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Tag: 2020

  • BLACK LIVES MATTER, SYDNEY PROTEST

    BLACK LIVES MATTER, SYDNEY PROTEST

    When I say the word Black, I do so with full intention.

    I let it bloom on my tongue.

    I project its sound into the world, fueling it with all my knowledge of its history. Its struggle, texture, and heart. Most of all, with its power.

    The word is not uncomfortable. What is uncomfortable is that making its sound shows where you stand.

    And where do you stand?

    Do you continue to feel uncomfortable in hopes that this too shall pass?

    Or do you instead choose to use that discomfort as a drive to educate yourself – to change your discomfort to confidence?

    To equip its sound with your learning. To link it with the injustice of its history. To propel its movement forward for its change.

    We loaded our knowledge, learnings, and love into the barrels of our voices last week. We entwined the names, faces, injustices, history, and struggle into the words in our mouths. We aimed for the sky, and simultaneously shot “BLACK LIVES MATTER,” into the air.

    We chose where we stand. And the world heard us.















  • HOW SOON IS NOW – DIOR SUMMER 2020

    HOW SOON IS NOW – DIOR SUMMER 2020

    Dior Summer 2020 is an ode to the history of the Maison, all the while being an interplay between past, present and future.

    The value of the past, looking ahead from the present.

    How Soon Is Now – not to be confused with The Smiths but also not to be exclusive from – follows the idea of this season’s collection reinterpreting Dior’s modern history, a new heritage.

    Set against the exposed coastal rock of Sydney’s east, the location ties in the sculptural and architectural influences that were integral to Daniel Arsham’s collaboration.

    Finding the shapes in the natural rock that paid homage to the incidental beauty of natural history, and the details in Dior’s Summer 2020.

    “This collection explores anticipation and the elasticity of time, simultaneously looking back and forward,” described by representatives of Dior.

    “History is not immutable: it is dynamic, changing and alive. This collection is a tribute to Dior, the one that’s familiar and the one still taking form.”