“Nobody reads anymore” taking that perspective as a starting point, the issue focuses on the visual aspects of fashion and design. And the creative dynamic that spins around these two fields. It seems that functinality may be an important matter. Rick Owens for his part has always camouflaged his work with necessity. As Nina Yashar, Milan’s foremost furniture gallerist says “Every object has to have a particular function”.

Features
– Natural Mystic, or Rediscovering Caravaggio in LA — Photos by Daniel Trese
– Color is a Powerful Tool Which Has Its Own Language — Collages by Anthony Gerace
– Love and Let Love — a fashion portfolio by Cédric Rivrain
– Venetian Surfers — Drawings by Paul P.

Interviews
– The Accident of Design —a conversation with Nina Yashar, Milan’s foremost furniture gallerist
– Monumental Fashion — Rick Owens in conversation with Dorothée Perret illustrated by Aurore de La Morinerie
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Cover
Illustration by Aurore de La Morinerie

Poster
Onaboat2 by Bea Schlingelhoff

Notebook
Touch Me, I’m Sick (excerpts) by JB Janak

Novembre 2012 or, how to turn a magazine into a book. Martin Laborde uses the magazine as a template, covering the information with white A4 paper to transform the material into its final structure: a blank book.
The artwork reveals new possibilites for content in a discarded periodical.

French artist Martin Laborde (b.1983) alumunus of Beaux-arts de Paris is currently in residence at Wiels, Brussels.

An illustrated fiction of invulnerability and disappearance, Leave Me Be was  first published as an edition of ten as part of the exhibition Untitled (Leave Me Be), Standard (Oslo), 2009.

Excerpt:
“I will never live in a house as long as my fellow human-beings are living in the street. I spent six years without a home, without direction, without something to live for. I once lived on the street by chance, I now live there by choice. I roam the once famous streets. Bedding down above the degraded piles, slotted in a trough when I find one, rubbing in sand and rinsing my toes along the frontage. My lifestyle is to carry only essentials in what I call my “saddle bags”. I travel light even by street standards. Blankets, for instance, are cumbersome and awkward. Besides, I am more creative after dark, so at night I walk the streets with my notebook. I sleep in the daytime in the park with a big cowboy hat over my head to keep the sun out of my eyes. My street buddies call me “cowboy”.

Paris, one of the most filmed cities in the world, and Los Angeles, the home of the Hollywood industry. This issue celebrates the art of filmmaking by bringing together artists working with moving images and filmmakers working within the industry.

Features
– The Van, a video by Alex Bag stars three young artists on their way to an art fair
– Se réapproprier l’extase by Matthieu Orléan — a poetic essay on the love of film.
In French, by the art director of Cinémathèque française.
– A portrait of the iconic title-sequence designer Pablo Ferro by David Jacob Kramer
– Icons by Clarisse Hahn — a collection of images of terrorist organizations, focusing on the iconic presentation of the body and the romantic notion of resistance
– Written In the Wind by Benjamin Thorel
— a selection of texts by Kathryn Bigelow compiled by one of castillo/corrales’ curators.

Interviews
– Friends — Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte in conversation with Todd Cole
– Drifting Claire Denis in conversation with Dorothée Perret
– Reclaiming All The Exuberance and Chaos of Language — Emily Wardill in conversation with Florence Derieux
– Eyes of A Dreamer — Pipilotti Rist in conversation with Dorothée Perret
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Cover
Marilyn Monroe mural on N La Brea Avenue, Hollywood, by Daniel Trese

Poster
Americano film poster by M/M (Paris)

Notebook
Everything Tastes Like Whiskey by Scott Wolven

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A special edition of Oscar Tuazon’s catalog I Can’t See, transformed by the artist into a ‘papercrete’ object.
Each piece contains a single copy of the book, mixed with water and cement. An unreadable book, a book
as a material thing, words turned to stone.

“The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.”
Contemporary women painters and designers, performers and rappers offer their own definitions of fashion sense and share their observations on what it takes to be a female artist today.

