Innehållsförteckning för Spring/Summer 2021 från AnOther Magazine

This issue marks the 20th anniversary of AnOther Magazine – like all significant milestones, we have been thinking about it for some time. Until last year, we did not anticipate that we would be making it during an ongoing pandemic – and even then, we, like so many others, could never have predicted the twists and turns of the past six months alone. There was not only the effect of the pandemic to consider – which, difficult to comprehend as we live through it, is possibly the defining world event of our lifetimes and indeed our children’s lifetimes – but the 2020 American election, the baseless challenges to its results, ongoing waves of global social upheaval, and Brexit. It feels like the world has been reconfigured, which is frightening. Yet…

“I’ve never felt more marooned on an island than now, and this is not my island. Ireland, my island, is across the water. I’ve been thinking about it a lot, the people, the smell - of the wet ground, of hops - the sense of humour but also the narratives that come from the craft, the techniques and the history. My Great-Uncle Barney passed away a few days ago and the funeral tradition of Ireland is so amazing. It’s such a moment of coming together, of family. It’s always uplifting and ceremonial. All the mirrors are covered up so the soul can’t leave the body and escape and, of course, there’s a corpse in the living room. But there are always kids running around, there’s lots of tea, cold sandwiches,…

“Whenever I collaborate with a company or an artist, it’s always a very personal process. I’ve been a big fan of Sade for a long time. She’s not only a legendary singer but a strong woman and a wonderful person, too. We created a T-shirt printed with a portrait of her by Albert Watson for Spring/Summer 2021, and profits from its sale will go to charity. Her voice can be soft and delicate, but when I listen to her music I really feel her strength. It reminds me that I also want to be a powerful woman. Her song Kiss of Life, which we used during the show, has always been one of my favourites. I was much younger when it came out, so it brings back lots of memories…

“I discovered a picture a couple of years ago of Langan’s Brasserie in Mayfair, taken in about 1976, when Michael Caine co-owned it. It’s a brilliant picture, taken looking out towards the street, and at one circular table you’ve got the Sex Pistols and at the table next to it there’s Caine in these great, chunky Seventies glasses, chatting to somebody. When I think about my sense of Britishness, my take on masculinity, it’s that contrast and contradiction I find exciting – the high and the low, the mixing of classes as part of British history and those moments when you get that clash of the old guard and the avant-garde. Britishness is impossible to define in a word, but I think that image taken at Langan’s says so much.…

Hair: Kiyoko Odo at Bryant Artists using AMIKA. Make-up: Lucy Bridge at Streeters. Models: Eman Deng at PRM, Mountaga Diop at Supa, Florence Hutchings at The Hive, Georgia Palmer at IMG and Celina Ralph and Alistair Waterfield at Elite London. Casting: Noah Shelley at Streeters. Set design: Jabez Bartlett at Streeters. Manicure: Loui-Marie Ebanks at JAQ Management using YSL BEAUTY. Photographic assistants: Tarek Cassim and Joseph Reddy. Styling assistants: Jordan Duddy, Isabella Kavanagh and George Pistachio. Hair assistant: Kyosuke Tanzawa. Make-up assistant: Martha Inoue. Executive producer: Honor Hellon. Producer: Nicholas Forbes Watson…

Hair: Kiyoko Odo at Bryant Artists using AMIKA. Make-up: Lucy Bridge at Streeters using AUGUSTINUS BADER. Models: Caren Jepkemei at Titanium Management and Aylah Peterson at Premier. Casting: Noah Shelley at Streeters. Manicure: Charly Avenell using La Crème Main by CHANEL. Photographic assistants: Stuart Hendry and Ian Kirby. Styling assistant: George Pistachio. Hair assistant: Kyosuke Tanzawa. Make-up assistant: Kyle Woodmass. Producer: Zoe Tomlinson. Post-production: Frisian. Special thanks to We Folk…

Hair: Akki Shirakawa at Art Partner using ORIBE. Make-up: Seong Hee Park at Julian Watson Agency using HOURGLASS. Model: Saskia de Brauw at DNA. Casting: Noah Shelley at Streeters. Set design: Andy Harman at Lalaland Artists. Digital tech: Jonathan Nesteruk. Lighting: Jordan Strong. Styling assistants: Mirko Pedone, Marcus Cuffie, Andra-Amelia Buhai and Sebastian Acero. Producer: Jemma Hinkly at Artists Commissions. Post-production: Two Three Two…

