looks just like the sun

cho giseok for vogue korea 2023

Nobuyoshi Araki

Comme Des Garçons “Almost Exactly” editorial by Nick Knight.

“Rei Kawakubo’s Autumn/Winter (2004) collection is inspired by “the power of witches. The original witches were benevolent,” she says, “but because people didn’t understand them, they bullied them.”

“When we first talked,“ explains photographer Nick Knight, of this his first major collaboration with the designer, “it was about fear and the fact that people feared witches because they had a force that they didn’t understand. When you first see these pictures, you don’t really see the people wearing the clothes but, hopefully, there is a presence and power behind them.” Working with three models and then “hacking up their faces - morphing is far too gentle a word for it,” according to Knight, “the idea was to make someone look very strong and then push them back.”

“We met just once before the project and I told him to concentrate on the details”, Kawakubo says for her part. “For me what was so interesting about this collaboration was to see, after I had already been through the hard and painful process of creating the clothes, how Nick Knight transformed fashion into painting. I never imagined such an exquisite interpretation of my work.”

Excerpt and scans from AnOther Magazine A/W 2004.

Glorianny Saint Fleur by Jean Marques for M Le magazine du Monde March 2024

Laetitia Leporcq (Fashion Editor/Stylist), Nicolas Philippon (Hair Stylist), Lauren Bos (Makeup Artist)

UNDERCOVER FW24 RTW

Adhel Bol by Rafael Pavarotti for Vogue Paris - September 2021

The Kei Truck Garden Contest (2018)

Niko Riam by Jumbo Tsui for V Magazine China April 2024q

Btw all these record-breaking high temperatures we just saw this winter is not removed from the incessant bombing of Ghazzah.

Dropping 7 hiroshimas on 1 city in 6 months is not without environmental consequences for the ENTIRE GLOBE, especially at such a critical time in temperature and emmission control.

The zionist terrorist occupation and the 'American' terrorist empire have jointly fast forwarded us all towards certain ecological doom unless they cease to exist overnight. Which won't happen.

Malick Bodian & Khadim Sock by Rafael Pavarotti for Vogue Hommes Magazine - September 2020

Cibo Matto Super Relax EP (1997)

“Femme” handmade choker A princess gone mad with yearning while waiting for her knight; her garden of violets and lavender overgrown.

Custom commissioned piece! Thank you so much <3