AnOther Magazine

AnOther Magazine's launch in 2001 heralded a new chapter in magazine publishing. Its blend of high fashion and world-class photography with features on the arts, politics and literature continues to make each beautifully crafted edition a collectors’ item. Published twice a year, AnOther Magazine quickly established a reputation for highly original content brought together in its pages by an emerging set of photographers, stylists and writers bound by a search for creativity and authenticity. Counting Rihanna, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Jodie Foster, Natalie Portman, Michelle Williams and Tilda Swinton amongst its impressive run of leading Hollywood cover stars, it is now the most recognised biannual fashion magazine in the world.

AnOther Magazine

Editor's Letter

Contributors

i AnOther Thing I Wanted to Tell You…

Michael Landy and Gillian Wearing, artists, on Thomas Jones's A Wall in Naples

Hew Locke, artist, on Guyanese Christmas masquerades

Gala Zohar Martinucci, actor, on Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire

Joshua Woolford, artist, on Bartolomé de las Casas's A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Takashi Murakami, artist, on Iwasa Matabei's Rakuchū-Rakugai-zu Byōbu

Christian Lacroix, costume designer, on the history of fashion

Róisín Tapponi, curator and writer, on Palestinian cinema

Julien d'Ys, hairstylist, on painting

Miranda Keyes, sculptor, on Sebastian Stoskopff

Rick Owens, designer, on Joris-Karl Huysmans’ À Rebours

ii AnOther Loves

DIOTIMA

AARON ESH

DE PINO

iii Foreword

And this old world, is a new world / And a bold world for me1

White shining silver studs with their nose in flames / He saw horses …1

Remember when you were young / You shone like the sun / Shine on you crazy diamond1

The light that you could never see / It shines inside, you can't take that from me1

Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes / Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes1

iv AnOther Way to Wear

ALL THINGS IN YOU DELIGHT ME; YOUR STORMING ANGER AND YOUR PULSING LOVE1

v Prologue

Only pity what you can't understand1

There are two of you, don't you see?1

I refuse to listen to any renegade talk1

Hey, pretty girl, time to wake up1

vi Epic

CYN THIA ER IVO • Our first meeting was chance. Cynthia Erivo was in Thom Browne's showroom in Paris last March, picking out looks for a press tour for her forthcoming movie, Wicked.

COL MAN DOM INGO • I hear Colman Domingo before I see him — as I rise through the arteries of an old building in Brooklyn. His laughter, deep and low as thunder, spills into the hallway as the lift doors slide open.

vii Coda

The happiness of being envied is glamour1, 2

I must remember about chandeliers and dancing, about swans and roses and snow1, 2

I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe1

Me. And me now1

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers1 • For more than 25 years, the stylist Panos Yiapanis has been seeking out precious antique finds from all over the world, to add to an extensive archive of designer fashion. In 2020, his storage space and some of the collection were damaged irreparably by water. While the pieces in question are impossible to wear in the conventional sense of the word — contaminated with mould, streaked with strange colour — Yiapanis chose to document them one last time before parting with them. Shot with Rianne Van Rompaey and Joel Kemp, the images on these pages feature garments and fragments of garments, undergarments and underpinnings, dating from 1850 to...