"Splashes of Color" Style in Vogue Arabia June 2023 Ignites Dopamine Dreams of Zapotec Underworld AOC Fashion

Photographer Ekin Can Bayrakdar [IG] makes it very clear that color has an intense ride in his brain waves. He writes: “As you can see, I LOVE colour and try to use colours as strongly as possible.”

My brain is so sensitive to color that Bayrakdar’s fashion story “Splashes of Color” for the June 2023 issue of Vogue Arabia just derailed my morning reading plan.

In these images model Alba Galan is styled by Joanne M Kennedy./ Hair by Makot Hayashi; makeup by Ellie Tobin

Riding the Orange Moonbeam

My intention was to read: “Archaeologists Discover Entrance to the Zapotec Underworld Beneath a Church in Mexico” in Smithsonian’s Smart News. New scans of the site have confirmed the existence of an “underground labyrinth”, which the Catholic Church obliterated by not only closing it to generations of worshippers, but eliminating its secrets from human history.

Instead of being dragged into the intriguing darkness of the Zapotec underworld with a strong cup of French Roast, intense color grabbed my attention and pulled me out of the labyrinth just now.