article by RACHEL KOLARIK
photography by ANGELIKA BUETTNER
model HIUJUN at MAJOR MODEL
fashion styling by ALLISON ST GERMAIN
makeup by CLAIRE BAYLEY at L’ATELIER NYC
hair by PAUL at WILHELMINA ARTISTS

 

The concept of the doppelganger, or the ʻdouble-walkerʼ has existed in the collective human imagination for thousands of years. In various cultures, spiritual doubles have played personifications of inner-duality as well as more sinister roles as harbingers of impending tragedy, reflections of inner turmoil, and in Norse mythology, ʻfirst-walkersʼ, appearing to others as a ghostly apparition or a quiet voice of things to come.

In modern psychology, we attribute these alter egos to be extensions of ourselves – seen in our dreams and our subconscious. The doppelganger has the power to play oneʼs aspiration to a higher self or a cruel reflection of oneʼs insecurities.

A face-to-face meeting with oneʼs self has the power to crush or the power to allow one to flourish. In the Talmud, it is said that a meeting with oneʼs self is to witness the face of God.

In our editorial story model Hiujun plays beautiful mind-games on us luring us into the world of mystical portals between reality and imagination.

Full story available in Issue 4 of Spirit & Flesh Magazine, ORDER HERE.

fashion credits:

VALENTINA KOVA
ELLEGEM NY
STUART WEITZMAN
MONIQUE LHULLIER
TADASHI SHOJI
JACOB & CO
MERCURA
SON JUNG WAN
LARUCCI
DANA-MAXX
IVANKA TRUMP FINE JEWELRY
JS GROUP
RJ GRAZIANO