Grace Sandles

2 months ago | tobemagazine.com.au | Alison Kubler |Grace Sandles |Rahemma Azwar |Carwyn Mcintyre

It was Karl Lagerfeld, creative director of Chanel for thirty-six years, who quipped that he designed in a manner of a computer, his methods like an Intel processor extraordinaire, as if he was ‘plugged into’ Chanel mode. Lagerfeld’s codifying of Chanel informed Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren’s designs for their Viktor & Rolf couture show. The pair mused that artificial intelligence could reinterpret the house’s archive, namely their use of bows and frills, trims, and notions.

2 months ago | tobemagazine.com.au | George Howarth |Grace Sandles |Carwyn Mcintyre |Letti Koutsouliotas-Ewing

0 $0.00 0 items Set in an industrial garage lined with Filson posters, Junya Watanabe’s menswear show opened with a nod to tradition: hunting jackets, blue-striped shirts, and a beige wide-brimmed fedora that was rugged yet formal. This restraint didn’t last long. Watanabe’s signature subversive tailoring emerged, dismantling American staples with patchwork and jolts of unexpected colour.

2 months ago | tobemagazine.com.au | Grace Sandles |Carwyn Mcintyre |George Howarth |Letti Koutsouliotas-Ewing

The town of Concordia, Italy, where Rick Owens has been producing his garments for two decades, informed his latest menswear collection, 'Concordians'. Departing from the grandeur of last season’s cinematic spectacle, Concordians focused on the essential. “I want to depend on fewer things, but make them as supernatural as possible," he determined post-show. At the all-familiar Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Owens leant into his signature strength: proportion.

Jan 12, 2025 | tobemagazine.com.au | Grace Sandles |Annabel Blue |Sarah Buckley |Sophie Prince

However much you try to avert your eyes, Julie Rrap forces you to look back. Past Continuous, Rrap’s exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, challenges the matrix of female representation in art by turning the viewer’s gaze back on itself. Over several decades, Rrap has employed a multidisciplinary approach to redirect conversations on ageing, desire, and beauty—many of which collide in this retrospective. Born in Lismore in 1950, Rrap's life was non-traditional from the outset.

Dec 15, 2024 | tobemagazine.com.au | Grace Sandles

Rae Klein’s paintings comprise of suspended figurative elements set against cloudy skies or nebulous colour fields. The paintings, delicately and meticulously rendered, are feminine in perspective, illustrating the eternal folly of man and his perpetual attempt to assert control over the natural and feral.