Can art save us? As we find ourselves facing the ever-harsher realities of the climate crisis, this age-old question becomes relevant once again. In this issue, we interrogate the many ways in which animals and the natural world are presented visually—often with either advocate or escapist tendencies—and speak with artists who are suggesting new ways of reconnecting with and caring for the environment.

We also meet the artists who are relating to plants in an intimate and sensual manner. Through their lush, highly tactile work, they explore our current contact with the many different lives we share this planet with, while taking inspiration from the erotic power dynamics of BSDM.

In this issue’s Encounters, we speak to fashion photographer Tim Walker, discuss the pitfalls of utopia with pioneering sculptor Lee Bul and talk clay and consent with performance artist Florence Peake.

Two Paper Galleries continue our exploration of the wild world. We investigate the notions of innocence and the rural in Caroline Tompkins’s heated photography. Cover artist Lydia Blakeley’s paintings are also presented; these bring together pets, sporting animals and Internet memes with both unsettling and amusing results.

In the back section of the magazine, Journal features our regular columnists: Charlotte Jansen questions the environmental argument for having fewer children, while Federico Florian examines the unnatural social and transactional space of the Uber car. Plus, Mary McCartney takes us inside Peter Blake’s studio—and cooks him lunch—and Gavin Turk suggests ten ways of improving our relationship with Planet Earth.All this and more, as we round off a particularly explosive decade.

“We watched Saved by the Bell and later Beverly Hills, 90210, and have all experienced what it means for Super Mario to eat a mushroom and double in size. That’s us — we were still acquainted with deficit, but had already been infected with gluttony.”

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“Once, they bought Komar and Melamid in Los Angeles; I wrote to the transport people that they would be bringing it all and they’d have to then take it to New York for further shipment to Europe. They said, “Okay, no problem.” The next day they wrote to me, “You know, the painting was brought to us attached to the roof of an Escalade with a rubber band. Good thing there was no rain.””
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“The nicest thing about my current situation is that I can do what I’m doing and have fun in the process. Someone told me some time ago that it was extremely important for me to get a board of directors as soon as possible, but I wasn’t really sure it was my path. And now this person has lost his investors and board. So I believe in there being different types of companies and different ways of doing things.”
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“The only way I could react to my divorce, which can’t really be called that because that’s not what it was, but I’m sure that no one would like to read such tasteless words on these beautiful pages, so, the only way I could write about my divorce and not collapse under the weight or stench of the words was to laugh about it.”
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“I remember when some Polish relatives came to visit, bringing toys and a bag of chewing gum. One toy robot could even stand upright, its demon eyes gleaming like lights in a faraway port across the sea, in a prosperous land. We couldn’t even get batteries in our town, so the revival of the robot had to be postponed, but no one could stop me trying the chewing gum. It was a Friday. On one hand was the option to take the chewing gum to school on Monday and be the hero, on the other — that intoxicating smell. Needless to say, I tried every vividly coloured variety of gum that very evening, and later even threw up.”

Bilingual (English / Latvian) with a side of Russian.
140 mm x 200 mm.
Full colour.
288 pages.
Printed at Jelgavas tipogrāfija, Latvia.

System 13 celebrates the heady rise of Chinese social-media with cover stars Angelababy, Fan Chengcheng and Ni Ni, signifying the seismic changes we’re experiencing in society, economics, technology and fashion. Juergen Teller accompanied each of the three stars while they were on official brand ambassador duty at Dior, Givenchy and Gucci’s shows in February. Story by Hung Huang and Blake Abbie.

Also in this issue:
Marc Jacobs’ unabashed love letter to fashion. The designer in conversation with Alexander Fury and an intimate portfolio at Jacobs’ New York home, photographed by Juergen Teller.
The emotional tale of fashion’s golden-age designer Christian Lacroix, as told to Tim Blanks, featuring Lacroix archive pieces from 1987-2009 photographed by Roe Ethridge and styled by Katie Grand.
What can print do that digital cannot? A deep-thoughts survey on the state of magazines featuring 50 of the industry’s leading editors.

