Encens Magazine

Issue 41

Features an interview with ALDO FALLAI on photographing slices of life of working women carrying the HERALD TRIBUNE for GIORGIO ARMANI, DIDIER MALIGE on creating an international storm back in the eighties with disheveled cuts and shaved back napes, CHRISTIAN ASTUGUEVIEILLE on aligning unknown notes and flattening the perfume bottle for COMME DES GARCONS, an essay on self-effaced legend AGNES MARTIN, EDITH HEAD on pionering clothes that suit a character for silver screen legends, and artist MICHEL JOURNIAC on questioning women’s stereotypes.

Issue 40

Features a portfolio interview with ALBERT WATSON on shooting CHRISTY TURLINGTON at the lowest lighting degree, creating one hundred covers for VOGUE and being dressed like a hobo by YOHJI YAMAMOTO, PETER SCHLESINGER on pressing the shutter on an unknown named ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, JEAN-CHARLES DE CASTELBAJAC on being confronted with his other self in a portrait by DUANE MICHALS, artist JEAN-CHARLES BLAIS on posing for YOHJI YAMAMOTO first menswear for a handful of clothes, and an essay on BARON DE MEYER photographic prelude.

Issue 39

Features an interview with artist ALAN CHARLTON on locking himself into grey colour, an essay on ELSIE DE WOLFE on becoming the New York Café Society guru of the still unknown profession of interior designer, UMA WANG meanigful use of fabrics, ROLAND BARTHES on turning reality into signs, PIERRE JEANNERET on his posterity reward after a life in the shadow of his cousin LE CORBUSIER, and GIORGIO ARMANI on building a new knowledge on the jacket.

Issue 38

Features an interview with JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER on filtering reality through obsessions, provoking heated debates by subverting male role and how Aids changed it all, CLAUDIA HUIDOBRO on modelling by accident and ending playing her own debut on stage, an essay on BILL GIBB fairytale clothing in the MARGARET THATCHER era, MARYSE GASPARD on hiding her YVES SAINT LAURENT purchases from her boss PIERRE CARDIN, JOAN JULIET BUCK on putting together french VOGUE from a monk’s cell office without chair, and BLESS designers DESIREE HEISS and INES KAAG on not having Facebook or Instagram accounts.

Issue 37

Features an essay on TRUMAN CAPOTE and the dedication to dreams, ARATA ISOZAKI on building spaceships for the eighties, TONY VIRAMONTES on the last spasm of illustration, acting like a diva and not liking pretty girls, MICHELE ROSIER plastic queen of 1965, LIZ TILBERIS arduous but glorious ride into the sky of HARPER’S BAZAAR, WALTER ALBINI on pionering the concept of ‘total look’, and AD REINHARDT on lifting black into the limits of painting.

Issue 36

Features an interview with SERGE LUTENS on loathing big hair, depression, and revolutionizing perfumery by abolishing the top note, ISABELLE WEINGARTEN on doing her only nude with GUY BOURDIN, removing her eyebrows for SERGE LUTENS and her slow motion play for ROBERT BRESSON, an essay on SUSAN SONTAG subverting rules, a conversation with journalist ANGELO FLACCAVENTO on the risks of language and the fascination for unauthorized objects, and WILLIE CHRISTIE on the pivotal moment of having his picture on the cover of VOGUE.

Issue 35

Features an essay on KARL LAGERFELD photographed with a fan by HORST back in 1983, CLAUDE MONTANA shoulder padded peaks narrated by fitting model AXELLE DOUE, GHISLAIN MOLLET-VIEVILLE on emptying his appartment and calling it art, ISSEY MIYAKE on dance, musical comedies and the comfort of his samurai armour, MAIME ARNODIN on transforming prêt-a-porter into an aesthetic experience and editing the dissident ideas of YVES SAINT LAURENT for the perfume OPIUM.

