After a shaved head took her from club night kid to a muse enlisted by the likes of fashion giants, @uglyworldwide kept her finger on the pulse. Her musical project SKUZLAND channels the same anarchic energy into a genre-warping sound brought up by Chicago’s no-bedtime club culture. The secret to her artistry? A two-fingers-up approach to convention, permanently stuck at max volume.
Model, artist and now musician, Jazzelle Zanaughtti, better known as @UglyWorldwide, is embracing mutation. Raised in Detroit as a nightlife club kid, she first found cult recognition after being discovered by photographer Nick Knight on Instagram in 2016, following a head shave that quickly set tongues wagging across the worlds of Mugler, Rick Owens, Jean Paul Gaultier and Fenty. But modelling was only ever one notch on her belt. Music had long been pulsing underneath it all, shaped by the industrial clang of Chicago, punk abrasion and the city’s no-bedtime club culture. Through SKUZLAND, her anarchic project with producer Robot Moon Juice, Jazzelle has channelled that dynamism into something feral and full-throttle, swapping the fashion lens for blown-out synths, distorted vocals and unhinged club electronics. Since 2025, the duo have released six genre-warping singles, most recently “FREAK is WILD” alongside Shygirl, each one pushing further into their own unruly world. The project carries the same instinct that has always defined Jazzelle’s work: a two-fingers-up approach to convention, permanently stuck at max volume.
What’s your earliest memory of music having an effect on you?
I grew up in a very tense environment. Every time I heard music playing it provided so much levity. Music’s always been somewhere I can run away into.
What does it mean to you to be original?
To be fully enveloped in your own world.
When did you last get in trouble?
Amazingly, out of all my degenerate behaviour, it was years ago for simply smoking a cigarette on the street in Beverly Hills of all things!
What’s turning you on creatively right now?
Eavesdropping in public spaces and trancing off barefoot in nature.
What’s been your greatest act of artistic rebellion?
You could say all the art I’ve made or been a part of is a “rebellious act” because simply who I am is outside of the status quo. I live and breathe my art so I guess you could consider just being and continuing to be, my greatest act.
WONDERLAND SUMMER 2026. GUEST EDITED BY MILEY CYRUS. SHOP NOW.
Photography Mario Sorrenti
Chief Creative Officer & Styling Alastair McKimm
Words Ella Bardsley
Hair Bob Recine
Make-up Diane Kendal
Set Design Philipp Haemmerle
Executive Producer Dana Brockman
Producer Max Bonbrest
Casting Alexandra Antonova for Samuel Ellis Scheinman
Lighting Technician Lars Beaulieu
1st Photo Assistant Kotaro Kawashima
Photo Assistants Paolo Afante, Kurt Mangum
Digital Tech Charles Meyer
Fashion Assistants Taylor Wood, Kassidy Taylor
Hair Assistant Jeelan Aleem
Make-up Assistants Eduardo Jiminez, Breanna Harmon
Set Assistants Oscar Haemmerle, Xavier Mozejewski
Production Assistant Din Morris