A/18
Simone Rocha
A Magazine Curated By’s 18th issue is curated by the fashion designer Simone Rocha. Simone’s sensitive, intellectual approach to fashion is marked by an intimate, unfiltered vision of contemporary femininity with all its twists and turns, a fact that imbues her collections with a unique (yet inclusive) point of view. Simone has called upon an international cast of friends, family, and creative collaborators whose regard stretches above and beyond her chosen subject matter to paint a broad picture of our postmodern human condition celebrating nostalgia whilst remaining firmly rooted in the present.
“Ireland to me is home, and home is where the heart is. Hong Kong is family far away but always by my side.”
Sara Grace Wallerstedt photographed by Leslie Zhang 張家誠
Table of Contents
Rob & Lingan
The Wild Atlantic Way
The Scarlet Line
A Terrible Beauty
Sitting Portraits
Mayfly with John
Louise Bourgeois
Cave & Crabs (Family)
The Selected Gifts (1974 – 2015)
Standing Portraits
First Suggestion
Blackberry Picking
The Politics of Bees
Francis Bacon: N°7 Reece Mews
Gold Bow 金蝴蝶結
Honey’s Moon
Mary Robinson
Rotolo di Spinaci
Molly and the Moon
The Optical Unconscious
Endgame
A Slanting of the Sun
Young Dubliners
Mom
Beijing
Qing Ming
White Nights
Cars and Explosions
Sounds
Braiding Hair
Team Ming
I’ve Just Been Shot
White Flowers
Soda Bread
Contributors in alphabetical order:
Ben Toms, Broomberg & Chanarin, Cait Fahey, Celestine Cooney, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Colin Dodgson, Daniel David Freeman, Daragh Soden, Darina Allen, Dean DiCriscio, Donal Ryan, Dorothy Cross, Eileen Rocha, Eoin McLoughlin, Feng Li, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jacob Lillis, Jamie Hawksworth, Jenny Holzer, Joe Ridout, Leslie Zhang, Linda Brownlee, Lou Stoppard,
Louise Bourgeois Foundation, Malina Joseph Gilchrist, Mary Robinson, Max Rocha, Niall O’Brien, Odette Rocha, Perry Ogden, Petra Collins, Ren Hang, Ren Ri, Richard Mosse, Robbie Spencer, Roni Horn, Ruth Rogers, Sam Rock, Sarah Moon, Samson Young, Seamus Heaney, Stephanie Hegarty, Thurstan Redding, Tyler Mitchell.
The Wild Atlantic Way
Niall O’Brien
A Terrible Beauty
Jackie Nickerson
Lucy Kumara Moore
Ben Toms
Mayfly with John
Colin Dodgson
Simone’s childhood china boll with a broken foot
Sam Rock
Hope Atherton & Conie Vallese
Thurstan Redding
Blackberry Picking
Jacob Lillis
Francis Bacon: N°7 Reece Mews
Perry Ogden
Honey’s Moon
Linda Brownlee
DON’T BE AFRAID
Richard Mosse
Molly and the Moon
Sarah Moon
Boys and Girls by the Sea
Daragh Soden
Qing Ming
Eoin McLoughlin
Braiding Hair
Petra Collins