Dust, Issue 19 – AW21

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In the industrial cities, tiny little particles flutter in suspension, coming from industries, cars and even sometimes from hydroelectric power stations: it’s the DUST. Hidden, silent, omnipresent in our lives, it lands everywhere: the house, the roof, among the hair, between the fingers….

DUST is a new refreshing fashion & art magazine. With a biannual publishing frequency, Dust was born in early 2010 with the desire to provide a new and different point of view to the fashion magazine market.

We feel the need of filling the gaps that the rest of magazines leave, fighting in a certain way, against the increasingly stronger elitist spirit of the publishing world.

We bet and support artist’s collaborations, whether they are anonymous or upcoming ones, we’d like to search new talents, since we are interested on the real quality of their work, and not only on the name of the people who made it.

We want artists to feel completely free to develop and vent their own needs so they can create their works without any fear or vain censures. We will go deep into the artist’s world, interviewing and meeting them, in order to get a real knowledge of their creations and personality. We want fashion to become something much closer to an artistic point of view than to a commercial atmosphere, as we consider it as a path for creation and not the opposite.

That’s why we are not interested in the collection’s date, or the suitable time for promotion since we consider that art and fashion are always contemporary. DUST is a London based magazine, even if it’s made and produced in different cities around the world, such as New York, Madrid, Berlin, Milan and Paris by a specific team of creative minds that want to renew the current situation with this new thriving project.

In this issue:

DUST #19 – Sun Rising DUST 19 marks the 10th anniversary of the magazine, which launched in the second half of 2011. Pushing past the latest issues’ conceptual drive, this special issue is conceived in a book-like form, and revolves around a single narrative; purely visual; told in one breath by the photographer Willy Vanderperre and stylist Olivier Rizzo.

This project represents the culmination of the seven-years-and-14-stories-long collaboration between DUST and the prolific duo that has defined each step in DUST’s journey since 2014. This 400-page-long story stands halfway between the perfect synthesis of their work for DUST and its greatest leap forward. DUST 19 is the outcome of their research reaching its climax—the extreme consequence of a modus operandi put in place during the years and the mastering of a known language employed towards distillation, purity and essence.

Each image confronts a ceaseless quest for uncontaminated and ultimate beauty, not because of an intellectual effort to further ennoble or romanticise the practice of fashion photography, but because the matter of this investigation is viscerally personal. In this body of work, everything seems to be integrated and reimagined in a perspective that has become more apparent by addressing the uneasiness of today’s youth. This is an archetypal story of new beginnings and rising suns.