body and psyche.
Forming a new habit and breaking it
by Tang Jialei
Turn off the autopilot: manoeuvres to transform the everyday.
Third Tones
by Tang Jialei
Recommendations to make room for explorations in the everyday. It’s time to switch up your routine.
Media Recommendations
by Tang Jialei
Recommendations to make room for explorations in the everyday. It’s time to switch up your routine.
Decluttering Skincare Regiment
by Grace Hong
Fresh perspectives: practices to enliven routine and re-energise the soul.
Incense Burning
by Tang Jialei
Fresh perspectives: practices to further refine your body and psyche.
Reading a biography of someone you don't like
by Olivia Wong
Turn off the autopilot: manoeuvres to transform the everyday.
Regenerated Fabrics
by Tang Jialei
Fresh perspectives: practices to further refine your body and psyche.
Read Art and Only Art
by Grace Hong
Recommendations to make room for explorations in the everyday. It’s time to switch up your routine.
Buying Proper Furniture
by Grace Hong
Recommendations to make room for explorations in the everyday. It’s time to switch up your routine.
Learning the Art of Chado
by Olivia Wong
Turn off the autopilot: manoeuvres to transform the everyday.
Advanced Homecare
by Tang Jialei
Fresh perspectives: practices to further refine your body and psyche.
A tee for all occasions
by Grace Hong
Recommendations to make room for explorations in the everyday. It’s time to switch up your routine.
Mix and match furniture styles
by Grace Hong
Fresh perspectives: practices to enliven routine and re-energise the soul.
Read Ursula K Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
by Grace Hong
Fresh perspectives: practices to enliven routine and re-energise the soul.
Perfume Layering
by Grace Hong
Recommendations to make room for explorations in the everyday. It’s time to switch up your routine.
Bangkok Publishing Residence
by Grace Hong
Fresh perspectives: practices to enliven routine and re-energise the soul.
Embark on a home-based retreat
by Olivia Wong
Fresh perspectives: practices to enliven routine and re-energise the soul.
Reorganising your bookshelf
by Marie Lim
Recommendations for explorations in the everyday. It’s time to switch up your routine.
Choosing Tableware with Character
by Grace Hong
Fresh perspectives: practices to enliven routine and re-energise the soul.
Make your own pourover coffee
by Grace Hong
Turn off the autopilot: manoeuvres to transform the everyday.
Taking a technological sabbatical
by Grace Hong
Recommendations to make room for explorations in the everyday. It’s time to switch up your routine.
Read Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
by Lionel Ong
Recommendations to make room for explorations in the everyday. It’s time to switch up your routine.
Changing your morning routine
by Olivia Wong
Fresh perspectives: practices to enliven routine and re-energise the soul.
Investing in a Timepiece
by Grace Hong
Fresh perspectives: practices to enliven routine and re-energise the soul.
Consuming media in another language
by Marie Lim
Recommendations for explorations in the everyday. It’s time to switch up your routine.