Issue 34

Features an essay on KATHERINE HEPBURN on performing the role of a corpse, becoming a casual chic target for Seventh Avenue retailers, lesbianism and feminism, YVES SAINT LAURENT scandalous pastiche of war time look back in 1971, an interview with FARIDA KHELFA on stealing the suit of her boy-friend JEAN-PAUL GOUDE, WILLY VAN ROOY on posing for HELMUT NEWTON, and SERGE LUTENS on cutting bob hair on VOGUE editors in his bathroom, making his first image for SHISEIDO and finding beautiful the skin wrinkled like a parchment of the BEGUM AGA KHAN.

Issue 33

Features an interview with FRANCOISE HA VAN on spreading the rage of being dressed like a picture of the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC through the pages of ELLE, an essay on AZZEDINE ALAIA glove fitting approach, HAIDER ACKERMANN purist shift, UMIT BENAN on his tribute to AMERICAN PSYCHO, GIORGIO ARMANI on becoming a household copyright as known as FORD or COCA COLA, KARL LAGERFELD on his manifesto collection for CHLOE back in 1975, GRACE MIRABELLA on turning her VOGUE office in beige and her ode to normcore, and CECIL BEATON on how to tie up with perfect noblesse a basket of bread.

Issue 32

Features an essay on JEAN MUIR and her 1974 viral take on jersey among women tired of feminist armor, an interview with CHRISTIAN LACROIX from his hippie period hanging out at CAFE FLORE to his overnight blast back in 1987, MICHELE LAMY on breaking down walls for the headquarter of RICK OWENS and covering all the buyers with dust, SERGE LUTENS on how he transfigured the look of his models and his battle with DIOR, and SUSAN MONCUR on how she learnt smoking like MARLENE DIETRICH on the set of LES STARS by SERGE LUTENS.

Issue 31

Features an interview with BILLY BOY on reintroducing ELSA SCHIAPARELLI on the map in 1984, collecting haute couture dresses of his aunts at 22 years old and covering himself with post-surrealist Navajo crosses and Eiffel Towers hats of his own, OLIVIER CHATENET on his nineties pared-down label MARIOT CHANET, HAIDER ACKERMANN on citing MARLENE DIETRICH and LUCHINO VISCONTI in his show, and PIERRE CARDIN on appearing on the cover of PARIS MATCH in NEIL ARMSTRONG space suit.

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Issue 29

Uniform issue, feature an insert on GIORGIO ARMANI from the perspective of his 1984 turning-point season, a talk with ANNE-MARIE BERETTA from inventing the identity of MAX MARA to her architectural DNA, an interview with MICHEL SCHREIBER on dressing former french president FRANCOIS MITTERRAND in Mao collar, and KOOS VAN DEN AKKER on pointing the cursor on the need for patchwork back in 1981 and building a five years fashion empire with only two hundred dollars.

Issue 28

All white issue, feature an essay on illustrator ANTONIO LOPEZ from sketching PAT CLEVELAND dancing on the tables of the SEPT nightclub to recycling DURER atmospheres for BLOOMINGDALES ads, former editor in chief CLAUDE BROUET and her discovery of PETER LINDBERGH at MARIE CLAIRE, her less is more ukases and her obsession of a woman walking in floaty duster on the streets of New York, and an interview with EMMANUELLE KHANH on the ups and down of her thirty years career in fashion.

Issue 27

2nd annual issue dissect the disruptive turmoil of Japanese fashion back in 1983 in a twelve pages insert, and feature an essay on photographer DEBORAH TURBEVILLE love for indigo and dirndl skirts, the pioneer of minimalism, wardrobe restraint and sarong ZORAN, an interview with GERARD PIPART, from dressing LAUREN BACALL at BALMAIN to making ready-to-wear fashionable at CHLOE, and a talk with model YVONNE SPORRE on the process of becoming a fixture in SERGE LUTENS images an the new behavior adopted on COMME DES GARCONS catwalk.

