During the spring season in Wellington, Florida, photographer Jeremy Everett spent a week following equestrian Alex Matz : mornings at the training facility, long afternoons preparing horses, weekends moving between arenas and performances. The portfolio is the portrait of an isolated and deeply immersive subculture, one now beginning to move beyond its closed circles and toward broader visibility. Matz appears here as the embodiment of a generational shift. With his matinee-idol looks, and obvious devotion to the sport, he feels far removed from the outdated mythology that has long framed equestrianism. He belongs to a new era, one where show jumping can finally be seen not as a relic of tradition, but as something athletic, psychological, cinematic, and unmistakably modern.
The fashion insert of this 15th volume was photographed by Marie Deteneuille, working alongside fashion editor Rae Boxer. They turned their attention toward youth and the unstable logic through which young people construct identity through dress. Clothes gathered over time, transformed through repetition, boredom, experimentation, and necessity.
This volume also contains a special insert dedicated to Loewe’s second collection designed by Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough, photographed by German artist Rosemarie Trockel. The famed artist occupies a singular position within postwar German art, emerging in Cologne during the 1970s, she developed a practice that moves fluidly between drawing, sculpture, photography, video, and installation while maintaining a sharp conceptual rigor. Photographed over two days with complete freedom to manipulate, rearrange, and recompose the looks, the resulting images move far beyond the conventions of a fashion story. The portfolio functions instead as an extension of Trockel’s broader artistic practice : severe, strange, psychologically charged, and resistant to stable interpretation.
Contributors : Rae Boxer, Marie Deteneuille, Jeremy Everett, Alex Matz, Rosemarie Trockel, Nicole White