Printing Fashion #5
240 x 330 mm, 138 pages
Paris, France (French and English-language)
Annual
Editors-in-chief: Justin Morin and Marco Pecorari
Art direction: Monica Fraile Morisson
We do love a magazine about magazines! Printing Fashion is a must-read for anybody interested in the role of the magazine today. Created and produced by students on the Fashion Studies MA at The New School Parsons, Paris, in collaboration with Justin Morin and Marco Pecorari at the university.
The fifth issue explores Desire and its use and portrayal by the fashion and publishing industries, exploring its role in powering capitalism in the broadest sense as well as the more central leverage of sexual desire in selling.
A visit to a hidden bookstore showcases the desire inherent in paper—the rare printed books and magazines stacked high; Erotic Review editor Lucy Rober discusses contemporary representations of desire in print; Visionaire founder Cecilia Dean discusses how the limited edition publication became one of the most coveted items in the fashion industry.
Like the recent issue of Slanted, this issue of Printing Fashion cleverly aligns desire in material (analogue) terms with desire in sexual terms.