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The Whitby Goth Festival sparked Slid Needham’s love of fashion and it continues to inspire her today

Slid Needham is a politically-charged young creative, whose expertise cannot be put into just one category. Her make-up looks are abstract, her outfits uncensored – a fact that has left her at odds with Instagram’s nudity guidelines. In the past, the platform has removed Needham’s account, inciting her to test the boundaries and raise the question, “Are we being overly censored for displaying our own bodies?” Last year, the CSM womenswear designer collaborated with Vivienne Westwood on the Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood show performance, whilst working closely with MUA Val Garland on the models’ make-up looks. In conversation with SLICK, Needham opened up about the nature of creative plagiarism, the need for authentic, well-meaning representation in the industry, and the role her sexual and gender identity plays in her design process.

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One fact is universal: archive Raf Simons is sacred. Undeniably one of the most iconic names in archive fashion

Raf Simons’ Archive Redux collection is here. Celebrating 25 years of the designer’s cult label, the highly-anticipated release – which was announced last summer and arrives on Matches Fashion tomorrow – sees Simons re-issue 100 pieces from the brand’s hallowed archives, offering a new generation of devotees the the chance to own a piece of fashion history.

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SLICK caught up with model Jordun Love, to find out his rituals for succeeding in life

Runway and fashion model Jordun Love who turned heads with his luscious, long hair on the Givenchy runway. He has been featured in publications such as Nylon Magazine, W Magazine Vogue, VMan and Exit Magazine. Jordun got his start dancing in Philadelphia. He travelled to shows at such venues as Disney World and performed at a Philadelphia 76ers game. He attended the Creative and Performing Arts High School of Philadelphia.

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Kim Jones taps Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo for his latest art-inspired collection for Dior

The electric acclaim Kim Jones has brought to Dior Men since he took the reins in 2018 has centered on the buzzy atmosphere of large-scale runway shows—six of them, already, in two years. Needless to say, with runway congregations ruled out, everything’s very different in the summer of 2020, but that didn’t prevent today’s collaboration between Jones and the 36-year-old Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo, whose stunning huge-scale portraits of Black subjects—partly richly finger-painted—have a skyrocketing reputation in the contemporary art world. “It’s a portrait of an artist who I greatly admire,” Jones said. “[The gallerist] Mera Rubell introduced me to Amoako last year in Miami. I really loved his work and wanted to work with him because of my own links to Africa. He lives between Vienna, where he studied, Ghana, and Chicago. So we sat down and discussed.”

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