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…

Benny Safdie, writer, director and actor, on physics

Tala Madani, artist, on navigating the now

Karis Jagger and Fabienne Toback, producers, on Losing My Edge

Charles Melton, actor, on han

Elaine Kahn, poet, on the short story collection Gaza Writes Back

Harry Dodge, artist, on Édouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation

Lulu Wang, filmmaker, on the photographer Ren Hang

Charles Fine, artist, on Mexico

Graylen Eastwood, drummer and actor, on the language of music

Eli Russell Linnetz, designer, on his shearling coats

ii AnOther Loves

ISA BOULDER

ALL-IN

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER HAUTE COUTURE BY SIMONE ROCHA

iii Foreword

LE LABO • I speak of love awake / I speak of love in my dreams / To the water, the shadows, the mountains / To the flowers, the grass, the fountains 1

JIMMY CHOO • Where did the charitable gentleman who had a first-class ticket for this seaside resort find you? In a handbag. A handbag?! 1

HERNO • I Can See the Whole Room! 1

GIVENCHY • I know you won't believe it's true / I only went with her ‘cause she looks like you / My God! 1

CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN • It'll be just like in the movies. We'll pretend to be someone else1

BOTTEGA VENETA • … there was a good deal going on underneath the quietness.1

iv AnOther Way to Wear

SHE ISN'T A PHONY BECAUSE SHE'S A REAL PHONY

V Prologue

I give myself to pleasure / Since pleasure is the best medicine for my ills

I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody¹

I hope we will, too. What? Meet again sometime. We have¹

Oh, grandmother, what a horribly big mouth you have! All the better to eat you with!¹

vi Reveal

Julianne Moore

Paul Mescal

Kim Gordon

Steven Yeun

Sophie Wilde

Miuccia Prada & Raf Simons

vii Coda

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn1

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do1

I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was¹

Stockists

ix Art Project by Philippe Parreno

viii Document Guest-edited by Kim Gordon

Where I Was From • “Didion's essays about California are like no one else's. I relate to having a family that goes back to the gold-rushers. LA is a city built from real estate, and the section about how this giant suburb developed and fell apart is fascinating.”

Catherine Breillat • “The critical element of Catherine Breillat's films was really inspiring to me. In fact that's where Bill Nace and I got the idea for naming our band Body/Head — we're both huge fans of her movies. This excerpt is about an early film, 36...