OPALUS is a visual arts magazine for the imagination!
Fashion films are a huge part of what makes OPALUS Magazine.
We wanted to let you know that have been busy in the studio filming some amazing footage, and have 3 new OPALUS fashion films being released over the course of the next 2 months!
Stay tuned!
A New Editorial is up online by Russian based photographer Amer Mohamad, entitled "KING"
Some great men's fashion!
Check out the full series Here:
http://www.opalusmagazine.com/editorials/#/king/
Submit today to be a part of our next issue, which happens to be our most colourful one too!
Submit your work to submissions@opalusmagazine.com
Deadline - December 1
WHERE IS OPALUS BASED OUT OF?
Alberta, Canada!
HOW MANY COUNTRIES VIEW OPALUS MAGAZINE?
We are proud have viewership from 58 countries!
HOW OFTEN IS OPALUS RELEASED?
4 times a year
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CAN I ORDER PAST ISSUES?
YES!
CAN I VIEW OPALUS MAGAZINE ONLINE?
YES! Go to our home page where you can enjoy all our issue for free through ISSUU.
WHY DID YOU CREATE OPALUS MAGAZINE?
To engage the imagination, inspire you and create a high quality beautiful format for artists to show their work to the world!
WHERE DOES THE CONTENT IN OPALUS COME FROM?
OPALUS is a submissions based magazine, so artist from all over the world can submit their work for consideration to be published with us. Also, the cover shoot is always shot here at the OPALUS studio, with Creative Director, Malorie Shmyr.
Accepting submissions now for the next print issue theme of Opalus Magazine- "The Colorful Mind of a Surrealist"
Deadline December 1
Original Music Score - Joe Laisi
Creative Director - Editor - Malorie Shmyr
Hand Model - Tricia Rozendaal
You do not want to miss this POP-Up shop by 100% Locally made, locally owned, locally Edmonton clothing Brand, LUXX Ready to Wear, at the amazing LUXX studio in downtown Edmonton!
Meet the designer himself, Derek Jagodzinksy, try out some of your favourite looks seen walking the runway from WCFW, and make some of these incredibly made, and incredibly beautiful ready-to-wear pieces a part of your wardrobe this winter.
Written by Avery Kremer
As gentle as a rose and as harsh as its thorn, the intrigue lies amongst its deception. OPALUS takes you from flowerful’s luminance towards something much darker, rose’s own thorns as your guide.
Watch White Briar Rose a fashion film by Nicole Libassi and enter Drifting Shadows of Intrigue.
The fashion film, not unlike the silent movie of history’s past, delves into stories and characters with force and intrigue. We’re taken into a non-verbal world, one of fashion and costume, where visual considerations and aesthetic presentations preside over the film’s direction. The often, eerie beauty and peculiar timeline propel the narrative, leaving words unsaid, their presence undesired.
White Briar Rose’s auteur, Nichole Libasi, drops the visual beauty seeker into a universe left scathed by a strange tale of mystery and intrigue – clothed by fashion’s perfected beauty. This film presents a stark contract to the flowery subtlety of OPALUS Magazine’s most recent visual campaign and imparts a perfect introduction to the dark, twisted beauty of our current issue.
Follow Libasi’s presentation and find out what inspired this captivating film from the director herself in OPALUS Magazine interview below.
Interviewed by Editor Malorie Shmyr
1. What color is most inspiring you right now, and what about it inspires you?
White is the most inspiring to me because it's the sum of all colors.
2. What is a constant source of inspiration to you?
Surrealist and Experimental Cinema, Video Art, Contemporary Fine Art
Photography and Architecture.
My work is intertwined with the concepts of sex and death.
The drive for pleasure and the fear of death.
My work pours out of my own existential questioning and the shadows are where I
find meaning.
3. When you close your eyes, and drift into your imagination... what does it look
like?
Sometimes, when my eyes are still wide open, I drift into my imagination.
Most of the time I visualize my thoughts. Sometimes I see blurred, obscure,
desaturated organic forms, other times I get overwhelmed by bright, intense colors
and artificial structures.
4. Was there something specific that inspired you to make this film?
The rivalry between women, the obsession of beauty and the fear of aging.
Some women's fears and obsessions that should be overcomed.
5. Why do you create art?
It's the only way I can fully express myself.
It's a tool to express my thoughts and beliefs, and to exorcise my fears.