Issue 26

Annual issue of 380 pages and monochromatic cover, featuring an interview with KENZO TAKADA on the scandal of labelling his brand JUNGLE JAP back in 1973, PETER KNAPP on the freedom of art directing the magzine ELLE in the early sixties, a tribute to the garboesque styling of PEGGY ROCHE circa 1974, and a conversation with GUY CUEVAS on being part of the dramatic shift around 1977 from the confined salons to the catwalk, from silent atmospheres to music.

Issue 25

Began with a manifesto for destructured, floating, anti figure-hugging clothes as seen at DIOR by KRIS VAN ASSCHE, DAMIR DOMA, CHRISTOPHE LEMAIRE and CHLOE by HANNAH McGIBBON, followed by a tribute to PERRY ELLIS seen through the lens of his exclusive photographer ERICA LENNARD, and an interview with CLAUDE MONTANA on stepping out of the comfort zone of his time, WALLIS FRANKEN, the strength given by fashion editors and the necessity of being misunderstood.

Issue 24

Features an extensive dossier on East meets West appropriation by DRIES VAN NOTEN, a flash-back on CINZIA RUGGERI milanese play with boundaries back in 1983, reflections on human form, GIORGIO ARMANI, loneliness and difference with RICK OWENS, and an interview with PER SPOOK on how he shaked a dormant haute couture back in 1978 and dressed JANE BIRKIN.

Issue 23

Features 25 pages on RAF SIMONS prophetic reshaping of menswear, an interview with DRIES VAN NOTEN on his shift from embroidered to quaker, an essay on GEOFFREY BEENE strip-bare version of the American look, VIOLETA SANCHEZ on performing YVES SAINT LAURENT and FRANCO MOSCHINO visionary head-to-toe, and AGNES B. on building her universe from an antifashion spectrum.

Issue 22

Features a story on MIUCCIA PRADA biographical associations of feminism, communist party, ROBERT MUSIL and SAINT LAURENT RIVE GAUCHE inside the making of her label MIU MIU, essays on RUDI GERNREICH and MARC JACOBS, an interview with ANGELO TARLAZZI on the accidental success of his handkerchief dresses at JEAN PATOU back in 1977, and ISABELLE WEINGARTEN on being the blank slate of genius makeup artist SERGE LUTENS.

Issue 21

Starts with 25 pages on JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER and his way of epitomizing way ahead of his peers gender fluidity through his 1984 collection UNE GARDE-ROBE POUR 2, portraits of HANNELORE KNUTS, JOHANNES SCHWEIGER, image-maker MELKA TREANTON and an essay on CHRISTOPHE LEBOURG return to cleanness and basics back in 1984.

Issue 20

Features an extensive story on MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA jacket since the first season of the invisible logo house in 1988, a conversation on menswear clothing with writer FARID CHENOUNE, a visit at VERONIQUE BRANQUINHO studio in Antwerp, words from PATRIZIA ROVERSI on building the new profession of stylist back in the seventies with her husband PAOLO, and an interview with designer POPY MORENI on the concept of ‘creator’ back in 1980, nostalgia for the twenties and disruptive style.

Issue 19

Introduces a new format with a cover printed on grey cardboard with golden font title, with interviews on new perspectives with breaking rules designers - FABRICS INTERSEASON, NICOLAS ANDREAS TARALIS, HAIDER ACKERMANN, portraits of memorable personages such as TINA CHOW remembered by ERIC BOMAN, NICOLE CRASSAT on capturing the avant-garde of STEPHEN SPROUSE in the pages of ELLE with the beginner STEVEN MEISEL, and ANNE-MARIE BERETTA on feminism linked with her unique sense of architectural clothing.

Issue 18

Features a close-up on ANN DEMEULEMEESTER, an interview with FRANCOISE HA VAN, the stylist behind the iconic wrappings of KENZO 1983 shot by HANS FEURER, essays on JUDY BLAME, FREDERICK WISEMAN and ADELINE ANDRE, and an interview with CHRISTOPHE LEMAIRE on the relaunch of his eponymous brand.

