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The magazine is conceived as a “paper monument” to the work of the ‘Dutch Wave’, a group of Dutch designers active around the turn of the millennium, who Berkulin admires because of their refreshing disregard for glamour: “ showed me that there are various ways of approaching fashion that a beautiful hat can be made from tape and cardboard, that you can do your own photoshoot in a metre box.” Fat, shiny, and addictively readable, fashion magazines are renowned as the most seductive (and sometimes problematic) stars of the. The magazine also has a knack for choosing fabulous cover stars - including Beyonce, Zadie Smith and Caster Semenya - and interviewing them in a way that is intimate, but never invasive.įounded by stylist Mary-Lou Berkulin at a point when she was falling out of love with fashion, Monument provides a counterpoint to the industry’s obsession with the new, in that it deals with ‘old clothes’.

Often imitated but never bettered, the magazine’s fashion stories are unique: a quirk of The Gentlewoman’s is to take something tiny - for example, the act of tucking in your shirt - and theme an entire shoot around it. In her memoir Runway Bird, model Irina Lazareanu reflects on celebrity before.

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It is partly in honour of The Gentlewoman’s new issue, which stars Little Simz, that we decided to update this feature, and reassess which really are the best independent fashion magazines in the world right now. For fall 2022, fashion draws inspiration from visual art.

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Here’s an update: these are our 10 favourite fashion magazines in the world right now… Above left: The work of Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), especially as a poster artist, came to symbolize the full flowering of the style and the era. Our 2016 roundup of the best independent fashion magazines is still one of our most popular posts ever. Fat, shiny, and addictively readable, fashion magazines are renowned as the most seductive (and sometimes problematic) stars of the newsstand.

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