An oral history examining the life and times of fashion’s serial avant-gardist Rudi Gernreich by Tim Blanks, including recollections by Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Issey Miyake, Pierre Cardin, Ed Ruscha, Rick Owens and Barbara Bain, and with archive and new Gernreich designs photographed by Robi Rodriguez and styled by Karen Langley.
Anthony Vaccarello in conversation with Carine Bizet about taking the sacred house of Saint Laurent ‘Rive Droite’.
From Shawn Stussy’s Tommy Boy staff jackets to Virgil Abloh’s ‘The Ten’, Nike’s collab king Fraser Cooke explores the most culturally influential collaborations of the past 25 years.
Grace Wales Bonner speaks with Hans Ulrich Obrist about the history, identity and place that inform her rapidly-rising brand, and travels to Guadeloupe with photographers Durimel.
An encounter between tailored clothing, long-lost elegance, and young French men of North African descent, photographed by Karim Sadli and styled by Joe McKenna.
An intimate photographic look into the life and camera roll of designer Haider Ackermann.
Derek Blasberg answers filmmaker Loïc Prigent’s bespoke questionnaire.
Robin Givhan on surviving fashion month with a broken foot; Dominic McVey on his sustainable solution to the period poverty problem; and Shonagh Marshall on what Brexit means to British photography.

… plus Saint Laurent Rive Droite

An exclusive 66-page Juergen Teller portfolio showcasing creative director Anthony Vaccarello’s soon-to-be-available ‘collaborations product range’ for the forthcoming Saint Laurent Rive Droite store in Paris.

… and finally

Issue 13 of System includes a limited edition Saint Laurent Rive Droite cover featuring Anthony Vaccarello photographed by Juergen Teller.

What does the word luxury stand for in 2019? With the ever-changing social climate, it’s important to consider happenings outside of our little fashion bubble in order to interpret the meaning of contemporary luxury. And that’s where Issue Two of 10+ Magazine comes in.

HELLO WORLD SS19

This season, Another Man orbits planet Earth for a global gathering of creativity and positivity. With shoots from Japan and China to India and the Moon, and art projects exploring imaginary, hidden realms, Spring/Summer 2019 is a soulful celebration of the world we live in, real and unreal…

A Magazine about Sex, Gender and Identity

Tha Gaze Issue

“There’s nothing empowering about one part of you being visible when the rest of you is targeted, shamed and threatened.” — Jacob Thomas, Archer Magazine #11

Welcome to Archer Magazine issue #11: the GAZE issue.

"The notion of the GAZE goes beyond media. It encompasses how we make sense of our bodies through the way other people see us... It’s the way power expresses itself through imbalances in vision control: surveillance, objectification fetishisation, gaslighting, abuse. It’s the way a systemic problem can be minimised when those with influence sweep it under the rug." — Adolfo Aranjuez, editor-in-chief, Archer Magazine #11

Frame magazine is the world’s leading interior-design publication. The bimonthly magazine is filled with inspiring projects and stunning photography from all sectors of the international interiors industry. Since 1997, Frame has remained faithful to its vision: putting interior design on the map as a creative profession that’s on a par with product design and architecture.

The May/June 2019 issue of Frame magazine reports on the human-centric focus of interior design, and how tech is transforming live music.

Sprache: Englisch

Featuring spectacular actor Josh O’Connor on the cover, photographed in the English countryside by KARIM SADLI and interviewed on a meander through London by MARK SMITH. Elsewhere in this magnificent issue: OLAFUR ELIASSON on art, CHRISTOPHER WYLIE on whistleblowing, CHARLES JEFFREY on clothes TERRY HALL on ska and so much more, including fashion for literally all four seasons..

Summer 19

This edition of Imagicasa magazine is not only the first issue that we publish in the month of June, it is also the 10th edition. A real jubilee edition! We could not have reached this milestone without our loyal partners and readers, so first of all I would like to thank you all for your continued support and trust.

In just a few years, Imagicasa has grown enormously. The website expanded to this magazine and we now even offer a real lifestyle with the decorative objects and exclusive furniture that are sold in our webshop. Our website also got a fresh coat of paint to fit even better in the style and atmosphere that Imagicasa represents. The ‘stories’ make the website more dynamic, partners and their realisations get more visibility and there are many new features.

On top of that, we don’t just write about national and international inspiring projects, since this spring our magazine is actually sold abroad (Singapore, Australia, the UK, Switzerland). A great honour and the confirmation that with hard work dreams can really come true!

