A Magazine Curated by 2000/2004–2025

A Magazine Curated Byis proud to announce a special edition of the publication, A Magazine Curated By: 2000/2004–2025, celebrating our first 25 years of creation. In this monumental issue, each of the 32 curators has been invited back to express their world freely through our pages, with each having a chapter. This issue is launching March 6, 2025 in Paris with an installation takeover and talk series at the iconic Tati Building.

Curators:
Dirk Van Saene, Bernhard Willhelm, Hussein Chalayan, Olivier Theyskens, Victor & Rolf, Martin Margiela, Yohji Yamamoto ,Haider Ackermann, Jun Takahashi, Martine Sitbon, Veronique Branquinho, Kris Van Assche, Riccardo Tisci, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, Giambattista Valli, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Stephen Jones, Iris Van Herpen, Delfina Delettrez, Thom Browne, Alessandro Michele, Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta, Simone Rocha, Kim Jones, Pierpaolo Piccioli, Lucie & Luke Meier, Grace Wales Bonner, Francesco Risso, Erdem Moralioglu, Chitose Abe, Peter Do, Glenn Martens

Having been initiated by Walter Van Beirendock, A Magazine Curated By could be considered the most intimate publication any designer has a chance to create — it is by a designer for their community of lovers of culture, namely fashion. Starting in 2000 initially as N°A, B, C, D and E Magazines before relaunching in 2004 under our current title, A Magazine Curated By, this publication has been a vessel for designers’ visions. Through our pages, we help designers amplify their voices, guiding their creative narratives.

Rather than looking to the past archives, we’ve envisioned this special edition with the frame of ‘a magazine’ and what that word means, as a gathering of ideas and images but with a contemporary lens, something that at once feels timeless but timely. Our curator-designers have approached their pages how they would a fashion collection, through their eyes and perspectives. Some have looked at their own issue for inspiration, like Martin Margiela, Delfina Delettrez and Martine Sitbon, responding to their previous work now. Some have chosen to commission photographers to make stories to expand on narratives they have in their own issues like Yohji Yamamoto, Erdem Moralioglu, Glenn Martens, Olivier Theyskens, Peter Do, Kris Van Assche. Many, since making their issue, have expanded their artistic practise from pure fashion to look at other forms of creation, like the artmaking of Jun Takahashi and Hussein Chalayan, Francesco Risso who choose to show their artwork and creative expression in this issue. Others have chosen to make new artwork like Lucie and Luke Meier and Proenza Schouler, or chosen to use these pages as diaristic worlds like Haider Ackermann, Bernhard Willhelm, Giambattista Valli and Pierpaolo Piccioli. The designers have also been asked to reinterpret the iconic ‘A’ or the letter of their issue.

Contributors include:
Alasdair Mclellan, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alexander Fury, Alessio Bolzoni, Andrea Piu, Barbara Collé, Ben Toms, Bob Harper, Bryan Huynh, Buero Paris, Chantal Elisabeth Ariëns, Christian Knörr, Christopher Nemeth, Dan Thawley, Daniel David Freeman, David Altmejd, Donatien Grau, Elisabeth Broekaert, Eric Wrenn, Federico Berardi, Florent Tanet, George Rouy, Guy Le Querrec, Hugo Scott, Inge Grognard, Jennifer Cheng, Jim Kay, Jos Van Heel, Kate Bush, Kate Moss, Kim Bowen, Laurence Ellis, Les Child, Liz Johnson Artur, Luca Guadagnino, Lui Nemeth, Lune Kuipers, Martin Parr, Mauricio Nardi, Michael Hauptman, Mickalene Thomas, Min Jin Lee, Pavel Golik, Patti Wilson, Paul Fusco, Peter Marlow, Peter Stigter, Philipp Paulus, Richard Kalvar, Robbie Spencer, Sergio Cattivelli, Ted O’Callahan, Theo Liu, Tim Breuer, Tim Walker, William Waterworth