“I live in you, you live in me;

We are two gardens haunted by each other.

Sometimes I cannot find you there,

There is only the swing creaking, that you have just left,

Or your favourite book beside the sundial.”

— Douglass Dunn

They say a great love should last a lifetime.

It lingers in the gaps where the floorboards have begun to separate, on the edges of a coffee table that has been knocked one too many times. In the spine of your favourite book that has been ferried from nightstand to nightstand.

It’s not a feeling that can be measured against the ticking of a clock; it isn’t reliant on the weight of the seconds to hold it down.

In the sophomore edition of RUSSH Love, we ask, “do you live how you love, or do you love because of how you live?” A synergy between reality and grandeur, birth and rebirth, self-knowledge and power. A celebration of breakups and makeups – because this is the real world, after all – and everything that comes after that.

A reminder that forever is not always a lifetime, it can just be for right now.

Left: Clockwise from bottom left: CARTIER rings. CELINE jacket; CARTIER earring and necklace. Kelsey wears BOTTEGA VENETA top; CARTIER earring, bracelet and ring. Cloudy wears GUCCI top. GUCCI top; CARTIER ring. Kelsey wears BOTTEGA VENETA top; CARTIER bracelets and ring. Cloudy wears GUCCI jacket; CARTIER ring. Right: Clockwise from bottom left: GUCCI top; CARTIER necklace. CARTIER rings. CARTIER ring. BURBERRY dress; CARTIER necklace, bracelets and ring. GUCCI top; CARTIER necklace. Kelsey wears BURBERRY dress; CARTIER necklace and bracelet. Cloudy wears JAC + JACK shirt.

Left: CARTIER earring and necklace. CARTIER ring. Right: FENDI dress; CARTIER earring and bracelets.

Left: CELINE jacket and jeans; CARTIER necklace. Right: GUCCI jacket; CARTIER necklace and rings.

Left: Clockwise from bottom left: Kelsey wears BURBERRY dress; CARTIER necklace. Cloudy wears JAC + JACK shirt; CARTIER necklace. BURBERRY dress; CARTIER necklace, bracelet and rings. FENDI dress; CARTIER bracelet and ring. FENDI dress; CARTIER bracelet and ring. Right: BURBERRY dress; CARTIER earrings, necklace, bracelet and rings.

To experience the Life issue in its entirety, the March edition of RUSSH will be available on newsstands from 29 February and through our shop online. Read more about the inspiration behind the issue in Jess Blanch's editor's letter. Wanting to purchase the Life issue in person? Find a stockist near you.

PHOTOGRAPHY Sam Armstrong
FASHION Hannah Cooper
MODEL Kelsey Martinovich @ Kult Australia, Cloudy Rhodes
HAIR Madison Voloshin using DAVROE
MAKEUP Isabella Schimid using NARS
PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANTS Felix Le Ber and Judith Le Clerc
STYLIST’S ASSISTANT Mia Kidis

Cover: Left: Kelsey wears GUCCI jacket; CARTIER rings. Cloudy wears GUCCI jacket. Right: BOTTEGA VENETA top; CARTIER necklace, bracelets and ring.