THE TOGETHERNESS ISSUE

CONTENTS

Features

Fashion & Art

TEAM

Founder
ALASSANE SY

Creative Director
MARIE GOMIS-TREZISE

Editorial Director
HELEN JENNINGS

Associate Editor
MIRIAM BOUTEBA

Design direction
EUGENE EKUBAN
BENJAMIN JOHNSTON
DELLANO PEREIRA

Managing Director 
SCOTT KRAENZLEIN

Account Director 
CONSTANZA SPERAKIS

Art Directors
Delali Ayivi 
Isabela Lima 
Precious Opara 

Social Media Editor
XANTHE SOMERS

Editorial Assistant
BLESSING BORODE

Assistant 
UDOCHUKWU EMEKA-OKAFOR

Contributing Editors
AMBER NICHOLE ALSTON 
BINWE ADEBAYO
STÉPHANE GABOUÉ

CONTRIBUTORS

Kyle Weeks

Kyle is a Namibian-born photographer based between Amsterdam and Cape Town. Whether shooting personal projects in Ghana and South Africa or editorials for Dazed and Self Surface, all of his work is dedicated to subverting photography’s normative standards. For this issue, Kyle shoots our Valentino story spotlighting six emerging visual artists in Paris

Francesco Mbele

Francesco is a multi-hyphenate SouthAfrican artist who enjoys reading vintagemagazines and fixing obscure cameras.For this issue, they give Joburg’s younggeneration an opportunity to speak aboutthemselves in a space that doesn'talienate them; a film and shoot for theyouth, by the youth.

Laëtitia Gimenez Adam

Laëtitia is a Paris-based fashion stylist, consultant and the fashion editor of Purple. Womanhood and femininity are her main sources of inspiration as her looks aim to celebrate the variances of the female body and spirit.She styles this issue’s Valentino story, La Nouvelle Vague.

Blessing Borode

Blessing is a music journalist fromSouth London whose writing explores the stories of creatives in the UK.With credits including New Wave andFrontline magazines, she’s recently come on board as Nataal’s editorial assistant. For this issue she meets the new jazz collective Steam Down.

Fernando Terres

Fernando is a Stockholm-based art director and stylist. Growing up with immigrant parents in Sweden, he has made it his mission to centre his work around themes of diversity and sustainability. For Nataal, he hails Fiiri model agency and its founder MonaM Ali’s quest to broaden representation in Scandinavia’s fashion industry.

Agnes Williams Fowler

Agnes is a stylist and consultant based in Stockholm. Of Gambian and Nigerian descent, she now faces the challenges of raising a bi-racial son in Sweden’s non-inclusive society. This is something she wants to change by giving a voice and providing a stage to non-white Swedes through her creative work.


Thank you

Adam Jatta Köhlin  

Adam Sheikh 

Agnes Williams Fowler 

Alexia Fiasco  

Alizée Quitman  

Amina Nurk  

Anthony Karayan 

Armand Mirpour  

Aurele Ferrero 

Aurore Gibrien 

Beatrice Eni 

Camille Tchuenko 

Charlie Moore 

Charlotte Manning  

Chloe May Truong 

Chris Rinke 

Claire Laugeois 

Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux

Eva Salam 

Fabien Conti 

Fay Bio-Toura 

Fernando Terres 

Florenti Marti 

Francesco Mbele 

Gwenaelle Wienners 

Ida Njie 

Jasmine Lundmark 

Josué Comoe  

Justin Keene 

Kwabena Appiah-nti 

Kyle Weeks 

Josef Jatta Köhlin 

Laetitia Gimenez 

Leonne Faulks 

Linus Soinjoki 

Lise Breton 

Louis Niermans 

Maty Biayenda 

Margreth Sallamba  

Melissa Nerovique 

Mona M Ali  

Monzora Shaw 

Nydia Blas 

Oliver Looren 

Remember You Were Made to be Used 

Ruby Okoro 

Said Abass Soule  

Sainabou Chune 

Salome Trezise 

Sekou Camara 

Siyabonga Mtshali 

Tove Dalsrd 

Valentina Di Luca 

William Nditira 

Wirawut Winkel 

Xavier Scott Marshall 

Yann Turchi