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Contributors

Ariel DraperWhere was you born? Pembry, EnglandWhat does girl gang mean to you? Girl gangmeans a strong united group of girls with masculineattitude.What is on your mind at this very moment? Cantwait to never see a spreadsheet again.

@arielxdraper

Ketsara NoiwanghinWhere was you born?Thailand

What does girl gang mean to you? Girls stickingtogether.

What is on your mind at this very moment?Bed.Cant wait to get home and sleep.

@ketsaramay

Abbie PinfeldWhere was you born?Birmingham, EnglandWhat does girl gang mean to you? A female powermovement. A close knitted group of friends.What is on your mind at this very moment?Whatam I going to have for dinner.. Pizza?

@abbie_pineld

Sophie FadilWhere was you born? Manchester, England

What does girl gang mean to you? Girl gang is animportant movement within todays society, its con-

stantly evolving and an important message to deliverto the youth of this generation.

What is on your mind at this v ery moment?Krept &Konan - Falling, cannot get it out of my head.

@sophie.fadil

Carmen Williams

Where was you born?Stourbridge, EnglandWhat does girl gang mean to you? A group of bestfriends going out together, travelling and beingthere for each other while looking stylish and notletting each other go out looking bad.What is on your mind at this very moment?Gettingall my uni work done so i am not a failure in life.

@carmenlouu

Meleisha RobinsonWhere was you born? Birmingham, England

What does girl gang mean to you? When I hear girlgang I think of modern girls getting together to do

something, whether that be meeting up to chill orgoing out and hitting the town.

What is on your mind at this very moment? Cantwait to see upcoming lms, suicide squad and

regression.

@makeup_veratile

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features + fashion

06meet the most trendiestKIDS ON THE BLOCKwith our street

style featurephotography martyn ewoma and abbie pineld 14WHAT IS A GIRL

GANG?

conversation feature

text carmen williams

16STRONG, IMPRESSIONABLE, GLAMeditorial feature inspired

by girl gang concept, girly yet erce, a trend with is catching like re

photography martyn ewoma text ariel draper styling abbie pineld, sophie fadil and ketsara

noiwanghin make-up meleisha robinson

39WORST HEROS EVERfeature on upcoming lm suicide squad

icluding the danish girl and regresiontext ariel draper

live

here we ick through the work of next generation photographer

MARKEL KNIGHTwith sound cloud playlist running with his work,

designerJESSICA LEIGH WALLand ICUs amed-haired it-Girl miss

NATALIE WESTLING.Isnt she just an inspiration?

Inside the expressionism issuepresent the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for

emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.

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Yeah, I'm The Best

I'm So Cocky

I've Got AMobLike ASAP Rocky

I Set TrendsThen Man Copy..

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TEXT CARMEN WILLIAMS PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHY

What do you think of when you hear the word 'GANG'?

What do you think of when you hear the words 'GIRL GANG'?

'The word gang to me means a group of friends thatstick by each other no matter what, always together andhave power because they have a large number of peo-ple

When I think of the word girl gang I think pink, owersfunky outts an empowerment.

- Alexandra Way, 22

The word gang doesnt, mean a lot to me personally,as Ive never been in one or experienced people closeto me being on one. Gangs are something that areseparate from me as I have never lived somewhere untilrecently where gang culture is a big problem

Girl Gang makes me think of sort of group that is spe-cial/picked carefully those kind of girls that are intim-idating to other females who they deem not goodenough to be in their gang. Something negative, theword doesnt really make me think of anything positive.Just a group of girls trying to make others feel enviousor intimated by being the best or the most attractive or the strongest etc something that is non inclusive toall girls

- Lizzie Fletcher, 20

The word gang means war, crime, death and faculty ofpeople, like organisation

Girl gang means to me a group of friends, a closelyknitted group

- Chanelle Jasmine Lewis, 21

A group of people committing petty crimes

A group of woman pretending to be more interestingthan they actually are. Females equivalent of squad

- Ross Mason, 25

A gang is an organised group of men, woman and bothgenders either criminals or non criminals

I think of girl gangs as a pack of females trying to ex-press their emotions or violence as an all in one. I see agirl gang as a weak group where they encourage others

to trick themselves into believing theyre strong whentheyre most doubtful themselves

- Flossie May Garton, 22

In my eyes Gang to me means squad and a group ofunited people but obviously there is that image of it be-ing a bad thing and term to describe a group of peoplegetting up to no good

Girl gang just sounds like what a group of girls wouldcall their squad

- Milo Santos, 20

I think death, drugs, Mexico , China , maa and pov-erty. I also think of the government because they makeguns and drugs more available for the poorer commu-nities so they can kill each other off. Bullies, wannabe

gangstas also comes to my head when I think of thepeople who dont live in poor areas and get things

payed for by their parents but still choose persuethem selves as gangstas

I think the same thing except they would be morespiteful when they hurt people for example, cutting an-other girls hair off or in a worst case scenario throw-

ing acid in another girls face. Other points that comesto my head are matching outts

- Bianca Lewis, 22

When I think of girl gang I

think of female empowerment and

spice girls

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It is high time women took their stand. True femininity has never felt so empowered when girls stand

together; strong, impressionable with an almost satire of glam in pinks and glitter but erce and

stubborn in their faces as says their resolve. This thinking and imagery inspired our theme for our

concept of girl gangs. The mood is calmly condent but erce, which is mirrored in the S/S 2016

looks we styled.

