System, Issue 20

System explores with style and substance the dialogues at the heart of the global fashion industry.

Its biannual magazine offers exclusive long-format conversations with fashion’s most relevant, most powerful and most opinionated individuals, accompanied by portfolios created by the industry’s most in-demand image-makers.

Exploring and commenting on fashion’s constantly shifting landscape, System is a platform for deep thoughts and real opinions – shared within the industry and, in turn, influencing the broader world.

In this issue:

SYSTEM GETS IT RIGHT – AGAIN. THE TWENTIETH TIME IN A ROW. JUERGEN TELLER YSL POWER-COUPLE COVER STORY, MARTINE ROSE, JUNYA WATANABE AND HAIDER ACKERMANN IN PROFILE. ALL THE HITS AND AND MORE. NOW 20. NOW THAT’S WHAT WE CALL FASHION! 

Saint Laurent CEO Francesca Bellettini and creative director Anthony Vaccarello discuss their ‘never compromise the brand’ strategy. System plays it the same way. The Juergen Teller photographed cover with the white publisher’s band has been a mark of quality for twenty issues. The only worrying aspect to that observation is that we wrote about the first one! Some things will (happily) never change.

Looks gorgeous. This from the 30-page Juergen and Dovile Saint Laurent photo-essay / exercise in chic.

A portrait of Martine Rose and Tamara Rothstein by Oliver Hadlee Pearch. The story of their creative partnership told to Murray Healy in super inspirational style.

Our favourite section of the whole issue. A photo album of Martine Rose’s older sister Michelle – a document of her South London life in clubs and clothing. Could have been a book in itself – but System have gone and done it now 🙂

Junya Watanabe. In his eighties. Actually he is sixty-two but you know what we mean. He talks a lot about the influence of all that has gone before. “I’ve turned 60 so I think I feel nostalgic about the past more often. At the same time, I’ve also been feeling that past experiences make the present.”  Watanabe doesn’t give many interviews. This one runs over eight pages and should be savoured.