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Page 1: Wonderland Zine

Malini Vaja

Buffalo Edition

Fashion A-Z

Aboah Adwoa

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Malini

Rockas

Josh

Kate

BUFFALO SQUADMeet the gang that are bringing back Buffalo...

Malini Vaja is the Queen of Buffalo in the present day. Photographer/ stylist- she is shaping the face of modern fashion and bringing back the rawness of Buffalo. Ad-woa Aboah revealed that Malini is in fact her favourite photographer to be shot by because of how real and natural of a photographer she is. Apparently Magazine describe her as “always cute and ready to

shoot”

Introducing Rockas, the bitchy bad boy. He’s one of biggest editorial models of the moment and say’s he believes all his influence comes from the Buffalo movement- which is what makes him such an inter-esting charecter. Mixing sassy chic with sexy dominatrix, he has cre-ated this alter ego for himself that mismatches luxury, glamour and just the right amount of trashyness to create a born diva.

Josh is not a new face to the fash-ion idustry, but undoubibly he has always refrenced “Buffalo” as his inspiration and what he re-flects in his work. He’s to die for; but he has also proved that he’s not just a pretty face- creating a fashion documentry called “On the Buffalo down” he has opened the eyes of the public to where the current fashion influences came from- and givin it credit.

Fashion blogger Kate Ringer has recently been in the limelight af-ter certain celebrities such as FKA Twigs and Lily Allen have ex-pressed that they are regular read-ers and suporters of the blog. Cov-ering a mixture of street style and high fashion- it’s easy to see how Buffalo has found it’s way into her own fashion sense and blog. Oh, and congrats girl on reaching 100k on your blog!

Photography: Darren BlackStylist: John WilliamsModels: Rockas, Mal, Josh, Kate, Azra

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A maverick collective made up of photographers, design-ers and artists, it is impossible to mention 80s youth cul-ture without referencing Buffalo. The disruptive and radi-cal movement transformed the way that society absorbed fashion with a pioneering style that became one of the most influential of the decade. “At that time, there was no such thing as a stylist,” remembers Buffalo alumni Barry Kamen of Ray Petri, the movement’s leader, who died of Aids in 1989. “There were fashion editors, but the word itself didn’t exist, so Ray created that.” Other founding members included photographers Jamie Morgan, Mark Lebon and Cameron McVey. The word itself was a Carib-bean expression adopted by Petri, used to describe rude

boys and rebels.

Petri grew up in Scotland and travelled through India and Africa before landing back in London in the late 60s. He applied this tapestry of culture and sartorial landscape to a youth-charged aesthetic that threw MA-1 flight jackets, sportswear and Che Guevara hats with the decade’s lead-ing fashion designers; Armani suit jackets with Dr Mar-tens boots, tribal headwear and kilts. Music also greatly influenced his work, inspired by Motown, punk and reg-gae. Neneh Cherry, Culture Club and Soul II Soul took Buffalo to the musical main stage, and its effect rippled

the world over.

The models used by the collective were also diverse – street-cast characters that carried the clothes, not the oth-er way around. “She was just a kid,” remembers Kamen of Naomi Campbell. “She was just this nutty girl aged about fourteen, but she was part of the crew.” Petri’s work was daring, soulful, inventive and, ultimately, revolutionary. It was the antithesis to the current fashion of the dec-ade, and brought together a gang of friends and a style that would eventually filter onto the catwalk, in the work of Jean Paul Gaultier, Yohji Yamamoto and Comme des

Garçons.

Jamie Morgan – “I found Nick Kamen in the model agency un-der ‘black models’. I said, “This guy isn’t black, he’s half-Bur-mese,” and they replied, “That’s as black as we go, I’m afraid.” There just weren’t black models back then, so we found them on the street, through friends and through word-of-mouth, we never used models from agencies. It was about the way they walked and stood, not just how they looked. It was about the attitude, mixing genres and the idea of gender and models and

turning it all around.”

B U T W H A T I S ‘B U F F A L O’ A N D W H A T D I D I T C H A N G E ?M O D E L C A S T I N GW H E R E I T B E G A N

G E N D E R S T E R E O T Y P E S

W H E R E I S B U F F A L O T O D A Y ?

Without us even realising; this movement has influenced fashion in an unimaginable way. Really, Buf-falo is all around us and is now accepted as a normalised fashion choice- while wonse it was seen as daring, controvercial and radical. Buffallo was almost too ahead of the times, doing all the things that made so much sense, but that never seemed possible. I feel like the influence of Buffalo has become so

intrinsic that people don’t even identify it. It’s just the DNA of what we know.

Buffalo created the controversy of actually asking the big questions in fashion. Why cant a man wear a dress? Whats wrong with a girl having short, spiked hair? This shaped and changed the fashion industry completely- we now have big stars such as Young Thug and Kanye

West promoting men to wear “feminine” clothing.

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