Dust, Issue 20 – SS22

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In the industrial cities, tiny little particles flutter in suspension, coming from industries, cars and even sometimes from hydroelectric power stations: it’s the DUST. Hidden, silent, omnipresent in our lives, it lands everywhere: the house, the roof, among the hair, between the fingers….

DUST is a new refreshing fashion & art magazine. With a biannual publishing frequency, Dust was born in early 2010 with the desire to provide a new and different point of view to the fashion magazine market.

We feel the need of filling the gaps that the rest of magazines leave, fighting in a certain way, against the increasingly stronger elitist spirit of the publishing world.

We bet and support artist’s collaborations, whether they are anonymous or upcoming ones, we’d like to search new talents, since we are interested on the real quality of their work, and not only on the name of the people who made it.

We want artists to feel completely free to develop and vent their own needs so they can create their works without any fear or vain censures. We will go deep into the artist’s world, interviewing and meeting them, in order to get a real knowledge of their creations and personality. We want fashion to become something much closer to an artistic point of view than to a commercial atmosphere, as we consider it as a path for creation and not the opposite.

That’s why we are not interested in the collection’s date, or the suitable time for promotion since we consider that art and fashion are always contemporary. DUST is a London based magazine, even if it’s made and produced in different cities around the world, such as New York, Madrid, Berlin, Milan and Paris by a specific team of creative minds that want to renew the current situation with this new thriving project.

In this issue:

As soon as we started feeding our data to technologies, creating this extricable limbo where everything coexists equally at the same moment, our lives were defined once for all. We live in a new present defined and rearranged by the algorithm. A present where the momentum of individual empowerment goes hand in hand with a crushing disempowerment. Caught in a digital age where everything seems intimate to us, but nothing really is, we should consider what kind of experience we are having of ourselves. How much of our lives do we process through algorithms? How much of our journey of self-discovery and self-awareness is happening through screens? There are conscious ways to reclaim self-sovereignty, purpose, clarity and gain agency over our data, tools, and destiny. What we hope for is a counterculture able to develop a narrative that is based on the unique characteristics of the human experience in the face of a machine-powered society.

Contributors: PAU AVIA BEAT BOLLIGER PIERRE-ANGE CARLOTTI VITTORIA CERCIELLO THOMAS CRISTIANI HUGO COMTE YASMINA DEXTER LUIGI & IANGO CASPER KOFI PAUL KOOIKER GIOVANNI DARIO LAUDICINA BRETT LLOYD KITO MU OZ GEORGIA PENDLEBURY OLIVIER RIZZO ALEXIS ROCHE COLLIER SCHORR ANDERS S LVSTEN THOMSEN JAMES VALERI AMBER VALLETTA Text: EVER ANDERSON ANDREA BATILLA JACOPO BEDUSSI GHERARDO FELLONI MICHELE FOSSI JURASSIC-1 JUMBO WENDY MANDY GIULIANA MATARRESE IBRAHIM NEHME STEFANO PILATI JAMES POULOS ANTONIO PRIVITERA FILIPPO SCOTTI