Photography by Huy Luong
On the evening of March 6, A Magazine Curated By celebrated 25 years of Curation and Creation with the launch of A MAGAZINE CURATED BY: 2000/2004–2025 and the opening of an immersive exhibition at Union de la Jeunesse Internationale, hosted in collaboration with SSENSE.
Designers, artists and longtime collaborators gathered for the occasion, including curators Stephen Jones, Simone Rocha, Lucie and Luke Meier, Kris Van Assche, Martine Sitbon, and Erdem Moralıoğlu, and key figures from fashion, art and publishing.
Simone Rocha & Blake Abbie
Albert Shyong & Erdem Moralıoğlu
Kris Van Assche
Martine Sitbon
Stephen Jones & Blake Abbie
Luke & Lucie Meier
Albert Shyong, Jemma Pinueva, Blake Abbie, Fatine Layt & Julie Pont
Set within the historic walls of TATI, the evening unfolded in the spirit of the magazine — creative, intimate and free. Louise Chen curated the night’s soundtrack, an eclectic mix reflecting A Magazine Curated By’s long-standing dialogue with music.
With the valued support of NetJets, the gathering brought together friends and collaborators old and new in a celebration of shared sensibilities. Drinks for the evening were offered by Tequila Komos, Hoxxoh Champagne, L’Acrobat Gin, Fever Tree and Iessi.
The night also marked the opening of a week-long series of public talks, bringing together voices from fashion, publishing and design to discuss independent magazines, the future of fashion and the intersections between fashion, art and community.
For her first show outside New York, Hillary Taymour brought Collina Strada to Copenhagen for Spring Summer 2027, a season that also marked Copenhagen Fashion Week’s 20th anniversary. Collina Strada was the first brand invited to take part in its new International Guest Slot, supported by The Climate Pledge.
There is something about Paolina Russo that makes you want to be part of the gang. Canadian-born, half Filipina and half Italian, Russo grew up in Markham, Ontario, while her French co-founder Lucile Guilmard was raised in Fouras, a small seaside town on France’s Atlantic coast. Their London-based label draws on the things they grew up with far away from fashion capitals: arts and crafts, local sports, video games, music and the particular kind of imagination that comes from having to make your own fun.
On a leafy street in Yunusabad, just north of central Tashkent, behind a wrought-iron gate and a garden planted with roses, irises and young fruit trees, stands a pale yellow villa that once belonged to a prosecutor in the municipal justice system. Today it houses the studio of designer Jenia Kim, whose eponymous label — founded in 2014, while she was living in Moscow — has become one of the defining voices in contemporary Central Asian fashion. While many designers from the region have built careers by leaving, Jenia has spent the last four years doing the opposite: building a company, a studio and, increasingly, a creative community in the city where she was born.
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