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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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.
Ignacio Gatica's Global Uncanny

Jan 15, 2024 | justsmilemagazine.com | Drew Zeiba

The watch has stopped at 12:29. A yellow sun with curlicue rays rises beneath the unmoving hands. A simple metal armature clamps the watch to a concrete plinth engraved with text derived from declassified US documents of interventions and subterfuge in Latin America. This watch, a political campaign souvenir, joined eight others whose faces displayed maps, symbols, and even politicians’ portraits in New York–based, Chile-born artist Ignacio Gatica’s installation Terce at SculptureCenter in 2022.
Tremaine Emory on life & death, friendships & family, artifice & authenticity.

Aug 22, 2023 | justsmilemagazine.com | Rahim Attarzadeh

In the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York, lies an ambitious overview of American fashion, from Claire McCardell to Ralph Lauren to Marc Jacobs. Among these sartorial artifacts devoted to the grand, defining designers of the past eight decades, stands three outfits by Tremaine Emory, founder of Denim Tears and forty-two-year-old-designer, visionary agent provocateur and multitalented creative.
Sage Elsesser Speaks Up

Aug 22, 2023 | justsmilemagazine.com | Judnick Mayard

At the beginning of his music career, Sage Elsesser – the professional skater-turned-rapper under the moniker Navy Blue – was meant to be finishing an art degree, but turned to making beats instead. Wanting to be anonymous, he laughs, remembering recording ‘into his shirt’, rapping at a volume that could barely be heard. Listening to his debut project, ‘Àdá Irin’ (2020), this becomes clearer.