n 1989, released its 752nd issue, the very first to be devoted entirely to art and exploring its lasting connection with fashion. The Marseillais sculptor César Baldaccini, known mononymously as César, for the cover. Celebrated for his work using metallic compression—including a nipple-shaped sculpture currently housed at Maison Azzedine Alaïa—the result was “Cube journaux. Titre L’Officiel.” A trompe l’oeil, cube-shaped sculpture, it is only 90 x 100 x 10 centimeters and is made of more than one hundred covers of which had been gifted to the artist for the project.
