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Issue 27: Disobedience
Photography by Issac Lam featuring Hermes Fall/ Winter 2021
Colouring outside the lines. With Fela Kuti, Ong Keng Sen, Amanda Lee Koe, Bagyi Aung Soe, and Friedemann Vogel.
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by Clifford Loh
Aesop elevate womens' voices and authors with its latest ephemeral Women's Library initiative in Singapore.

Photography by Issac Lam
We embark on a poetic journey to contemplate the multiple complexities, layers to gender, and performativity with Hermès Fall/Winter 2021.

by Billy Tang
A look into the etymology of the word "authenticity" and its use by immigrants against the dominant culture.

by Kosmas Pavlos
Through the silent language of ballet, Friedemann Vogel, the principal dancer of the Stuttgart Ballet, speaks his truth.

by Bruce Quek
Sookoon Ang's Living for Art considers the economic precarity of the global art industry.

by Chieng Wei Shieng
Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen reflects on art and Singapore.

by Melanie Chua
Known as the “Father of Afrobeat”, the honest, fearless lyrics of Fela Kuti was inseparable from the politics of a burgeoning Nigeria.

by Clifford Loh
A new exhibition by The Observatory at the Singapore Art Museum takes inspiration from the humble fungi.

by Amanda Lee Koe
An écriture féminine auto fiction piece by New York-based, Singaporean novelist Amanda Lee Koe in partnership with Chanel to explore the tensions in "disobedience" in the context of Singapore.

by Clifford Loh
Aesop’s latest eau de parfum collection finds an ideal metaphor in the liminal spaces of poetic imagination.

by Joshua Comaroff & Allysha Nila
From the sartorial to the technical, the historical to the practical, a radical overview of the garments that have shaped our bottom half.

by Allysha Nila
Singapore-based fashion labels See You At One and Youths in Balaclava share their perspective on how disobedience can serve as a means of a voice and future for brands.

by Nick Hudson
Discover our collaboration with Valentino on the second edition of the V Logo Signature campaign.