NOIRE magazine #3 (3rd cover)

NOIRE was created in Kyiv in 2023. At a moment of complete uncertainty, we realized that we were missing a platform that would speak to people like us: tell stories, show new releases and build community in the future.
After establishing ourselves online, which still remains equivalent to the magazine you are holding in your hands right now, we realized that simply being a retransmitter was not enough, and we wanted to tell more through the magazine. Where there is no influence of algorithms and the constant pressure to stay relevant.
It was important to us that people choose us consciously, because they wanted to, and not by chance. Aspirational journalism became the main concept of all issues.

ABOUT THIS ISSUE
Its working title was «Anxiety». We set out to describe that same «pit of dying» that we hear about more and more often. But we realized that this is not the whole trend; there is also escapism, love, and nostalgia. It turns out that old jokes still make us smile, for some reason we continue to love, and anger is just as productive a feeling as all the others if it is properly channeled.
To get through the turbulence, we needed notto keep running forward, but to turn back.
NOIRE ISSUE «3» was created with the support of
FUJIFILM Ukraine.

CONTENTS

1) An interview with Sanya Malykhin from Optimus Gang.
A conversation with Nikow - Ukrainian singer, composer and songwriter.
«District» - a series of works by Kyiv-based photographer Vladyslav Andrievsky.
«Before Viskra» - an introductory piece on the album by Kyiv-based sound producer Ulyana Avteniuk, a.k.a. YUVI.
The article «The Ball of Crazy Women (and Men)» - GUNIA PR specialist and author of the book «Fashion Directory of Ukraine» Anton Yeremenko talks about how to withstand the madness of the fashion industry without losing your sanity.
A piece by Denys Klimanskyi - designer and creative director of the DENIS KLIMAŃSKY brand - about life in Paris, working in order to build your own brand and the pros and cons of being a «small» brand.
The article «To Love or to Demolish» by Ukrainian YouTuber and urbanism popularizer Ivanna Malii and her producer, Bohdan Dupak.
Our photoshoot «ULTRA».

Texts are in Ukrainian