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
SOON TO BE • The creative minds behind our Ideas issue share the inventions, ideas and inspirations that have crafted their creative consciousness.
EDITOR’S LETTER
VILMA SJÖBERG
VIRGINIA WOOLF
WE LOVE
BARELY ON MY MIND
MIRROR PRACTICE
THE WOMAN WHO DARES TO CUT HER OWN FRINGE • Instagram has long been declared dying, TikTok is responsible for creating enough surface-level subtrends to last a lifetime, and designers are being encouraged to create commercial collections. Where does one find inspiration and ideas today?
Time to pick up the tools.
GO FIGURE
INTO THE VOID • RUSSH goes down the rabbit hole with Callum Morton, one of Australia’s leading installation and sculptural artists, to discuss the hidden, the concealed and the erased.
READS • Horizon-expanding and mind-moulding, these are the books that keep some of our favourite creative minds ticking.
FROM US TO YOU
AMONG THE GREATS • Art historian, curator, broadcaster, columnist and host of The Great Women Artists podcast Katy Hessel talks about the women who have been erased from the annals of art history and how the best way to get to know a subject is to write a book about it.
TRICK MIRROR • Ideology and fantasy collide in Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi odyssey Okja.
WELCOME HOME.
IN PLAIN SIGHT • A conversation in Paris with multi-disciplinary artist, Anastazia Bobis.
FIRE WALK WITH HER • In conversation with the genre-defying American musician and singer, Annie Clark – aka St. Vincent – and her lighting in a bottle.
RECORDS • Records ready to probe, provoke and percolate; cerebral sounds that dig deeper into the hidden corners of its listener’s psyche.
SOFT FOCUS
FIELD NOTES • “Can we speak in flowers? It will be easier for me to understand” — Nayyirah Waheed
OBJET D'ART • Artful brushes, high-tech devices and accessories to enhance our rituals. These are the tools we turn to in the pursuit of beauty.
A room of one’s own.
Second Act
PORTALS INTO WORLDS UNKNOWN • Since its inception, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Reverso has been a canvas for boundless creativity. For the second iteration of its Precious Flowers series, the Maison has enriched its offering, debuting the first fully enamelled Reverso One in the watchmaker’s history.
VISIONS AFTER THE SERMON
NOW I GET IT • Musings on an overlooked accessory.
SUPERCUT
DIFFERENT STORIES, SAME DESTINY • In the spirit of its forward-looking attitude, Bulgari introduces Bulgari Studio – an interdisciplinary platform for artistic cross-pollination.
Near Dark
DAD’S OBSESSION WITH RICHARD SERRA • Richard Serra (November 2, 1938 – March 26, 2024) was a 20th-century giant. His work is unavoidable, monumental and searingly contemporary. He made waves in concrete and steel.
LITERARY SHOWCASE
BUTTERFLY LOVERS’ VIOLIN CONCERTO
I WROTE THIS FOR MY MOTHER BUT SHE CAN’T READ IT
DEAR MUM
TIME SERIES
CREATIVE COCOONS
IMITATION GAME • On dupe culture, homogenised tastes, and the pursuit of originality in contemporary art.
THE INTERNET’S PRINCESS, RAYNE...