SOMA Magazine SOMA People Issue Jun 15 | Page 10

Contents 34 Adam Thorpe 36 A Walk With Cory Johnson 40 The Influencers Soraya Darabi and Maxine Bédat of Zady Nina Mufleh 46 La Femme au Chapeau Photography by Sergio Kurhajec 56 Sheer Cover Photography by Peter Rosa 66 Binary Reflections Photography by Mike Kobal 72 Great Blue Yonder Photography by Ben Cope white noise 10 Arido future stars of fashion 12 14 Britt Moore Anna Metzel & Eleonore Santos Design 16 JC Kim street pulse 18 San Francisco style 20 Raw Spirit hanD signals 22 Kenji Toma features fashion i - pose 24 music 80 82 Giorgio Moroder Planet Perth urbanite 84 85 86 Haley Guild Moore Abigail Ziaja Andrea Valenzuela last worD 88 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.