Jeff Karly™

sorry to dumb some of Q1 on you…. please pray for Haiti 🇭🇹

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Non-existence is a state that exist when a persons is not known or fully recognized by other people and so, one could say that they don’t exist to people. A Ghost. Yet, a Ghost is an apparition of a dead person which manifests to the living. 🖤

What happens when we forget our stories? We disappear. This month’s issue celebrated two young creators refusing to vanish: a milliner keeping a dying craft alive, and a denim designer documenting his becoming in real time. Both reclaiming their place in history. 100 years after Dr. Carter G. Woodson helped spark a movement that laid the foundation for Black History Month, we’re reminded: the stories we choose to forget shape the future we inherit. Read the full letter by Contributing Editor Jeff Karly in our latest issue. [Link in bio] @jeffkarly @karjakamagazine @karjaka #jeffkarly #karjakamagazine #karjaka #artzine

“The art of denim is my peace. Making is my peace. Using my hands to create something out of nothing is peace.” At 23, @ooomar.one completed PowerJeans, a year of self-documentation in color and denim. Each pair an emotion. A memory. A conversation with the child he was. Parsons-trained but self-defined, he’s part of a new generation keeping craft alive. Through denim, he revisits the novelty of childhood—the colors, the freedom, the feeling before the world told him what art should be. The Power of Denim Read the full story—link in bio. Concept & Art Direction: @jeffkarly Photography: @karjaka  + @b27media Designer & Model: @ooomar.one Styling: @tiana_marcano wearing:  @chictopia_official  @leblancstudios  @oyelekeofficial  @@bottegavenetaworld   @rickowensonline  @waxlondonclothing

A Century of Black History commemorations. A century of stories. Some told, some lost. For @twisted.cant.fix.it , founder of Children of the Urf, “excellence isn’t optional,it’s survival.” And somewhere in that sharpening, “we built tradition.” From Parsons to millinery. From thesis project to life’s work. From inner child to grown craftsman who still believes in fantasy. He’s part of a new generation keeping a dying craft alive—and naturally, like everything he touches, he’s flipping it on its head. “We make hats, but more than that, we practice trade and craft. Every stitch, every shape, every idea is about becoming better than yesterday.” This is what we mean when we say real stories, real artists. Not the polished. Not the arrived. The ones still in the work. Still shaping. Building something honest. Children of the Urf is still becoming. So is he. So are we. Read the full story — link in bio. A Man of Many Hats: A Story of Craft and Inheritance Concept & Direction : @jeffkarly 
Photography: @karjaka + @b27media 
Designer & Model: @twisted.cant.fix.it @___________urf___________ 
Styling: @tiana_marcano Wearing: @oyelekeofficial @mnk.atelier @rickowensonline @leblancstudios @open_era.de @zara @zambarret.dialogue

Wales Bonner and the Reconstruction of Luxury’s Visual Language By @jeffkarly “Her references point to Black men-intellectuals, poets, dancers, and scholars - who expressed their masculinity through refinement, creativity, and thoughtfulness rather than physical dominance or threat. In doing so at Hermès, she’s intervening in the visual economy that determines which versions of Black masculinity get sanctioned by luxury culture” Grace Wales Bonner’s appointment as artistic director of Hermès menswear represents a fundamental philosophical reorientation of what luxury fashion can articulate. The truly radical dimension isn’t just about who she is, but about what she brings, an entirely different epistemological framework, one that treats fashion as a site of rigorous intellectual inquiry rather than a commercial spectacle. What makes this appointment significant is how it reframes the very concept of “heritage” at one of fashion’s most conservative institutions. Hermès has mastered the art of selling a particular kind of heritage, carefully preserving the traditions of saddle-making in silk scarves and leather goods. Wales Bonner offers something different: heritage as multiplicity, as the complex layering of influences that characterizes diasporic experience. Her work suggests that tradition isn’t a singular through-line but a chorus, and how luxury can be the vehicle for expressing these layered, sometimes contradictory cultural genealogies. What makes Wales Bonner’s work particularly powerful is how it engages with the politics of visual representation itself. Read More at karjakamagazine.com . . . @jeffkarly @hermes @walesbonner @karjakamagazine @karjaka #hermes #walesbonner #karjaka #karjakamagazine

The Styled Up October Edition of KARJAKA is live now featuring a pure conversation of Age, Purpose and Passion that only the Fabulous @purelypatricia could pose for! At home with the original Artist Purely Patricia, her words of wisdom, Be You Now! “So many people are often curious about, they’ll make a comment like, … “I want to grow up to be like you,” you know, and my answer is always, “Well, be you now because you don’t know what you’re going to grow up to be. And if I inspire you in this moment, then take what it is that resonates with you about me and apply it to yourself” What excites her? I love to get dressed up and go out into my world which happens to be New York City. The worst thing that could possibly happen to me is getting dressed up with no place to go. That happened to me once in my life, and it was like having a flower and not watering it and eventually just shrinking, drying up, and disappearing which is what happened. It was in a marriage, in another state, and being around other people who don’t understand, don’t appreciate. I don’t have any expectations of other people looking like me, and people are always asking me, “What are you dressed up for?” and I say, “I am dressed up for my life.” So, I love to get dressed up for my life. It is a way of self expression and if I can carry something that I have made, which is a conversation piece, … the simplest act (of purchasing shoes) can become an entire aria of an opera.” Read More at karjakamagazine.com Art Direction, Fashion Stylist, and Cover Design: @jeffkarly Makeup and Hair: @samaralandtv Photographed by @karjaka . . . #purelypatricia #karjakamagazine #karjaka #karjakastyle #fashionstyling #interiordecoration #design #artzine #artsmagazine

titled: Echoes of Self Souls pinned under frames, yet truly never captured. Exhibiting our own contradictions.. a constellation of selves orbiting one breath. A soul divided, or multiplied? ♊️ 🎂 shot by @prodbylume pieces by @k.s.tehara

Creative Director Jeff Karly gets to the core of Art Direction in his latest article for KARJAKA magazine! Get to the future of the matter in Art Direction: The Future of Social Practice. karjakamagazine.com . . . @jeffkarly @karjakamagazine @karjaka @parsons_mfafds @alekskarjaka @parsonsschoolofdesign @parsons_fashion #jeffkarly #karjakamagazine #karjaka #artdirection #creativedirector #creativedesign #fashiondesigner #artzine #artmagazine

For LEBLANCSTUDIOS, NYFW 25 @leblancstudios

REINVENT-SUBVERT-REPEAT. Inspired by @garmsville & Graham Marsh’s Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style. Creative Team: CD: Jeff Karly Director of Photography: @karjaka Video & Editing: Justin Brown @b27media Styling: @tiana_marcano + Jeff Talent: @wolf.ooomar @twisted.cant.fix.it Instrumental credit: lil Yachty - The Black Seminole Designer: @leblancstudios @chictopia_official @oyelekeofficial @rickowensonline @bottegavenetaworld @waxlondonclothing @open_era.de @mnk_atelier