It is hard to fully express the madness involved in founding a magazine dedicated to craftsmanship during a global financial crisis. There was not a number-crunching financier or even a money launderer anywhere in the world who would have backed it, however much they might have wanted to read it.
If it were going to be’s flag is still aloft as we sail a thousand tributaries to find interesting stories to tell and wonderful people to profile. Wherever we have gone, craft has been at the centre of our purpose. And as long as there are men and women prepared to use their hands to outperform anything that technology is capable of making when it comes to clothing, accessories and art, will be here to celebrate it. There’s no such thing as an A.I.-handmade shoe, and nor do I think there is a desire for one. Let our reporting stand as a riposte to this latest, slightly unnerving, epoch in the human story.
