RUSSH

RUSSH Magazine is an independent, innovative fashion magazine, showcasing the work of leading and up-and-coming creatives across fashion, beauty and the arts. With its finger firmly on the pulse, the magazine collaborates with some of the industry’s most forward-thinking, boundary-pushing talents from across the globe to create a diverse offering of engaging and thought-provoking content. At its core, RUSSH Magazine reflects the way intelligent readers and tastemakers approach fashion, beauty and the arts to create their own distinctive style.

RUSSH

UNDER THE LID • Some of the bright minds behind the Forbidden issue divulge their guiltiest pleasures and richest indulgences. Where do they draw the line? Where do they dare to cross it?

EDITOR’S LETTER

YLANG MESSENGUIRAL

AI WEIWEI

GO SEE • MAROUBRA OCTOBER 2023

WE LOVE

NUIT

A SACCHARINE RETURN TO GIRLHOOD • Women are wearing ballet flats, lace, ribbons and bows, pulling old school skirts from their closets and embracing all things coquette and hyper-feminine. But what does it mean that we’re all dressing like little girls?

Restricted.

A LIFE WELL LIVED • Crafted for the dynamic, spirited woman, Jennifer Lawrence and Longines come together to celebrate the Mini DolceVita collection.

They called her…

NOTHING BUT THE SUN • Cartier’s Grain de Café collection is a celebration of beauty in the most unconventional places. Here, the Maison’s Ambassador Elle Fanning speaks to the spirit of the iconic creations.

READ NO EVIL • Risqué reading materials have long stirred up controversy in the literary world and beyond, but does their censorship simply invite further intrigue?

READS • Some of our favourite creative minds share their prickliest reads; the books that trespass on the taboo and dance in the footsteps of deviants.

INNERVISION • Sydney-based artist Gigi Malherbe on capturing the beauty of loss, the triumphs of adversity, and staying true to one’s vision.

THERE’LL BE HELL TO PAY • The Coen Brothers’ neo-western film adaptation silently explores the psychology of risk, revenge and retribution.

SLIPPERY SHADOWS • Learning Portuguese, cultivating fear and the lasting sway of Wong Kar-wai. Welcome to the psychological world of Mia Middleton.

I DON’T WANT TO GET OVER YOU • Brief words from a prolific writer.

RECORDS • There are few things more inviting than doing what you ought not to. For the Forbidden issue, we look to the artists that faced censorship and were banned from radio play to appreciate how much freer we have become. This is how a celebration of how ‘the forbidden’ have now transformed into referential classics.

Not Yours

Heat Rising • Longer days. Warmer skin. Hotter feelings. Summer is finally here.

JUST A BITE • There’s beauty to be found in the mysterious: curious, enigmatic and seductive. We’re here to guide you through this season’s most incantatory scents for a forbidden rendezvous, and alluring lip pigments that favour the bold.

OUT OF BODY • “Each individual woman’s body demands to be accepted on its own terms.” – Gloria Steinem

i thought it was but it wasn’t

INSIDE VOICES

aftertaste.

WHEN I AM NOT THERE

INNOCUOUS

Redacted

ULTRA VIOLETTE

REAL, RAW & UNFILTERED • In conversation with Sydney hardcore band Speed on their growing audience, self-expression and community.

Reclamation

alone.

SOMETHING IN THE WAY • A stolen glance through the peephole; a window into places we’re told we shouldn’t go. Delving into subcultures and the headspace of rule breakers – some of our favourite creative minds share their most treasured, mysterious and indulgent...