IX. The Velvet Ledger (2025)

Editorial Publication

The Velvet Ledger is a printed study in metamorphosis — an editorial exploration of how clothing becomes story, symbol, and stage. Drawing on ten secondhand eBay listings as found material, the magazine reframes overlooked garments as vessels of memory, performance, and identity.

Inspired by Kate Bush' The Red Shoes and the intimate theatrics of pop culture, each page becomes an act of transformation. This is not fashion reportage, but a kind of myth-making. A ledger of texture, desire, and disguise. Through curation, cataloguing, and poetic staging, the publication uncovers the aura hidden in the archival and anonymous.

Here, clothing is not just worn — it is inhabited. Objects are not just shown — they are activated. And eBay is not a marketplace, but a fragmented archive waiting to be read.

The Velvet Ledger invites the reader to slip into borrowed shoes, follow the red thread, and get delightfully lost in the in-between.

The publication incorporates archival photography and found imagery. All material is edited and composed in Photoshop and InDesign, then printed on 160g white paper and transparent folie. The pages are glued and bound with a softcover jacket with a high-polished finish.

Oh, she move like the Diva do

I said, “I'd love to dance like you”

She said, “Just take off my red shoes

Put them on and your dream'll come true”