Jungle – Edition 03 – Resilience

Jungle is an international fashion and lifestyle publication based in London that aims to inspire and empower its readers through creative freedom, forward-thinking and artistic expression. It provides a collection of timeless creativity; stemming from the familiarity of the everyday and the imagined unknown: words, sounds, images, collaborations and experiences inspire our pages. Jungle tells a new story, it challenges and it creates a conversation. We hope our pages, like the leaves of a vast, unexplored Jungle may inspire and engage our readers time and time again. This is your invitation to be part of it.

In this issue:

In this edition, we wanted to explore the notion of being resilient through fashion in more ways than one. The interview with our cover star, Jemima Kirke, known as an actress and artist, but most importantly a mother, tells us of her own struggle making a new life in a new country and rediscovering herself. Through our fashion stories, we focus on attributes birthed from being resilient. Dictate is the woman who dares to push through the restrictions put upon her by her surroundings; Unity tells the tale of two women who unite and endure together in times of difficulty; Lumière is the light when we overcome the struggles and turmoil. Finally, the collaboration with Joseph focuses on Louise Trotter’s fall collection, referring to the boundaries put upon us by uniforms and sees Trotter playing with the type of conformity and authority they suggest by deconstructing them and exaggerating each of these factors.

Within art we speak to painter Sally Bourke, photographers Daniel Castro Garcia, Mark Hartman, Jon Henry, Ben Murphy and Jennifer Neiderhauser Schulp. For Sally Bourke, painting is a form of self-expression: a way of exploring emotion and responding to her thoughts, feelings and memories. Similarly to Bourke, Mark Hartman’s Island series, stemmed from a range of personal difficulties he was experiencing. The strangers of Coney Island Beach face Hartman’s camera with strength. Daniel Castro Garcia travelled across the world to meet refugees impacted by the migration crisis. He discusses the impact of seeing the suffering of others first hand on his own resilience, and the strength of the migrants themselves who pull together in the hope of securing a better future for themselves and their families. Similarly, our cover artist Jon Henry, whose image Untitled 27, Providence, RI was produced for the Limited Edition Cover of Jungle, discusses his project Stranger Fruit. Henry’s work responds to the violence and maltreatment of African American men in the United States, and looks at the resilience of the mothers who have to stay strong despite knowing the extent of the tragedies that could hit their family.