![]() He’s also mastered new ways of working in the era of social distancing, styling via Zoom and calmly taking challenges in his stride. With ideas and vision aplenty, he has injected such a modern, fresh take on the season. September Wallpaper* is our Style Special and reflects the seemingly effortless talent of our fashion director Jason Hughes. He will be personally cutting a special series of 100 copies, videoing the process (see and selling these on, with all proceeds going to the Virgil AblohTM “Post Modern” Scholarship Fund to benefit Black students of academic promise. Reinforcing engagement with the physical object, Abloh explained he wants people’s fingerprints to be left on the matte white surface. It’s a bold gesture that celebrates the tactility and sheer actuality of print. He was likewise drawn to the idea of cutting as activation, creating a dotted-line-with-scissors graphic to encourage readers to cut the magazine in half. Virgil Abloh contributes our limited-edition cover to coincide with his collaboration with Mercedes-Benz. The monochrome palette accentuated Strand’s geometric forms, with the artist explaining ‘it helps boil the world down its essentials’. ![]() Much like the protagonist of Flatland, we’re being challenged by Strand to seek a new perspective, cutting and folding to create three-dimensional objects from the two-dimensional templates presented on the pages. She was drawn to the idea of readers engaging and interacting with the images and even creating their own artworks. And our two covers have fully embraced this.įor her newsstand cover and 22-page feature, conceptual artist Clare Strand was inspired by Edwin Abbott Abbott’s Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions to create a series of graphic interventions on George Harvey’s black-and-white fashion photography. We are living and working in a world that has digitally accelerated – and it is this heightened sense of the virtual, combined with a relative withdrawal from the external world, that has emphasised our engagement with our own physical products, spaces and environments.
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