A Magazine By Riccardo Tisci

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpqkJodnAzQ

In 2001, Belgian fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck launched: N°A magazine, published by Artimo. The ground rules were laid out there and then: each issue would feature a fashion designer as 'guest curator', trying to create a fresh, poetic and 'pure' magazine, using these parameters: passion, emotion, fascination, spontaneity, craftsmanship, authenticity.
(from http://www.amagazinecuratedby.com/history.php)

I think it is quite an exciting magazine.As ads are becoming more important in magazine, magazines easily turned into a platform for ad.However this one is special one.First,there are not many products or ads.Second every designer curating the boomk seems to show his/her every aspect of life likeing watching his/her visual diary or history.

Strange,gothic,darkness,subverting religion and every sides of a woman are the keywords to this issue.These are truly something about Tisci's design and his imagination.It is not hard to imagine why he was so obsessed with women.He was raised up by womens and lived with 9 women.He knows that woman is not only feminine but strong, not only sexy but tough.This is very similar to Hubert de Givenchy, they don't consider fashion design only as their way to express ideas, they love the women wearing their clothes, they never make something that is not elegant.It also explained why he can stand that long while other designers like John Gallino or Alxendar McQueen can't.