The image of the American model Guinevere van Seenus holding up a strip of pink wallpaper – hair pulled back, make-up pared back, gazing somewhere to the right of the camera, seemingly lost in thought – is one of the defining fashion images of the Nineties. The irony, of course, being that the photograph contains no clothes. Trumping attitude over attire, this image formed part of the Jil Sander Spring/Summer 1996 campaign, but it did more than that: it captured the spirit of the time, eschewing the glamour and excess of the Eighties in favour of something cleaner, leaner, but also more human. It was a breath of fresh air. That image, as powerful now as it was back then, was the result of a longstanding collaboration between the French…

The synergy between Olivier Rousteing – creative director of Balmain – and the musician Héloïse Letissier, better known as Christine and the Queens, is unexpected but certainly evident. Both were born in France in the latter half of the 1980s – Rousteing in Bordeaux in 1985, Letissier in Nantes in 1988 – each growing up in suburban surroundings and vicariously experiencing the era’s outré fashions and extreme, emotional music. And, in turn, each has revisited those through their work: Letissier’s poetic, electronic output – labelled by the artist herself as freakpop – draws on the syncopated rhythms and melodies of the 1980s, with lyrics sometimes reminiscent of the decade’s larger-than – life ballads. Rousteing likes embroidery, strident colour, strong shoulders – all present at his Spring/Summer 2021 show, where Letissier…

Tilda Swinton and Haider Ackermann are wearing almost-identical blue and white checked Bhutanese robes. Almost. The actor points to her roomy, rolled-up white cuffs. “Mine doesn’t have the blue,” she says. The designer thumbs the deep blue edge of his sleeve across the video call, in a sparsely decorated white room in his Paris apartment. “We were lucky enough to be together in Bhutan,” explains Swinton. “I can’t do the maths, something like four years ago? Maybe longer … They’re very useful. Of course, they look very Scottish.” During their friendship of nearly 20 years, the pair have entwined work, play and travel since they first crossed paths – though neither remember exactly when that happened. Their coming together was perhaps inevitable: they are both, in their respective fields, maverick.…

“Ciao, mamma.” Delfina Delettrez Fendi and her mother, Silvia Venturini Fendi, are in different parts of Rome, I’m peering at them both on a screen in London. Past, present, future … is there anyone in fashion better equipped to talk about that trinity than a Fendi? Delfina is fourth generation, after all. But despite the weight of heritage, Fendi is the least predictable of the big luxury brands. For that, credit is due to Silvia, daughter of Anna, the second born of the formidable five Fendi sisters who transformed the family business, not least by hiring Karl Lagerfeld as creative director in 1965. Silvia originally fled any sense of familial obligation and made jewellery on a beach in Brazil for a time. Maybe that helped her settle with her Fendi…

A radical classicist meets a classic radical: the fashion designer Dries Van Noten and Sterling Ruby, the artist who launched his own clothing line, SR STUDIO LA CA, in 2019, first physically met on a railway platform in Antwerp that year. Each already knew of the other, of course, having not only a deep respect and admiration for each other’s work, but a certain innate kinship. They are connected through craft, colour and a love of the transformative power of dress. Even though, on the surface, they are from two very different worlds. Dries Van Noten, who comes from a family of tailors, has been a fashion stalwart since the 1980s. He designed his first menswear collection in 1986. That same year he opened his first boutique in Antwerp, where…

Hair: Yuji Okuda at Artlist. Make-up: Mathias van Hooff at Management Artists using BYREDO. Model: Malick Bodian at Success Models. Casting: Jess Hallett at Streeters. Set design: Jabez Bartlett at Streeters. Digital tech: Niklas Bergstrand. Lighting assistants: Dani Bastidas, Etienne Oliveau and Iris Guillaume della Roca. Styling assistants: Jordan Duddy, Isabella Kavanagh and Christelle Owona Nisin. Set-design assistants: Camila Perna and Sati Faulks. Production: Western Promises for Artistry Paris. Post-production: Freddie Heide at She Post…

