System, No. 24

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:

AUTUMN / WINTER 2025-2026

Fashion has always been deeply invested in the task of seeing, and being seen. Every notable designer appointment sparks two parallel questions: ‘What will the clothes look like?’ and ‘What will the imagery be?’ More than ever, our relationship to fashion is being shaped by image as much as it is by clothes – arguably more so. Which is why, with the reshuffling of the creative director cards being played out this season, System chose to shift its attention towards fashion photography.

At the heart of this economy of attention are the fashion photographers themselves. Their field of expertise can be genuinely transformative, a powerful asset for designers and brands. Yet fashion photography’s role, practice and status are naturally evolving with the times, and its rapport with the future will of course be shaped by technology and economics as much as identity and taste. With this in mind, System has spent the past months speaking with a range of fashion photographers to hear their personal stories and reflections on their work.

Among them, Juergen Teller, Inez & Vinoodh, Carlijn Jacobs, David Sims, Nadia Lee Cohen, Luis Alberto Rodriguez, Malick Bodian, Marili Andre, Zhong Lin, Nick Knight & Simon Foxton, the Sorrenti family, Tyrone Lebon, Angela Hill… Different voices, generations, contexts and creative expressions, presented side by side. A portrait of photography in fashion, so to speak.

In the case of Juergen Teller, we asked people from the industry – including some of the creative directors central to fashion’s next chapter – to select and comment on images from his almost 40-year body of work. The exercise reminded us that Juergen’s pictures, like those of all great fashion photographers, offer profound inspiration for both designers and audiences, providing fashion with personality, emotion, meaning, evocation and a legacy.