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Issue # 33 |
Visionaire #33: Touch, a boxful of cardboard creatures dressed up in fur, feathers, velvet, and netting, is a marriage of paper dolls and Pat the Bunny for very sophisticated grownups. As with every edition of Visionaire, the quarterly publication of style and design, Touch is high-concept eye candy dedicated to a theme in limited, numbered editions of fewer than 3,500. This time out, Visionaire honors the 75th anniversary of the Italian designer and furrier Fendi. A heavy matte black cardboard package gives way to a large metal box of brushed gold, perforated with a grid of squares, a cold touch of industrial design that hints at the Fendi logo and yet somehow implies an animal carrying case with air holes. Slide off the lid, and there's the animal: Fendi's soft, supple, pony skin cache-col (yes, it can be worn) enfolded around a stack of unbound, heavy-stock pages, each depicting the creation of a leading designer and stamped or embossed with elaborate printing techniques. Several of the bodies wear Fendi, of course: spare and bright-colored geometric shapes on headless torsos. Other standouts include Yohji Yamamoto's black-robed figure on a shiny silver background clutching a bruise-colored faux fur muff and Dior's newspaper cutout of a lean female form in a feathery dress, stock reports running up her leg. Alexander McQueen's extraterrestrial archer in a yellow sandpaper top and paintbrush skirt strikes a witty note, as does Junya Watanabe's bemused skeleton that can be transformed into a snowman with tiny head and feet. You won't be able to keep your hands off. |
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Issue # 34 |
With a new theme and format
for each issue, "Visionaire" stretches the imagination and boundaries of
what an art and fashion publication can be. For Issue #34: "Paris", "Visionaire"
and Hedi Slimane invite leading architects, artists and designers to portray
the City of Light in an unprecedented fashion--instead of referring to the
past with familiar nostalgia and romanticism, "Visionaire #34: Paris"
depicts the city of tomorrow. Architect Greg Lynn has designed an innovative
sculptural piece to contain a large-format hardbound book of these original
works.
Constructed of enameled metal, this monolithic case opens to reveal an
interior topography specifically engineered to hold the book as though
suspended in space. Contributors to this edition include architects Neil
Denari, Andreas Angelidakis, and Dominique Perrault; video artist Chris
Cunningham; artists Thomas Demand, Elizabeth Ballet, James Casebere, and
Craig Kapalkjian; graphic designers H5 and John Maeda; and special text by
the French pop group Air. |
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Issue # 35 July 2001  Man |
With a new theme and format for each issue, "Visionaire" stretches the imagination and boundaries of what an art and fashion publication can be. For "Visionaire #35: Man," "Visionaire" joins forces with world-renowned fashion photographer Mario Testino. Testino-who has been responsible for numerous advertising campaigns including Gucci, Ralph Lauren, and Calvin Klein-will focus his camera on men and cull talent from around the world to contribute to an issue of "Visionaire" devoted exclusively to the masculine world. |
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Issue # 36 December 2001  Power |
For their latest issue, "Power",Visionaire has teamed up with the renowned cosmetic house Shiseido to create a hardcover book housed in an iridescent injection-molded case. Nature and beauty are the starting points for "Power", an issue combining saturated colors, "natural" elements and "supernatural" holographic papers. Contributions from Visionaire's usual all-star list of artists, photographers, and image-makers include Mariko Mori, Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Struth, Roni Horn, Mark Quinn, Richard Misrach, Nick Knight, Richard Burbridge, Warren du Preez, Nick Thornton-Jones, Fabien Baron, Peter Saville and Me Company. The cover features an image of the singer and actress Bjork, photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Includes works by Mariko Mori, Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Struth, Roni Horn, Mark Quinn, Richard Misrach, Nick Knight, Richard Burbridge, Waren du Preez, Nick Thornton-Jones, Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin, Fabien Baron, Peter Saville, Me Company Limited Edition of 6,000 numbered copies. An irredescent injected-molded case houses hardcover book. Illustrated throughout. |
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