Photographer Arvida Byström on Selfies and Gender Identity

The 22-year-old's pink and glitter images are more subversive than they seem

Two years ago, Swedish artist Arvida Byström grew tired of the lack of jobs and places to live in her native Stockholm and left for London. Since then, she’s put on shows at her own gallery Gal in Limehouse, East London, and worked on a number of magazine and art projects. Recently, Byström’s art was featured in Petra Collins’ “Pussy Pat” show in New York, …

Kalen Hollomon for Capsule SS15

The NYC-based mixed media artist creates provocative collages with vintage adverts

Each season, fashion and lifestyle tradeshow Capsule commissions a single artist to create an exclusive body of work to be featured on invites, signage and printed newsletters distributed during stops in New York, Paris, Berlin and Las Vegas. Previous years have seen Hisham Bharoocha, Amy Jean Porter and Micah Lidberg featured—among others. For SS15 NYC-based mixed media artist Kalen Hollomon got the nod. By using …

The Weather Diaries: Interpreting Fashion from the West Nordic Islands

Exploring influences on the region's creativity, as seen through the eyes of photography duo Cooper & Gorfer

Following Reykjavik and Seattle, the German city of Frankfurt is the host of this year’s Third Nordic Fashion Biennale (NFB), a traveling event that highlights the unique work of young creatives from Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. It offers a closer look at the region, which has largely kept its distance from global fads and instead, is still heavily influenced by and rooted in …