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Laura Schoorl of Pansy

Laura Schoorl wants you to feel wonderful in your underwear. The director of sustainable, ethical underwear brand Pansy radiates warmth, comfort and minimalist beauty, and has translated that love for people and nature into a beautifully organic and comfortable range of intimates that celebrates diversity in shapes and sizes. We talked to her about her rituals for inspiration, relaxation and how she works through the challenging moments of entrepreneurship. Image: Ophelia Mikkelson

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Elisabeth Vidal, Designer

Welcomed into the private home of Elisabeth Vidal on her 52nd birthday says much about the French designer’s warmth and enthusiasm, even before we delve into her sublime catalogue of collaborative projects, including ceramics, furniture and interiors. With a focus on working with artisans throughout Italy, France, Portugal and Japan, Elisabeth’s research on the essential object finds its foundations in tactile apprehension and gestures.

Originally a graduate from the ESDI in Paris, Elisabeth has spent many years working and tutoring in Milan, living with her husband and two children. A few years ago, they moved back to Montpellier where Elisabeth grew up, and it is here, we meet and spend the morning speaking about personal maps and the importance of taking the time to live. Images by Mary Gaudin

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Music to Retreat To

A one-hour-long musical journey with Angel Olsen...

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Tune into the magic of the season

Twice a year at Solstice we like to take a pause as the seasons transition from the light half of the year to the dark half, or the dark half to the light. We take the opportunity to celebrate the sun and turn its energy into a quiet moment of self-reflection …

Image: Mekdela Maskal photographed by Nastassia Brückin, Mallorca.

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Pamela Love, Jeweller

Filled with crystals and quilts from her travels out west, earthy ceramics, and an abundance of happy, healthy plants, Love’s home is a sanctuary, with a clawfoot bathtub pride of place. Lotions and potions are a a big part of Love’s daily rituals—she even has an [apothecary] dedicated to them on her website. Before we left, she could’t help but frolic in that perfect snowy powder, just for a moment…

Imagery by Nastassia Bruckin

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Stevie Dance

Australian stylist and photographer Stevie Dance is responsible for making the fashion industry fall in love with character.

Avid readers of the first issues of RUSSH will remember it’s progressive aesthetic and politically minded voice: celebrating youth, sex, curiosity and authenticity. But what readers were actually enjoying is the vision and voice of Stevie Dance, who led the magazine in its beginning years. She is credited as a stylist, but her insight penetrates deeper than that. Now living and working in New York + Los Angeles, Stevie is sharing creative direction and written essays for some of the industry’s most prominent titles & fashion houses, plus driving her sustainably-minded personal project, The Feel Studio Inc.

We visit Stevie at her LA home in her newest role as a mother to her beautiful son Harmony.

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Marta Rubio, The Bathing Series — Tokyo, Japan

Bathing with a kind heart turned inward, we find transformation in the mundane sensing a connection between effort and pleasure...

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Maly Mann, Painter

With intentions on becoming a teacher, Los Angeles-based painter Maly Mann subsequently left university to pursue a freelance lifestyle as an artist. A pathway that was always calling, yet blurred with fear. We meet with Maly to speak about the moments that are pivotal in developing creative work — managing time & anxiety, and the courage to call one's own boundaries.

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Kristin Dickson-Okuda of Iko Iko

Kristin Dickson-Okuda has built her creative language from acknowledging an experience’s essence and then making it tangible. This process of design results in Kristin’s brand clothing line Rowena Sartin, and her husband Shin’s furniture project WAKA WAKA, both of which are housed in their Los Angeles-based concept space Iko Iko (Japanese for ‘let’s go!’). And as one would imagine, the energy of such sentiment is laden across all that they create.

For years we have admired Kristin’s approach to concept and construction, creating pieces for the body and home that encourage connection. Becoming a mother has further clarified this vision. Kristin's work is deliberate and bold, unveiled by ego and determined to gently answer some of life’s little questions.

Claire Cottrell visited Kristin at the studio, capturing her in motion, somewhere between problem-solving and play.

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Solstice

Patience, self-reflection and time to slow down. Solstice is an invitation to tune into ourselves…
Images by Marta Rubio

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Sigrid McCarthy

We are drawn to women who are dedicated to long term projects that focus on the betterment of the future, those who spend today educating and shifting perspective on how action can be taken for tomorrow.

A great example is Melbourne-based Sigrid McCarthy. Four years ago, Sigrid identified a gap in fashion media and launched Intent Journal, a sophisticated online magazine that lends her professional experience in social justice to the fashion industry. As Editor-in-Chief, Sigrid gently directs each feature to unpack ideas around ethical values, production and consumerism via open and transparent conversations with industry leaders.

We visit Sigrid at her family’s farm, a place that gave birth to her respect for nature, and holds her family’s values and spirit, qualities that Sigrid is harnessing in her adult life. It is a full circle of sorts, a nod to the cyclic nature of living with the land — a concept that is echoed in her work, which continues to propose questions around purpose and lifecycle, encouraging us to live happier, with less.

Images by Claire Summers.

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Transforming Thoughts

We select our coven of Sans Women based on the fact that they each engage in a practice that is both intelligent and interesting.

Using our platform as a way to open up conversations around the sticky, the gritty, and the pleasurable things in life, we believe these fireside ideas that are worth revisiting and celebrating.

Here, we share a selection of ways in which our Sans Coven work to transform ideas or shift bad habits in order to operate at their most optimum.

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Claire Cottrell, Filmmaker + Photographer

Award-winning filmmaker and photographer, Claire Cottrell has held our attention for many years. Dividing her work into design, women and food, Claire's work spans a narrative that references archetypes in architecture, literature and film. Now splitting her time between Los Angeles and France, Claire has created for herself a way to allow for dense working periods that are then balanced with ample space, time, and long solo walks...

We meet Claire at the Huntington Gardens in LA to speak about her approaches to freelancing, the importance of reflection, and how she self nourishes.

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Lisa Cooper, Creative

Introducing the wonderful Sydney based artist Lisa Cooper –– author, Doctor of Philosophy & a self-confessed flower obsessive. Imagery by Kelly Geddes

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Juliet Allen, Sex Therapist

Knowing very well the power in having a job title that raises a few eyebrows, Byron Bay-based Sex Therapist Juliet Allen is publicly dismantling the mythology around love making one open conversation at a time.

Her approach to sexual pleasure avoids touching on anything too spiritual or overly romantic, instead Allen focuses on arming her audience with practical real-life tools so they can get the most out of their intimate relationships.

Her conversation extend from bedroom intimacy between lovers into realms that include friendships and one's own self care and respect...

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