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

EDITOR’S LETTER

DIP IN MY DAYDREAM • An ‘all you can eat’ energy, the minds behind this issue share their sources of ecstasy.

AJAK DENG • Stepping into Ajak Deng’s orbit, it’s all sun energy. An unbounding warmth that blinds you like the brightness that seeps through the curtains on a Sunday morning, Deng is the source of dopamine we yearn for. She is the sweet spot of the festive season – where the days are long and all concept of time dissolves into the folds of sweat, sex and a shared feeling of invincibility. She is the blushing red stain of dripping watermelon on a white tank. Burning asphalt that makes the balls of your feet go numb. A laugh-until-you-cry kind of girl. Deng possesses an unbridled elation that fills us whole. Let her be your summer muse.

ABBA

GO SEE • RUSSH HQ SEPTEMBER 2022

WE LOVE

TRUE BLUE • Exploring the role of International Klein Blue throughout fashion history, and how a singular shade has endured amid it all.

Pack ‘n go

FORWARD THINKING • Exploring the legacy of Louis Vuitton and the mark that each of the House’s creative and artistic directors have left in their wake.

DREAM HOME

JOURNEY THROUGH AN AFTERNOON • On the ways that reading experiences help form core memories, and the importance of the holiday reading ritual.

UNDAUNTED • Tiarna Herczeg on the ritual of creating artworks guided by their intuition and urgency.

BEACH AND DISCO • “They leave their worries at home. It’s the same at the disco.” Massimo Vitali captures us in life’s simplest moments.

ON THE STARS • Norman Jewison’s 1994 film Only You is an act of escapism drenched in the ideas of fate, undeniable love and the higher power guiding our futures – the circumnavigator known as destiny.

READS • Ecstasy-inducing prose to lessons in culture and country. These are the pages we turn to when we want to feel intoxicatingly whole – mind, body and soul.

FROM US TO YOU

GOOD FORTUNE

RECORDS • Oscillating doo-wop beats, experimental pop art and decadent, rich writings: these are the tracks inspiring euphoria within us.

BLAST OFF • In anticipation of Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic’s upcoming exhibition Unpopular, Glen Goetze dives into the archives.

ghost buster

DOPAMINE HIGH • They’re the scents that unlock the essence of pure joy that we’re always chasing. A memory, a place, a feeling – they take us there. Let us indulge in their escapism.

THE FUTURE IS FUNGI

4.8 REDISCOVERING PARADISE

Paradise

MENACE

STICKY

Sunrise Sunburn

HOME COMING

about last night

VIA PRIVATA

PARIS END • For Saint Laurent’s Collins Street store, the House enters into a dialogue with artist Thomas Jeppe to discuss globalisation and capitalism through two storefront triptychs.

HOME & away • Alex Fitzalan was 19 when he walked into a Brisbane modelling agency and came out an actor. Our question is how?

STRIKE!

slow jamz

l’amour fou

DREAMSCAPE • A sensorial experience that marries the hallmarks of remarkable and timeless design with uniquely Australian touches, Cartier’s newly revealed flagship boutique makes you feel...