Issue 17

Features an insert by MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA echoing the making of spring/summer 2006 collection, a digging into the archives of the house since 2000, interviews with RICK OWENS, JEAN DINH VAN, CLAUDIA HUIDOBRO, RAF SIMONS and SARAH MOON.

Issue 16

Features a DOMINIQUE ISSERMANN portfolio on RICK OWENS shot on model muse ANNE ROHART, interviews with artist CLAUDE LEVEQUE and theoretician ERIC TRONCY on his new curatorial approach, a close-up on MARTIN MARGIELA oversize turning-point collection of spring/summer 2000, and a tribute to seventies designer CHRISTIANE BAILLY remembered by her close friend ANDREE PUTMAN.

Issue 15

ENCENS N°15, spring/summer 2005, black and white issue featuring interviews with AZZEDINE ALAIA, SONIA RYKIEL, including a portfolio on her fabulous advertising imagery shot circa 1984 by DOMINIQUE ISSERMANN, and a conversation on dematerializing the monochrom with artist CLAUDE RUTAULT.

Issue 14

Feature a focus on rewriting BALENCIAGA by NICOLAS GUESQUIERE, an insert on newcomer LUTZ HUELLE seen by photographer JONATHAN HALLAM, and an interview on the meaning of avant-garde in fashion with CATHERINE LARDEUR.

Issue 13

Summer issue, 2004, feature an interview portfolio of the visionary fashion reporter FRANK HORVAT, CLAUDE BROUET obsessions with white shirt and minimalistic realism during her tenure as chief editor of MARIE CLAIRE from 1971 to 1988 and a profile on social art by GORDON MATTA-CLARK.

Issue 12

White issue featuring an essay on the anticipator of the minimal approach to fashion back in 1984 CHRISTOPHE LEBOURG, a flash-back on MAKO YAMAZAKI styling for COMME DES GARCONS first parisian breakthrough, eighties ARTISTES magazine and MONICA BONVICINI twisted lifestyle.

Issue 11

Theatrical issue featuring an investigation on the 1980’s filofax of conceptual art collector GHISLAIN MOLLET-VIEVILLE, the red curtain of artist PAUL SEAWRIGHT and a tribute to filmmaker ANDREI TARKOVSKI.

Issue 10

Features a story on visionary archives of MARTIN MARGIELA from 1992, memories from fashion industry mavericks on how magazines helped building their personage - VALERIE LEBERICHEL, MAKO YAMAZAKI, ROY GENTY… and a portfolio by artist ALLAN SEKULA.

Issue 9

Normcore issue photographed by CONSTANT ANEE, featuring a portfolio interview with artist JEAN-LUC MOULENE on facts and fiction, poems by BOTHO STRAUSS.

Issue 8

Turns around the subject of what is it to be a designer, a stylist, a decorator, a furniture designer - with studies on no nonsense heroes of a parallel way : VERONIQUE BRANQUINHO, LUTZ, MARTIN MARGIELA for HERMES.

Issue 7

Titled MINIMALISME and entirely shot by documentary photographer CONSTANT ANEE, feature an investigation on grey flannel, status and nothingness, and the fifty words novels of SAMUEL BECKETT.

Issue 6

Features a piece on ‘Paradise Lost’ by MARTHA ROSLER, an interview on the strength of recycling with artist THOMAS HIRSCHHORN, YVES SAINT LAURENT 1977 archives from ANOUSCHKA.

Issue 5

Settles the mood for anonymity and laid-back uniforms through interviews with CLAUDE BROUET on timelessness, JEAN TOUITOU on invisibility, and STEPHANE WARGNIER on the return to classicism by MARTIN MARGIELA for HERMES.

