Mario Sorrenti has been an important part of contemporary fashion photography since he came onto the scene in the early 1990s.
Issue #03:
Out Of The Shadows
All in Feature
Von Röutte
For Brazilian-born but Sydney based couple Marina Tokarski and Gus Agra, starting a premium leather goods and apparel store was not always a fait accompli. Studying overseas in Australia, Tokarski in biology and Agra in communications, the two became close.
Introducing: William Édouard
Jeweller William Drury did not always know that he was going to design and make his own jewellery, but perhaps it was a path that he could have seen coming.
A Meeting of Worlds: Callista Crafts
Now at the top of lists of must-stops for designers and stylists when they visit Athens, Callista Crafts did not pop up overnight. For the past six years, its cofounders Eleni Konstantinidis and Celia Sigalou have been returning to the traditional methods of leatherworking in their construction of elegant and minimalist bags for the local and international market.
Getting it Made: The State of Fashion Manufacturing in Australia
While Australian fashion’s finest were being dazzled on the runways installed in the Royal Exhibition Building for Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival, a couple of blocks north in a Fitzroy backstreet, interested consumers and industry observers were being shown into a graffiti covered building.
Holly Ryan: The Line Between The Two
From dainty earrings to bold statuettes, artist Holly Ryan's sculpture and jewellery forms cross between disciplines. She draws from sources as diverse as the coarse, natural beauty of the Sunshine Coast, the mystical feminine, and rituals of wabi sabi, a Japanese philosophy of transience and imperfection across both creative pursuits.
Sailing on many winds: Photographer, Designer and Philanthropist Marina Vernicos
The twisting and turning path that creative practice can lead one down is well known but always unique. For photographer Marina Vernicos, her journey has taken her from photography to philanthropy and fashion.
Kaizen Store and the new wave of online retail
One of a new breed of fashion retailers, meeting with James Harden of Kaizen Store demonstrated the increasingly emphemeral nature of style today. After first discovering Kaizen Store on Instagram, I reached out to the generic gmail address given as the contact.
It’s All Fluff
It's funny because I wouldn't say that I'm obsessed with beauty at all or that I'm inherently drawn to the beauty industry,” noted Geraerts. We are in the offices of creative agency Love + Money, on Melbourne’s Gertrude Street, which share premises with It’s All Fluff and have helped create much of the brand’s visual identity.
Beyond The Salon: Usfin Atelier
As our business grows we have a greater responsibility to give back to our community. We have a large Asian clientele coming from overseas, and they only came when they are young, like me.”
Spunky Bruiser
Take a flight of stairs down from Oxford Street, or walk in via a lane in Darlinghurst, and you will enter the multi-coloured, many textured worlds of Spunky Bruiser, where no two garments are the same.