Alive - SIDE-NOTE

Edition N°2 ponders the vast notion of being ALIVE.

What it means to be ALIVE seems to be just as elusive as the meaning of life itself. While it doesn’t adhere to finite definition, what we know for sure is that touch, taste, sight and sound coalesce to form a visceral interpretation of the world around us. But is it simply a symphony of the senses? Or is there a little bit of magic and meaning hovering beyond the tangible experience? How does one delineate living from being alive? This edition tackles all the big questions.

THE ART OF TAKING UP SPACE – MIA DENNIS BY AMELIA DOWD

The role the body plays in fashion in recent years has witnessed a myriad of combative shifts. Publicly, a movement has rippled across the industry, calling for greater representation of marginalised groups. The campaigns and clothes within the fashion world began to acknowledge the folly of the beauty standard that dictated it for decades. Amelia Dowd captures Australian model Mia Dennis, whose rising status is carving out space for curve and queer models alike.

A BROKEN SYSTEM BY ISABELLE TRUMAN

If a young woman isn’t safe in the very building created to house those entrusted to keep young women like her safe, it’s clear there’s a huge systemic problem. Now that Brittany Higgins has opened up the Me Too conversation in Australia, where do we go from here?

CHANEL IN HONG KONG – CRUISE 2024/2025 COLLECTION SHOW

From the beaming show lights erected throughout the ninth floor podium of the Hong Kong Design Institute, to the glistening backdrop of Hong Kong’s cityscape, it was hard to imagine a collection in any other context.

PEOPLE OF NOTE: SEAN VENTURI – ON VENROY BY OLIVER BEGG AND DIVYA VENKATARAMAN

Sean Venturi is the man behind the Australian label Venroy, known for its well-made basics and nonchalant take on vacation-ready luxury. Here, Venturi treads over the brand’s winding journey, how it’s evolved alongside its hometown of Bondi, and just how calculated that easy breezy holiday feeling really is.

PEOPLE OF NOTE: Nathalie Morris and Carlos Sanson Jr

When we catch Nathalie Morris and Carlos Sanson—breakout stars of the breakout Australian dramedy Bump—they’re on the Pacific Highway, headed back from a four-day short film shoot on New South Wales’ South Coast. In person, the pair mirror the same easy chemistry that has made Bump such a blockbuster success. The series—a Stan original created by Australian TV veteran Claudia Karvan—broke viewing records within days of its January release. It was quickly renewed for a second season. The story hinges around a ‘will-they won’t-they’ love story between teenagers Oly and Santi (Morris and Sanson), who are in their final year of high school when their lives are upended by Oly’s cryptic pregnant—a phenomena in which women don’t know they are pregnant until they give birth.

FOR THIS ALONE BY CLAIRE HART & MARIELA SUMMERHAYS

'We close out the year turning from simulations. We run towards what is real; run towards that which we find in solitude' by Mariela Summerhays and Claire Hart.

The Space Between Us (I hope you swipe what you’re looking for) by Noelle Faulkner

If love is a blanket of darkness that, despite dilated pupils, constricts our sight into a single-track tunnel, floods our brains with stress hormones and turns us into a dizzy mess of preoccupation and restlessness; then intimacy is the light switch.

The Language of Love by Matilda Dods

There is a sweet and sticky awkwardness of falling in love that never truly leaves, even after the days of high school and asking your parents’ permission to go out with your boyfriend. Like an ice cream melting down your fingers, sugary trails to be licked off hands and wrists, leaving behind a sticky residue.

Limits of Control: Memo from the Deep End by Noelle Faulkner

How do you know you’re alive? Heartbeats? Breath? Pain? Love? Fear? Moments? Evidence left on your flesh? Risk? G-force? Caffeine? Existential dread?

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With a focus on photography and film, we celebrate the creative mind, the independent spirit and people with purpose.

SIDE-NOTE PROJECTS – may the best idea win. We work with best-of-breed collaborators to deliver and publish work that is both beautiful and results driven. Rejecting a typical advertising model in favour of content production, SIDE-NOTE acts as a trusted conduit between creator and client.

SIDE-NOTE is a platform that tells stories of style and substance, merging the gap between contemporary culture and fashion. With a focus on photography and film, we celebrate the creative mind, the independent spirit and people with purpose.

SIDE-NOTE PROJECTS – may the best idea win. We work with best-of-breed collaborators to deliver and publish work that is both beautiful and results driven. Rejecting a typical advertising model in favour of content production, SIDE-NOTE acts as a trusted conduit between creator and client.

SIDE-NOTE is a platform that tells stories of style and substance, merging the gap between contemporary culture and fashion.

With a focus on photography and film, we celebrate the creative mind, the independent spirit and people with purpose.