Journal

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

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.

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.

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.

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...