Tag: fashion

Hip-Hop

Breaking Stigma: Supporting Mental Health through Music, Art and Creativity with Racquel Jones

Continuing through a capricious year filled with historical overrulings, domestic terrorism hearings and more unparalleled threats to basic human rights, this generation of people power has reached a level of precedence I’d yet to see in my lifetime. This means that the work of artists and musicians is more crucial than ever, whether it’s inspiring […]

Aug 15, 2022 Read →

East Coast

For the Culture: Pyer Moss Goes All Out for their premiere Couture Collection: WAT U IZ

WAT U IZ is the first fashion show that continues to replay in my mind – it’s the kind of beauty and intentionality that makes you feel as if it had been a lifetime in the making. Each Pyer Moss production is an embodiment of Black celebration and WAT U IZ would be no different. […]

Sep 26, 2021 Read →

Social Culture

Woman Crush Wednesday | Jewelry Designer Drew Ginsberg of Dylanex

Simple, metallic statement piece are what we’re all about. Our latest Woman Crush Wednesday has stolen our dreams and made a jewelry line all about it. Drew Ginsberg of Dylanex designs some of the most incredible jewelry we’ve laid eyes on, from her large necklaces to her intricate chain bracelets and stack-able rings, there is […]

Oct 14, 2015 Read →

Interviews

Woman Crush Wednesday | Alyssa Hunter of Pretty Funk Clothing

  This week’s #WomanCrushWednesday goes out to Alyssa Hunter, producing the sickest threads out of Chicago under the name of Pretty Funk. The reasons we love Pretty Funk over here at Compose Yourself Magazine are nearly endless. Hunter is the badass grassroots type designer Compose Yourself Magazine cannot get enough of! Her creative drive matches […]

Mar 18, 2015 Read →

Art

[Photo Series] Revisiting Basquiat

The artist known as Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City back in 1960. Gaining success for his art work through a local graffiti group known as SAMO, Basquiat produced creations that inspired, motivated, devastated, and most importantly, caused an impact on those peering into the art world at the […]

Feb 27, 2015 Read →

Festival Coverage

Medicine Werx | Fashion That Changes Lives

Shopping the marketplaces within a festival environment is an entirely new world in itself. Given the vast variety of trinkets, clothing, jewelry and more available, it can make your head spin when deciding exactly where you should put your money. Essentially, your purchase should be mutually beneficial in that the movement behind the product itself […]

Jul 28, 2014 Read →

East Coast

[Artist Interview] Thaddaeus Timothy Jr | Bowties for a Cause

Thaddaeus Timothy is a rare kind of gentleman that you’ll hopefully meet more than once in your lifetime. He has all of the qualities one would be admired of, as he is quirky, fun-loving, hard-working and compassionate. It’s often rare that chance encounters with a person of this caliber would be found in just any […]

May 1, 2014 Read →

Social Culture

Mad Gods | Tastemakers of Originality [Interview]

Serving as a center of inspiration for blooming artists and under-the-radar designers, the burgeoning talents within the city limits of Austin hardly stay in the underground for long. Mad Gods is one such creative venture, a lifestyle brand that produces some of the dopest and most mesmerizing tshirt designs we’ve come across. While we can’t […]

Apr 17, 2014 Read →

East Coast

Anabell Diaz | Stone Cold Fox

Anabell Diaz is what I would call a total babe. Not only is she beautiful, fashionable and business saavy, but she’s self-motivated. She decided to up and move her entire life to NYC in order to pursue her dreams of fashion designing, and has been making moves ever since. Her personal manifesto? “Live fast, and […]

Oct 8, 2013 Read →

Social Culture

LITTLE PIECES OF HOPE – Handmade Jewelry for Worthy Causes

Meet Cierra Tucker: a recent graduate of Colorado State University, proud Austinite and founder of a socially driven jewelry company called Little Pieces of Hope. Not only does Little Pieces of Hope create one-of-a-kind for bohemian spirits, fashion-minded beings and concert goers alike, but Little Pieces of Hope donates most of it’s proceeds to charities. […]

Sep 17, 2013 Read →