Creative Direction: Claudia Rafael. Photography: Felicity Ingram. Sci-Fi Artist: Esmay Wagemans. Fashion Editor: Lorena Maza. Hair: Dushan Petrovic. Fashion Assistants: Ivanna Heredia, Carl Taegert. Casting Director: Sina Linke. Model: Han Sol Kim @Modelwerk. Retouch: Dtouch.
For SLEEK’s 2019 summer issue, out now, sci-fi artist, Esmay Wagemans teamed up with Selam X studio core member Claudia Rafael to create an exclusive editorial, entitled “Glass Skin,” using latex and glass body moulds to sculpt touchable manifestations of the augmented reality experiences we are all used to seeing on Instagram. In turn, Rafael, who provided creative direction for the real life shoot, digitalised the experience into a facial filter that lets you slip into the translucent mask.
“It expresses a feeling of future beauty,” Rafael says of the collaboration. “Wagemans’ masks are physical, but look kind of unreal and seem to be out of another world. The filter is digital but looks real, like a real object on your face.” The Selam X core member, who has worked on projects with MTV and Dazed, was excited to collaborate with the creator of Solange Knowles’ iconic body armour from the When I Get Home visual album, because she felt that they could create a similar feeling in different mediums
You can experience Wagemans’ work in extended reality on Instagram by opening up this link on your phone, going to SLEEK’s Instagram highlights. To keep the filter in your deck, follow its creator @_claudiarafael.
Check out the SLEEK62 spread below:
This editorial originally appeared in SLEEK 62, out now.
Credits
Creative Direction: Claudia Rafael
Photography: Felicity Ingram
Sci-Fi Artist: Esmay Wagemans
Fashion Editor: Lorena Maza
Hair: Dushan Petrovic
Fashion Assistants: Ivanna Heredia, Carl Taegert
Casting Director: Sina Linke
Model: Han Sol Kim @Modelwerk
Retouch: Dtouch