“Touch is fraught now; proximity is drought now!” This was artist and photographer Roe Ethridge’s response to the theme of Vogue Singapore’s February issue, ‘Touch’. Ahead of the issue’s launch this Friday, Ethridge created a short teaser video titled ‘[non] Sense of Touch’, featuring our February cover star, Yasmin Wijnaldum.
The issue’s theme is an ode to the many faces and layers of touch—the very thing that connects us in a time where physical touch has drastically reduced while virtual touch has dramatically increased. Working alongside our international fashion director Daniela Paudice, the resulting video is a bouquet of textures and sensations that speak to Ethridge’s signature visual style.
“We were trying to convey that the sense of touch and sight are connected,” Ethridge tells Vogue Singapore. “When I was younger, I used to think my fingers had eyes.” This synaesthetic approach is front and centre in Ethridge’s interpretation of our February theme. In celebration of the sense we’ve taken for granted, watch a teaser of our February issue through Ethridge’s lens.
Editor-in-Chief: Norman Tan
Photographer: Roe Ethridge
Videographer: Steven Rico
Fashion: Daniela Paudice
Art director: Henry Thomas Lloyd
Hair: Adlena for Aveda
Make-up: Maki Ryoke
Manicure: Elina Ogawa at Bridge using YSL Beauty
Model: Yasmin Wijnaldum / The Society Management
Photographer’s assistant: Will Englehart
Stylist’s assistant: Alex Picon
Lighting design: David Diesing
Digital tech: Jonathan Nesteruk
Fashion co-ordinator: Michael McDowell
Casting director: Noah Shelley
Wardrobe: Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello
The February issue of Vogue Singapore is available on newsstands from 29 January 2021.
