Influxes Magazine August 2023

@g.abrielleanne Gabrielle Velasquez is a fashion stylist and visual artist from San Francisco, California. She is completing a BFA in Fashion Styling at the Academy of Art University. Throughout her career, Gabrielle has built a dynamic style that balances a blend of colorful prints and textures injected with symbolic iconography. She continues to experiment with a multitude of mediums implementing elements of up-cycled customizations. As an artist, Gabrielle believes in the importance of collaboration with other creatives and the diversity of voices featured in her work. She specializes in art direction, photoshoot production, editorial styling, commercial styling, product styling, and wardrobe styling. Gabrielle continues to expand her creative toolkit and explore new forms of expression to manifest her passion for storytelling. EPHEMERAL ETERNAL ART DIRECTION + STYLE GABRIELLE VELASQUEZ @g.abrielleanne…

@fashion_flexin Bryan Calloway is an up-and-coming fashion stylist who recently graduated with his BFA from Academy of Art University. He was born and raised in the sunny seaside city of Oxnard California. The diversity of the city and growing up in the 1990s provided him with a vast amount of inspiration that he would later use to develop his aesthetic. Although Bryan had a lot of outside influences, he also credits his grandfather Otis for being the embodiment of swag. His grandfather had his own eccentric sense of style, wore his clothes with confidence, and had no regard for what others thought. At an early age, he became enamored with anything that had to do with hip-hop and sneakers; this was the moment in his life when he realized that…

@S_HAVENSTRITE Samantha Havenstrite is the reigning Miss Houston. After graduating from Southern Methodist University with a degree in Finance, Sam moved to Houston to start her career in investment banking at an oil and gas company. She recently shifted industries and now works for apartment developer, The Hanover Company as a Capital Markets Analyst. In her spare time, Sam enjoys golfing, traveling, trying new restaurants, and taking exercise classes.…

“I want to share that moment in time, that beautiful moment in time where black writers and musicians and artists were coming from america, running from america, and finding some level of acceptance in certain european cities and being able to have their art respected and who they are respected. It wasn’t perfect but it was just a moment, a beautiful moment for blacks to have the privilege and opportunity to escape from the terror, the horrors of america, a segregated jim crow america. Artists like miles davis and writers like james bald-win found refuge in paris.” Tremaine emory a journey of jazz: a dialogue between new york and paris, via new orleans is found in the dior tears collection. There is a meeting of the elegant and the idiosyncratic,…

Shot on Location: K-Café Patisserie and Tea House @kcafeteahouse…

@ehrranmontoya “There’s more to discover when you truly know yourself. It requires confidence and self-trust to be able to fly”- Ehrran Montoya DISCOVERING A NEW REALM THROUGH FASHION & ART EHRRAN MONTOYA DEBUT FASHION SHOW Ehrran Montoya’s debut collection features his attention to details, textures, and use of vibrant hues. The inspiration are mainly from his made up fantasy stories during childhood; from Mermaids, Fairies, Mythical Creatures, and scenes from animation movies like Princess & The Frog, Fairytopia, and other realms of the pixies from his Fantasia-like imagination. It is so wild that the pieces speaks for it self. Twenty-seven-year-old artist Ehrran Montoya believes that it is through standing on the shoulders of the giants that he can truly achieve progress. The recognition slowly lavished upon him today is the…