SOMA Magazine SOMA Film and Music Issue Aug 15

Contents features fashion 38 The Alchemists 42 The Influencers Natalia Burina, Lara Eurdolian & Adriana Gascoigne 48 Novica 50 I Am Eleni 52 Sarrita King 54 She Moves Me Photography by Sergio Kurhajec 64 Training Day Photography by Peter Rosa future stars 12 D’Clic of fashion 14 AYK street pulse 16 San Francisco style 18 Fariba Soltani about place 20 British Film Institute hand signal 22 Jess Glynne i - pose 24 music 74 California Wives 78 Jamie XX 80 La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival film 82 Kiki Sukezane urbanite 84 The Audacity of Jean-Charles Boisset 86 Salute Hollywood So what the hell does SOMA mean anyway? Originally an ancient Indo-Persian word, representing an entity that transforms those who embrace it into ecstatic or transcendental realms. Soma eventually became a philosophical concept representative of ritual offerings, the contents of the material world, or the ‘life-force.’ The Greeks and the Romans used it to refer to the body. And of course Aldous Huxley described it as a holiday from the ordinary. We simply think of it as a magazine.

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