Young Germany-based fashion designer Rayan Odyll is having a love affair with multi-tone prints for spring 2012. Finding their way onto luxe silks, these prints were “developed from abstracted childhood memories, floral motifs and Polkadots” resulting in an exotic mix that warrants the collection’s title: Cultural Limbo. Odyll’s peplumed, waist-accenting shapes have a certain femininity, while his accessories add their own exotic whimsy to the…

From Bowie to Kanye, Madge to Minaj, the best pop star is a versatile pop star, and so it follows that the best pop star references are just as varied. Piling on the bling and cracking out the sequins, Mohamed Gaff brings us all kinds of rock royalty, with model and stylist Bonnie Strange proving there’s no limit to reinvention. Banish all thoughts of stagefright…

In Butterfly Caught, photographer Mohamed Gaff takes us on a magic carpet ride through a world steeped in colour. Bonnie Strange’s lavender hair and matching lavender eyes, red lips and vibrant nail colours – all styled by hair and makeup artist Anja Fichtenmayer – turn her into the perfect inhabitant of this rainbow world. She is the titular butterfly, photographed amidst backdrops and floral props…

Some of fashion’s subplots are defiantly estranged from the things we expect fashion to be: accessories made from hair, the leather harness transitioned from fetish to everyday wear – these are some of the things that crop up time and again despite their removal from common expectation. In Mohamed Gaff’s shoot The Limit of Silence – a shoot that hits the eye with striking visuals…

What advice did your mother give you when you were a kid? Apart from the infamous “don’t speak to strangers,” believe it or not, we all got a fashion etiquette rulebook as kids. Who knew? Don’t hunch your back, always keep your knees together and never let the bottom of the dress touch the floor in public. Nostalgia attack, anyone? An analogous scene has been…