Beauty, care, love. For the Fall/Winter 2023 collections and campaigns, Prada draws inspiration from these timeless values, universal emotions of humanity that come to life through the metaphor of flowers. Always symbols of tenderness and affection, they are reimagined on a human scale, suggesting otherworldly emotions. The flowers interact with five internationally acclaimed stars – Benedict Cumberbatch, Hunter Schafer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Letitia Wright, and Li Xian – showcasing Prada’s longstanding relationship with cinema as a medium of cultural ideas and ideals. With their talent, these protagonists evoke feelings through words, actions, even a simple gaze, in a series of beautiful images and videos.
The result is an impossible sequence of surreal conversations with flowers, both literal and visual dialogues. Flowers are eternal symbols of beauty suspended between the ordinary and the extraordinary, naturally carrying emotions, physical expressions of the intangible. In this scaled version, they transform into living creatures, active protagonists whose resonance transcends cultures and even language.
Willy Vanderperre immortalizes each actor in front of one of these gigantic flowers, engaging in a visual and literal exchange. In the films created for the campaign, the cast converses with these improbable interlocutors, following a script specially written by Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Hours” (1998).
Just as these conversations are paradoxical, the flower itself embodies a dichotomy: simultaneously fragile and strong, precious and ordinary, ephemeral and eternal – each one unique. Through this metaphor of humanity, used as an external expression of thoughts and feelings, the implicit synergy between flowers and the embodiment of the human experience becomes tangible. A real emotion is evoked through seemingly unreal images.
Ami Paris has introduced a new campaign called Intimate Celebration. It presents the brand’s own way to celebrate love, focusing on feelings of intimacy and freedom.
The collaboration between JW Anderson and film director Luca Guadagnino does not produce a garment or a bag. Instead, it creates an object for a desk: a set of bronze peach paperweights.
Barcelona’s Moco Museum opened a new Banksy exhibition! Titled New Works by Banksy, the show presents twenty-five original pieces. Some of these works have never been shown in a museum before.
Aún es pronto para ser feliz isn’t looking for answers. It sits in the discomfort, embracing the idea that maybe, right now, not being okay is part of the process.
Marnix Eyckmans photographed by Aitana Valencia and styled by Ana San José with SS26 pieces from Dior Men, for the DREAMCORE issue of Fucking Young! magazine.
Madrid is preparing to welcome one of the most powerful emerging voices on the indie scene: Sombr, the young New York artist who has turned his raw sensitivity and generational vision into a global phenomenon.
Chino Amobi’s new project, “Eroica II: Christian Nihilism”, marks a striking and deeply personal return from an artist known for expanding the edges of sound, image, and storytelling.
Arts of the Earth at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is an ambitious exhibition on humanity’s shifting relationship with our planet, soil, and biodiversity.
Inspired by the folklore and spirit of flamenco, the collection captures the movement and emotion of the dance through silhouettes, contrasts, and details.
MODUS VIVENDI presents its Fall-Winter Black and White edition, a collection that drifts in from a retro art universe and lands right inside the pulse of modern urban life. The vibe is graphic, fluid and inclusive, as… »
There’s a quiet light that runs through Óscar Casas’ work, an energy that feels both instinctive and deliberate, like someone who has learned to move between dream and reality with ease.
Turn the page. Breathe deep. Your pupils are already dilating. The high is coming.
Issue 26 brings together two electrifying covers that take the dopamine dive from Sadiq Desh captured by Cris Cerdeira to multidisciplinary visual artist and photographer Tomás Pintos’ cover story, Besos hasta agotar stock (Kisses Until Sold Out), developed from the live performance creating a space where glamour
meets exhaustion.
