Change is Constant (Be Like Water)
Words by Mads McElgunn (they/them) and Sandrine Demers (she/her)
To use the words of Claudia Mareis and Nina Paim: “How can we design as an unbounded, queer, and unfinished practice that approaches the world from within instead of claiming an elevated position?”*
Change is Constant (Be Like Water)** explores the fluidity of gender and the use of fashion design as a tool to express the plural and always evolving approaches to gender that exist outside of the restricting binary.
This editorial is a tender love letter from photographer Annelie Bruijn to her child who is finding their truth within the plural possibilities of gender fluidity.
*Claudia Mareis and Nina Paim, Design Struggles: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives, 2021.
**adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy. Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, 2017.
Credits:
Photography
Annelie Bruijn @ Visionary agency
Digital
Alexandra Sid
Styling
Anouk van Griensven @Ncl Representation
Hair & Makeup
Alexander van der Heide @ House of Orange
Models
June @ Platform Agency
Robin @ Super Model Management
Bas @ Vein Agency
Clothing Credits:
Page 1:
Jacket / Devastator
Earrings / Something Familiar
Page 2:
Dress / Devastator
Earrings / Zeeuwse freshwater pearls
Rings / Models own
Earrings / Zeeuwse freshwater pearls
Dress / Kings of Indigo
Blazer Tommy Page
Scarf / Filippa K
Page 3:
Shirt / Nanushka via Mytheresa
Pants / TVA via Devastator
Bracelet / Something Familiar
Page 4:
Blazer / Tommy Page
Dress / Devastator
Earrings / Zeeuwse freshwater pearls
Neckless / Model’s own
Suit / Tommy Page
Shirt / Monique van Heist
Shoes / Adieu via Devastator
Neckless / Something Familiar
Page 5:
Coat & pants / Monique van Heist
Turtle neck / Christian Wijnants, Boots vintage
Jacket & pants / Devastator
Page 6:
Jacket & pants / Devastator
Singlet / Kings of Indigo
Jacket & pants / Devastator
Singlet / Kings of Indigo
Mules / Second Hand Birkenstock
Page 7:
Blazer & pants / toogood via Devastator
Top / REYÈM
Neckless / Something Familiar
Socks / Sylists own
Slippers / Yume Yume
Coat / Devastator
Shirt / Hul le kes
Pants / Jouez
Earrings / Zeeuwse freshwater pearls
Page 8:
Shirt / Hul le kes
Earrings / Zeeuwse freshwater pearls
Suit / Tommy Page
Shirt / Monique van Heist
Neckless / Something Familiar
Page 9:
Shirt / Nanushka
Skirt pants / Jouez
Top / Christian Wijnants
Shirt / FRENKEN
Shorts / Bode
Page 10:
Coat & pants / Monique van Heist
Turtle neck / Christian Wijnants
Boots / Vintage
Dress / Kings of Indigo
Blazer / Tommy Page
Scarf / Filippa K
Shoes / Vintage
Earrings / Zeeuwse freshwater pearls
Page 11:
Shirt / Fillipa K
Scarf / Fillipa K
Dress / Kings of Indigo
Earrings / Zeeuwse freshwater pearls
Suit / Frenken