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Chen Huijia, Hua Yilan, Qin Lei and Yang Xiru by Nick Yang for W Magazine China March 2024

Makeup by Clive. Hair by MingHu Zhang. Styled by Austin Feng.

Vanessa Esposito and Andrea De Luca by Lera Polivanova for Paper Magazine March 2024.

Styled by Domenico Scialò. Hair and makeup by Federica Di Dato.

The “scent” community is excessively—to a fault and far beyond—focused on perfumes. This injustice, this tyrannical disregard for hardworking everyday smells, for odors, for stenches, must end.

elena velez - ss24

Rare photos of the Capital of Palestine in 1920 which is 28 years before the born of the Israeli occupation

Dilara Findikoglu 'Bitter End Waistcoat' S/S 2023

Crafted from leather with an aged finish inspired by 50s corsets, it has an integrated cone bra cup structured with boning and lacing details. It's finished with a zip in front.

“Australia Day” is almost over and I haven’t even seen the photo of Burnum Burnum planting the Aboriginal flag on the cliffs of Dover and claiming Britain for the Indigenous people of Australia on my dash yet

Y'know I'm not sure that those "I love the way men love" posts are really much different than someone admiring a goldfish struggling to survive even 5% of its expected lifetime in a tiny glass bowl.

A Madonna with neon halo in Naples, Italy.

Yvette Chau by Tung for Elle Men Hong Kong October 2023

Jade Blue & Shane, San Francisco, 1997, Charles Gatewood, Badlands (1999)

Fleet Ilya | The Rope Bustier Harness | model Daisy @scottishdaisylove

sculpting the land: artistic interventions with the landscape - strijdom van der merwe (2005)

hand studies and exploring fun colour stuff

Catalyst Latex

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stalled

flaye. oil painting

Simon Schubert

margiela in footprint: the tracks of shoes in fashion - geert bruloot, hettie judah + dodi espinosa (2015)

Hi there, My leather and my Tank crew commander leather helm, (From: Bobbasset.com) perfect, I love it!

i hate that “cosmetic surgery isn’t self-care it’s the result of an advertising campaign to sell you on surgical misogyny.” because yes, it’s factually correct, but it also doesn’t interrogate the entire conceit of ‘self-care.’ the wellness industry disproportionately targets women (men are obviously affected too, but i do not remember tiktok having a ‘clean boy aesthetic’ that involved all the thirst trap guys going out and getting identical athleisure sets). ‘real’ self-care, if such a thing even exists, is mostly about executive function and not product. being your own tradwife. taking a bath, making a tasty dinner, meditating, medicating, exercising. and even then, it’s done in the service of the grind. take a bath so you don’t feel as stressed about work, so you can go to work tomorrow without mailing pipe bombs to the ceo. get enough sleep, so you don’t have a meltdown during your lunch break. get some salad in you so you don’t develop a nutrient deficiency and go to the hospital and stop working. or, if you do your work from home and it’s unpaid domestic labor: eat greens so your husband doesn’t leave you because he’s found another younger, hotter wife. lose weight so you can safely birth more kids. the ritualistic elements also are placebos– if you do it you must be doing it for a reason and it must be working.

all of self-care as we know it is in the service of capitalism. even the things that DO work (eating healthy foods, exercising, sleeping enough) to improve mental/physical health and aren’t on their surface things you buy end up serving the patriarchy. you get rewarded for being the ideal capitalist subject. especially if you’re a woman.

so i’m going to be a bit satan-like and argue that yes, plastic surgery IS self-care. but self-care is NOT empowering. nothing we do as individuals is. for women, it’s business expenses all the way down. as i’ve said before, it’s not the ‘choice feminism’ of the libs and it’s not the ‘radical feminism’ of radfems. it’s something both more nihilistic and more coherent than either.

Two bucks frozen in a pond in antlerlock

with the exception of metal, everything humans wear used to be alive. Even synthetics used to be alive, millions of years ago

Though actually, cute thing: there are "standard" photos of the Kowloon Walled City that are always passed around, and they tend to be the most modern ones due to quality & availability reasons:

But these are from a unique period in its history, namely the end of its history - right before it was demolished. However, it wasn't the only thing to go; its removal was part of a much wider project to level and redevelop the entire area of the Kowloon City District. It just happened to be the last part to go due to its size and legal complexity. That "island of concrete in a desert" look is essentially a fiction:

It was really the heart of a dense urban ecology of low-income development that had emerged over 30+ years in the postwar era.

And you can see how integrated it was with its surroundings, the "walls" were after all purely a legal concept:

The common photos imo are also popular because they heighten the dystopian aspects of the city, making it appear like a tumor infecting the area. Once you see it in its proper context its place as an organic part of the city is much more clear.

Fanta in Luis de Javier AW23 by Fabien Montique for Pull Letter Magazine