Last Friday, upstairs at Parlor Showroom on Mercer, friends and contributors gathered to celebrate the launch of a new magazine: Riot of Perfume. Warren Fischer, Max Osterweis of SUNO, Maayan Zilberman and Nikki Dekker, and Zana Bayne -- whose skeletal-shaped harnesses and spare photographs add a touch of macabre to Riot -- all attended.

Cooked up by editors Eugenie Dalland and Marco Lockmann, the biannual fashion publication lays bare its contents with writing and art that abandons gloss for something more revealing and rare: long form fashion writing, no models, no retouching. Taken from "a bad English translation of the poem 'Matinée d'Ivresse' by Arthur Rimbaud," its title, offbeat yet entirely sensory, mimics the magazine's character.

The final product is a black and white matte collection of interviews, translations, photography, fashion, and fiction, assembled with a sense of play: unexpected quotations that buoy darker images, and scanned found objects by Saskia de Brauw, like hair from a cut at a Balenciaga show in Paris or the textured feathers of bird's lost wing, scooped up somewhere in the Netherlands.

Riot of Perfume is available at McNally Jackson Books.

Photos by Shirin Borthwick and Milana Naumenko