Know your power. Voice your protest. Dance with rage. Dazed’s spring/summer issue celebrates the creatives devoted to telling their own truth, even at the risk of being divisive.
On the covers, Anohni holds our eyes open to painful realities in the most radical departure of her career, Abbey Lee confronts her modelling past head-on in Nicolas Winding Refn’s feverish hyper horror The Neon Demon, and Grace Wales Bonner and Harley Weir journey east for a poetic meditation on masculinity in India. Also fronting the issue, Anna Ewers is moonstruck in Comme des Garçons’ empowering SS16 Blue Witches collection as lensed by Paolo Roversi, while Paul Hameline is the face of Prada’s deeply human protest for AW16 in a shoot by Willy Vanderperre.
The covers
Anohni: The transcendent songwriter talks “dancing with rage” on her apocalyptic new album Hopelessness, in an intimate interview with contributions from longtime collaborator Riccardo Tisci
Grace Wales Bonner: Reflecting the nuanced masculinity of her creative vision through the people and places of India, the designer teams with photographer Harley Weir and Tom Guinness for a poetic travel journal
Season of the Witch: How the witch was reclaimed as a symbol of female power, with contributions from Tavi Gevinson and Simon Costin, plus a spellbinding look at Comme des Garçons’ SS16 collection from photographer Paolo Roversi
Prada: Led by Paul Hameline, Willy Vanderperre captures the faces of Miuccia Prada’s powerful protest for AW16 menswear
The Features
Rick Owens: The design visionary and self-described “concrete cupcake” talks us through his timeless ambition, as Paul Kooiker captures his unforgettable SS16 vision of women supporting women
Alice Glass + Allison Wolfe: In a rare interview, the former Crystal Castles frontwoman opens up to her riot-grrrl heroine, Allison Wolfe, about breaking her silence on abuse, and learning to trust in the power of her own voice
Tommy Genesis: Meet the Awful Records affiliate and fetish-rap renegade championing sexual self-reliance as artistic creed
The new wave of Paris: Pierre-Ange Carlotti captures the restless spirits of Paris’s new DIY renaissance in a special portfolio of creatives including Clara 3000 and Ta-Ha
Natasha Stagg + Chris Kraus: The first-time novelist and the radical Semiotext(e) editor talk fantasy, failure and almost-fame
Looking for Love: Revisiting his seminal series from the 1980s, Tom Wood presents unseen images of revellers’ after-hours exploits at Liverpool’s infamous Chelsea Reach club
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