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26 Jan

Laetitia KY’s whimsical hair sculptures are powerful political expressions

Laetitia KY’s whimsical hair sculptures are powerful political expressions
The Dazed Beauty Community is our ever-expanding encyclopaedia of creatives and emerging talent from across the world who are redefining the way we think about beauty. From supermodels to digital artists to makeup prodigies transforming themselves in their bedrooms, these are the beauty influencers of tomorrow who embody everything Dazed Beauty is about. Discover them here. Ivory Coast artist Laetitia KY has been braiding hair since she was five years old. “I used to style my mum and sister’s hair,” she says. “When I went back to natural hair six years ago my love for braiding increased. I wanted to go back to my African roots.” Laetitia turned this interest in braiding into art, creating incredible hair sculptures that are at the...
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27 Jun

Pasifika Artist Niki Hastings-McFall Takes Us Inside Her Auckland

Pasifika Artist Niki Hastings-McFall Takes Us Inside Her Auckland
Courtesy of Niki Hastings-McFall. Recent Zealand artist Niki Hastings-McFall (b. 1959) began her profession as a jeweler, fabricating adornments that drew from her Samoan and Pākehā heritage. Over the a long time, the artist’s creations have evolved in additional sculptural dimensions and she or he has turn out to be well-known for her “lei bombing” installations, through which a whole lot of nylon floral lei are strung together to form sweeping installations that play with ideas of organic and kitsch in addition to questions of the Western gaze. Today, Hastings-McFall is thought to be one in every of the leading contemporary artists who's...
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