A. Magazine.

A. Magazine.

There are two edgy magazines with wonderful concepts are as simple as ONE LETTER
A & V

They are both somewhat oversized-magazine-with-an-angle-shaped-LETTER. It's not easy to hold it with one hand and read it on a train I must say, but it catches your eye and you feel like it's unique in some way. I just saw the newly release A magazine curated by Proenza Schouler, featuring Chloe Sevigny, available in Page One.

Do check out their Haider Ackermann online also.

Now I'm switching to my main topic: A Magazine curated by Jun Takahashi, designer of UNDERCOVER. A#4

This is actually collaborated with a Japanese multimedia artist Madsaki, who deals a lot with notorious-tattoo-like-mirror graphics. Madsaki had collaborated projects with Hysteric Mini (20th anniversary project), and adidas etc and graduated from Parsons BFA. Just from his website, I'm not very much impressed by his work, however, when collaborating with Jun Takahashi, there seems to be more conceptual ideas and more elaborated execution of work. I have always been fond of black and white detail-oriented, line-composed graphics and of course with fashion integrated in. YUM.





Another artist that work with Jun Takahashi in A magazine is the legendary Terry Richardson. The photos are of course, very Terry Richardson, just more nude models wearing Undercover stuff in a weird way, not much a surprise for me.



The magazine also includes Jun's creation for new employment ad for Uniqlo: "Need your Mushy Brain", playing a pun on the words “need” and “knead”, and errrr actually I'm not crazy about it.


I think I love the part with Madsaki most.

Here is the video with how the whole magazine looks like inside out



Just a wee-bit more about Uniqlo:
Here comes Jil Sander for Uniqlo: +J



Why? Coz Jil Sander is sold to Japanese firm Onward Holdings Co. Ltd. who owns the designer’s former fashion house and retains commercial rights to her full name. SAD!!!!! I regret that I didn't buy Jil Sander as much before to support the brand and help sustaining it.

When? NOT ANNOUNCED yet...


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Photo credit: Freshnessmag.com