Shot by Kern: Seven years of intimate portraits by photographer Richard Kern

Shot by Kern


The thin line between fine art and explicit material has been tiptoed by adventurous artists for generations, but few contemporary photographers expose the alluring and complex nature of the naked female form quite as well as NYC-based ); return…

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SuicideGirls: Hard Girls, Soft Light: Tats, garters and brazen confidence in a photographic look at the underground movement

SuicideGirls: Hard Girls, Soft Light

by Tara Fraser While pin-up girls have been around in some form for more than 100 years, the duo behind SuicideGirls paved their way onto the scene in 2001 by taking an alternative approach to mainstream notions of beauty. These days SuicideGirls are known internationally through their highly trafficked online…

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Fashion Rising: Artisanal luxury goods support V-Day’s global women’s initiative

Fashion Rising

Approximately one in three—that’s the statistic for women who will be raped or beaten in their lifetime, a demographic that works out to one billion worldwide. Eve Ensler and her nonprofit, V-Day, aim to change this statistic with One Billion Rising, a global call to action for people to…

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Interview: Wildfang: Menswear-stealing women welcome the world’s first home for the tomboy

Interview: Wildfang

With the seemingly simple choice of what to wear each day we decide how the world will perceive us. One’s style can often be the most important outlet in portraying a sense of individuality. While there’s certainly no shortage of budding brands speaking to all sorts of aesthetics, it…

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Kickstapants

Show support for two new supportive undergarments

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Kickstarter helps get an array of independent endeavors off the ground every day. While many of these entrepreneurial projects revolve around the arts, we recently found two creative minds using the funding platform to up the underwear game. Each with a different motive, both JoeyBra and Flint and Tinder aim to enhance our lives with a new take on the ubiquitous undergarment. Check out the “kickstapants” projects below.

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A concept sure to be a hit among ladies who love to go out and dance or go for a run, the JoeyBra gives women the advantage of a hidden pocket in their bra. The small side compartments are big enough to fit an iPhone, but the elastic seams keep it all conveniently secure. The JoeyBra is the brainchild of two business students at the University of Washington who will use the funding to first create an adjustable sexy push-up style with a sports bra to follow.

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Former FHM Magazine editor and Buckyballs founder Jake Bronstein would simply like to bring men’s underwear production back to the US. His idea is Flint and Tinder, a line of premium Supima cotton skivvies made in a family-run factory. Comfort and function are key components to the three styles in his collection, but another driving force is job creation—for every 1,000 pairs sold, one full-time job is generated.


Tranquil Tuesdays

Our interview with Charlene Wang on her socially responsible tea brand

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In a cozy showroom nestled in the alleys of old Beijing, we met Charlene Wang of Tranquil Tuesdays upon her return from the spring harvest of white peony tea in Fujian province. Wang has combined her passion for tea and her background as a US State Department human rights officer to create her brand, which aims to bring back the purity of ancient tea tradition. Traveling to the hot spots of tea in China, she builds personal relationships with local family farms and to source the best natural tea in the country.

Her company is a social enterprise that works closely with people in rural China, providing training, encouragement and support. At the same time, Charlene works with young designers from Jingdezheng, China’s epicenter for the best pottery to refine the
experience of style related to tea culture. We talked to Wang to learn more about her thoughtful venture.

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Excellent tea and beautiful teaware hold represent the essence of what you called “pure releaf”—what is the idea behind this concept?

The cool idea comes from my sister, and I immediately found it brilliant! I feel “pure releaf” perfectly embodies all the values we want to offer. I think the phrase gives the idea of tranquility, calmness, purposeful quiet, a kind of refuge feeling which is a
strong part of traditional tea culture. And then it’s “pure” because we concentrate only on natural, unscented, unblended tea, so just pure tea.

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Your varieties include White peony tea, Organic Jadesword Green Tea, Tieguanyin Oolong tea, Keemun black tea, ancient tree raw Pu’er—how do you source all these teas? Do you plan to expand your collection?

We need to travel to the area, to see different farms, to meet people and build relationships before we even think of ordering tea from them. Sometimes I travel off season, to meet farmers and see how they take care of their land. In Fujian I was there seeing the leaves been picked and how they made. They only pick one season instead of the usual three, in order to preserve the quality of the plants. I build a friendship with my suppliers and we often share some of the key moments of their work. For Oolong tea, I stayed at a farmer’s house for a week during the fall harvest. I was on the
second floor of a local family’s workshop and every morning I could wake up to the smell of freshly made Oolong.