Features

– Sophie von Hellermann pays tribute to the Duchess of Cambridge with watercolors
– collages by New York-based artist Amy Yao.
– text taken from the multi-media performance “I’ve Had It and a Half” by Frances Stark
– Ecstasy of Asia, photos by New York-based artist Carissa Rodriguez.
– MPA, K8 Hardy, artist, founder of a queer feminist art collective and creator of FashionFashion zine.

Interviews
– Half Woman Half Flower, jewelry maker Victoire de Castellane
– When You See Us, a conversation with the rappers from Baltimore Get Em Mamis.
– Dance With Me, a conversation between the designer Ligia Dias and the artist Mai-Thu Perret.

Notebook
Excerpts from Writing Home by Anna Odessa Linzer

Poster
Das Institut featuring Comcor

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Self-taught draftsman Cédric Rivrain presents a distorted, figurative work, filled with an aesthetic and sensual charge. His book offers a selection of 28 drawings inspired by three distinct universes – fashion, the study of the human body, and medical dressings – which the artist brings together through a single motif: beauty.

This collection of original works has been reproduced on a 1:1 scale. This graphical parti pris allows the reader to enter into the frame of the drawing and to discover a work of surgical precision mixed with the use of original materials, such as eye shadow, nail polish. The chromatic range from pale yellow to dusty pink, passing by steel blue, aligns with the fineness of the lines, whose fragility enclose hidden treasures.

The foreword is signed by artist Paul P., a friend of the author, and it lends, from the first page of the book, a character of profound sincerity.

PARIS, LA’s first issue specifically devoted to fashion looks at the evolution and ethos of Japanese fashion as it stands today, including work by revolutionary designers Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons. In light of the recent tsunami, important lessons about life and Zen reveal themselves in the Japanese approach not only to fashion but to creation itself. Dedicated to the people of Japan.

Features
– A visual portrait of the artists Gardar Eide Einarsson and Oscar Tuazon by Keiichi Nitt
– A Subjective History of Photography Before and After Literature
by the online publication ART iT.

Fashion
– 日本からのご挨拶 , collages by Rosie Roberts
– Spring and summer emotions in fashion by photographer Camille Vivier
– Fashion special on Comme des Garçons shot in LA by Todd Cole
– All the Colors Make Me Feel the Same About You, photos by Yasunari Kikuma,
fashion editor Lotta Volkova Adam
– Photographer Anders Eström captures the Sacai Summer 2011 Collection
– A photographic essay by the French designer Julien David

Notebook
L’Empereur Hon-Seki by French author Pierre Vinclair

Poster
132 5. Issey Miyake
A conversation with Monsieur Issey Miyake on the future of making things

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Hedi El Kholti’s collages present photographic narratives and visual portraits born from teenage sentences and nascent notions, expanding through pop-culture mirrors. A sense of personal and collective nostalgia pervades the issue: pop anthropologists, punks and dancers consider the simultaneously wistful and contemporaneous nature of culture.

Features

Writing
– Feral House’s publishers Jodi Willie and Adam Parfrey talk with
Dorothée Perret and Oscar Tuazon
– Dan Colen, in conversation with Mary Blair Tailor
– Pop Culture (Heroes and Villains) Text & collages by Hedi El Kholti
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Fashion
American dancer and choreographer Sonya Tayeh photographed by Daniel Trese

Photography
– El Mirage, a photographic essay by Todd Cole
– Kicking Rocks, a photographic essay by Max Farago
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Poster
Sunlight to Night-Light
by photographer Karl Lagerfeld

Notebook
Some of my Faults for Haiti
by the poet Ariana Reines following the Haiti earthquake

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The first comprehensive monograph on the work of American artist Oscar Tuazon, covering the first decade of his career.

I Can’t See is co-published with Paraguay Press and features over 250 pages of images of works, documents, and archives articulating three solo exhibitions organized in 2009 and 2010 at the Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière (France); the Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland) and the Parc Saint Léger – Centre d’art contemporain (France).

It also features a series of texts by Ariana Reines, Matthew Stadler, Cedar Sigo, Karl Holmqvist, Thomas Boutoux, Carissa Rodriguez, Eileen Myles and David Lewis as well as a long interview with the artist conducted by Chiara Parisi, Philippe Pirotte, and Sandra Patron, the respective curators of the solo exhibitions.