So, we advise everyone to keep dreaming and with the help of this June edition of Imagicasa magazine we are already giving our readers a push in the right direction. Summer is approaching and maybe you have a pleasant holiday to look forward to. This is the ideal time to relax with a magazine – and maybe also a cocktail – in your hand and let yourself be inspired by all the beauty we bring.

Exclusive travel destinations, retro interiors and colourful works of art are put in the spotlight. We present both international names (Thierry Lemaire, Irakli Zaria, Winter McDermott) and Belgian high-flyers (Balo, Nathalie Deboel). We also bring you the stories of flight attendants working on private jets, the founder of the company Vip & Butler Services and we share tips of a real estate agent in Spain. Looking for something even more exclusive? Then let yourself be enchanted by the latest yacht designs by Oceanco and designer Andy Waugh. And are you still looking for a fun activity this summer? Be sure to visit Boon Gallery in Knokke where some unique works by Picasso will be exhibited.

As you will notice, we have once again collected a tasteful collection of interesting and inspiring subjects for you and we hope to be able to do so for many years to come.

The July/August issue of Frame delves into how hotels have become the ultimate touchpoint for businesses looking to truly immerse their customers in their brand world.

Kinfolk was founded in Portland, operates out of Copenhagen, and has long had roots in Japan. In fact, since 2013, the magazine-and its ongoing exploration of quality of life – has been translated into Japanese at our sister office in the heart of Shibuya, Tokyo. On our most recent visit in March, local editors Mako Ayabe and Kota Engaku reminded us what life in the Japanese capital is like for those living there with a sense of intention and energy: one of the navigable neighbourhoods, courteous codes and cutting-edge culture. This is in stark contrast to the vision of Tokyo as a city that can feel impenetrable to the outsider.

For our 18-page guide, our photographer Romain Laprade and local writer Selena Hoy took recommendations from our Japan team and visited a dozen locations that, between them, paint a full picture of this varied metropolis: from a new rice specialist revitalizing a shuttered shopping district, to a store inside a house in upmarket, residential Shirokane. For our archive and feature profiles, we’ve chosen two women who made Tokyo their home a hundred years apart: Toko Shinoda, the 106-year-old abstract artist who still lives in the city center, and Yoon Ahn, the Korean designer who moved to the city in the early aughts, riding the peak of the city’s street-style wave.

Perhaps because Tokyo is the world’s most populous metropolis, spending time in the city left us longing for space to stretch out and enjoy the summer. Our issue Thirty-Two fashion shoot takes place on a boat off the coast of Marseille, and our feature profile of Coco O tells the story of how the singer found room to breathe again by moving back to Copenhagen after several years in Los Angeles. And, in interviews with the architects Kengo Kuma and Bijoy Jain, we discover a common reverence for creating building in conversation with the nature and light that surrounds them.

Purple Fashion

Purple Fashion is a magazine that knows that having personality is about more than just being extroverted. Published in Paris under the eye of its charismatic Editor-In-Chief, Olivier Zahm, each issue is as decadent as his lifestyle is reported to be. Its articles and photo shoots ooze intimacy and somehow get inside places that many would dream to be. Indulgent? Perhaps. Typical? Definitely not. Purple Fashion manages to capture a ‘fashionable’ world in a way that subverts notions of superficiality and replaces it with a focus on personal expression and quality.

Covers will be shipped randomly.

The September/October issue of Frame marks a new chapter in the magazine’s history. At a time when the design industry is evermore beholden to the power of the glossy image – be that in print, on web or via your preferred social platform – we’ve decided that it’s vital that our publication strives not only to show you what’s popular, but also to tell you why.

SKATEISM Issue 4 is entitled “PRIDE”, and is an investigation of the notion of pride within skateboarding, led first and foremost by the raddest members of the LGBTQ+ community. It’s their biggest, brightest, queerest issue yet.

Featuring: Brian Anderson, Vanessa Torres, Yann Horowitz, Tony Hawk, A. Klaas, Corey Duffel, Kane Caples, Briana King, Breana Geering, Cuba Skate and much, much more!

