Twin, Issue 34

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Twin is a biannual art, fashion and feminism book. Founded on the eve of a new decade, Twin is the brainchild of ex-Lula magazine creative director Becky Smith, and a handpicked international team that includes British Vogue’’s Aimee Farrell (features and online director), art editor Francesca Gavin (Dazed, The Guardian, Vogue) and fashion editors Celestine Cooney, Naomi Miller and Alastair McKimm.

Twin is a cloth-bound, hard-backed biannual that showcases art, culture and feminist features alongside freshly commissioned fashion photography from the likes of Ben Weller, Paul Wetherall, KT Autela and Boo George, featuring models including Freja Beha Erichsen, Dree Hemingway, Hanne Gaby and Christina Kruse.

In this issue:

We at TWIN, know that fashion has blood and brains and pizzazz, but it also has its own idiosyncrasies, as just one example it’s always been a law unto itself as far as the seasons are concerned. Deliveries of clothes clash with the seasons in real time, and just as one season is being delivered, the next is being launched on the runways. The recent cruise collections extend fashion seasons as news, as do international fashion weeks in locations as far apart as Australia or Spain. Today magazines like TWIN view trans seasonal dressing and layering as important for most of us, since unpredictable weather is global,  and travel is part of many people’s daily lives. Mixing the seasons is about more than simply carrying an umbrella, it’s about seasonal blurring.

It’s also true that in the same way we mix winter and summer, we mix day and night, where  a sparkling skirt may be teamed with a chunky sweater or a severe tailored jacket may slip over a romantic blouse. It’s all about breaking the rules, about questioning the old ways and bringing a fresh attitude to fashion, to pique the observers interest, to reinvent the wardrobe.

As you turn the pages of this issue of TWIN you’ll note how our creative teams not only switch between the seasons but also between stories. It’s the range of narratives that take us from variations on the sporty, to sophisticated late night dinners, from strolling around the city in easy pieces, to close up looks at covetable jewellery. Its about each issue being a series of juxtapositions, layering the stories and ideas like a delicious mille feuille gateau.

Between the covers of each issue we think about the range of stories from urban indoors to rustic country, from the art of reading to the art in a gallery. TWIN thinks and plans carefully how to offer interest and that old fashioned word “ variety” every time the publication is offered to its readers. It’s about where fashion and what we wear sits in relation to art, interiors, the world around us. It all requires constant updating, fresh attitudes, analysis of where we are, and also where we are heading. New designers, new artists, new names and new ways of creating from earring’s to shoes, from a painting to furniture.

This is our 34^th issue of TWIN and we continue to search, report, create and offer exciting narratives across a broad creative field. So, turn the pages, be surprised, read carefully, return to check the credits, and invest time in seeing our spectrum of stories. Above all, enjoy the entire issue as we continue to offer, through our amazing contributors, what is classically always referred to as “food for thought”. Thank you.

Twin remains one of the more editorially rigorous fashion biannuals — the kind of magazine that treats appointments and house histories as cultural events worth proper reporting. The current issue continues the title’s habit of working through fashion’s commercial structure with the same attention given to its editorial spreads, threading interviews with the specialists and design archivists most magazines overlook.