SCENTS AND SCENTSIBILITIES
The magic of a fragrance is equal to the sum of its parts and often, one note sits higher than the rest. From smoky oud to fresh white flowers, metallic aldehydes to synthesised suede, here you’ll find a selection of olfactory marvels and the materials that make them as such. Note-taking has never been more interesting.
A Bird In The Hand
An ode to the habitats of our flying feathered friends and their penchant for nest decorating with new season wares.
The Art Of Living
We know what it’s thinking, smizing from beneath its eccentric silver cloche. It thinks it will be given centrepiece. Catching the light and basking in freshly unboxed superiority, it believes it’s like no other. That it’s worthy of clearing the pedestal. This porcelain ingenue, this crockery nobility is here to claim our place. We know because it’s happened before. Many times. A new guest arrives and asserts a certain level of importance. It’s hard to argue, they have such an intoxicating beauty. They’re without history and are yet to be burdened by the cracks and scratches of a life on show. Usually, they’re the dernier cri - decorated in a mode so desirable they become estranged from their safe and sturdy contemporaries. We’re used to it. We’re well versed in casually reminding these visitors that they are, indeed, not the first and that they won’t be the last.
Carrying The Weight Of The World
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it,” Lena Horne famously said. And so, we go forth with an appreciation for the good things in our lives. For the colour, the zest, and the rambunctiousness. And a knowledge that the might to withhold the weight on our shoulders, begins with a great bag.
The Lion, The Glitch And The Wardrobe
Live from their living rooms fashion’s keyboard warriors wield dismissal, conspiracies and ‘cancel’ bandwagons with increasing abandon. They’re known to spin opinions with little context and in the case of Schiaparelli’s Spring/Summer ’23 haute couture collection, pitchforks were primed before the show even finished. So, do these faceless commenters offer valid feedback or are they simply quickdraw haters with nothing better to do? Alissa Thomas investigates in this feature from our fifth print issue, Habitas.
Poppy: A Meeting Of Worlds
Synesthesia is, by definition, a blending and blurring of the senses, where you might experience one sensation through the portal of another. As fashion enters the phygital space, will we see what we hear, and hear what we see? Perhaps performance artist and Youtuber Poppy, who has been using tech to blend the digital and physical worlds for some time, can enlighten us
Synesthesia
A blending and blurring of the senses, are we headed for a world where we experience one sensation through the portal of another? Will we see what we hear, and hear what we see? Perhaps performance artist and Youtuber Poppy knows
Blue Lagoon
Just minutes from a teeming Abu Dhabi, a new ecological oasis. Four thousand hectares of coastal estuaries and mangrove forests make up Al Jubail Island, the newest waterfront development in the city. At this intersection of man meets the natural world, new season wares, rich in botanical motifs and tactile textures, flourish