As soon as we think of girl gang we think of a mob like cluster of girls, throwing dirty looks around

at everyone but each other, probably on a street corner blasting out trap music and smoking.

Much like a male gang but prettier. So this is what we created. An infused mix of masculine and

feminine to form an armed, united but also femininely independent front. We wanted baggy tops,

dungarees, whites and pinks along with black and navy. Crop tops with fabric penned motifs and

owery prints on lightweight fabrics. Layering up we could create the desired effect. Our choice of

clothes came from our own collections and gang inspired styling but with the strong hints girly and

brightly coloured clothes. We created youthful playful looks with the hairstyles; buns on either side

of the head, French plaits, top knot buns amid curls, dip dyes and braids. We added gold, pink and

purple glitter hairspray and hair rings along with bandannas and bucket hats.

For the makeup we kept a subtle base with light make up, little mascara, blusher and nude lips

for freshness, then added hot pink and popping purple glitter across and under the eyelids to

accentuate the appearance.

Our style team and photographer worked with the models to create these erce feminine

poses for S/S 2016. The models exude attitude and a erce feminine mentality. Tall and short our

models stood together to take group photos for the mob effect portraying exactly what a girl gangwould look like. The looks like this can be found in vintage shops like Cow, and high street shops

everywhere at an affordable price such as Topshop, Urban Outtters, Miss Selfridge and H&M.

Online is our favourite though, Asos supplying us with most of the wardrobe, and most of any kind

of clothing you could think of. Anywhere really, you just need the attitude and sass and mental

thinking that you own the streets and youre on the right track.

Street style inspired the mood in our looks. We took photographs of boys similar ages to our

models that inuence the mood behind our looks. Again, dungarees, white baggy tops, dark

colours with strong poses. Throughout the s treets of Birmingham we found a multitude of teenagers

and young adults with a similar attitude and realised that this trend is catching like re at the effect

of women supporting each other and honestly feeling how they look.

Strong, impressionable, glam

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Worst Heros EverFeaturing The Danish Girl, Suicide Squad and Regresion

Text Ariel Draper

The perfect kick ass and feminine lms for you of 2015/2016 we recommend The

Danish Girl and Suicide Squad. One not even quite like the other. The Danish Girl is already

out; a strong, real story of the rst transgender and the battles she had to face with her

relationships, the world and herself. Behind this lm opens up the reality of one of the rst

transgender stories. We love a erce but real and honest depiction of female struggle. This

lm is moving and powerful, and beautifully portrayed.

We love love love the costumes in the Suicide Squad, especially Harley Quinn, played

by the absolutely gorgeous Margot Robbie, rooted to be a fan fave. She wears a strong

image red bomber jacket and hot pants, thick gold belt, red and white t-shirt, along with

kick ass stiletto white boots. Her blonde hair is playfully curled and pigtailed, one side dip

dyed bright mermaid blue, the other a girly hot pink. We want to see this look in 2016!!! It

will be hot as hell for Halloween at least. We just dont recommend walking around with a

baseball bat.

Find this look:Asos Fila Basic T-shirt with logo detail and colour block 25, Boohoo

Sara MA1 Bomber 20, Ebay Ladies Neon Lycra Stretchy shorts 2.99, Boohoo Ria

Gold Chain Waist Belt 7, Public Desire Colette Boots In Beige Faux Suede 39.99

She is excellent as a crazed super villain and former psychiatrist. Funny, crazy, scary... You

can't come up with enough adjectives to describe all the different things you see her do.

The lm is scheduled to be released on August 5, 2016 in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D and stars

Will Smith, Joel Kinnaman, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Jai Courtney and Cara Delevinge.

Also out now with a strong female character is Regression, which stars our English rose

Emma Watson. She plays her American role fantastically in this chilling thriller. Set in

1990, a young girl tells the story of being sexually abused by her father. Thus, begins the

disturbing tale of a father and daughter torn apart, thrown into the centre of a conspiracy

that shocks the nation.

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What do you specialise in?I specialise in fashion designing, with a great involve-ment in textile print designing and a major love for hand made embellishments and sequinappliqus.What inspires your work?I have many inspirations to helps shape mywork, I look at many designers, my top favourites would be; Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, BetsyJohnson, Moschino, VFiles, Wildfox and many more. As for other inspirations I love stylistand photographers; Nadia Lee Cohen & Riya Hollings. Many inspirations are from the 50s,my all time favourite era, icons and body silhouette; however any image that may inspire mefrom colour palettes, places or people can help shape my current mood and creation at thetime. I love anything remotely quirky, colourful and vintage.What would you like toachieve in the long term?I would like to work for a company brand with involvementin hand making embellishments or designing prints for example; Cliopeppiatt. Eventually Iwould like to kick start my own personal online brand, with hopes and goals to progress it

further.Where can people access or see your work?My work can currently beviewed on social networking sites; Instagram: JESSICALEIGHWALL. vogue.com where mynal graduate collection wasphotographed at London Graduate Fashion Week 2015. ArtsThread: Jessica Leigh Wall http://www.artsthread.com/prole/jessicaleighwall/ Where myportfolio, videos and designs can be viewed.