Creating and expressing emotions satisfies and liberates me.
I also create visual art because it's powerful forms engage with the human senses.
From my point of view art is about feeling something and each person can interpret
and feel it in their own unique way.
My aesthetic is a focus on both the palpable and veiled forms of beauty in the
world. I personally think art is about taking this vision and experimenting with
diverse elements to foster a whole new impression and atmosphere.
Thank you Nichole for sharing your perspective with us, we love your style...
Written by Avery Kremer
Designer - Tiffany Blue
Donna Lynn Photography
Fashion has a way of presenting itself as not only a future outfit for the viewing individual, but as a culture, a world made for the fashion forward and the dressing elite. Paris, New York, Western Canada… weeks are dedicated to this well dressed society. But it isn’t merely that, fashion is a way of life for more than the designers whose constructions grace the catwalks. It’s an art, a lifestyle, a morning ritual for the daily grind, a passion, a love, a reality.
Donna Lynn Photography
Designer - Nazila Couture
Photography - Ian MacDonald
So, as we round off the viewing trends that will make their way into the minds and wardrobes of the Spring 2015 street styles, the warmer weather fabrics, whimsical floral patterns and colors (we love this season’s yellows) remind us that fashion and the entire weeks cities designate each season to the fabric forward, aren’t just about the clothes. It never has been. It’s always been about the passion behind the textiles, the desire behind the models, the beauty behind the makeup and the technique behind the hair. Fashion is a collective, where art, culture and reality collide. Realism becomes the canvas.
Take Western Canadian Fashion Week as a whole, we were privy to front row participation, their fundamental mission as a festival is based on the collaboration from arts, fashion, lifestyle, media, production and design communities. They utilize this festival as a platform to not only showcase collections, but to develop the skills of local participants from every spectrum of this community, create world class designers and establish a local universe that can compete on a global scale. Consider the Korean designed paper dresses that displayed upon entrance to this years’ event. The very essence of using paper in lieu of cloth instantly alludes to an art form. Fashion therefore becomes an extension of this sculpture, the dress a finalized creation – a wearable reality, fashion’s existence implied.
WCFW Emerging Designer - Carly Vandershaaf
Photography - Ian MacDonald
So as thoughts of the whimsical, the wearable, the conceptualized and the floral breath an air of spring excitement into the lungs of our scarf draped, layer blanketed selves, acutely aware it’s still fall in Canada— we’ve got to thank these fashion weeks. They bring together a community that sometimes forgets it’s in this thing together. Because as WCFW’s Executive Director Sandra Sing Fernandes proposed, “Fashion is simply wearable art.”
Thank you Sandra, we have to agree. And hey, if dressing to trend is helping build an artistic community, then bring it on winter -- we have outfits planned for you!
Designer - Stanley Carroll
Grex Photography
Opposuit
Photography - Ian MacDonald
Designer - LUXX Ready To Wear
Donna Lynn Photography
Photo - Donna Lewis Photography
Pragmatic staples centralized the whimsical floral patterns of the extremely polished runway collection Shannon Fielding trotted down the platform Saturday night at Western Canadian Fashion Week. As last season’s emerging designer, Fielding provided the fashion industry with a poignant example of the sharp on-point vision young creators continuously bring to the runways of WCFW.
What we, the trend seeking devotees were provided with, was a lust worthy collection of the Spring 2015 variety. Seriously, those florals! So on point was the youthful pattern that its steady inclusion leant to the overall vibe, a cohesively wrapped spring collection reminiscent of a time when our grandmothers were young – playful nostalgia on command. These designs entrust hope to an understated business floral reality, one where pencil skirts and structured blazers remain staples, crop tops play to trend and femininity flows with a sought after, approachable ease.
But alas, we have one unsavory note…
Spring – it’s still so far away.
Shannon Fielding, we will be waiting.
Article Written by - Avery Kremer
A Special thanks to Grex Photographic Visuals and Western Canada Fashion Week
photographer / creative director - malorie shmyr
make up artist - nicola Gavins
hair stylist - emily strocher
lighting assistant - Chris kunkel
location - el cortez tequila bar and kitchen
model - Piper Jackson of mode models
Check out the cover of our October Issue!!! Drifting Shadows of Intrigue!
Drift with your shadows and enjoy the issue online today!
http://issuu.com/opalusmagazine/docs/opalus_magazine_issue_3_final
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