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
MODEL BEHAVIOUR • There’s more to the Models Inc. issue than the final shot. We hear from the fresh faces that made this issue, who take us beneath the surface to divulge their hopes and dreams.
ABÉNY NHIAL
DORIAN LEIGH
GO SEE • ROSEBERY AUGUST 2024
WE LOVE
Stalemate
WHAT MAKES A SUPERMODEL IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA ERA? • Instagram only accelerated the fashion industry’s love of a famous face – or last name – but as the internet has continued to evolve, so too has our appetite for a different kind of model and muse.
You make my dreams
DOESN’T LAST FOREVER DEAR • Modelling may be ephemeral, but Kiwi model Emma Boyd assures us that there most certainly is an afterlife.
IN TOO DEEP • Arizona Muse was one of the fashion industry’s most in-demand faces. Here, she shares how her organisation, DIRT charity, came to be and her biggest learnings from the industry.
THE CRYSTAL PALACE • Celebrated artist Hiroshi Sugimoto slows down time in Seoul with the exhibition, Cartier, Crystallization of Time, a celebration of over 300 works from the Maison’s collection.
READS • Collected reflections and refractions of lived experiences, these are the words that have permeated some of our favourite creative minds in front of the lens.
RECORDS • Radio stations made of dreams, girls in garages, and strength in beauty. These are the records we have on repeat.
THE PAINTER AND THE PUPPET • We speak to French artist and photographer Eloïse Labarbe-Lafon about her practice, pastel palette and pancakes.
FROM THE INSIDE OUT • Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2016 arthouse horror The Neon Demon devours what we know about beauty, and spits it back out.
FROM US TO YOU
MOTHER TONGUE
ALL MADE UP • Step into the world of YSL Beauté: big, bold, expressive. Together with model Natalia Sirotina, we explore its history and icons.
AN ICON • A nod to the 90s. The supermodel era. Defined by beauty that was larger than life, and women that ruled the world.
A QUIET PLACE • “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” – William Shakespeare
BEST IN SHOW • Paying tribute to the skincare and makeup formulas made iconic by industry professionals, artists, creatives and models – the original influencers.
There She Goes
TRUE FAITH
You got it
Invisible touch
BRIT PACK • Burberry’s Autumn Winter 24 show in London was a love letter to the rich tapestry of cultures, influences and textiles that play into Daniel Lee’s mega-mix of Cool Brittania.
FADE INTO YOU • A conversation between the creator and the muse, Paspaley’s latest chapter takes us away to sea.
YOUR OWN HERO • On the buzzing streets of central London, model Bibi Breslin steps into her own in Max Mara’s hero, the Olimpia jacket.
THE COOL SPOT
NUDGING THE STATUS QUO
LA CITÉ RADIEUSE
OF MANY UNBROKEN THREADS • Model Alexandra Agoston leafs through her bookshelves to share her most treasured photographic compendiums that continue to inspire and enamour.
LAST LOOK