1 – From our eight cover models to the first Pakistani ever Grammy winner Arooj Aftab, to choreographer and director to Charlie XCX and Doechii, C Prinz.
With former fashion designer Luella Bartley, plus Marvel Universe star Geraldine Viswanathan. Also throughout the issue are our A-Z of notable women supporting philanthropic causes– ranging from Anna Wintour, Michelle Obama, Salma Hayek Pinault to Tilda Swinton. Over 350 pages of insightful and inspiring story telling. This issue focuses on women’s voices, aiming to raise those voices at a time when many have ignored or silenced them.
2– With Iranian photographer Mahshad Jalalian’s work explores different cultures and languages to show who we are as humans through her lens. Growing up in Iran, near the Afghanistan border, Jalalian witnessed women fleeing the Taliban seeking freedom, employment and education.
3 – Working with Valentino Beauty Mission explored through four women, what makeup does for them in Soft & Strong. Visually stunning imagery accompanied by short videos with provocative answers.
4– “Brat is really about being your worst and, well, not necessarily being happy or sad about it. It’s just like, well, here it is… I was always really fucking bad in class. I was always the worst. It brought a lot of anger.” – C Prinz, director.
The director behind Charli XCX’s Brat tour and Doechii’s Grammy performance, C Prinz, talks creating with energy over intellect, censorship, and being your worst.
5– Amanda Ba, a 26-year-old artist, has known from a young age that the internet is powerful, but she doesn’t let it consume her. “I don’t tweak about social media and I’m not too pressed about creating a very particular image,” she says. “But at the same time I do recognize its power.”
“I was interested in queerness and its relation to monstrosity,” she says. “Also, having these large female Asian figures as a way of pushing back on the feminization of the Orient at large, the sort of demureness, daintiness, and subservience.” The figures were also all naked. “What does RuPaul say? ‘We’re all born naked, and the rest is drag,’” she says. “I leave them nude if I want them to be an archetypal figure that’s not necessarily tethered to any particular place or time.”
Get the interactive digital issue HERE and the glossy sexy hard copy HERE.
Image credits: Homepage – Photo by Blommers and Schumm, styling by MattIas Karlsson, hair by Jody Cuberli at House of Orange. Makeup by Kathinka Gernant at Frank.Model, Claudia at Holy Mgmt. Casting by Clare Rhodes at Casting by Us. Photography assistant Jamie Smith. Styling assistants, Aoife Giblin and Moritz Hädelt. 1- Left, Luella Bartley, Acceleration, 2024 Oil and pencil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm, right Arooj Aftab. Photo by Valentina von Klencke. 2- A soldier lost his conciousness in the march of the armed forces in the honor of the 3rd of Kordad ( the conquest of Khoramshahr in Iran-Iraq war) in Mashhad, Iran. Photo by Mahshad Jalalian.. 3- Photo by Chantel King. Make-up by Joey Choy. Left to right, Alex Guo and Anesu Mande, at Hired Hands Models. 4- Left; Charli XCX at this year’s Grammys and right C Prinz. Photo by Ryan Helfant. 5- Left: Amanda Ba, Spider, 2024 Oil on canvas, 72″ x 60″ and right; Amanda Ba, Resurrection Site, 2024, Oil on canvas, 72″ x 60″.
