A MAGAZINE N°C (A Magazine Curated by) Hussein Chalayan

“N°C (2002) featuring Hussein Chalayan was the third A Magazine, initiated by Walter Van Beirendonck and art directed by Paul Boudens for the 2001 Landed Geland fashion festival in Antwerp. It followed the earlier issues N°A featuring Dirk Van Saene and N°B featuring Bernhard Willhelm, and it was followed by N°D and N°E Magazines before A Magazine Curated By Maison Martin Margiela was released in 2004. Originally conceived as Belgium’s first fashion magazine, A Magazine Curated By quickly gained international acclaim for its intimate perspective into the minds of the world’s inspiring fashion designers working today.”
/ (“N°A Featuring Dirk Van Saene was het eerste nummer van A Magazine, uitgegeven op initiatief van Walter Van Beirendonck en ontworpen door Paul Boudens voor het Mode 2001 Landed-Geland modefestival in Antwerpen in 2001. Het werd gevolgd door de nummers N°B, N°C, N°D en N°E Magazines, waarbij oplopend de letters van het alfabet werden gebruikt. Vanaf 2004 verschijnt het tijdschrift steeds onder de naam A Magazine Curated By. Het eerste nummer onder die nieuwe naam was A Magazine Curated By Maison Martin Margiela.”)






(of the full & original collection of these rare fashion magazines I have still available for sale:  N°A Dirk Van Saene, N°C Hussein Chalayan, N°D Olivier Theyskens, N°E Viktor & Rolf)


This third issue of the ‘ABCDE’ Magazines was curated by designer Hussein Chalayan and is a rare collector’s item.


Contributing editors: Cathy Horyn, Patti Smith, Richard Bush, Jane How, Cat Power and Ronald Stoops among others.

• In an excellent second-hand condition!
• 192p - EN - 23x29.4cm - softcover

"Coffee cup reading appeals to the imagination. IS about immigration. In countries where stimulating fantasy is part of the culture, children from an early age on are initiated in the art of coffee cup reading by grandmothers, aunts, women. It is an exercise in thinking, perceiving, imagining. Looking for words to say the unspeakable, writing depictions and picturing stories, predicting the future and imagining things to be when you don't know the whole picture.


Hussein Chalayan has his roots in such a culture. And he was a good pupil. What he 'sees and reads' - and appropriates - in the coffee cup is a paradoxical comment on how we choose to perceive things. NoC shows his fascination for transitional states such as travelling, anger, love, growth, ageing, parenthood, meditation, loss. Or for aeroplanes, airports, transactional places. For children who fantasize about a war or who have really lived through one. For the way a blind person sees and silence becomes audible. For music as an image and the way an incidence of light can change our perception of a face, a scenery. NoC is about how we perceive something when some senses are missing, about what we don't see, the blind spots, the intangible elements.




Read N°C as a manifesto, a declaration of love, a fashion magazine, a diary, a prediction, a scenery, a piece of music or a poem. NoC is all this and more. Because we invite you to fill in the blind spots with your imagination."


Wordt verzonden (nationaal tarief) of ook mogelijk om af te halen in Gent of omgeving Ronse en Oudenaarde ook mogelijk.