Talking about the future

My essay is done now and I have done quite a lot of research, reading in order to write it. I absolutely enjoyed the process and the topic of niche magazines and "Visionaire" was something that interests me very, very much. Going to LCF library and checking out old "Visionaire" issues was an amazing experience. I know my essay could have been better, if I would have managed to get a personal interview with Cecilia and that was the plan at first. I am very happy she agreed to answer my questions, but due to the holiday period I did not manage to get the answers to my questions on time. Still, in the period of twenty years, they have talked quite a lot about the publication, so it was only a question of me digging well enough to find all this information.
As this was the Fashion Futures course, I believe (and reading the interviews with magazine editors, I notice I am not the only one) that for the magazines to survive in the digital era there is only one way - to offer something exclusive, something that can not be found online, an experience. That is why I am so drawn to these artisanal niche magazines - they bring magazine publishing to art and to the future. I particularly loved the title of the book about "Visionaire", it is called "Dreaming in print: a decade of "Visionaire". I think that is what these people are doing: dreaming in print. And I find it very beautiful. It will be interesting to see how the magazines are going to evolve and maybe in 50 years for our kids will be hard to believe that those interesting objects are something that used to be plain printed paper magazines.
We will see.

An image from Visionaire #59 FAIRYTALE

Visionaire #47 Taste

Gus Van Sant for Visionaire issue #31 Blue

I'm in heaven!

Just saw a letter from Cecilia, she would love to answer my questions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"More like a readable piece of art, than a magazine"

I do not remember who...

This is the newest issue

Visionaire 61. Larger than life

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I love to talk and to write and most of the information I will be reading I guess will be online, so I decided it will be better for me to start my learning journal in the form of the blog.

So, I am doing a project about limited edition fashion magazines - not the regular magazines one would imagine. I particularly love and admire Visionaire publication (it comes out on quite a regular basis, so I am still calling it a magazine). I think the founders of Visionaire - Cecilia Dean, Stephen Gan and James Kaliardos are doing a really visionairy job there. I would love this project to be a case study of Visionaire, but we will see how it goes. Nilgin proposed I would write about limited edition magazines in general with a closer analysis of several of them, if I do not find enough information. Though I would love to concentrate on Visionaire and make a deeper analysis there. I tried contacting them today by mail, by facebook - they "liked" my post on their facebook fan page, so I am still hopeful :)

Visionaire 55. Surprise