Cover star Nora Turato speaks up in SLEEK 61

As Berlin’s winter thaws, we reveal our spring issue, which is now available in stores. SLEEK 61 features Nora Turato on the cover, shot by Image Group in Balenciaga. In our #MeToo era, the Croatian performance artist talks us through the power of hysteria and how speaking up is a revolutionary act for women.

Writer and blogger Arabelle Sicardi explores the effect data mining is having on the fashion and beauty industry in our Digital Ethics section. Here, we dive into the internet’s morality as our world becomes engulfed by it. Meanwhile, American writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus recounts the catharsis of Christine Blasey Ford’s Senate Judiciary testimony and power of accomplishing simple tasks in a polarised society.

Annet Dekker, writer, professor and co-founder of The Centre for the Study of Networked Image at London South Bank University sheds light on the little known labour behind our social media likes in Like Economy, while photographer, Stephanie Kneissl shares her photo series on three machines that “confuse the algorithm and [broke] the filter bubble,” in Stop the Algorithm.

This year marks two important anniversaries for Germany – it’s been 30 years since the Berlin Wall fell and the Bauhaus movement turns 100. SLEEK 61 reveals the coded messages in East Berlin’s Soviet fashion magazine Sibylle in a profile of GDR photographers Ute and Werner Mahler and East German fashion model Grit Seymour. Adam Štěch follows the far-reaching influence of the German design movement that resulted from the Bauhaus’ forced closure in 1933, owing to Nazi censure.

Arvida Byström looks at the contemporary prevalence of dolls in the sex industry in the fashion editorial, Love me like her, while Stephen Tayo takes us on a tour of  Lagos, Nigeria in his menswear story.

SLEEK also continues its series of exclusive fine art photography.  The spring issue features Rottingdean Bazaar’s The Mortal Pickle, and Las Virgenes de Flamenco by Camila Falquez, a profile of the flamenco dancers of Seville in Spain.

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