FASHION

BEAUTY OF BECOMING

Most of us fear change even though it is intrinsically inevitable. Our comfort zones become our place of stagnancy, an unmoving line that fully personifies flat-lining, a spiritual death that leaves us all impassioned, dull, and unfeeling. In this issue, we encourage you to edge out of your comfort zones, and embrace the beauty of transformation, along with the colorful living that comes from it.

Loisa Andalio headlines this issue as she transforms from a teen star into a woman of her own. Channeling a Renaissance painting, we take inspiration from her classic kind of beauty and

swathe her in a mix of feminine and masculine pieces fully reflecting a new woman that we are all excited to see. In Black Girl Magic we take our precise cues from the the high style renderings of the show Pose where we transform the body into a high fashion canvas in exaggerated shapes and stark shades of black and white.

“When nothing is certain, anything is possible,” and so goes a quote I chanced upon while riding the Greyhound to New York, and it fully embodies the issue as it looks forward to constant transformation. There will always be change and the best way to embrace it is to face it head on.