Issue 4

Features a portfolio on WILLIAM EGGLESTON (including the cover), poems by PETER DE POTTER for RAF SIMONS, RYUJI MIYAMOTO photographic inventory of Tokyo homeless shelters, and a rewind back to 1983 Japanese revolution as seen by psychoanalist JEAN-MICHEL RIBETTES, writer FRANCIS DORLEANS, and ex-Vogue editor in chief turned YOHJI YAMAMOTO pasionaria IRENE SILVAGNI.

Issue 3

Features a DAVID BURROW interview on redefining painting, CLAUDIA HUIDOBRO on bridging THIERRY MUGLER and COMME DES GARCONS through modeling in 1984, and PATRICK VAN OMMESLAEGUE on making his entire collection with a single roll of crêpe georgette.

Issue 2

Feature a photographic essay on actress KATE MORAN, the scrapbooks of artist MARC COUTURIER, studies on real clothes : white shirt, t-shirt, trench-coat.

Issue 1

Features a PIERRE HUYGUE interview, an essay on DEBORAH TURBEVILLE bathhouse photographs, PATRICK VAN OMMESLAEGHE homage to ZORAN and PANTONE and the unconditional love of the gallerist MARION DE BEAUPRE for AZZEDINE ALAIA.

Issue 42

ENCENS N42, fall/winter 2019, feature a portfolio of visual masterpieces by BARRY LATEGAN with in-depth memories of close collaborators on his studio runned like a convent, JOSIE BORAIN on being the muse of CALVIN KLEIN and his 1984 controversial fragrance Obsession, photographer GIAN PAOLO BARBIERI on playing alongside MARIA CALLAS for LUCHINO VISCONTI, shooting AUDREY HEPBURN freshly settled in Milan and becoming the impossible most wanted item of DIANA VREELAND, an essay on COMME DES GARCONS stark revolution of emptied boutiques back in 1984, CHRISTOPHE LEMAIRE and SARAH-LINH TRAN on building a parallel world, UMA WANG on creating stiking garments from scratch, and HED MAYNER on provoking thoughts by shaping unfitted clothes.

Issue 43

ENCENS N43, spring/summer 2020, behind a landscape cover highlighting the come-back of seventies master WILLIE CHRISTIE to photography, it features a portfolio on DOMINIQUE ISSERMANN and the Hiroshima fog surrounding her models when inventing the SONIA RYKIEL advertising imagery for more than 10 years, a flash-back on actress AURORE CLEMENT from being on the cover of VOGUE to her cleansed presence in front of WIM WENDERS camera, artist MARGOT PILZ on turning her own jacket into a paradigm of feminism, BARBARA HULANICKI on pioneering the concept of boutique and inventing ART DECO clothes at BIBA, ROGER VIVIER on being banned from museum thanks to his never-seen-before heels, and EMANUEL UNGARO on embracing the French riots of May 1968 with his unapologetic women dressed in a mess of patterns.

Issue 44

ENCENS N44, fall/winter 2020 under the eery times of Covid 19 interwine personal fictions and mindscaping aesthetics through a portfolio of photographer JOHN SWANNELL (with a cover of JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE in 1977) recording the human presence lost in infinite landscapes, ZANDRA RHODES on her search to feel protected within a dreamy bubble, JOHN CAGE on the sound of silence, SUZI DE GIVENCHY on reinventing her own identity while turning 53 years old, CHARLOTTE FLOSSAUT on the strength of past memories, and GIORGIO ARMANI on building lifetime clothes echoing his incessant refusal to fashion.

Issue 45

ENCENS N45, spring/summer 2021 intersect timelessness with the question of the here and now in a time of crumbling perspectives, opening with an around the world portfolio on SACHA featuring deserted beaches and infinite landscapes where the model play the role of the last human on earth, HED MAYNER holding in his clothes biographical gestures, WILLIE CHRISTIE and his thrilling time capsule archive saved last minute from trash hold, a tribute on the ultimate visionary PIERRE CARDIN, GHISLAIN MOLLET-VIEVILLE and his endless quest of emptiness, and GIORGIO ARMANI narrated from the memorial lens of CHRISTOPHER ANDREWS through a jacket embodying layers of his own persona.

