Some pictures aren’t meant to keep you guessing for long, laying out bits and pieces of a reality that’s stripped down to its bare essence, lacking any signs of embellishments, yes, but never meaning. Other photographs instead appear to be conceived to shape up a string of fantasies alone, never seeming quite real but inviting one to at least hope that what they paint is…

The Olympic Flame has been snuffed to darkness, the athletes all gone home to rest their weary bones. But just because the Games is over for another 4 years doesn’t mean the fashion world has or will forget about sportswear as something more than functional. There’s plenty of time to indulge in fanciful contrasts of shorts and heels, sequins and sweatshirts. Photographer Carola Doornbos brings…