Hair: Anthony Turner at Streeters. Make-up: Kathinka Gernant at Unspoken. Model: Rianne Van Rompaey at Viva London. Casting: DM Casting. Manicure: Lynn Meyer. Lighting technician: Romain Dubus. Digital operator: Henri Coutant. Photographic assistant: Samir Dari. Styling assistants: Louise Pollet, Jasmien Van Loo and Niccolo Torelli. Hair assistant: Claire Grech. Producer to Willy Vanderperre: Lieze Rubbrecht. Production: Mindbox. Producer: Isabelle Verreyke. Project manager: Lise Luyckx. Post-production: Triplelutz Paris “The human brain always looks for harmony and logic. When harmony is denied, where there is no logic, when there is dissonance … a powerful moment is created which leads you to feel an inner turmoil and a tension … that can lead to finding positive change and progress”– Rei Kawakubo, October 2020 In September last year, a new prime minister was elected…

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SHARNA OSBORNE photographs LILA MOSS p332 What was the best moment of the shoot with Lila? Chilli, the new friend we made, and Lila’s sexy car. Can you name a favourite fictional romance? The ones that go on in my head. What’s your favourite line from a love poem? “One’s heels placed into the outflow by the bath” - a line from Economical Suicide, written by Jan Svankmajer in 1979 and dedicated to his wife, Eva. Who or what was your first love? Making stuff - thanks to my high-school teacher Ms Blair empowering me. LUIS ALBERTO RODRIGUEZ photographs HOLD ME p214 How would you describe the ideas behind your shoot? Given the current context of this pandemic, where we are expected to police our every desire to connect, I…

“I have been yearning for a Chinese talent like Leah Dou. I’m yearning for a hundred more of them, because I think it is naive to say that young Chinese people are not creative, it’s just that they haven’t enjoyed the environment their western counterparts have. I first saw Leah at The Alibi in Dalston. It was very surreal. When I was young, we listened to [her mother] Faye Wong’s music and Black Panther, the band of [her father] Dou Wei. Being a Chinese-born person who works in the creative field, I have always been looking for that long-lost brother or sister in terms of a Chinese talent with an international perspective. Her work is a work in progress, but she’s setting a great example - not just for musicians,…

“There’s something interesting about the way we’ll be engaging with environments based on space and ownership as we move through the pandemic. There’s been a push into gaming worlds and digital spaces, from pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong sharing messages via [the video game] Animal Crossing to the Black Lives Matter movement being led online. This idea of congregating in digital spaces has really come to the fore. “In her exhibition catalogue Typhoon Coming On, Sondra Perry talks about Black people in digital spaces and states that the majority of social media accounts within the western world are owned by Black people. However, in terms of space, land, equity and property in this country, Black British Caribbeans have the lowest level of ownership, education and income. As a member of…

“I was about 13 when I became a fully fledged Kate Bush fan, around the time I realised art and design might be the path I should go down. I was spending a lot of time alone in my bedroom, working, and I started listening to her over and over. I think of her as a curious, purely creative person, and I love that she can find music in anything - from mother-and-son love, to pigeons and snowflakes. I’ve never directly referenced her, but I think subconsciously she influences me. After we released the Autumn/Winter 2018 campaign, which featured windmills on a cliff with smoke billowing around them, I looked at the photographs and thought, ‘Oh my God, it’s like Cloudbusting!’ Her music has felt even more important recently -…

Hermès’s in-house perfumer, Christine Nagel, remembers visiting her grandmother, a trouser tailor, at her workshop as a child. “It was on the top floor of a very dark building in Geneva. I would watch her take her red-hot iron and place it on a damp cloth over trousers to iron them. That smell of dampness – the hot metal and wool – is absolutely unique,” she says. Today, that singular scent is still very present for Nagel. She, too, works in a top-floor studio, but this one is at Les Ateliers d’Hermès, a vast grey-green glass building in Pantin, a suburb outside northeast Paris. Nagel’s office has a tree-lined terrace and was once occupied by Jean-Louis Dumas, the father of the current artistic director of Hermès, Pierre-Alexis. It has a…

Hair: Olivier de Vriendt at The Wall Group using MOD’S HAIR. Make-up: Satoko Watanabe at Artlist using MAC. Models: Issa Louis-Michel at New Madison and Naomi Nitel at Fever. Casting: Piotr Chamier at Streeters. Photographic assistant: Nanao Kuroda. Styling assistant: Liana Sipos. Production: TheLink Mgmt. Production assistant: Gwenaelle Wieners…