I am currently undergoing my new collection which will be able to view and buy online SS16.This is exciting and all designed, brand made and funded by myself. Ive been unfortunatending work opportunities after graduating from university. I did receive 2 job offers whichmeant moving away; at the time I had no money to move as I was paying back moneythat helped me get to LGFW 2015, having to miss these opportunities left me deated,upset and angry, Ive attended interviews, applied for over 30 design jobs, and still have nodesigning job. It is all the knock-backs and missed opportunities that has helped driven meto make my own small collection.

@JESSICALEIGHWALL

Kitsch, quirky, girly..Stepford Sinners - A Womenswear Collection Designed and Hand-made by Graduate Fashion Designer, Jessica Leigh Wall.

Based on the 1950s image of perfection, with much d etail to print and textiles this Tongue and Cheek concept trends a

sense of spiteful sarcasm in the sweetest visually way possible, for a fresh Summer 16 Kitsch Collection.

How old are you?24. (23 years, 11 monthsand 5 days to be precise)What design ex-

perience have you had?4 months digitalwebsite designer. 12 months placement for wom-enswear fashion and print designing at Matalanhead ofce.What is your design style?Kitsch, quirky, girly and most of all fun! think ofplaying with your barbie dolls when you wereyounger, my memories had a super girly essenceand involved a great deal of fun, creating my owndreams, destines with a sweet yet sassy style.

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Natalie Westling, 18 Year old model

growing up in sleepy Scottsdale, Arizo-

na, in a family containing two account -

ants, going from spending her days

skating and wearing Vans, to jet setting

around the globe. Natalie didnt grow

up, without questioning her place in the

world. Actually growing up was real -

ly hard because I felt like I was living a

double life. My mum thought I would be

this perfect daughter and dressed me in

really girly clothes, and tried to change

my view of who I was as a person. Ever

since I left the house to pursue model-

ling Ive been able to nd myself in a

way that I never have before. Flame-

haired Westling burst on to the scene

last year, blazing a trail for the next gen-

It was awkward sometimes and embar-

rassing at others when you ran into the

kind of guys who would always consider

you a credit-lacking hack just because

you were a girl. Eventually, of course,

you just dont care and that divide kind

of fades away. I wasnt really aware of

any girl skaters, to be honest. I looked

up more to the guys I knew who were

really better than anyone on the out-

side, or whatever you call it.

Do you remember your frst pair

of Vans?

Of course. They were the red-and-white

checkerboard slip-ons.

When did you get your Vans

tattoo? Why was it something

you wanted to have done?

eration of models. The combination of her angelic features, ame

red hair, and tomboy attitude made her a favourite of big named

designers out there. Her rst modelling job was opening for Marc

Jacobs and shortly after she was the dead girl in his campaign,

alongside Miley Cyrus.

The fashion industry feels like home for Natalie. As it does for a lot

of people who grew up feeling a little bit weird. Now more than

ever, fashion celebrates whatever it is that makes you different. It

allows the people who never tted in to stand out. People see

through you very quickly in this industry, she says, so its impor -

tant to be genuine. You know, stay true to who you are, because

everyone is a human being. We all have esh, we all look the same

inside. Of course shes found condence in her new life. Model -

ling has made me feel comfortable with myself. Im denitely not

like oh now that I have all this, Im the shit. Its made me realise who

I am. I nally feel comfortable in my own skin.

When did you frst start skating?

When I was 3 years old. I had these neighbours that were older than

me and always playing on their skateboards, and I i nstantly became

obsessed after they were cool enough to let me hop around and

fall all over theirs.

What was it like being a girl growing up skating?

Were there any female skaters you admired?

I got it about a year ago. Vans has been such a big part of my life for

so long and remained my favourite shoe through the yearsit was

just one of those thi ngs I wanted to have done. Why does anyone

tattoo something onto their body, you know?

What would you say is the number one takeaway that

youve learned from skating?

Do what you love and forget about the rest.

Do you feel like skating has helped you become a

stronger model in any way?

Denitely. With modelling, movement is such an important skill.

Funny enough, skating kind of trained me, without me knowing, of

course, to make those shapes and hit those jumps with more of a

second nature than I probably wouldnt have had otherwise.

Nowadays it seems like lots of models are skaters.

What do you think about skate culture becoming more

popular and mainstream?

Skate culture is several decades old, never really faded. As a model,

youre so often being done up to look a certain waymaybe some

girls are starting to enjoy the undone look because its the new nov-

elty. Maybe done-down is just the new done-up.

How would you sum up what you do in a sentence?

Fuck shit up.

@NatalieWestling

it - GirlNatalie Westling

TEXT ABBIE PINFIELD

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