Illustrator,  Rosanna Webster’s experimentation with film, photography, projection and collage get my prolific, creative juices flowing everywhere.   A plethora of visual splendor.  Dixie Rose

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Story: Uncovered
Photographer: Mathew Lynn
Magazine: Schon Magazine (click here to see full editorial)
Mad <3 goes out to Rico from KK
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Dutch, contemporary artist, Martine Johanna’s works put me under a joyous trance.  She began her education in art and fashion at 19 years of age and pursued fashion design up until 2008, when she decided to focus solely on painting and drawing. Her work is arresting.  Dixie Rose

There is something hypercathartic about Maiden’s work, being a tattoo artist himself. As Christians we are taught we are born into sin and when we fall into temptation, we are nothing less than walking in the flesh. The expression “walking in the flesh” resonates deeply within me when I look at this image, because the flesh of this religious icon is fully ornamented. But it serves for a great paradox, the irony of life, of the possible truth which lies beneath. Tattoos are like road maps leading the way to our own journey, whether it be expressing human condition from the inside out or the other way around. They can be psychotherapeutic in a purging way. But for me, in this instance, it is a visual release not to be forsaken as anything less than challenging the boundaries of our own truth (or not), a statement which can be absurd in its contradiction to a commonly acceptable opinion.  Dixie Rose

Photographer: Steven Meisel
Stylist: Karl Templer (<3)
Model: Stella Tennant
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I couldn’t think of a more lethal combination of creative thunder and lighting. KK loves.

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Mert (from Turkey) and Marcus (Welsh from the UK) are one of the premier photographers in the world.
Photographers: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
Story: Strict
Stylist: Karl Templer
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“EXTREME REGIME” x HOTOVELI x PRIESTESS NYC
(A fashion exhibit during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York S/S 2012. On
through October 01)

PRIESTESS NYC creative director Cody Ross and Michael Adjiashvili, founder
of luxury retailer Hotoveli New York, present a jaw-dropping sartorial
exhibit that spans the entirety of Hotoveli New York’s plush minimalist
interior.  “Extreme Regime” explores paradox, pop-culture,
surrealism, eroticism and fashion and is enveloped in trans-media madness,
sexual fetishism and a serious wallop of artisanship.

Messrs Adjiashvili and Ross aptly engage with inflammatory subjects and
employ subversive strategies to combine impeccably constructed garments,
interior decor and readymades that defiantly arouse, amuse and dismay.
The surrealistic oomph and black humor that characterize the installation
is undercut by the rigorous craftsmanship, amazing styling and painstaking
conceptual and physical labor evident in their execution (not to mention a
good deal of mind-blowing multi-media including an over-the-top video
montage by collaborator and visual doyen Gian Mazcour).

Hotoveli is NYC’s  leading specialty fashion retailer, offering a rarified
assortment of avant-garde brands and the most unique edit of the best in
womenswear, menswear, shoes, accessories and novelty items from around the
world. The store easily rivals Colette in Paris or Hong Kong’s Lane
Crawford and takes the cake for its eye-popping aesthetic and cool
directional brands.

Priestess NYC is the quirky, progressive unisex label based in NYC with an
outpost in Shanghai. Creator Cody Ross favors a dramatic, almost
psychedelic aesthetic whose modern ethos fetishizes intense geometrics,
tenebrous-punk and occult references.

The exhibition (while all about creative expression, fashion and fun) aims
to unearth the contradictions and hypocrisies present in contemporary
culture, explore the relationship between commercial and avant-garde
art/fashion and redefine the relationship between body, clothing and
identity.  By incorporating visceral elements and bursting energy, this
interactive life-sized montage screams with double-meaning and multiple
perspectives, allowing the creator to deny the validity of any singular
viewpoint, offering an interpretation of reality that exists in a constant
state of flux.

Check out Priestess NYC x Hotoveli New York x “Extreme Regime” at 271 West
4th Street in the West Village. On during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New
York S/S 2012 and ending October 01. Klosetkase was there.

Cody Ross

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Story: AFTER A HARD DAY IN THE CITY, WHAT BETTER WAY TO RELAX THAN TO SPILL SOME BLOOD
Photographer: Matt Irwin
Stylist: Robbie Spencer
Model: Arthur Daniyarov
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Ewelina Koszykowski’s  vulnerable meditations  into the present, offer one the opportunity to be transformed, playing with the notion of “what if” we were all divine and leaped from death back to life. She had a life altering accident which instilled in her a hypersensitive urgency of time. I understand her sentiment from the perspective of loss where you evolve to a more heightened sense of value for the people you love and life.  Dixie Rose

In the name of skulls and thorned roses with protruding ravenous jaws, juxtaposed to a certain ritual-like reverence to the soft beauty of the unknown  . Dixie Rose