Tag Archive for: fetish

The Night, La Nuit / Lust for Paper

Art&Culture | Spotlight
A bilingual collection of poems in English and French, its title alludes to the brief span of time the two singers, poets, and at the time even romantic partners, Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine, spent weaving these verses together.

Pages Engraved in Time and Ink / Veins Books

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Veins Books returns to Milan on the 13th and 14th of September, filling Via Cosimo del Fante with rare, underground volumes that carry traces of countercultural stories consumed far from the mainstream light, immersed in the gloom of the underground.

Adulterers Anonymous / Lust for Paper

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Adulterers Anonymous (1982) is a soliloquy on love and on all that might be mistaken for it. Its lines have absorbed the solitude and desperation of a feeling that, even when consumed in the flesh, lingers in the body until it becomes a torture for the mind.

The Church Of Our Becoming / Yulia Mahr

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From 24 July to 24 August, Dover Street Market Paris becomes the site of an invisible anatomy, a place where bodies are not seen, but sensed. In 'The Church of Our Becoming' , Yulia Mahr employs thermographic photography to strip away the visual noise of surface and gender, exposing a shared emotional core.

Nightbloom

Fashion | Exclusive
Beneath the shroud of dusk, veiled in shadow and dripping with scent, unfurl like whispered secrets beneath a sky stitched with stars. Tessa Kuragi in latex, photographed by André Pattenden.

The Wounds of Becoming

Photography | Exclusive
A body marked by choice, not by force. Transformation becomes a deliberate act. Piercing as control and dressing as ritual. Every layer, every wound, speaks to power reclaimed. This isn’t about beauty. It’s about presence. About owning what was once taken. About becoming, fully and on your own terms. Featuring Yasmine Keong, shot by Anne Thu Pham.

Hope and Fear / WGT 2025

Music | Spotlight
Leipzig once again became a sanctuary for the beautifully strange and the defiantly different, hosting the Wave-Gotik Treffen 2025. Here our annual report with some images of the beautiful people and our favorite bands who made this edition one to remember.

Worn Restrictions / Yeha Leung

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Bold, versatile, armour-like garments made for those who aren’t afraid to stand by their choices. Here, trends are just background noise and wearability sits in the backseat of intent and emotion. They are made to convey a message. Meet Yeha Leung, the mind behind Creepyyeha.

Tokyo Terror / A talk with Lith Li

Music | Interview
Lith Li approaches music as both a tool for transformation and a space for resistance. Exploring themes of societal change, human psyche, and the power of self-expression, Lith Li's work challenges conventions while offering a new kind of liberation on and off the dance floor.

Nausicaa

Photography | Exclusive
Stephane Boubert masterfully captures Nausicaa in a stunning array of layers, dancing in a beguiling dance of vulnerability and strength that lingers long after the final frame.

The art of Restraint

Fashion | Exclusive
Watch as Josh Showell unravels the complex relationship between power and control through the ancient technique of Shibari. Each tie and fold tells a story, a manifesto of desire and restraint, where the beauty of indigo-dyed layers wraps around the concepts of dominance and submission.

Veins Books Pop-up / Milan

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Veins Books is set to host its inaugural Pop-Up Event in Milan on October 12-13 at Via Friuli 8/A. Rare and cult publications, a curated selection of hard-to-find titles in photography, art, fashion, underground movements, and subcultures.