Dust Magazine China 01 Considers Muse Refusal Lensed by Elina Kechicheva AOC Fashion

Dust Magazine China [IG] Issue 01 taps models Delilah Koch, Sofia Fanego and Zelda Adams for a thought-provoking fashion story ‘She Refused to Be a Muse’.

Creative Director Dou Qianlin — definitely one to watch [IG] — centers the fashion story around the fashion archives of Christian Lacroix.

Photographer Elina Kechicheva [IG] captures this atmosphere of female refusal in the shoot styled by Jordan Kelsey. / Hair by Alexandry Costa; makeup by William Bartel

‘The Real life bored me; I needed to idealize it’, Monsieur Lacroix, now secluded in Arles, told Dou Qianlin. Within this framework of idealization, the creative director references the Mexican artist Leonora Carrington [IG], describing her as . . .

another figure who has chosen to distance herself from societal norms. Her pursuit of freedom and her rebellion against bourgeois conventions, coupled with her disdainful yet confrontational approach to portraying women as muses while neglecting their creative identities, serve as primary inspirations for this DUST CHINA review of Lacroix’s archival .