Twin Magazine is a biannual Art, Fashion and Feminism Book

Issue 20 celebrates a landmark in Twin’s history: 10 years of championing women and emerging creativity. Fittingly, this issue is packed with interviews and contributors that embody our independent and boundary pushing spirit. Who more emblematic of that ethos than Katharine Hamnett? Her radical vision has consistently held power to account and advocated for sustainable values and the power of education. Or boxer Ramla Ali, who knocked out the idea that ‘women don’t box’ and became a champion – inside and outside of the ring. Both women shattered existing expectations to establish new rules of their own. Also in this issue, filmmaker Fenn O’Meally and poet Debris Stevenson talk feminism, community and creativity, dismantling the system one punchy takedown at a time. You’ll want to read this interview twice. These are the influencers of our times, but we’ve also asked leading creatives to talk about the icons who came before. Designers Michael Halpern, Mimi Wade and Art School’s Tom Barratt contribute loving family portraits of the women who originally inspired them. 

This anniversary, community is key. In ‘Queens of Scampia’, photographer Jess Kohl offers an intimate portrait of the trans women in northern Naples, while Lotte van Raelte’s discusses her open, natural portraits of women’s bodies in all their unique wonder. Francesca Allen’s ‘Tokyo Girls’ is a love letter to women and the city, while back in Britain, artists Jeremy Deller talks Stonehenge and his collaboration with Aries. And with a similar nod to the pagan, photographer Steph Wilson’s ‘White Nightmare’ conjures surreal and weird world where the white male has been overpowered and the freakish and strange rule. Looking back to look forward, Philomena Epps reflects on the original contributed for our first issue, in the context of where we are now. “The Age of Aquarius will last for another 2000 years”, she says, “but will we?”

Given the innovative creatives that have helped to promote original thinking over Twin’s last 10 years, the answer is probably, yes. The range of talent that has helped to establish the magazine’s pioneering voice is a reason to be optimistic about the future. Here’s to a bright, bold and disruptive decade ahead.

Cover 1 - Gosha

“The blade is so sharp that it will cut the clothes in which you are wrapped in"        

FRANCESCA CIOFFI at MONSTER photographed by GOSHA PAVLENKO. Styled by NASTYA SHERSHEN in VERSACE, PHILOSOPHY BY LORENZO SERAFINI and  NIKE.                          

Cover 2 - Matthieu

“Cut me into a frame, don’t make myself a memory”                                 

MARIE-LOU GOMIS at THE CLAW photographed by MATTHIEU DELBREUVE at SEVEN SIX. Styled by MIREY ENVEROVA in SACHIKO YAMASHITA, MARNI and MISSONI.                                                                       

“Share: a part or portion belonging to, distributed to, contributed by, or owed by a person or group. It’s even easier to explain, Share is an act of unconditional love, it’s not a waste of time, you should take courage and start from now. Stop thinking, just go ahead, you will have the privilege of being able to share yourself with others, the right people in your life will answer you in the same language and you will be crushed into an explosion of unlimitless confidence. You will choose not to follow the easiest route, but you will find the right way to go, supported by the thousand invisible hands of your friends, always next to you, ready to share their emotion, life, and just smile to you.”

Special thanks to our contributors:

Antonio Romano, Arthur Jung, Bernardo Vercelli, Cosimo Fanciullacci, Cristiano Pedrocco, Daniela Magginetti, Daniele Lista, Eleonora D’Angelo, Emanuele Alteri, Fabio Di Salvo, Federica di Dato, Francesca Donnarumma, Francesco Alagna, Gianni Iorio, Giovanni Vetere, Gosha Pavlenko, Jeff Wallace, Manuel Sunda, Martina Bolis, Matthieu Delbreuve, Michele Bisceglia, Mirey Enverova, Nastya Shershen, Nero Studio, Niccolò Giordano, Nicolas Bianciotto, Paolo Zerbini, Sabine Reiter, Samuel Ruffin Hendrix, Sara Busan, Serena Pompei, Simon Winkelmuller, Stefania Belmonte, Yannick Schuette, Yves Tronnier, Zoe Natale Mannella.

This issue sees us go Au Naturel - uncovering a theme that has had shifting boundaries and conflicting definitions. Our Icon William Robinson was a man who sought to imagine a new, more ‘natural’ style of gardening. Jo Metson Scott photographs his legacy at Gravetye with words by Richard Bisgrove. Jonny Bruce takes us on a journey to three subversive gardens that liberated his thinking of what a garden could be. We revisit Howards Sooley’s photographs of Derek Jarman and Dungeness and he shares memories of this friend Mourned by the Wind.

