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Thom Browne
Following Rodarte and Proenza Schouler, Browne is the third American designer to take part in the A Magazine project, which offers carte blanche to a fashion designer to open their universe across 200 pages of creative content. He is the first menswear designer to curate A Magazine since Riccardo Tisci in 2008.
Browne has tipped a both prestigious and personal cast of contributors for the issue, calling on members of staff, his partner and close friends to collaborate as well as a host of international artists and personalities including Baz Luhrmann, Martha Stewart, Rick Owens, and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
The magazine’s content is united under the theme of ‘Death and Mourning in Black and White’, following the progression of Browne’s runway shows since January 2015 until today. The entire magazine has been printed in black and white – its only touch of colour provided by Browne’s iconic red, white and blue grosgrain ribbon employed as a bookmark.
“Death and mourning…I approached this subject respectfully…Romantically…With respect to the life that had been lived…Not the sadness of the loss…A celebration…”

Anna Cleveland in ‘Arsenic & Old Lace’ by Sarah Moon & Amanda Harlech, 2016
Table of Contents
Dialogo della Moda e della Morte

The Girl Who Fell to Earth

Martha’s Wake

In A Dark Wood

Artworks

Rocca Pisani

Michael

Mourning Is Broken

Arsenic & Old Lace

Studies for our Tomb

Threads of Memory

Elements of Composition: Ten Poems

Memento mori

Artworks

La méfiance de l’être

Das Triadische Ballett

Future Relics

A Protest Against Forgetting

Object Loss

Death Heads

Artworks