Hair: Yann Turchi at Bryant Artists using L’ORÉAL PARIS. Make-up: Karim Rahman at Bryant Artists. Models: Saliou Diagne, Jean Lemersre and Konig N’Diaye at Bananas, Chris Massala at Girl, Edward Napoleon at Models Lane, Tristan Ridel at Elite, Saeed at M Management, Maxime Samo at Contact and Emiel Vandenberghe at Noah Management. Casting: Mathilde Curel for Julia Lange Casting. Set design: Justine Ponthieux at Bryant Artists. Digital tech: Romain Courtois. Photographic assistants: Daniel Rodriguez and Enzo Farrugia. Styling assistants: Archie Grant, Christelle Owona Nisin and Juliette Dumazy. Hair assistant: Cristina Vila. Make-up assistant: Lauren Bos. Set-design assistant: Anne Camille. Executive producer: Alexis Piqueras at AP Studios Paris. Producer: Stefanie Beer at AP Studios Paris. Production assistant: Pierre Senechal…

Hair: Michael Harding. Make-up: Olivia Cochrane using GLOSSIER. Talent: Lily Ashley and Hugo Hamlet at Storm Artists, Stephen Anthony Davids, Miya Browne, Lavinia Co-op and Ranald Macdonald. Casting: Nachum Shonn. Photographic assistant: Barney Curran. Special thanks to artist Stephen Anthony Davids @sadstudioe15…

Hair: Virginie Moreira at Management Artists. Make-up: Celia Burton at JAQ Management using Rouge Allure Laque and Le Lift Lotion by CHANEL. Model: Adwoa Aboah at Tess Management. Casting: Noah Shelley at Streeters. Set design: Alice Kirkpatrick at Streeters. Styling assistant: Rebecca Perlmutar. Production: Mini Title…

Hair: Odile Gilbert at Atelier68. Make-up: Hiromi Ueda at Art and Commerce. Models: Cheikh Dia at Models 1, Djily Kamara at Bananas Models, Ottawa Kwami at Premium Models, Rayan Lazac and Ismael Savane at 16Men, and Kestelmann Toussaint at Success. Casting: Mischa Notcutt at 11c Casting. Set design: Jean-Hugues de Chatillon. Manicure: Alexandra Janowski at Artlist. Digital tech: Matteo Miani at Dtouch. Photographic assistants: Clara Belleville, Chiara Vittorini and Carolina Beccari. Styling assistants: Felix Paradza and Mark Mutyambizi. Hair assistants: Taan Pham and Hugo Raiah. Make-up assistants: Miki Mastunaga and Camille Basson. Production: Studio Demi. Post-production: Dtouch…

Hair: Cyndia Harvey at Art Partner. Make-up: Nami Yoshida at Bryant Artists using MAC. Model: Lila Moss at Kate Moss Agency. Set design: Polly Philp at The Magnet Agency. Manicure: Jenny Longworth at Streeters using SALLY HANSEN. Photographic assistants: Rory Cole, Sandra Seaton and Ed Phillips. Styling assistants: Met Kilinc and Isabella Pastor Damazio. Hair assistant: Emily Bromley. Make-up assistant: Yoko Minami. Set-design assistants: Lizzy Gilbert and Camilla Byles. Production: 360PM. Production director: Abi Bickley at 360PM. Production assistant: Scarlett Anderson…

Hair: Christian Eberhard at Management Artists using ORIBE. Make-up: Hannah Murray at Art and Commerce. Model: Kiki Willems at Viva London. Casting: Noah Shelley at Streeters. Manicure: Laura Forget at Artlist. Digital tech: Nicolas Fallet. Photographic assistants: Paul Jedwab, Loc Boyle and Margaux Jouanneau. Styling assistants: George Pistachio and Christelle Owona Nisin. Tailor: Sebastien Pleus. Production: Julie Sanchez at Works Production. Production assistants: Julie Rondeau, Bertrand d’Amiens and David Smit. Post-production: D-Factory “Making this collection was pretty much the one thing that I wasn’t worried about when we first went into lockdown. Then, once we finally came back into the studio, these characters appeared. The clothes themselves were almost like characters – individual. Maybe because people had more time to work on one piece, they almost became more special. You…

