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.

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EDITOR’S LETTER

WHAT COMES AROUND • The creative minds behind our ‘Life’ issue talk best birthdays, past lives and the chapter they’re currently writing.

MALIKA EL MASLOUHI

LOUISE BOURGEOIS

GO SEE • CONCORD JANUARY 2024

WE LOVE

FOR PLEASURE’S SAKE

THE HOUSE OF STORIES • Paying homage to their storied history, Van Cleef & Arpels’ Seoul exhibition brings together some of the French High Jeweller’s most remarkable and unexpected pieces across the pillars of time, nature and love.

Eyes all alone You trip me out

NOT NOW

THE CITY LIVES WITHIN • The celebrated fine-art photographer Catherine Opie has been representing marginalised communities since the 80s through her touching portraits of friends, lovers, families and members of the LGBTQI movement in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

READS • You go first. What do we gain when we climb into the life of another? A warning, a roadmap, a likeness? Four memoirists share the written lives that they return to.

DISTILLED LIFE • Self-taught Sydney painter Leanne Xiu Williams eschews the palpable for the imperceptible on her canvases.

BEAUTIFUL THINGS DON’T ASK FOR ATTENTION • Despite its cheese and inelegance, Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life ofWalter Mitty, finds its way to the heart of the human experience.

FROM US TO YOU

CLOSE FOR COMFORT • In conversation with Danish photographer and filmmaker Michella Bredahl.

AFTER THE UNEXPECTED AND THE SONIC VERNACULAR • In conversation with American feminist punk pioneers, Sleater-Kinney.

RECORDS • The sounds of a nostalgic past that inform our never-ending now. As we look to the future, these are the records contributing to the great playlist we call ‘life’.

WELCOME HOME.

Altitude.

Soft Landing • Go Slow. Ease in. Love your body. Find safety in rituals. Feel lighter. Fresher. Entirely like yourself.

HOW DO YOU FEEL • “It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.”-Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

Something More

FOR ONESELF • Never underestimate the power of small, sacred rituals: a superlative face mask, a scent that smells like somewhere or someone you love… Here, the RUSSH editors share the products they turn to when they want to reset, recalibrate, or find a sense of calm.

Too Much Heaven.

HEAVY HARMONY

Torn in bloom

UNDER FOOT

HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN

Back to me.

near dark.

SIREN CALL

Somebody else.

EDITOR’S LETTER

UNBROKEN

READY-TO-WED • With young brides-to-be increasingly eschewing tradition for dresses that are an extension of their current wardrobes, the coolest thing a contemporary label can do today is create bridalwear. But what does this changing culture say about the way we view weddings?

A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN • Bridal beauty is about elevated authenticity, not an overhaul. It’s about finding a match as perfect as the one we’re walking down the aisle to.

ON EROTIC INTELLIGENCE • Is there a sensible guide to the sensual?

A LOVE...