Layers of self

By PAP Magazine Editorial

A braided strand of hair slips between parted lips. Against a deep black backdrop, a pale blue turban frames the face, while the skin catches light with a clean, almost clinical precision. Both hands rest at the waist holding a black wide-tooth comb, fingers adorned with sculptural silver rings from Valeria Gordienko, Josephine Winter, and Anna Milena Balzer. A sand-toned leather jacket cropped at the waist meets black trousers in a studied vertical divide. This editorial literalizes the concept of layered identity — each element, from the turban to the comb to the woven braid, functions as another stratum of selfhood made visible. Styled by Loft Studio 22 and Chanel Fu, every object here is both practical and symbolic, a surface that conceals and reveals in equal measure.