Epic. Elevated in style, heroic in deed. If these times feel, even as we live them, historic — for better or worse — we need epic heroes more than ever, to push our boundaries, test our limits, show us the wav.
Epic poetry, epic novels, Hollywood epics — fashion, too, has its epic moments. What the idea of epic denotes, in these works, is a definition of social values, a shaping of identities and of the era in which they were created. Epic means something grand, that has an impact, that lasts. This issue of AnOther Magazine is dedicated to that notion, and to the cultural behemoths that need little explanation — they are larger than life, bigger than the sum of their parts though always truthful in their expression…
