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The Lovers
Loving yourself can be hard when the world keeps telling you you’re not enough. This October, The Lovers invites you to meet your past
PHOTOS BY ALICIA DUBUIS
HEAD OF BEAUTY: NICOLA FISCHER
WORDS BY STEFANIE PONCA
MODEL: SASHA KONOGRAEVA @ WIENER MODELS
Photo Essay
What if Botticelli had been given a camera? Would he have caught Sasha Konograeva’s skin, her hair, her body in the same curving lines as Alicia Dubuis? Perhaps. But he was after the ideal, and up close the camera finds something else: the texture of skin and its shadows. Beauty doesn’t have to be perfect to feel whole.
Q&A
Stefanie
When do you feel most at home in your clothes?
Sasha
I have to feel comfortable in what I wear. Otherwise, it doesn’t work.
Stefanie
Which part of the day is yours?
Sasha
Definitely the morning. What I treasure most are those quiet moments early on, when I’m the only one awake. I take my coffee out to the balcony, wrapped in a blanket, and watch the first light come up. Wonderful.
Stefanie
Everyone seems to have an opinion on what we should like, wear and want. How do you tell what’s yours?
Sasha
There’s so much coming at us these days that you can lose track of what you actually like. That happens to me with fashion and beauty especially. But there are things in the world that hold steady and make the day better. Flowers. Desserts. The way a perfume fades. Colour. I love blue, and I don’t expect that to change.
Cover: VINTAGE BLOUSE BY INES RASPORT, AVAILABLE AT CABINET VINTAGE. RIGHT: 9-INGREDIENT FACE MOISTURISER BY TYPOLOGY PARIS.
RIGHT: DENSITÉ & VOLUME SHAMPOO BY CAUDALIE.
Right: Matte Lipstick in Éperdu by Byredo.
RIGHT: THE POWDER DUOS IN FIZZ/JAM BY WESTMAN ATELIER.
PHOTO ASSISTANT: ESTELLE BOUCHET
HAIR: RACHEL BREDY
STYLING/SET DESIGN: STUDIO HANNA RÜCKERT
PRODUCTION: SOPHIE LEBÈGUE @ GEMINI PRODUCTION
VIDEO
DOP: ROMAN LUSSER
DIRECTOR: ALICIA DUBUIS
THIS STORY FIRST APPEARED IN Super Flattering PRINT ISSUE N°01 / SUMMER 2026