Hair: Soichi Inagaki at Art Partner. Make-up: Siobhan Furlong at LGA Management. Model: Giselle Norman at Storm. Casting: Noah Shelley at Streeters. Set design: Janina Pedan at The Magnet Agency. Digital tech: Victor Gutierrez at Peach London. Photographic assistant: Andrew Moores. Styling assistant: George Pistachio…

“The idea of not being inspired by anything is really quite inspiring. Sometimes, even with collections, we have to make up the inspiration. Which we hate doing, because it then feels so contrived and people label it with that, and then you’re like, ‘Oh God, that’s our fault because we gave them that.’ There is a pressure to always have this inspiration and sometimes you just don’t, and that’s OK. “We’re actually being very resourceful again. There’s that whole idea of restriction being great because it brings out creativity. We’ve got time on our side, but not the resources – factories are closed, pattern cutters aren’t working. We’re kind of making ends meet and it’s exciting. “We’re inspired by the idea of the void, of the unknown. Who knows what…

“Now, more than ever, you can’t help but get up in the morning and connect to what’s happening around you, the changes in the world that are happening every day. At the moment, the future is hard to predict - planning is impossible. So the present has become all the more important. People seem to be gaining a better appreciation of things - time, nature, books, music, art, flowers, cooking a good meal. Friends, family, loved ones - simple pleasures. Most importantly, real freedom, equality and justice. We are finding ourselves much more in the moment, mentally. We definitely don’t want to waste time any more, but want to live life fully, to do what we can to improve the world. It’s a ‘new now’ that requires new ideas, a…

“You know, I had never intended to become a fashion designer. It all came from escaping to London as a teenager. I was formed there – my whole base came from that culture. I first went in the late 1960s. There was a lot of freedom, it opened my imagination. Music, fashion, art – culture. They were all thrown together, and it all came to life on the street. London was very different from Paris – when I was in London, I would dress up and no one would look twice – Paris was very conservative in comparison. When I started my first collection, in 1986 or 87, the journalists were saying that I was the most English of the French designers. Because when I started fashion, that cultural patchwork…

If beauty were a rulebook, it’s been consistently - insistently - torn up by Rei Kawakubo, founder of Comme des Garçons. It is not just her clothing designs that have challenged and pushed the boundaries of the rules of attraction - her ideas of beauty through cosmetics have been equally radical. She has collaborated with hair and make-up artists including Pat McGrath and Stephane Marais, Christiaan and Julien d’Ys. Frequently, Kawakubo only provides a single inspirational word to work from, one that’s intangible and often extreme. And since the label’s first catwalk show, held in Paris in 1981, the beauty of the faces has matched the beauty of the clothes in a similarly groundbreaking shirking of convention. Models have been delicately powdered and heavily smeared, smudged abstractly, their lipstick-ed mouths…

Models: Kim Hoffenberg and Pembrooke King. Set design: Maarten Spruyt. Manicure: Frédérique Olthuis at House of Orange. Photographic assistants: Liv Liberg and Django Tetteroo. Production: Mini Title…

Hair: Dushan Petrovich. Make-up: Manu Kopp at Artlist using GLOSSIER. Models: Emma Bertelsmeier at Modelwerk, Eny Jaki at Mirrrs Models, Jenni Lee Kestner at Iconic Management, Carmen Abele, Mariam Dufay and Ricarda Schromm. Casting: Lisa Müller at Julia Lange Casting. Photographic assistant: Pavel Woznicki. Styling assistants: Nicola Neri, Livia Rasku and Medea Piccinelli. Colourist: Kosuke Ikeuchi. Make-up assistant: Rabea Richwien. Producer: Soraya Gardisi. Production assistant: Helen Amiri…

Hair: Alfie Sackett at LGA Management using MR SMITH. Make-up: Isobel Kennedy using UPCIRCLE. Models: Bibi Hoard and Grace Sharp at Models 1, Yasmin Kakané at IMG, October at Anti-Agency, Alex, Djenaba and Nina. Casting: Mollie Dendle at Scouted by Mollie. Photographic assistant: Dougal MacArthur. Styling assistant: Rosie Borgerhoff Mulder. Hair assistant: Nick Jones. Make-up assistant: Sunao Takahashi…

