Inside Lucila Safdie and Angela Hill's Nostalgic Ode to Teenage Girlhood
The pair teamed up on a new zine and exhibition as part of Photo London.
Rainy afternoons walking with your best friend after school are core memories for many, with rituals of girlhood making up an intimate part of our psyche. Designer Lucila Safdie and photographer/co-founder of IDEA Books Angela Hill have teamed up for Every Girl for Herself, a dreamy zine and exhibition launching at Dover Street Market London, tapping into this exact feeling. Part of Photo London 2026, the project captures all the messy, intense and private rituals of growing up.
The series features Hill’s signature intimate style, starring family friends Rose and Viola in Safdie’s mid-noughties-inspired polo tops. Think British school uniforms, but make it fashion. With a nostalgic text by Marley Wendt covering everything from online crushes to bedroom selfies, the zine is a trip down memory lane in a tender exploration of female youth, friendship and self-fashioning. Blurring documentary realism with carefully constructed nostalgia, the work reflects on after-school drift and the quiet performances of girlhood that shape identity behind closed doors.
The best part? You can snag the limited-edition zine and those “Every Girl for Herself” polos right there at DSM. If you can’t make it to the store, the polos are also up for grabs on the Lucila Safdie website. The exhibition is on view from May 14 to 17.
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