This is the MARGIELA special issue.
Edited by Martin Margiela!
A deep dive into heritage pieces of MM from 1998 - 2008.
Also featuring VERONIQUE BRANQUINHO.
Issue includes Belgium, Spain, Portuguese design.
Sybille Walter photography throughout.
With English text.
Featuring an extensive story on MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA jacket since the first season of the invisible logo house in 1988, a conversation on menswear clothing with writer FARID CHENOUNE, a visit at VERONIQUE BRANQUINHO studio in Antwerp, words from PATRIZIA ROVERSI on building the new profession of stylist back in the seventies with her husband PAOLO, and an interview with designer POPY MORENI on the concept of ‘creator’ back in 1980, nostalgia for the twenties and disruptive style.
Published twice a year since 2002, ENCENS is focused on fashion as artform from the perspective of designers rather than trends. The magazine investigate new forms of dressing from past to present with probing interviews, extensive use of photography and vintage, and dynamic layout.
Encens articulates some convincing, fruitful points of view at the point at which creation reaches its most unique level. Atypical, its format and design wavers between magazine and object. Reinventing its fundamental principles for each issue [its focus, monographs, and features], Encens offers the best to those who, in fashion as well as in art, unlock exacting worlds. Moving back and forth between the present and the past, Encens creates maps of the hallmarks that captivate our times, all the while taking a second look at aesthetics of the past that still have clout. It stands for an independent and long-term approach.
