For Australian-based photographer and artist Sly Morikawa, photography is more than just a passion or hobby, it is a reason for being. Known for her dreamy and sensual images, she has spent the past few years building up an impressive body of work, depicting intimacy between subject and artist, while promoting the strength of each individual’s unique expression.
Read MoreThe GATA team proudly presents another editorial from our Tokyo team, collaborating with some of the most promising creatives that the city has to offer.
For the brand Dressesundressed, we took a deep dive into overtime work, questionable coffee breaks and skilful scanning sessions, asking what it means to be a salaryman with style.
Read MoreBorn in a conservative city like Mexico, where the Catholic religion was mandatory, and art, a hobby for women, the photographer Diego Moreno has learnt how to develop his artistic skills and photography beyond any obstacle and prejudice.
Monsters and demons are recurrent in his work, and it is because Diego tries to dig deeper into the human condition through his imagery experimenting and exploring technics that flows between reality and fantasy, showing that demons live among us.
We caught up with the Austrian-based photographer to talk about his creative journey and the meaning behind his art.
Read MoreMyTribe is a project born from the need to capture the characterization and use of prosthetic makeup as a concept of union.
Read MoreSHOOP presents its new Fall-Winter 2021/22 collection on March 20 at 16:00 p.m (Japan) at Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo.
To create this collection, SHOOP has been inspired by the concept of transformation, whose definitive symbol is the butterfly, an insect that appears as a common thread in garments, but also in messages that proclaim “The beginning of something wonderful”.
With four full-length albums in her back catalogue, the artist known as Eartheater has experienced a journey similar to that of the life of a phoenix, reborn from ashes with strength renewed.
Read MoreHidden behind a Hannya mask and away from the spotlight, stands Courtney MC; the talented former designer of the French house Givenchy. With an extensive life touring from the UK to Asia and all the way back to Europe, she is full of cultural influences. Courtney went back to the Parisian capital, where after she completed her fashion career, founded her own studio, to fulfil and find satisfaction for her creative soul.
Read MoreThe fierce tattooer of darkness that leaves a pleasing bittersweet taste to human canvas.
Read MoreThe blurred rhapsody of Virgin Shen, an Asian Lover through the lonesome and gloomy streets of Tokyo.
Read MoreWith a unique and visionary style herself, the photographer has mastered the skill to decipher fashion and create colourful compositions, unique moments that go beyond the object, reach the spirit and at the same time, reveal her inner world.
Read MoreWhile Bowie explored the avant-garde and distilled these ideals for the mainstream, Von Trier does something similar, but rather in a more twisted and dark manner. He takes some of the most harrowing and controversial of subject matters: depression, the apocalypse, rape, murder and deviant sexuality and crafts them into a deceitful set of hors d’oeuvre that we line up to consume.
Read MoreThis story is starred by:
"The bandits of love"—two villains who are dedicated to meddling in impossible love stories.
Taking advantage of the vulnerability of their victims,
with one mission: to seduce them.
Between February 1692 and May 1693 one of the most notorious "Witch Hunts" took place in a small village of Salem, Massachusetts (now known as Danvers), where more than 150 people were tried for alleged witchcraft: The Salem’s Trials. But what was the real story behind all these trials and why did these events cause hysteria in the New World
Read MoreFilm scores are one of those things that are often overlooked by the casual viewer, a background blend of sounds, conjuring nothing in the imagination, something to exist simply as a replacement for silence. However, every now and then, a special combination of both perceptive vision and inspired music can help a film transcend into a magnificent and memorable one.
The photo series MANIA is about the states of mania that we, as artists, often engage especially during emotionally turbulent times.
Read MoreDescribing Butoh is a hard task. Not because there is lack of information on it, but because there is no conscious thinking in it, it’s more than a technical form or art, it transcends the human dimension, it's the dance of the unconscious.
It's just soul, spirit.
Read MoreFashion and music have long been partners in crime. Influencing and informing one another to the point where it isn’t clear where the genesis point is. The Madrid-Tokyo based brand Shoop understand this connection very well, fusing elements from 90s hip hop with 2000s music videos and creating a look that is both fresh and exciting while simultaneously inciting a reverence and respect for the past.
Read MoreVeiled Love is a series of photos that tells the story of a love between a Shinigami (the Japanese concept of an Angel of Death) and a human. Their love is passionate, deep and all consuming, yet they fail to see each other for who they really are.
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