Well this post is simply to show you a concept for a magazine I have thought about for a while. There seems to be a high end fashion magazine for everything these days, yet still there seems to be very little that caters for the transgender community. Androgyny is not a new idea or concept within fashion, and it seems that more and more designers are designing collections that are no longer gender specific but towards a more androgynous lifestyle and aesthetic, as a way of representing the equality between men and women as society opens up and allows us to be more equal.
This is how I came to the idea of VESTITUS. The word vestitus is latin for dressed, and is fitting since the magazine is a lifestyle magazine about dressing (in this case to appeal to those involved within transvestism).
The magazine celebrates tranvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny in all its manifestations within high end fashion. What you will find on the pages will hopefully give you inspiration and freedom to be that persona you have always wanted to be.
The cover is in lipstick red, to reference the first moment a man dresses to become that other persona and puts on lipstick for the first time (possibly our mother's or sister's own red lipstick) I feel the colour choice is very appropriate for the first issue. The cover is a collage of male and female facial features to emphasize the bluring of lines between the male and female form, the lips in the centre represent that VESTITUS is perhaps one of the first of such magazines to speak openly of what is considered a sub-cultured lifestyle. Hopefully I will be able to create some possible content for what may go into the magazine, where the layout will also will represent the lifestyle of its readers.
This is how I came to the idea of VESTITUS. The word vestitus is latin for dressed, and is fitting since the magazine is a lifestyle magazine about dressing (in this case to appeal to those involved within transvestism).
The magazine celebrates tranvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny in all its manifestations within high end fashion. What you will find on the pages will hopefully give you inspiration and freedom to be that persona you have always wanted to be.
The cover is in lipstick red, to reference the first moment a man dresses to become that other persona and puts on lipstick for the first time (possibly our mother's or sister's own red lipstick) I feel the colour choice is very appropriate for the first issue. The cover is a collage of male and female facial features to emphasize the bluring of lines between the male and female form, the lips in the centre represent that VESTITUS is perhaps one of the first of such magazines to speak openly of what is considered a sub-cultured lifestyle. Hopefully I will be able to create some possible content for what may go into the magazine, where the layout will also will represent the lifestyle of its readers.
Note. The reason why the collage consists of squares is a personal reference to a a piece of art I wrote about within my dissertation during my degree - Vincenzo scamozzi's analytic diagram of proportions and the human body. Previously I have mentioned the circle as a way of symbolizing heavenly perfection and therefore harmony, Vincenzo incorporated this with the human form where the square symbolizes the four elements which are earth, wind, fire and water. Therefore Vincenzo was implying that the human form is heavenly perfection with the reality we know as the world and earth, this was why I jumped at the chance to create a collage of the human form that referenced the square, to demonstrate a very constructivist way of thinking.
The Constructivist.
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