Concepts of beauty are bought under the spotlight with Against Nature by Bethan Cole, photographed by Drew Vickers, and A Vision of Beauty by Sarah Jane Downing. We also take a look at The Bush with artist Ruth van Beek and explore the idea of being naked in At One with Nature. The vegetable gardens of chef Alain Passard are documented over a year by Alexandre Guirkinger - with an interview by Paul Henry-Bizon and we explore the combination of Food and Flowers with Simone Gooch, photographed by Joaquin Laguinge.

Naturally we consider gender and sexuality, so often defined by people on behalf of others. Here Pleasure Garden commissioned artist Linder Sterling to explore film stills from the old porn studio at Flamingo Estate in Los Angeles and we talk to the designer Erdem Moralıoğlu about fashion and self-expression.

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the death of American photographer Linda McCartney, The Plant magazine and musician Paul McCartney, have teamed up to put together a story of unpublished work by the artist and her passion for flowers. Both covers of The Plant 13 are by Linda, the first one with Paul and Heather in Devon (1969) and the other one showing Stella McCartney in Scotland (1973).

Also featuring in this issue the curious world of artist Batia Suter with Natural Grammar, a report on the 12th edition of Manifesta in Palermo through the lenses of Sam Rock and we travel to the rural area of Kangra in India with Tom Johnson to meet the local farmers. Laura
Hawkins and Scheltens & Abbenes take a look on the fashion designer Paul Poiret and Raoul Dufy’s patterns. And Cameranesi Pompili and photographer Ilaria Orsini contribute with Objet Trouvé, a series of selected contemporary flower vases.

Plus: Woman as Tree, Tree as Woman, by writer and art critic Hettie Judah; and a pagan festival in Spain Os Maios by Tex Bishop where people dress like trees. Also From the Earth, a collaboration with French fashion brand Lemaire photographed by Alice Neale. Other stories
take a look on the insidious Plastic Addiction and the bird life in Wissant by Estelle Hanania and Sandra Berrebi.

Last and not least Loose Leaves, The Plant magazine’s short stories section with contributors like gardener Matthew Wright, design curator Zoe Ryan, perfumer Barnabé Fillion, illustrator Christina Zimpel, florist Ruby Barber and Bruno Mayrargue from Librairie Yvon Lambert, amongst others.

The latest issue of OOF deals with the quasi-religious mania which football sets off like a nuclear bomb in the hearts of people around the world. Focusing on Sam Taylor-Johnson’s 'David' (a video portrait of a true sporting icon) and Ashley Holmes’s ‘Panini Series’ (a set of reworked images reflecting the demonisation of black footballers by the mainstream press), issue three deals with obsession in its many guises. Former Spurs, Ajax and Hamburg boss Martin Jol talks about his deep passion for art collecting, while renowned video artist Paul Pfeiffer explains the 'terrible beauty' of football. Elsewhere, we consider the ghostly movements of Ann Veronica Janssens' 'Berlin - Barcelona', the obsessive solitude of Massimo Furlan, and the unyielding devotion shown by a hardened group of Dynamo Kyiv fans.

In Berlin Quarterly’s signature longform reportage, Allyn Gaestel writes from Kinshasa, profiling an independent collective of sex workers in the Congolese capital. Gaestel traces the history of sex work in the region from colonial times to the present, and grounds the reportage in close portraits of the women involved.
This fiction-rich issue includes four short stories: Clemens Meyer’s whirlwind account of sex work in East Germany, Esther Kinsky’s meditation on the Rhine river, Eloghosa Osunde’s encounter with ghouls, and Darryl Pinckney’s fraught romances in Berlin.
Two Nigerian poets are featured: Niran Okewole and Precious Arinze. Their work is expansive, ranging both in form and content, from contemporary scenes of women kissing in churches to naming major perpetrators of the slave trade. In addition, renowned German poet Jan Wagner appears in both German and English, as well as in conversation with poetry editor Ezequiel Zaidenwerg.
Jann Höfer’s photo portfolio illustrates a German village in Chile, founded after WWII, in its awkward rebranding as a tourist destination after the incarceration of its leader. The uncanny portraits capture both the aging population and the cinematic landscapes that surround the former cult.