DSCENE MAGAZINE LOVE ISSUE IS OUT

The 15th DSCENE issue is entirely dedicated to love, with special interviews featuring designers behind Christopher Kane, KIMHĒKIM, TEN Studio and Richard Malone but also artists Abraham Cruzvillegas and Monira Al Quadiri. The creatives talk about their work but also the meaning of LOVE. In addition our cover stars Aaron Rose Philip and sisters Lia and Odette Pavlova pose for two spectacular cover stories fronting the new print edition. Rose Philip is interviewed for the new issue of DSCENE by Riccardo Tisci the Chief Creative Officer of Burberry but also her close friends. While at the same time Lia and Odette talk about sisterhood for the new DSCENE.

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Additionally our contributing writers for the issue have also opened the issue with their reflective love letters. While elsewhere in the issue we also sit down with Branko Kisic chef of a timeless Belgrade restaurant The Writer’s Club but also visit Porto Montenegro on the Adriatic sea and Boheme on Mykonos.

The new issue in its 132 pages also features summer 2021 season’s most coveted fashion pieces. Aaron Rose Philip wears a total look from Burberry on the cover, while Lia and Odette are clad in Salvatore Ferragamo.

Continue for the exclusive preview of our new issue but also words from DSCENE Magazine’s Editor In Chief Zarko Davinic:

After a year of highs and lows for all of us around the world, that feeling of positivity has sometimes felt in short supply, which is why we wanted this issue of DSCENE to embrace a spirit of optimism infused with love. Thankfully, artists, fashion designers and creatives we collaborated with on the new issue were of a similar mindset.

If ever there was a tale to lift the spirits and stir the soul, it is that of Aaron Rose Philip. Model and activist who inspires all of us and who tirelessly fights for equality and rights while changing our perspective of what a real supermodel is. Aaron’s unique beauty, incredible energy and innate charisma bring to mind the bright star wattage of the original supermodel. Let us all hope that we all carry that sentiment of buoyancy and generosity of spirit into our post-pandemic life. For Aaron’s story we teamed up with returning contributor Arale Reartes who once again delivered a timeless story infused with beauty and love. Rose Philip is for her cover story interviewed by her manager and close friends but also Riccardo Tisci the Chief Creative Officer at Burberry whose look she’s wearing on the cover.

Our second newsstand cover story features the striking Lia and Odette Pavlova in a dynamic shoot by Egor Tsodov masterfully styled by Damien Vaughan Shippee together in collaboration with Fashion Director Katarina Djoric. Lia and Odette also talk about the bond of sisterhood in a must-read questionnaire.

Elsewhere in the issue entirely dedicated to LOVE, we look to artists and designers Monira Al Qadiri, Christopher and Tammy Kane, Richard Malone, Kiminte Kimhekim, Angelo Fair, Matthias Garcia and Abraham Cruzvillegas for inspiration. Reflecting with them on what love is and what role it plays for them while renewing our optimism for what is to come.

Celebration of art and design is at the heart of DSCENE, of the creatives and new talent we admire, the fashion we love, the art and literature that inspire us. It was ever thus at DSCENE, this is a magazine that has championed creativity for almost 15 years, but this time our positive approach is maybe more important than ever in a moment when fear and hostility might look pervasive elsewhere. Thus we ventured into creating an inspiring issue celebrating love. Helping us on the road were also contributing writers Marko Ceperkovic, Mina Djuric and Sonja Avlijas, sharing their personal love stories. In that spirit Artist Vuk Ćuk is back on our pages with a collaborative project co-created with engineer Marko Radisic. The duo shaped an AI algorithm to analyse 100s of the most famous love letters of all time and write its own in response. The letter itself might not make much sense, but at the end of the day when does love ever make sense?

Photography and fashion are once again back on the pages of DSCENE this time capturing the stunning summer collections in our cover stories but also with love inspired photography from Gus & Lo, Federica Putelli, Sefano Sciuto, and Takahiro Ogawa. Love comes closer with real life couples photographed in Berlin by Diana Lange, but also in our cheerful beauty cover story captured by Takahiro Ogawa with fashion models on the rise.

In beauty as in fashion and art, as well in life, one size doesn’t fit all. Some of us will find our spirits soar as we simply prepare to start a new day. All that matters is doing what makes us feel good, rather than bad, about ourselves, one step at a time, with our heads held high and love for people around us.