September 2023

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Editor-in-Chief Sarah Douglas Head of Content William Alderwick Fashion Director Jason Hughes Executive Editor Bridget Downing Art Director Dominic Murray-Bell US Director Michael Reynolds Architecture Editor Ellie Stathaki Design & Italy Editor Rosa
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Contributors
Torra studied art history before turning to photography, focusing on urban spaces, architecture and interiors. This made him the ideal candidate to shoot Venice Venice (page 072), an art-filled hotel in one of the city’s oldest palazzi. ‘I kept think
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In Fashion
Designed to evoke the blooming first stages of romance, eclectic fusions of colour and texture defined Missoni’s womenswear collection, such as this wool overcoat, featuring waves of 3D knit. Prada’s co-creative directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons
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Little Gems
A preoccupation with the relationship between form and function meant a move into fashion accessories was perhaps inevitable for London-based jewellery and homeware brand Completedworks. For the past decade, its artistic director Anna Jewsbury has in
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The Space Between
September can only mean one thing – our biannual Style Special, where we present our highlights of the A/W23 fashion collections. Autumn Winter 2023 is all about reinvention, clarity and high design, says fashion director Jason Hughes, who highlights
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Suite Dreams
The Byzantine palace Ca’ da Mosto sits at a prime location on Venice’s Grand Canal, just as it bends to meet the Rialto Bridge, offering uninterrupted views of the famous landmark. It’s the same panorama that 18th-century Venetian painter Canaletto w
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Class Act
It’s a bright and sunny afternoon in Scandicci, a short 8km drive from the centre of Florence. Filled with FedEx vans, busy roundabouts and industrial warehouses, the bustling suburban hub stands in stark contrast with the Tuscan capital and its cult
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Open Forum
It only takes a quick walk around Stratford station to realise that there are changes afoot in this corner of East London; and one of the biggest is swiftly taking shape, its concrete pleats seemingly moving in the summer breeze. V&A East and its dyn
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Leader Of The Pack
A new travelling exhibition, ‘Seit 1898’, filled with ‘living artefacts’, celebrates 125 years since the founding of Rimowa in Cologne, the German city the luggage brand continues to call home more than a century on. ‘These are far from museum object
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Chic Street
Located in a grand 19th-century Haussmann building, with interiors hewn from Grand Antique marble, Celine’s Rue Saint-Honoré store is a temple to Parisian elegance and luxury, dedicated to the feats of savoir-faire that define the house under curren
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‘What Happens When Nothing Happens’
Fashion fetishises the new, the outré, the extraordinary, but it’s our own thinking that keeps things feeling fresh. The whims for A/W23, namely the longer length of a jumper or the bumpier texture of leather, are just that. In 1973, the French autho
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Cover Stars
For stockists, see page 169 Models: Zhuo Chen at Next Management, Chol Mabior at Models 1 Casting: Svea Casting Grooming: Chris Sweeney at One Represents using Typology, Sisley Paris and Philip B Fashion assistant: Molly Swatman Digital operator: Geo
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Talent Show
For galleries and stockists, see page 169 ■
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Metal Morphosis
In 1966, the Spanish couturier Paco Rabanne presented his breakout collection, ‘Twelve Unwearable Dresses in Contemporary Materials’. An evolution of an earlier project, as well as his work creating plastic accessories for Parisian houses like Schiap
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Red Hot
For stockists, see page 169 Spanish-born, New York-based illustrator and art director Silvia Prada uses imagery culled from pop culture and gay subcultures as a canvas for her own examinations of identity and desire. Here she has used one of her favo
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Street Scene
For stockists, see page 169 Model: Isa Gustafsson at Next Management Casting: Ikki Casting Hair: Michal Bielecki Make-up: Marielle Loubet at Calliste Agency using Byredo Fashion assistant: Kristina Bergfeldt Digital operator: David Fitt at Sheriff Pr
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