System Magazine Issue 20 (The Saint Laurents) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. System gets it right – again. The twentieth time in a row. Juergen teller ysl power-couple cover story, martine rose, junya watanabe and haider ackermann in profile. All the hits and and more. Now 20. Now that’s what we call fashion!
Saint Laurent CEO Francesca Bellettini and creative director Anthony Vaccarello discuss their ‘never compromise the brand’ strategy. System plays it the same way. The Juergen Teller photographed cover with the white publisher’s band has been a mark of quality for twenty issues. The only worrying aspect to that observation is that we wrote about the first one! Some things will (happily) never change.
Looks gorgeous. This from the 30-page Juergen and Dovile Saint Laurent photo-essay / exercise in chic.
A portrait of Martine Rose and Tamara Rothstein by Oliver Hadlee Pearch. The story of their creative partnership told to Murray Healy in super inspirational style.
Our favourite section of the whole issue. A photo album of Martine Rose’s older sister Michelle – a document of her South London life in clubs and clothing. Could have been a book in itself – but System have gone and done it now.
Junya Watanabe. In his eighties. Actually he is sixty-two but you know what we mean. He talks a lot about the influence of all that has gone before. “I’ve turned 60 so I think I feel nostalgic about the past more often. At the same time, I’ve also been feeling that past experiences make the present.” Watanabe doesn’t give many interviews. This one runs over eight pages and should be savoured.
System Magazine explores with style and substance the dialogues at the heart of the global fashion industry. System Magazine is published biannually and offers exclusive long-format conversations with fashion’s most relevant, most powerful and most opinionated individuals, accompanied by portfolios created by the industry’s most in-demand image-makers. System Magazine is exploring and commenting on fashion’s constantly shifting landscape, System is a platform for deep thoughts and real opinions – shared within the industry and, in turn, influencing the broader world.
Content
‘We’re the custodians of the house.’
Interview by Jonathan Wingfield
Photographs by Juergen Teller; creative partner Dovile Drizyte
‘There are way more rules to push against in menswear.’
Interview by Murray Healy
Photographs by Oliver Hadlee Pearch
‘I am not a fashionable person.’
Text by Alexander Fury
Photographs by Johnny Dufort
Creative direction by Junya Watanabe
Junya Watanabe runway archives 1993-2022
Interviews by Rahim Attarzadeh
‘Why did you choose them?
They’re not even pretty!’
Interview by Blake Abbie
Portrait by Yi Tuo
‘My clothes are like pages in a journal.’
Interview by Rana Toofanian
Photographs by Philip-Daniel Ducasse
‘It always felt like an exciting school trip.’
Interview by Thomas Lenthal
Photographs and layout by Juergen Teller
‘You have to protect your future.’
Interview by Jerry Stafford
Portrait by Juergen Teller; creative partner Dovile Drizyte
‘It’s not a bag, it’s a Baguette!’
Interviews by Kim Hastreiter
Photographs by Collier Schorr
Futuro Optimisto
Photographs by Zhong Lin
Details: System Magazine – Issue 20
300+ pages, English