We want to add other qualities of tea to our collections but it requires a lot of work and for the moment we’re a bit overloaded. I’d love to add a yellow tea in the near future.

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Tranquil Tuesdays is also about teaware, how did you start your cooperation with studios in Jingdezhen?

I had several trips to Jingdezhen, which is nationally considered the home of traditional Chinese porcelain. The first time I was there as a tourist and I was totally amazed. Some local young designers have been able to take this tradition of craftsmanship and add a modern feeling to it. The first artist I’ve been working with is Zhang Min, who’s taking the traditional blue and white theme from Ming dynasty and kind
of twisting it to give a natural breath of life to our teaware. Then I met Ke Zhongxiang, who’s making the celadon line, and I was fascinated by his creative studio’s setup, in the simplicity of his small workshop some of his artworks really stood out. Zhu Xuan is making our crystalline glaze line, bringing back an ancient special technique of glazing zinc oxide before firing, to produce an unique effect where crystals spontaneously form on the surface, making each piece unique.

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Do you just source products from them or you participate in the whole design process?

I was inspired by their collections and I love their personal style, we’ve been working closely to build our own lines. They all run small workshops and our cooperation often requires a long time. We define each single piece together, we adjust the proportions, sometimes we work online on QQ (the most-used Chinese messenger), sometimes they
also make drawings live online using their kids tablets! I also travel back there, we discuss details personally and I can also see our teaware getting out of the community kiln. We work together from the beginning to the end to build our current feeling.

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How would you define the “pure releaf” aesthetic?

The idea is to take very classical, traditional, ancient art and porcelain-making and give it a kind of contemporary twist. We aim to make a fresh vision of what it means to be Chinese. Most of Europeans and Americans identify Chinese styles with flashy colors and a kind of kitsch style but if you go back to the roots of Chinese culture there are several examples of fine simplicity. To give an example, celadon has been China’s most prized porcelain since the Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.), when it was largely traded with the Middle East. Until the 14th century, no one outside China and Korea was able to produce it, but sometimes, when people see the stunning beauty and simplicity of Chinese celadon handcrafts, they ask if it’s Japanese!

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Tranquil Tuesdays products are available online
and delivered worldwide.


Stop the Cycle Campaign

L’agence Lowe a pu penser cette nouvelle campagne print pour l’Association of Women for Action and Research. Avec des photographies de Sebastian Siah, le montage sur le cycle de la violence sur les femmes est bien souligné. L’ensemble est à découvrir dans la suite.



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The Killing Joke

Découverte de ce bon court-métrage par Sebastian Lopez d’une durée de 15 minutes entre suspense et fiction. L’histoire d’une femme mystérieuse qui trouve un ballon rouge, attaché à une boîte dans une rue abandonnée. Un tournage uniquement réalisé avec deux Canon 7D.



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Adidas Women – Go all in

Après la diffusion du spot principal “Adidas is all in”, voici la nouvelle campagne d’Adidas consacrée aux femmes et aux ambassadrices des trois grandes divisions de la marque. Une réalisation de That-Go sur la chanson New Thing de Rye Rye. A découvrir dans la suite de l’article.



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Leslie Fremar for Fruit of the Loom

A stylist teams up with a t-shirt giant to make great tees for women at an even better price
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The story is annoyingly familiar. You’re in the market for a well-fitting, simple t-shirt but paying designer prices for a cotton basic seems ridiculous. Celebrity stylist Leslie Fremar had been turning to Fruit of the Loom’s boy’s shirts or ribbed tanks in larger sizes since high school as a solution, so she decided to make a good thing better.

Introducing her eye for fashion to Fruit of the Loom’s classics, Fremar designed an exclusive collection of tops—a tee, standard tank and racerback tank. These comfortable and well-cut designs are long enough so you can be active, and the soft, lightweight cotton is perfect for layering or keep it breezy when worn alone on summer days.

We might miss shopping in the men’s department, but the better fit and fabrics will soon push the wife beaters to the back of your drawers. Leslie Fremar for Fruit of the Loom tees sell from select Bloomingdale’s stores. For now, make sure you visit the chain’s larger locations (until September, when they will be available in more stores). Each top sells for $18 or snag one of the brand’s famous three-packs for $40.