Sir Paul Smith and Priya Ahluwalia represent the two poles of British fashion – established and emerging, behemoth and bright young thing. Yet opposites can attract: the pair have formed a supportive relationship based around their similar approach to their chosen profession. Their distinctive brands are built upon a simple, shared premise: clothes should be fun to wear. It is well known that Smith, born in Beeston, just a few miles from Nottingham, grew up with aspirations of becoming a cyclist but, following an accident and three months in hospital, decided to try his luck in the clothes – making trade instead. In 1970, he opened his first shop in that city; now, with 132 Paul Smith stores in more than 60 countries, and a knighthood for services to British…

The choreographer Sharon Eyal and Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior’s artistic director of womenswear, use their work to speak of power, in a corporeal sense. Chiuri has brought Eyal into the Dior fold three times – first, for her Spring/Summer 2019 collection, when Eyal’s dancers crisscrossed the catwalk in tattoo-printed body stockings. The pair collaborated again for Dior’s Cruise 2021 show, held in July last year. In the southern-Italian town of Lecce in Puglia, a local dance group performed Eyal’s version of the tarantella – a folk dance traditionally said to exorcise the effects of a bite from a poisonous spider. The hypnotic and robustly physical dance shared the stage with traditional dresses created using handmade Italian tombolo lace, some covered in hand-embroidered flowers and butterflies – favoured motifs of Chiuri.…

As her one million Instagram followers know, there are few subjects Adwoa Aboah won’t talk about. Her candour and willingness to be openly fragile have fuelled an outpouring of overdue conversations – about mental health, social justice, sexuality and more. Her platform, Gurls Talk, founded in 2016 following Aboah’s own struggles with depression and drug addiction, is a taboo-busting, judgment-free space for young people to grapple honestly with issues large and small, both online and – pre-pandemic – in the all-welcome forums she has held around the world. It’s a sign of Aboah’s increasing reach with her Gurls Talk mission that, these days, mention of her phenomenally successful modelling career sometimes runs a close second to her activism. A born and bred west-Londoner (albeit with an unhappy stretch spent at…

It was a T-shirt that predicted fashion’s future. That T-shirt was an off-the-cuff collaboration in 2012 between upstart New York label Hood by Air, founded in 2006 by Shayne Oliver and Raul Lopez, and Been Trill, the art and DJ collective that included Virgil Abloh (then best known for his label Pyrex Vision), Heron Preston, who launched his eponymous brand in 2017, and Matthew Williams, who founded 1017 Alyx 9SM in 2015 and, last year, became creative director of Givenchy. Black and emblazoned both with Been Trill’s dripping Rocky Horror-font branding and HBA’s logo, it had an effect that, spurred on by still-fledgling social media and it being seen on Kanye West, soon snowballed beyond the garment’s intended audience, placing its creators firmly in the spotlight. An expression of downtown…

“My job is about delivering my idea of beauty, but related to the time I live in. I need to be a witness to my time – to give a different identity to the codes of Valentino, a different meaning to a world that everybody knows. You can see the same things and you can have a different kind of emotion, different values. Diversity is a value, being different is a value. Being romantic is a strength”– Pierpaolo Piccioli, December 2020 It takes no great leap of thinking to identify that Pierpaolo Piccioli is a romantic at heart. He has peppered his Valentino shows with poetry – in the sense of the superlative metaphors often utilised to describe his clothing, and in the literal sense, embroidering words on the outside…

Hair: Anthony Turner at Streeters. Make-up: Anne Sophie Costa at Streeters using Forever Foundation and Capture Totale Super Potent Serum by DIOR. Models: Ivan Ogilvie-Grant at Supa Model Management and Eliot Sumner. Casting: Piotr Chamier at Streeters. Manicure: Lorraine Griffin. Photographic assistants: Simon Mackinlay and Matt Healy. Styling assistants: Vincent Pons and Edward Frith. Hair assistant: Claire Grech. Make-up assistant: Chiharu Wakabayashi. Casting assistants: Benedikt Hetz and Nico Cormandaye. Production: Ragi Dholakia. Production manager: Claire Huish. Production assistant: May Powell…