Inventory Magazine
Inventory Magazine is the new project from Ryan Willms, founder of the discontinued and highly rated h(y)r collective online magazine. Inventory will also exist as on online magazine, but a hard copy will be available too. With a strong influence from Japan, their first issue takes a look at the people behind Yuketen, Nigel Cabourn and Engineered Garments which thrive overseas and are now becoming just as popular in the western world. Editorial features include a look at our favourite parkas for winter and Nom de Guerre’s fall collection.
apartamento 4
Taking a completely new approach in the interior design magazine market, apartamento features real people in real environments, with interiors we can all aspire to rather than over-styled, over-glossy, catalogue-like spreads. The 4th issue is now available in all good magazine stores, and in our opinion is definitely worth picking up.
31 Rue Cambon
We’re excited to learn of the first issue of the new Chanel magazine art directed and designed by Purple’s Olivier Zahm. Named 31 Rue Cambon after the first ever Chanel boutique, it will be distributed worldwide in all of their stores soon.
Kinokuniya
Since 1981, Kinokuniya, the hip Japanese bookstore chain, has served New York’s Japanese-language readers from its outlet at Rockefeller Center with it’s impressive stock of imported Japanese paperbacks, latest issues of hard-to-find magazines, DVDs (such as the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki - Spirited Away) and CDs. Now the company has decided that Japanese is no longer the center of its universe. It’s new store overlooking Bryant Park will house a majority of English-language titles in an effort to expand their audience. But Japanophiles fear not: The new three-storey store, one of nine Kinokuniyas in the United States, is stocked with plenty of Japanese-language novels, fashion magazines and a huge manga (comic) collection in both Japanese and English. The old store will close at the end of the year.
Avenue of the Americas, near 40th Street
Books are also sold online at www.kinokuniya.com
AnOther Fashion Book
AnOther Fashion Book, a greatest hits compilation of the fashion photography that has been featured in AnOther Magazine and AnOther Man over the past eight years is out now. The first in a series of collectable books brings together in one volume extensive work by the most iconic names in fashion and art photography including Craig McDean, Nick Knight, Mario Sorrenti, Sam Taylor-Wood, Horst Diekgerdes, Stephen Shore, David Sims, Terry Richardson, Willy Vanderperre and Glen Luchford.
Weird Beauty
Currently on show at the International Centre of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street, NYC) is Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now, showcasing more than forty of the most innovative photographers working in the fashion industry today including Steven Meisel, Cindy Sherman, Mario Sorrenti, Nick Knight, Steven Klein, Miles Aldridge, Paolo Roversi, and Sølve Sundsbø.
do you read me?!
do you read me?! offers a selected assortment of magazines and readings from around the world. The spectrum ranges from fashion, photography and art through architecture, interior and design to cultural matters in general.
Magazine und Lektüre der Gegenwart, Auguststrasse 28, Berlin-Mitte