Features by Sharon Pendana

Call of the wild: A HAND-EMBROIDERED ANIMAL KINGDOM

As pack animals, wolves are intensely loyal. Exalted for their devotion in some cultures; reviled as evil in others, they now face extinction. The sinewy leopard, a being of sensuality, strength, intelligence, and perseverance is an animal of powerful shamanic resonance in myth and literature.

THE POWER OF CONVICTION: MICHEL COMTE AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

We’ve long admired the artful decadence of prominent Swiss photographer Michel Comte’s fashion oeuvre. Its intimacy and edgy glamour resonate with the Complete Unknown design aesthetic.

THE ONE WHO BRINGS LIGHT: ZANELE MUHOLI’S LUSCIOUS VISION

The extraordinary black and white photography of visual activist, Zanele Muholi seized our imagination with the beauty of its execution and its courageous centering of South Africa's Black LGBTQI community despite rampant homophobia and violence targeted against them.