CONTENTS
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editor’s
letter
To quote Martin Luther King’s speech ‘ I have a dream’ would at first seem
pretentious for a teenage girl creating a magazine about fashion, following her
life-long dream of being a part of the industry she has worshipped for so long.
However, I can justify using this quote. I promise.
For the majority of my teenage life I have been obsessed by fashion: its power,
its seduction and, ultimately, how it can give a teenage girl hope to express
herself through a manner of dress and literature. Once I reached seventeen,
I started doubting the industry I was going into, thinking: Why are there so
many white models? Why are so many successful people in the industry from
aristocratic, or just plain rich, families? Why are we all such sheep and not
changing an industry that, frankly, can be quite old-fashioned at times? So, for this magazine I decided
to stop asking and just do. I wanted to do what felt natural, what felt like me, what felt like I could
possibly make some small change to the industry that I love so dearly.
Fashion is an industry that ultimately is designed to celebrate our individualities and encourages us
to dress in a manner that expresses our true selves. This has been done by the likes of the late Isabella Blow, a superb fashion editor in her time who wore fashion as a reflection of herself and her own
needs. But it wasn’t just this that separates people like Isabella Blow from the crowd, it’s also using
fashion as an art form that allows us to truly enjoy its boundaries.
Le Nuage is the french translation of ‘Cloud’, which is, in fact, my middle name. I chose this as the title
to allow the magazine to become truly my own, an expression of myself, and, in a sense, something
I could wear proudly. The Le Nuage woman is someone who chooses to change her surroundings
rather than herself, who chooses to give a voice to those who do not and who chooses to celebrate all
women(and men) for their achievements. As the former US secretary Madeleine Albright said “There is
a special place in hell reserved for women who do not help other women.”
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RUBY ABBISS
LONDON FASHION WEEK 25 The Great Condé
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3-4 LFW Introduction
5-6 Belle Sauvage
7-8 Napsugar
9-12 Tata Naka
13-16 Giles
17-20 Jamie Wei Huang
21-22 Street Style
24 True Fashion Bible
BOOK REVIEWS
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21
Nast
26 A Psychological
Understanding
27-34 Colour Me
Happy
35-40 Androgyny
41-46 Sweet Like
Candy
EDITORIALS
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INTERVIEWS
59-60 Fashion Buyer and
Illustrator Rachell Khoo
61-64 Fashion
Photographer Sarah
Louise Johnson
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48 The Editor-in-Chief
49-52 Lock Up Your
Daughters
53-54 Isabella Blow
Le Nuage Muses
57-58 French Fashion
Photographers Antoine
and Charlie
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