Feeling Seoul
SSENSE
Nov 03 2019
Intuiting the City with Juun. J, Gentle Monster, and Maison Margiela
Numerology is the study of the divine relationship between numbers, and corresponding qualities or events. The number 29 breaks down to the master number 11 (2+9), symbolizing higher intuition and spiritual insight, supernatural abilities, increased empathy and sensitivity. For their first SSENSE editorial, photographer Min Hyunwoo traces the perimeters of the streets, public spaces—shops, food stands, alleys—intuitive additions to the civic topography. From Wooyoungmi to Juun.J, Keenkee to Gentle Monster, Seoul on the 29th is illuminated.
John Yuyi’s Chameleon Heart Mutable Emotions with Gucci, Ambush, and Versace A lump in your throat. A heavy chest. An elevator in your stomach. A tightness in your neck. In what parts of your body do you carry your emotions? The physical anatomy becomes a vessel for its internal, stirring ephemera, just as color connotes it. What color is joy? What mood is Miu Miu ? Is focus halfway between anger and serenity? Melancholy synonymous with romance? From Balenciaga to Gucci , John Yuyi shows that a spectrum of feelings extends itself equally to our outsides. 
Mel Ottenberg Wants To Know: Are We Having Fun? The Creative Director Of Interview Magazine On Taking Risks And Styling Rihanna For The Stage “Large American male.” That’s how Mel Ottenberg, the cheeky-clever, vanguard fashion stylist identifies. Ottenberg is one of those born originators who seems never to keep an idea for himself and whose personal style choices are as simple and unchanging as his public output is wild and creative; today, he is wearing tailored Levi’s and a vintage Champion sweatshirt he bought in Japan. “I’m a beefy thick guy,” he says. 
Versace Jeans Couture Enters Quil Lemons’ Universe The Photographer and His Inner Circle Revitalize the Heritage Label’s Streetwear Line In a culture that promotes and operates around the procurement of the —selfies, self-care, self-made careers—Quil Lemons is absorbed by something else entirely: a genuine commitment to the rise of others.