A brand-new zine by rachel_comey is combining Zadie Smith and Sheila Heti's literary worlds together with fashion and art.
, and you'll learn it all comes back to bargaining. "I used to see [Rachel] every now and then in the street when she still lived in the city and try to hustle her for discounts, but she's not easily hustlable," Smith tellsNow, a brand-new zine by Comey is bringing Smith's literary world together with fashion and art.
Comey's zine is a joyful celebration of visual arts and the written word, as well as her own clothes, which Comey shot herself for the project. Artists Joy Walker and Howard Podeswa's collaborative works also share the spotlight: Walker composes arrangements of found objects and photographs them, then emails the images to her partner, Podeswa, and he turns her photographs into richly hued, expressive oil paintings.
Most of the zine, though, is dedicated to fiction: specifically, to original works by Smith and Sheila Heti, who is also a Comey fan. Smith notes the wide variety of creativity in Comey's fan base: "I became one of many who descend on the sample sale like crazed downtown vultures...and that's when I started to notice that those sample sales were full of women whose work I dig: Actresses, painters, writers, academics, photographers and so on.
For Heti, fashion and writing take her to different zones. "Writing forces me into an impersonal, body-less place, a place of imagination and non-self. That is where I am when I am writing, which is most of the time; some place beyond bodies, beyond signalling to other people through clothes, or understanding myself as something material and visible.
Like Heti, Smith avoids intertwining fashion and writing too frequently in her life, but she admits, "I do dress myself the same way I'd dress a character: to achieve a certain effect. Rachel's clothes, the personality of them, chimes with my own. I like the way they're beautiful without being pretty and intimidating without being over-intellectualized. That's kind of what I'm going for.
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