Hi. My name is Jenny Joungblood-Kerekes and I’m an ex-event planner and ex-grant writer writing a story about planning my own wedding. The pictures are perfect, but the wedding was far from what I thought my “picture perfect wedding” would be. I was never the girl that planned their wedding since they were little. A few friends and cousins hoarded wedding magazines, but my young eyes were more drawn to the National Enquirer headlines about Jon Benet Ramsey and Doris Day at the grocery checkout aisle. So, when I realized my grandparents’ anniversary fell on a Saturday in April 2025, I started planning the wedding of my adult dreams: our closest friends and family split up into two Rolls Royce limos for a luxury, leisurely drive to City Hall. And the first person I called was my photographer: editor-in-chief, Aleks Karjaka. Picture this (as I said to Aleks): a small caravan of limos strolling through the city with well-dressed “wedding guests” inside.

The November Edition is here, and being that time of the season, we thought we'd highlight the Art of Family. You're going to be seeing a lot of it in your own lives no doubt for the next two months, relatives and extended family, office family, nightlife family, artistic family and so on. Bring on the Asprin, Tums and Maalox. Honestly, I think some of the best moments of engaging family is the food. Of course that's not to say that the conversation and company aren't great, too. Everyone coming together bringing their dish of choice made with love, or a traditional staple, (bring on the spinach squares Aunt Debbie), or at a restaurant communing with the work fam over whatever tickles your fancy on the menu. (Surf and turf on my end, and preferably not having to pay for it.)

As a kid, who’s favorite holiday wasn’t Halloween? The concept to a young mind is unfathomable. Wait, everyone we know is giving out sugary delights on one random day? Inconceivable! What must I achieve to get this candy? Wear a clown costume Grandma made decades ago… I can do that. Wear the winter coat on top of it, because it’s raining/snowing again in Chicago, well that’s a bit much. As we get older though candy turns into other sweet accesses, haunted houses, excuses to show off that bangin’ bod, spooky date nights, college drinking and debauchery etc. For many of us as aspiring artists or wanna be theater kids, Halloween became a haven for performance. It was if the world got together and collectively said, hey it’s performance time and it’s not Spring Carnival or Mardi Gras but also another spiritual landmark and this time pertaining to the lost souls of the underworld. Everyone gets to pretend and play on this one day. For many of us this was the door opening to an art fantasy world, and for that same many, we’ve likely never left.

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.

How do you write a book in 30 days? I don’t know. But I can tell you how to finish one in 16 years—with guilt as your unexpected writing partner. I know, I know - I'm supposed to tell you how to do it in 30 days, or some nonsense like that. But what's more useful? The impractical knowledge you know deep down doesn't fit your reality, or the real world experience of a mom of two/business owner/writer who cracked the code on how to return again and again? All the typical writing advice, of course, applies: if you want to write… write! Apply tush to cush. Allow yourself a shitty first draft and then edit. Make sure you read it out loud. But here's the thing they don't tell you: you have to make friends with guilt. That's right - friends. Guilt has got to be your ally, because nothing will kill a project - a hope, a dream - quicker than being swamped by guilt.

The Exquisite Corpse Kickstarter Video. Brilliantly conceived with artist Isabella Ronchetti our September Cover Artist, KARJAKA Directed, shot, edited and brought this corpse to life with B27 Media in this 1 minute advertisement for Exquisite Corpse! Watch the video in all it's glory here, and support her kickstarter there--->