Justsmile Magazine

Justsmile is an independent cultural magazine that blends fine art, fashion, ideas, self-expression, and inclusivity. It serves as a creative hub for individuals from various backgrounds, using luxury fashion to spark discussions and share thoughts. Designed for all, Justsmile focuses on showcasing genuine instances of inclusivity and diversity, offering a space for Black and POC voices to showcase their work and collaborate.

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Acts of Faith with Emmanuel L. Desir

2 weeks ago | justsmilemagazine.com | Maya Kotomori

The wooden woman pleads, her right arm raised to signal her need. A patterned red scarf wraps her head, the dark flat of her face deep in its expressionlessness—her breasts are low, her stomach round, posture hunched. She is Mama U Tried (2019), a sculpture by fine artist Emmanuel Louisnord Desir, a master at freezing animus in his inanimate sculptures. Brooklyn-born and now Los Angeles-based, Desir quickly made a name for himself in the contemporary art world.
Justsmile Magazine - Crashout!

1 month ago | justsmilemagazine.com | Connor Garel

Ten minutes with Carl Fischer, 25, a motocross racer from Henderson, Nevada, 15 miles outside of Las Vegas. He steps off the track, filling Justsmile in on what brought him to the sport, what makes him go fast, and how he recharges his battery. How and when did you get into motocross? It started when I was really young. My first dirt bike ever had training wheels on it. Before I could really even balance super well, I had a dirt bike. I rode for a couple of years, then I started growing up.
Justsmile Magazine - Carmelo and Kiyan Anthony — Like Father, Like Son

2 months ago | justsmilemagazine.com | Lawrence Burney

This story appears in Justsmile Issue 6, Eyes on the Prize. Twenty-two springs ago, an 18-year-old Carmelo Anthony and the rest of his team at Syracuse University achieved what very few thought they could, which was winning the school’s first men’s basketball championship in its then 105-year history. This isn’t to say that anyone doubted Carmelo’s personal abilities as an athlete.
Justsmile Magazine - Vecinos

Nov 27, 2024 | justsmilemagazine.com | Connor Garel

This story appears in Justsmile Issue 5, How Do We Belong? Two brothers, newly arrived at the brittle cusp of adulthood, lean against a cobalt blue car in a rundown parking lot, confronting the camera’s gaze. One wears a hairnet, a gold chain, a self-protective posture, and a leather t-shirt resembling a bulletproof vest; the other sports a big white shirt with room to grow into, long dark trousers with room to grow into, and cradles a baby, presumably his own, that underscores his own youth.
Kelvin Harrison Jr. Wants to Break Out

Nov 26, 2024 | justsmilemagazine.com | Nicolas-Tyrell Scott

This story appears in Justsmile Issue 5, How Do We Belong? Kelvin Harrison Jr. is neither a sportsman by design nor by experience.
To Look Without Flinching: Mustafa

Nov 25, 2024 | justsmilemagazine.com | Connor Garel

This story appears in Justsmile Issue 5, How Do We Belong? The eye does not see what it doesn’t want to see. What it has no use for. The social worker, the police officer, the crime reporter, the “revitalizing” developer: each materializes in all their supposed virtuosity and sees only the chaos, the menacing statistics, the procession of distrustful glances, the disadvantaged poor. But they do not see the people.
The Gospel of Omar Apollo

May 31, 2024 | justsmilemagazine.com | Connor Garel

This story appears in Justsmile Issue 4, There's Still So Much More. Omar Apollo is sitting in his New York hotel room, hands clasped as though in prayer, talking about God and supposedly ungodly things.
Caleb McLaughlin Has So Much More Ahead

May 30, 2024 | justsmilemagazine.com | Kemi Alemoru

“I forget I’m famous sometimes,” says 22-year-old Caleb McLaughlin. “I’m chilling and then I have these moments walking around where someone asks: ‘Are you the kid from Stranger Things?’ Then I feel like a child. It’s very awkward and weird.
Welcome to Virginia

May 27, 2024 | justsmilemagazine.com | Dominic Cadogan

What is the role of a creative director today? Historically, the position has been held by alumni of prestigious fashion schools – from Central Saint Martins to Parsons – but as the industry continues to morph and expand into the inescapable, all-encompassing behemoth it has become, are these parameters now redundant?
Designers on The Up: The New York Locals

Mar 7, 2024 | justsmilemagazine.com | Dominic Cadogan

This story originally appears in Justsmile Issue 3, Reflections are Protections. Forget what you heard about ‘New York Fashion Weak’, the city is doing just fine without the heavyweights, who have transplanted to Paris or disappeared from the NYFW schedule entirely. A melting pot of influences, styles and heritages, the city’s fearless fashion scene is a manifestation of its diverse makeup – unified only in a mantra to forge their own lanes.