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All images from Keep Calm and Your Text by Kara Güt. Coming soon in the refigural store.

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refigural - keep calm and your text: kara güt

All images from Keep Calm and Your Text by Kara Güt. Coming soon in the refigural store.

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refigural - keep calm and your text: kara güt

All images from Keep Calm and Your Text by Kara Güt. Coming soon in the refigural store.

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FEMAIL’s methodology of remotely exchanging collage and garments yet working in tandem has been coined reactive collaboration. There is no communication about the intention or direction of a given piece; both artists are allowed to make additions and subtractions based on their own will and vision.

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All text and clothing courtesy Femail

Photography Michelle Uzomba

Styling Mitch McGuire

Model Anna Peluola

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refigural - the conceit of memory: zachariah szabo

All work by Zachariah Szabo

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I had a dream a while ago that I had a baby in my parents house in my old room. In the dream I had a French bulldog that I used for instagram pictures but kept it in the attic until I needed it. in the dream everyone was telling me I’d be a horrible mum because I was so mean to the French bulldog. Then I had the baby and when he came out he was an old man, and he winked at me.

refigural - instant empathy

Photography Fujio Emura

Styling and Creative Direction Ashley Munns

Beauty Elizabeth Fox

Models Janita, Allison, Erinee at Scout Agency, Brenton, Heather, and Sarah

All uncredited clothing courtesy American Conservatory Theater

All text anonymously sourced by refigural

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refigural - keep calm and your text: kara güt

All images from Keep Calm and Your Text by Kara Güt. Coming soon in the refigural store.

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Fashion is a second skin; in context of the body, fashion can be a multitude of things. It can be a weapon against the outside world. It can be a text book definition, a mode of stereotype. It can mark you as a slave to something. It can be camouflage or a cry of protest. For FEMAIL fashion is a conversation; it is a facet of friendship. It is a shape shifting expression of creativity and means through which to explore and experience the world at large. It is a collage of space and time. It is alive.

refigural - femail forever

All text and clothing courtesy Femail

Photography Michelle Uzomba

Styling Mitch McGuire

Model Anna Peluola

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refigural - the conceit of memory: zachariah szabo

All work by Zachariah Szabo

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The baby was born too early so was soft and malleable like clay and had no face. So I tried to reform the baby by hand but I kind of forgot what babies are supposed to look like. Gradually I saw more and more other children and realised that I completely missed the mark on my baby moulding.

refigural - instant empathy

Photography Fujio Emura

Styling and Creative Direction Ashley Munns

Beauty Elizabeth Fox

Models Janita, Allison, Erinee at Scout Agency, Brenton, Heather, and Sarah

All uncredited clothing courtesy American Conservatory Theater

All text anonymously sourced by refigural

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refigural - keep calm and your text: kara güt

All images from Keep Calm and Your Text by Kara Güt. Coming soon in the refigural store.

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I can give you an example: this body of work I made for Volta was all about Anita Hill. I’ve collected almost one hundred original images of Hill from her 1991 Senate Judiciary testimony. My initial plan was to make a discrete, super coherent body of work. But when it came down to it, I just couldn’t make these neat arrangements as planned. They felt too uncomplicated.

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Carmen Winant in conversation with Marisa Espe

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Each pattern piece fits together like a jig-saw puzzle so that nothing is wasted in the manufacturing of our goods. Thus every FEMAIL ready-to-wear garment can be deconstructed and returned to a perfect square or rectangle of material.

refigural - femail forever

All text and clothing courtesy Femail

Photography Michelle Uzomba

Styling Mitch McGuire

Model Anna Peluola

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refigural - the conceit of memory: zachariah szabo

All work by Zachariah Szabo

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I fell off a tall building and my first thought was “oh no! My baby!” As I instinctively cradled my tummy. I hope the baby lived!

refigural - instant empathy

Photography Fujio Emura

Styling and Creative Direction Ashley Munns

Beauty Elizabeth Fox

Models Janita, Allison, Erinee at Scout Agency, Brenton, Heather, and Sarah

All uncredited clothing courtesy American Conservatory Theater

All text anonymously sourced by refigural

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My process engenders a kind of spreading out. Sometimes you can’t even see the floor in the studio. There’s actually something quite generative, and even logical, for me in being disorganized: I can pull from things and the results are more unexpected. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t fantasize about having a Baldessari type of approach but I know myself enough to know that something far more disorganized is more befitting to my creative ideation.

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Carmen Winant in conversation with Marisa Espe

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PRICING EQUATION T(25.00)+M(MS(#X18%(T))+MH)+L(2)+/-F(30%) T (Time spent as represented through ‘layers’) + $25.00 each M (Material value) = MS (Sentimental) + MH (Historical) MS (Rate emotional connection 1-10 X 18% sum of T) MH (Each item valued at $1.00-$45.00) L (Likability—We would keep it but…) + $175.00* (*up to) **F (Frustration level) + or – 30%* (*up to) **A (As seen on—show, photoshoot, magazine, etc.) + $25.00 **Optional/as applies

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All text and clothing courtesy Femail

Photography Michelle Uzomba

Styling Mitch McGuire

Model Anna Peluola