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Fashion Film Holiday Event
Enjoy the holiday seasons and become inspired by a 4 part fashion film intagram even featuring the designs of LUXX Ready to Wear!
The Colorful Mind of a Surrealist
Our next issue, themed, The Colorful Mind of a Surrealist, is getting us so excited! We can not wait to share it will you all, released January 1!
Fashion Films
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!
New Editorial - KING
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/
Last Call for Submissions!
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
Quick Facts about OPALUS Magazine
OPALUS QUICK FACTS
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
DOES OPALUS COME IN PRINT?
YES! You can order your own print copy online through MagCloud, just click
"ORDER IT IN PRINT" in the menu bar above and it will be delivered directly to your door step!
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.
Call for Submissions - New Video
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
LUXX Ready to Wear -Pop-Up Shop
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.
Fashion Film - White Briar Rose
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.
OPALUS INTERVIEW WITH NICHOLE LIBASI (WWW.NICOLELIBASSI.COM)
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...