AnOther Autumn/Winter 2020

MJ Harper

Dancer, model and choreographer MJ Harper speaks to Random Identities’ Stefano Pilati and stars in beautiful collage of people, paintings and fashion by Katy England.

Kim Kardashian and Michèle Lamy

Presenting a special project realised during lockdown, performed by Michèle Lamy and Kim Kardashian, conceived and directed by Paul Kooiker - a visual attestation to Lamy and Kardashian’s perhaps unlikely friendship.

Janaya Future Khan

Collier Schorr photographs the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Canada, Janaya Future Khan, who speaks with the singer, actor and producer Janelle Monáe about what matters.

Aduct Akech

For AnOther Magazine Autumn/Winter 2020, Craig McDean and Katie Shillingford capture creations by a host of emerging designers on the model Adut Akech.

Anok Yai

Susannah Frankel interviews the inimitable John Galliano, whose Autumn/Winter 2020 Maison Margiela Artisanal collection is captured in extraordinary imagery by Willy Vanderperre and Olivier Rizzo.

The stories throughout the issue are named after ballets and operas – centuries-old acts of creative expression, around which people convene. And this is a magazine, a community, around which people have always gathered – we are so grateful, then and now, for their contributions. They not only enrich our history, they have made it. While we always thank people here, under the unique and frightening circumstances of 2020 our thanks take on a new gravity: this magazine could not exist without the passion and love of the image-makers, writers and creatives within its pages. 

Jane How made all the clothes for her story, inspired by specific pieces by some of her favourite designers; Katie Shillingford sent her edit of the season to Viviane Sassen in the Netherlands, where she photographed it in nature; Ellie Grace Cumming styled Susie Cave at her home in Brighton, in Alessandro Michele’s collections for Gucci, past and present. I wish I could mention every contributor here – but hope the strength and beauty of this issue, a testament to their work, is a fitting tribute. Thank you, all.

This magazine was put together in the strangest and most difficult of times. The world remains strange and difficult, and doubtless will do for some time. Yet our wish is that in the world, as in these pages, people will find hope, thoughtfulness, truth and, above all, joy.

The latest issue of AnOther Magazine celebrates romance
and the screen angels and fashion gods pushing its core
tenets to the extreme.

A role model for our times, activist and actor Indya Moore graces our cover and centrefold poster, photographed by Willy Vanderperre and styled by Olivier Rizzo. In an open-hearted interview with Emma Hope Allwood, the actor explores the expansive power of community, playing Angel in Ryan Murphy’s agenda-setting TV show Pose, the value of public platform and, above all, harnessing human kindness and joy.

Disney star and superhero Naomi Scott is a role model of another kind. Playing one of Elizabeth Banks’ Charlie’s Angels in the director’s upcoming reboot, Scott stands at the forefront of a major gear-shift in Hollywood. As casting calls become increasingly diversified, the down-to-earth Indian-Brit star rewrites the industry landscape in her image. Photographed by Collier Schorr and styled by Katie Shillingford, our
second cover star talks to Hannah Lack about the heroes she longed for growing up.

Jonathan Anderson is among the most important voices in fashion. Having simultaneously helmed both his eponymous label and the Spanish luxury goods house Loewe since 2013, his output and influence has become omnipresent. In an in-depth dual profile, the designer talks to Susannah Frankel about both distinctive worlds; Viviane Sassen photographs JW Anderson while Mark Peckmezian shoots Loewe.

Rick Owens, a hopeless romantic, talks to Tim Blanks about poets, artists, deities and mortality. His latest collection borrows from the fantastical legend of couturier Charles James – photographed by Craig McDean we present a serenade to Owens’ boundary-defying vision.

Belgian designer Raf Simons has long been dedicated to capturing the romance of youth and the optimism of the future. Photographed by, and on, Simons’ fashion family, his current menswear collection is presented
side-by-side with pieces from the mid-nineties, when his life in fashion began. Simons talks to Alexander Fury about rebellion and broken hearts.

Karl Lagerfeld is perhaps the most profoundly romantic designer of them all. His final collection for Chanel was a thing of unparalleled beauty and
is here photographed tenderly by Casper Sejersen. Comme des Garçons president, Adrian Joffe, writes about the 15th anniversary of the revolutionary retail store Dover Street Market, as illustrated by
artists Scheltens & Abbenes. Natacha Ramsay-Levi meanwhile, heralds a new era of modern femininity at Parisian fashion house Chloé, as exhibited by photographer Katja Rahlwes.

For Art Project, multidisciplinary French artist Camille Henrot looks at form, idolatry and corporeality in a new series of paintings, System of Attachment. Accompanied by a free-wheeling discourse with acerbic author Natasha Stagg, she presents collages of her forensically gathered
research imagery, created exclusively for AnOther Magazine. Via the naivety of cartoons, Henrot layers the historic with the contemporary in a poetic exploration of information in the digital age.

This issue’s 32-page Document is an ode to the radical beauty of Derek Jarman’sourve. Coinciding with a major retrospective of his work entitled PROTEST! at Dublin’s IMMA this autumn, Tilda Swinton, John
Waters, Luca Guadagnino, Olivia Laing and others remember his life and work and reflect on how his bravery has informed their own creativity in today’s turbulent times.

PLUS: Jane How, Harley Weir, Lotta Volkova, Julie Greve, Sam Rock, Katy England, Robbie Spencer, Nick Knight, Ibrahim Kamara and more across hundreds of pages of fantasy fashion imagery. While Grayson Perry, Katharine Hamnett, Tim Walker and others reflect on the influences that have shaped their dreams, shot by Tom Ordoyno and styled by
Rebecca Perlmutar.