Issue Volume 3, 2024 - W Magazine (2024)

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Volume 3, 2024

W magazine operates at the intersection of fashion, film, art, music, and society, both in print and digitally. With its combination of world-class photography and sophisticated journalism, W is a must-read for anyone interested in the worlds of style and contemporary culture.

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IN THIS ISSUEContributorsCarlijn JacobsPhotographer, “Shady Lady” (page 136)Is there an up-and-coming musician who you think deserves the hype?Cktrl is a very talented musician who creates mesmerizing atmospheres with his sounds.What do you consider the most important pop culture moment of all time?Britney Spears shaving her head.If you could sit down for a drink with any pop culture icon, dead or alive, who would it be?Michael Jackson. I wish I could have photographed him. Such a unique look.Tess PetronioPhotographer, “The Originals: BFRND” (page 148)What song do you think you’ve listened to the most in your life?“Just Like Heaven,” by the Cure. I listen to it every morning.What was the first concert you ever attended?Snoop Dogg. I was wearing ’90s Death Row Records merch.Is there an up-and-coming musician who you think deserves the hype?My…2 min

IN THIS ISSUETop of the PopsOn a perfect spring day in New York City, Miley Cyrus walked into a photo studio wearing jeans and a black Gucci jacket. Her hair was wet, and her instantly recognizable face was partially obscured by big sunglasses. I had never met Cyrus before, but we quickly started chatting. She was warm, funny, friendly, and confident—someone who exudes joy and makes you feel happy to be around her.She said that it would not take a long time to fit clothes on her, and she wasn’t kidding: Everything she tried on looked amazing. We spent the day dancing to Serge Gainsbourg, talking about her epic Grammys performance and the equally epic Maison Margiela look she wore on the red carpet. Cyrus was going on a much-deserved vacation the day after the…3 min

IN THIS ISSUEBackstory: Fendi Selleria BagWhen it comes to exquisite leather goods, all roads lead to Rome—specifically, to Fendi. What began as a tiny local concern founded nearly a century ago by Adele and Edoardo Fendi has grown into an international powerhouse and a byword for both artisanal savoir faire and contemporary design. If Fendi today is high-fashion shorthand for outstanding craftsmanship, it is in no small part due to the success of Selleria, a tone-on-tone top-stitching technique borrowed from Rome’s master saddlers. (The word means “saddlery” in Italian.)Handsewn and made of the highest-quality leather, Fendi’s Selleria bags were an instant success when they were introduced in 1925. Two decades later, the Fendi reins were passed from Adele and Edoardo to their daughters, Anna, Alda, Carla, Franca, and Paola, with each taking responsibility for a…3 min

IN THIS ISSUEOur Life in Parties: The MisshapesEvery Saturday night for five years in the mid-2000s, New York’s coolest kids descended on the Misshapes, a weekly downtown dance party. Come Monday morning, the rest of the world would log on to their desktops to find out who showed up and what they wore. The Misshapes was ground zero for what the Internet now calls “indie sleaze”—a communion of in-the-know editors, models, and anyone who looked good in skinny jeans, thrift store finds, and lots and lots of American Apparel. At the center of it all were the DJs Leigh Lezark, Geordon Nicol, and Greg Krelenstein, the titular hosts, who spun a mix of indie, dance, electro, and pop. As the party’s profile grew, so did theirs. Soon the Misshapes were being flown to perform at Versace parties.…6 min

IN THIS ISSUEFlash Forward: ZankovWhen Henry Zankov was a child, he set up a make-believe clothing store in his bedroom. “I would say to my brother, ‘What would you like to buy today?’ ” he recalls, laughing. “I would sketch designs, and I even had a catalog. It was crazy but sweet.”Zankov, who is now 43, has made his younger self proud. We’re sitting in his apartment, in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens neighborhood, surrounded by racks of colorful clothing guarded closely by his Scottish Terrier, Georgina. The space also serves as his studio and the showroom for his namesake knitwear brand, which he launched in February 2020—just before pandemic lockdowns went into effect—with a small collection of bold looks for men and women. Despite the unfortunate timing, he found success with his exuberant, artful, and…4 min

IN THIS ISSUELens FlairIf David Armstrong hadn’t been a photographer, he would have made a brilliant writer. He was a keen lover of words, wisecracks, and stories, and to this day, a decade after his death, friends still quote his pithy observations or the stray bits of droll dialogue he repurposed from turn-of-the-century novels or 1950s films. In his genteel, matronly singsong voice, he’d be as apt to deliver a fragment from Edith Wharton or a verse from the Bible as he would a personal saga from the late 1980s involving a friend in the East Village who’d jumped from his fire escape. Looking back at his five decades of work, you can sense an almost literary penchant for character and atmosphere. In his deceptively straightforward portraits, he captured not only the complicated…7 min

Issue Volume 3, 2024 - W Magazine (2024)

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