Encens, Issue 56 – Autumn/Winter 2026

Encens presents fashion, news and lifestyle with intelligence. A French mag that retains its European elegance, effortless style and a smooth layout, readers are treated to well planned, informative and exciting articles that touch on deeper issues while invoking scandal and glam. (In English and French)

In this issue:

Amalia Liouta is on the cover of this issue. A former Olympic gymnast and a distant sister of Nastassja Kinski, she embodies the myriad wardrobes of ENCENS. Ty Jeffries, the shaven-headed man from an unforgettable Arthur Elgort photograph for Comme des Garçons, retraces a journey from fashion’s inner circles to music, with Vangelis as his mentor. Giorgio Armani is seen through the prism of grey, his fetich color. Delphine Tréanton steps back into a landmark 1998 photo story. Lin Li, a collector by instinct, reveals her 10,000 stones gathered from the four corners of the globe. Peter Speliopoulos revisits the pivotal collection he devised for Cerruti. Lauren Manoogian explores flattened clothes freed from the body. And Laurence Sudre opens the portfolio of her portraits of the underground Gotha since 1970.