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    • FASHION REPORT RAF SIMONS FALL / WINTER 2022
  • THE UNSTYLISH VIEW ON STYLE
    • ARINA photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • MARCO ANTONIO photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • NAOUEL photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • FRANÇOIS photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • Falke photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • LEA photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • BEHNAZ photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • GYVER photographed by Myra
    • RACHELLA photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • CLOSE-UP with Jovei Blink
    • DANA photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • NAZAR photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
  • STYLE
    • WISHLIST by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • WORKWEAR photographed by Noel Besuzzi 
    • TEXTURE photographed by Jean Michel Rousvoal
    • VOLLMOND photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • WORLD IN MY EYES photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • #metime photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • MAKE UP TUTORIAL NUDE COUTURE by Silène Tonello
    • ANGEL photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • MAKE UP TUTORIAL NUDE GLOW by Silène Tonello
    • ABLOHve illustrated by Louise Folly
    • MAKE UP MY MIND by Silène Tonello
    • BIRD OF PARADISE photographed by Juliette Lambard
    • SOLO photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • SERENITY photographed by Juliette Lambard
    • VITAMIN C illustrated by Louise Folly
    • IMPOLITESSE photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • STROLL IN PARIS photographed by Iris Brosch
    • ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CIRCUS photographed by Valérie Mathilde
    • BACK IN THE DAYS photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • LADY BUTTERFLY photographed by Kei Takeda
    • BLOOM photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • HELLO WORLD illustrated by Louise Folly
    • BLURRED photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • THE VISITORS photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • SHADES OF ORANGE photographed by Robertino Nikolic
  • PAS DE DEUX
    • ON THE VERGE OF A DREAM by Jorun Larson
    • زن زندگی آزادی WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM by Marjane Saidi
    • Ab-o-Atash photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • FLUORITE FANTASIA ( Looking For My Father…) photographed by Yukari Chikura
    • WHEN THE SEA COMES photographed by Alice de Kruijs
    • WONDERLAND photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • FADING BEAUTY photographed by Thymournia
    • PARADISE ISLAND photographed by Alice De Kruijs
    • THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY photographed by Hannah Häseker
    • ZAIDO photographed by Yukari Chikura
    • LOVE WITH A VIEW directed by Monsieur Mitri
  • NATURE
    • UNDERWATER by Sabine Hartl
    • FLOWER POWER photographed by Sabine Hartl
    • PLAY OF LIGHT photographed by Alexander Binder
    • FALL OF THE RAVEN photographed by Thymournia
    • THE COLD RIDERS photographed by Alexis Pichot
    • DAZE photographed by PERRINE SOCQUET
    • TIDES IN WINTER photographed by Steffen Klessen
    • OZONE-FRIENDLY photographed by Sara Ghazi-Tabatabai
    • TRAUM photographed by Alexander Binder
    • BROKEN HOMELAND photographed by Thierry Mazurel
  • STRUCTURE
    • IS IT REAL? by Marcus Wallinder
    • PARIS26THFLOOR photographed by Petrov Ahner
    • CRUSH photographed by Gabriele Renna
    • WINDOWS OF NEW HOPE – THE REFUGEE CAMP IN HANOVER photographed by Kaisar Ahamed
    • LIFE, DEATH AND OTHER SIMILAR THINGS photographed by Amin Yousefi
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    • ROCK-A-NORE photographed by Andreas Bleckmann
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    • PRIVATE SETTING by Birgit Kleber
    • OH HAPPY DAY by Wilken Weddings
    • DEVOTED by Susanne Middelberg
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    • DREAMS OF PAPER AND SILVER by Stephen Sheffield
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    • JOHANNA photographed by Arta Buneta
    • MELANIE photographed by Camille Roussely
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PARADISE ISLAND photographed by Alice De Kruijs

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EXPULSION FROM PARADISE

"Paradise Island photgraphed by Alice de Kruijs"
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An iceberg sank the Titanic. Parts of Oceania are on the verge of sinking because icebergs are melting. A different time, a different form of water and much worse disasters. Unlike Adam and Eve, however, the local population of Oceania’s islands can’t simply relocate and move to the suburbs of Eden when rising seas will hit. Please keep in mind: Not icebergs kill humans, human activity causing climate changes does.
_Uwe Buschmann (Copy editing Silvia Strauch)

"Paradise Island photgraphed by Alice de Kruijs"
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PARADISE ISLAND photographed by Alice De Kruijs

"Paradise Island photgraphed by Alice de Kruijs"
©Alice de Kruijs

Due to colonial neglect and historical isolation, the Pacific Islands, home to the world’s most diverse range of indigenous cultures, continue to sustain many ancestral life-ways. Fewer than 6.5 million in all, the peoples of Oceania possess a vast repository of cultural traditions and ecological adaptations. Oceania thus has the most to lose, culturally speaking, from the pressures of global political and economic change.

"Paradise Island photgraphed by Alice de Kruijs"
©Alice de Kruijs

Most Islands in the Pacific Ocean are isolated and very rarely have contact with the outer world. In combination with their ethnical beliefs they are isolated from the rest. The paradise islands are laying in the middle of the ocean. Through the years many islands remained their unique cultures.

"Paradise Island photgraphed by Alice de Kruijs"
©Alice de Kruijs

Despite diversity, all Pacific societies are small and vulnerable. A typical linguistic group consists of only a few thousand people, for example, can have drastic consequences for cultural survival. Indeed, many cases of “language death” – the disappearance of not only a spoken language but the cultural memory that goes with it – are on record.
“Tuvalu is sinking” is the local catch-all phrase for the effects of climate change on this tiny island archipelago on the frontline of global warming. A Polynesian country situated in Oceania, Tuvalu is no more than a speck in the Pacific ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia.

"Paradise Island photgraphed by Alice de Kruijs"
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"Paradise Island photgraphed by Alice de Kruijs"
©Alice de Kruijs

Already, two of Tuvalu’s nine islands are on the verge of going under, the government says, swallowed by sea-rise and coastal erosion. Most of the islands sit barely three metres above sea level, and at its narrowest point, Fongafale stretches just 20m across.

"Paradise Island photgraphed by Alice de Kruijs"
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"Paradise Island photgraphed by Alice de Kruijs"
©Alice de Kruijs

Countries such as Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshal Islands are already experiencing sea level rise where ocean flooding has washed saltwater onto agricultural lands and inundated sources of drinking water. These low-lying islands do not have forest cover therefore ocean level is rising at a much faster rate.

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