Holiday #398
275 x 345 mm, 300 pages
Paris, France (English-language)
Biannual
Relaunched in 2014
Publisher and creative director: Franck Durand
Editor-in-chief: François Blet
Design director: Marin Muteaud
The large-format, international travel and style review that lets us imagine the holidays of our dreams. Relaunched by Paris-based creative director Franck Durand in 2014 after a 37-year hiatus, Holiday is a modern classic built on its fifties heyday.
This 398th issue is an ode to the vast and otherworldly terrain of Canada, though its not Holiday’s first rodeo, having first ventured to the nation in 1949 (cover reproduced at the back)—before the country had even adopted their iconic Maple Leaf flag. Three successive Canada adventures followed, with the most recent in 1976—a Holiday trip to ‘The True North’ is well overdue!
Inside, the team quiz Canadians from various cities and territories—from Whistler and Edmonton to Vancouver and Montreal—on what it means to call the country home; an interview with Inuit director Zacharias Kunuk delves into the forgotten folk tales of his culture, and his career fashioning these stories into cinema; Douglas Heselgrave delves into the impact of Canadian folk music on the music scene in California, touching on the likes of Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Neil Young, often mistaken as American musicians; Karen Burshtein visits the Nunavut territory to discover the Inuit history of Parka jackets, forgotten as the style became co-opted by fast fashion; and Michael Sommers recounts his hike across The Sunshine Coast of British Columbia in the ‘Holiday Handbook’ of this issue, accompanied by breathtaking photography from Anthony Carter.
Plus, discover a series of wide-ranging fashion editorials staged across Canada’s breathtaking rural landscape.