Numéro Homme 43

The rise of AMI by Alexandre Mattiussi, French fashion label who celebrated its 10th birthday in 2021 ; the new menswear fashion vanguard, from Ludovic de Saint Sernin to Thebe Magugu and Charles Jeffrey ; Italian new pop phenomenon Mahmood, who will represent Italy with Blanco during the next Eurovision Song Contest.

Also, legendary French rapper MC Solaar ; a report on femminielli, third-gender community in Naples here photographed by Pieter Hugo ; Afro-American painter Kehinde Wiley, behind Barack Obama’s official portrait who gave him international recognition ; and fashion shoots by Horst Diekgerdes, Jacob Sutton, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Jackie Nickerson and Pierre-Ange Carlotti.

In this Numéro 233 : an exclusive interview with Christine and the Queen, who presents their new poetic and flamboyant musical project Redcar; an interview with the singer Lous and the Yakuza, who releases her second album Iota; a portrait of the 23-year-old artist Oete, the upcoming French pop icon; an interview with Casey Cadwallader, the talented designer who took the reins of the house of Mugler in 2018; a focus on the duo Gerard & Kelly, whose work mingling dance, art, and cinema, is exhibited at the Carré d’art in Nîmes, France.

 

Also, Jeremy Thomas, the producer who won the Jury Prize in Cannes for his film Hi-Han; One Fine Morning, Mia Hansen-Løve’s new film with Léa Seydoux; the sculptor Carol Bove, who will soon be exhibited at the David Zwirner Gallery; portraits made by the enigmatic Viennese artist Marina Faust; the contemporary mutant interpretated by photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Babeth Djian; fashion series by Bastiann Woudt, Damien Krisl, Umit Savaci, Szilvester Mako, Yulia Gorbachenko and Noël Quintela.  

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