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Editorial by 100% Silk Shop
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Concept and Paintings: Inez Genereux
Photography: Lee Dekel
Collages: Janna Gohar
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JENNY IS WEARING THE AVI BLUE TIE DYE DRESS AND FABIANA SHOE IN BLACK
SETH IS WEARING THE KEEPING VEST IN BOUNTIFUL TREE WITH THE BRIDGE SHORTS IN SEAFOAM CLAMP AND TYRE SLIDES IN BEIGE ECO-WOOL. KAORI IS WEARING THE MON DRESS IN INDIGO FOREST SUGAR BATIK AND TYRE SLIDE IN BLUE VELVET.
JENNY IS WEARING THE AVI FLORAL TOP IN BLUE WITH THE REMY TWIL...
In the psychogeographical vortex of a Queen West apartment.
Editorial by Lee Dekel, Jacqueline Lachance & Inez Genereux
All clothing from 100% Silk & Spa Boy, SS '22.
Truck Slides by Yume Yume.
Jewelry by Laura Lombardi.
At different points during my conversation with Mozhdeh Matin, she tilted her laptop camera to show me her dog, a closer view of a painting that I’d admired in her living room, and a glimpse of the beach out her window. The views in and from Matin’s home are filled with unpretentious joy and visual nuance. Matin, the founder and designer of Mozh Mozh, imbues her collections with similar traits.
Based in Peru and developed with local artisans, Mozh Mozh pieces are entirely made from Peruvian ...
This instalment of Taking Notes features a conversation with Toronto-based writer and witticist Cason Sharpe, author of Our Lady of Perpetual Realness & Other Stories (Metatron Press, 2017) and contributor to Canadian Art, C Magazine, Guts Canadian Feminist Magazine, Brick, PRISM International, and the Hart House Review, among others. Recently, Sharpe has begun writing Cason’s Casting Couch, a column on film casting for In The Mood Magazine.
Late this spring, we chatted with Sharpe a...
In spring 2021, 100% Silk Shop owner Lee Dekel and writer Esmé Hogeveen began chatting about the idea of a survey asking designers and artists to share thoughts on revered textiles, pandemic pastimes, and creative practices. Taking Notes was born and our first conversation is with designer Julia Heuer.
Building on an illustrious career as a textile print designer for Jakob Schlaepfer, the German-born Heuer founded her namesake collection in 2017. Since then, the brand has developed a followi...
This season we invited Toronto photographer Jorian Charlton and stylist Nariman Janghorban to create a riot of colour and texture from the shop’s closet. Collaborating with makeup artist Rahsthetics, photography assistant Roya DelSol and models Yves Jarvis and Natelise Ekland, the team created sumptuous tableaux at Polyester Studios, which was outfitted for the shoot with ten foot collages of handwoven, printed, and satin textiles. Janghorban layered looks from our collections up, down and d...
Greatly mysterious ~ Ajuba monsters photographed in their preferred habitat of the tall grass, stone pedestals, feathers and leaves.
Set - Jaime McCuaigPhoto - Lee Dekel
Shop Tajik Ceramic Whistles
What it feels like to be Monica Moraru, October 30th, 2020
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All our lives, we are looking for the magic ~ a sonic spell for you.
Styling and photos by : Lee Dekel & Inez Genereux
Model: Monica Moraru
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Mayflower Jacket, Border Boot and Landscape Bracelet
100% SILK Mayflower Jacket and Joanne Burke Anemone Earring
Arielle de Pinto Currency Bracelet in Charcoal and Brass
Bully Boy Bontes Bodysuit
Dubié Border Boot
100% SILK Juliette Corset, Quilted Cargo Pan...
Bazin bows rustle against dying marigolds. They punctuate the hot and grey landscape of downtown Toronto gardens. The air is dry and clear. Cascading sheeths of waxed cotton pour downwards like water from a fountain, like the kiss from late summer wasps, twirling. Giant sun-bleached asparagus stalks and concrete dogs fill the streets, and Jana laughs at this fantasy in the void of the city.
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Styling and Photos by Nadia Gohar + Lee Dekel
Art Direction by Nadia Gohar
Modeled ...
On a punishingly hot day in May we asked Lunakhods to photograph the queer icon Mina Gerges in a half-renovated studio above 100% SILK. Mina emerged on the set glowing, blasting Arabic love songs and ready to transform.
Inspired by Mina’s unapologetic presence, Lunakhods transported him onto the beaches, gardens and bathrooms of Egypt, Pakistan, Ghana, and Uzbekistan, environments where queerness remains hidden and underground.
The following is an unedited Facetime conversation between Lunak...