Issue 46

ENCENS N46, fall/winter 2021, revolve around reborn attitudes of dressing after a traumatic period of stucked home confinement. Reemerging into life in a dialog with designers forward aesthetic. As with ANNE-MARIE BERETTA through the words of ANGELO FLACCAVENTO, one of the most singular catalyst of garments celebrating new ways of being. The rediscovery of CLAUDIA SKODA and her involvement in DAVID BOWIE changing style during Cold War Berlin. LUTZ HUELLE and his seventh sense ability of turning biblical basics into unexpected shields. The CO duo STEPHANIE DANAN and JUSTIN KERN in a talk with DAL CHODHA on how existentialism hid behind the minimal perception of a white shirt. CHRISTOPHER ANDREWS captivated by GIORGIO ARMANI round framed glasses, from shaping our ID to becoming the perfect lens to watch the world. And been seen by it.

Issue 47

ENCENS N47, Spring/Summer 2022. A conversational issue. Trying to broaden perspectives in a gathering of mindful mindscapers. Starting around 1962 with an inside the story of JOHN BATES in an in-depth interview by DAL CHODHA. A fashion anthropology of the year 1984 of GIORGIO ARMANI dissected by ANGELO FLACCAVENTO. PETER SPELIOPOULOS and the shamanic conversion in molding sculptures rooted in soul. The allergic aversion of FRAN LEBOWITZ on embodying womanhood. SUZI DE GIVENCHY in a talk with MARK KENLY DOMINO TAN on how the dialogue beneath the dress is as essential as the dress itself. CLAUDE MONTANA and the praise of women dressed for an alternate universe. And HED MAYNER portrayal of a personal journey in clothes layering time and memories.

Issue 48

ENCENS N48, fall/winter 2022. A refresh issue. Four covers. Faces, womens, one of a kind characters. Opening pages dedicated to ISSEY MIYAKE. Celebrating through his uncharted point of view the diametrically opposed. With the urban black and white landscapes of MAX VADUKUL, the up to the skies bodies strikingly dressed in YOHJI YAMAMOTO. ‘If it ain’t moving, it’s dead’, quote ANGELO FLACCAVENTO. The arresting stop the nonsense looks of CHRISTOPHE LEBOURG, meteoric designer of the unadorned in 1984. A digging in the most awaited movie of 1994 : Prêt-à-Porter by ROBERT ALTMAN. An in-depth in the labyrinthic career of BARRY LATEGAN, visual magnetizer, from the memories of his son DYLAN LATEGAN, and the words of DAL CHODHA. And how sporting the 1987 vinyle Substance, by the NEW ORDER, had turned the penniless Christopher Andrews into the most enviable dandy.

Issue 49

ENCENS N49, spring/summer 2023. An issue that shed a light on our passion for magazines. CHRISTOPHER ANDREWS has grown up surrounded with them. He remembers the way each title was curated, the flicking through the photographs, the touching of the paper. FRANCOISE HA VAN had her breakthrough in 1983 with French ELLE, where before anyone else she put into orbit the new shapeless appearence of the newcomers COMME DES GARCONS and YOHJI YAMAMOTO. PHILIP CLARKE goes down to memory lane with two of the most thought provoking stylists of our time - CAROLINE BAKER and DEBBI MASON. PATRIZIA ROVERSI recalls her styling for the most hypnotizing and purists Polaroids of the early career of PAOLO ROVERSI. MIGUEL ADROVER in conversation with DAL CHODHA. ANGELO FLACCAVENTO in an attempt to collect 786 words on the silent guru of minimalism ZORAN. And NICCOLO PASQUALETTI share his quest of never seen before garments with MERYL FONTEK.

