System Issue 17- Retail saves! System launches Issue 17 exploring the future of shopping. Featuring cover stars, Mr Ji, founder and chairman of SKP Beijing, and José Neves, founder of Farfetch. In February, this year, it was reported that SKP Beijing had become the highest-performing luxury department store in the world. The news highlighted what is arguably the defining transition – both pre- and post-pandemic – for the global luxury fashion market: Chinese consumer appetite and purchasing power is now sustaining the profitability of many Western brands. System has...
The Happy Reader - Issue 16, Moses Sumney A collaboration between Penguin Classics and Fantastic Man, the concept of The Happy Reader is simple: the first half of the magazine is a long-form interview with a notable book fanatic and the second half explores one classic Book of the Season from an array of surprising and invigorating angles On the cover this time, sonic trailblazer Moses Sumney is as intense and chimerical as his singing voice. Of course, he’s a big reader as well. His favourite books, as this interview with the equally trailblazing Jia Tolentino reveals, are often...
Holiday Magazine - Issue 387, The Ethiopia Issue After a trip to Saint Petersburg, Holiday magazine heads for Ethiopia. Photographers Sean Thomas, Paul Kooiker, Matthieu Salvaing, Quentin de Briey, Krisztián Éder, Douglas Irvine and Oliver Hadlee Pearch offer unique visions of the land of 13 months of sunshine and its people, while Karim Sadli captures the elegance of the Ethiopian model Liya Kebede, founder of the fashion foundation Lemlem. On the writing front, French novelist Oscar Coop-Phane goes on his first-very memorable-journey to the Horn of Africa; Ethiopian...
Issue 06 With unprecedented honesty and depth, 1 Granary Issue 6 dives into the work and lives of fashion designers today. As a response to the construction of desire and personality cults that govern our industry, the magazine steps away from the conventional profiles and editorials, focusing instead on raw work and anonymous, unfiltered testimonies. For the first time ever, readers are given a truthful insight into the process, dreams, fears, hardships and struggles of today’s creatives. Going beyond the usual, superficial glorification of creativity, the issue both...
AnOther - Spring/Summer 2021 Want a FREE digital copy of AnOther magazine? Visit www.exacteditions.com/digital/anothermag and enter your order number into "Subscription reference" to recieve a FREE copy New love, old flamesThe 20th anniversary issue of AnOther Magazine is a love letter to fashion starring:Rei Kawakubo, Sarah Burton and Pierpaolo PiccioliAnd in conversation:Virgil Abloh x Shayne OliverAdwoa Aboah x Jeremy O HarrisOlivier Rousteing x Christine & the QueensHaider Ackermann x Tilda SwintonDries Van Noten x Sterling RubyKim Jones guest edits DocumentJulien Dosenna...
Learning from China: A New Era of Retail Design This book showcases 50 pioneering retail projects in China and explores them as windows into the industry’s future. As e-commerce uproots the norms and conventions of physical retail, Chinese retailers are showing the way forward. What can designers, architects and industry leaders learn from this melting pot of innovation? Departing from Frame’s successful Powershop series, Learning from China showcases 50 retail designs developed by a troupe of national and international designers in China. From multifunctional lifestyle...
i-D - Summer 2021 Transcendence; existence or experience beyond the normal level. Freedom; the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without restraint. Recovery; a return to a normal state of health, mind or strength. Rejuvenation; the act of giving a new energy to something. We started work on this issue exactly one year after the Covid pandemic began, and as we were working on it these four words kept coming to mind; this issue is a reflection on how much our community has grown together over the last year and how hopeful we are about the future. Through acceptance and...
