Dark Layers

Our latest editorial discusses the cyclical but time-dependent physical narrative of life.


PHOTOGRAPHY Tom Goddard
ART DIRECTION & STYLING Kate Kidney Bishop
HAIR John Allan
MUA Shani Mushington
SET DESIGN Sam Scott
MODEL Alexi Bruni via Grey

Above: Vases by Faye Hadfield,
white thong stylist’s own.

Above right: Pointed toe tights by Sarah Garfield 
Below: Corset by Giulia Galiberti, puffer boots stylist’s own, slime sandals & slime mules by Helena Stolting 

Puffer dress and puffer boots by Yasmine Whitlock,
white tights stylist’s own

It was making me squirm, cutting her nails. I suddenly cut one too short and hurt her. She quickly pulled away like reacting to a snake that had suddenly bitten – the hiss of the nail clippers soothing in the intimacy they were bringing between us, now suddenly pounced and jammed their sharp jaw down, giving us a dose of poisonous reality.

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