Issue 50

Celebrating ENCENS n°50. With a bigger in scale issue. Wrapped in a box together with a shirt stamped by an exclusive print designed for the occasion by NICCOLO PASQUALETTI. Inside the pages, a delve in outtakes and unedited photographic gems captured over 20 years by SYBILLE WALTER. Our long time contributors went into an anthropological evocation of their waking up moment to fashion. ANGELO FLACCAVENTO bring us back in his Italian childhood where the scarcity of informations made his imagination flows. CHRISTOPHER ANDREWS is tapping into his 1996 first trip to New York. A decisive an changing one. SERGE LUTENS transport us to Marrakkech to tell the stories behind his prolific solo for the sake of beauty. Scrolling the magazine, visual portfolios of our favourites designers abound. GIORGIO ARMANI, HED MAYNER, UMA WANG… the list goes on in this issue taking the shape of a new beginning.

The very limited edition available with 2 covers includes: a bag and a t-shirt designed by Niccolo Pasqualetti.

Issue 50 Special Box

Special Box : BAG + SHIRT with a drawing by Niccolo Pasqualetti.

Celebrating ENCENS n°50. With a bigger in scale issue. Wrapped in a box together with a shirt stamped by an exclusive print designed for the occasion by NICCOLO PASQUALETTI. Inside the pages, a delve in outtakes and unedited photographic gems captured over 20 years by SYBILLE WALTER. Our long time contributors went into an anthropological evocation of their waking up moment to fashion. ANGELO FLACCAVENTO bring us back in his Italian childhood where the scarcity of informations made his imagination flows. CHRISTOPHER ANDREWS is tapping into his 1996 first trip to New York. A decisive an changing one. SERGE LUTENS transport us to Marrakkech to tell the stories behind his prolific solo for the sake of beauty. Scrolling the magazine, visual portfolios of our favourites designers abound. GIORGIO ARMANI, HED MAYNER, UMA WANG… the list goes on in this issue taking the shape of a new beginning.

Issue 51

Scenes from the best possible life. The title open the pages of ENCENS with an essay by ANGELO FLACCAVENTO on GIORGIO ARMANI’s visual bond for ALDO FALLAI photographs spanning over more than two decades. A title that summarize this new issue, intersected with memories fraying their breeze in each and every story. From NADJA AUERMANN walking the look 23 in a tour de force collection designed by KOJI TATSUNO back in 1993, and seen as a wonderful pretext to delve into what a fashion critic should possibly be. Page 26, CHRISTIAN LACROIX recollect his fascinating trajectory, from the unknow esthetic nerd born in Arles to the upper scale sunlights in a captivating interview. CHRISTOPHER ANDREWS reflect on ELSA KLENSCH, the pioneer of television journalism on CNN, and remember her singular way of bringing onto the screen glimpses of the unattainable world of fashion. Artist perfumer BARNABE FILLION encounter RHYS EVANS for a talk on melancholy, permanence, and his relentless journey around the globe for the sake of beauty. LAUREN MANOOGIAN is the alien of NEW YORK fashion week. Her clothes encapsulate a high dose of never seen before craft with an equal sense of ease and minimalism. Interview page 56. The magazine ends in a nostalgic note. With a portfolio of CONSTANT ANEE. Photographic documents that resonate with a long gone idea of Paris in the early 2000’s. And encompasses the first steps of ENCENS, also shown in this n°51 issue.

Issue 52

For Fall/Winter 2024, ENCENS number 52 celebrate a crop of pushing boundaries designers. From the spellbound eighties of Claude Montana, who passed away this year, and to whom we consecrate a 40 pages monograph combining striking images and in-depth studies, to a disruptive new guard challenging our perceptions and inviting us to explore new dimensions of self-expression. Each page of this issue aim to propose a radical departure from the ordinary. By questioning our Here and Now. And reimagining what clothing could be.