Photography Jena Cumbo
Fashion Alicia Santana
Words Tessa Swantek
Grooming Toby Klinger
Models Dodge Dunlap at Marilyn NY and Parker Bell Devaney at Other People’s Children
Photography Assistant Laura Hajek
The air smells like lavender and leather, lathered in sea salt. A 1980s Cadillac is spread in butter yellow paint. Soft and solid mingle, creating a foaming feeling in which Dodge and Parker play. Childhood is vaporous - it permeates and fills. Adulthood feels more solid - firm and unyielding. But today, the boys melt. They move with, rather than against. Between phases, their bodies flow like water with the rope’s rippling. They let the penny board carry them into the wind’s airstream. The sun’s warm hand shuts their eyes gently. Parker’s whole body points in the direction of the plane above, as if he’s the kite being pulled by the plane’s string. Dodge surrenders to the sea’s sway.
The boys’ features soften in Jena Cumbo’s tender lens. They move with one another as if they’re playing a game of tag. They meet her, she meets them. She follows in Parker’s pink cowboy boot footsteps as he runs through the course. She captures them from inside the rope wall as if they’re crawling up the web of her lens. Jena chases them down the jetty’s rocks; The lens liquifies. Parker walks with the wild skip of a child, while Dodge’s stride is measured and deliberate. Do you remember how to skip? Do you know how good it feels when your muscles remember what your brain thought was long forgotten? Why don’t we skip?
There’s a weightlessness to being a child. So the two climb and swing and race, without fear. Dodge smiles so wide his tongue slips out. Styled by Alicia Santana, the two almost look like they’re playing dress up. Their clothes, like technicoloured liquid, take on their changing shapes. Against checkerboard tables and rope ladders, they wear citrus coloured tie dye, stripes, stars, polka dots, and triangle patchwork. They look how youth feels, and long for lavender and leather to linger.
above left: Parker wears shirt by The Series NY, trousers by 8 by YOOX, choker by PATCHARAVIPA and necklace by SAULE Label. Dodge wears hat and boots by Stetson, shirt by 8 by YOOX, shorts by Saturdays NYC and necklace by PATTARAPHAN
above right: Dodge wears shirt by Atelier Cillian, trousers by Fried Rice, necklace by PATTARAPHAN and ring by ACCHITTO
above left: Dodge wears shirt by Atelier Cillian, trousers by Fried Rice, boots by Dr Martens, necklace by PATTARAPHAN and rings by ACCHITTO and PATCHARAVIPA
above right: outfit as before
above: Parker wears shirt and shorts by Fried Rice, choker by PATCHARAVIPA, necklace by SAULE Label, socks by Original Penguin and trainers by Gola
above: Parker wears shirt by Saturdays NYC, choker by Elsie Frieda and necklace by SAULE Label. Dodge wears pullover poncho by Saturdays NYC, earring by PATCHARAVIPA and necklace by PATTARAPHAN
above left: Parker wears shirt by The Series NY, hat by Stetson and necklace by SAULE Label
above right: outfit as before
above: Parker wears shirt by The Series NY, trousers by 8 by YOOX, hat by Stetson, trainers by Gola, choker and ring by PATCHARAVIPA and necklace by SAULE Label
above: Parker wears shirt and shorts by Saturdays NYC, choker by Elsie Frieda and necklace by SAULE Label. Dodge wears pullover poncho by Saturdays NYC, earring by PATCHARAVIPA and necklace by PATTARAPHAN
above: Parker wears shirt and shorts by Fried Rice, choker by PATCHARAVIPA and necklace by SAULE Label. Dodge wears shirt by 8 by YOOX
above left: Dodge wears pullover poncho and socks by Saturdays NYC, shorts by J. Lindeberg, necklace by PATTARAPHAN and trainers by Lanvin
above right: Parker wears vest by Save the Duck, trousers by Fried Rice and choker by PATCHARAVIPA
above left: Parker wears vest by Save the Duck, trousers by Fried Rice, boots Parker's own and choker by PATCHARAVIPA
above right: outfit as before
above: Parker wears shirt by The Series NY, trousers by 8 by YOOX, hat by Stetson, trainers by Gola, socks by Saturdays NYC, choker and ring by PATCHARAVIPA and necklace by SAULE Label
above: Dodge wears shirt by 8 by YOOX, jeans by Christopher Lowman, rings by PATCHARAVIPA and ACCHITTO and trainers by Nike
