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L'officiel
PUBLISHERS Marie-José Susskind-Jalou, Maxime Jalou CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Benjamin Eymère GLOBAL DEPUTY CEO Maria Cecilia Andretta GLOBAL DIGITAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Joshua Glass CHAIRMAN CHRISTOPHER BROWN CONSULTING GLOBAL CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER Ste
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In this Issue
WRITER “Legends Deserve Flowers” “Celebration is better late than never, but it is imperative to nurture and support us Black artists throughout our lives in order for us to be able to fully stop and smell the roses.” PHOTOGRAPHER “Growing Up Andra D
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Free BIRD
Before Phoebe Bridgers was smashing guitars in custom Gucci on Saturday Night Live and collaborating with indie legends like Conor Oberst, she played bass in Sloppy Jane, the alt-rock outfit fronted by her high school best friend, Haley Dahl. Though
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Legends deserve FLOWERS
Some of us are born to be bridges—connections between what came before us and the futures we are destined to create. James Barnor is one of the most important bridges of our time. He is a living archive, a link between the birth of photography in Wes
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HEAD Rush
In the November 1973 issue of Esquire, a car built by the artist Pippa Garner muscles along California’s highways, across the Golden Gate Bridge, and through the surrounding suburbs. The car, a ’59 Chevy, is designed to look as if it were about to cr
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L’100
For this issue, which marks more than one full year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to focus on the concept of The Family: Something that we all confront and reflect upon day after day. In the weeks and months of lockdowns across the globe, we al
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GROWING UP Andra DAY
Andra Day is not Billie Holiday, except when she wants to be. And lately, she’s wanted to be. Her leading role in Lee Daniels’ film The United States vs. Billie Holiday has kept her channeling the jazz singer all the way through awards season. Her so
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FAMILY Affairs
Family photos are some of our most precious possessions. Whether they are made to be seen or kept private, the material is as important to those captured as those it affects. Reviewing the cells of this social body, four particular photographers from
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DECODING Domesticity
In 1996, Americans with Internet access spent less than 30 minutes a month online and Google didn’t yet exist. It was the year Tupac was shot, JonBenet Ramsey was strangled, and Bill Clinton was re-elected for a second term as president. It was also
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LIFE As A Sitcom
Definition is the first problem when one is to comment on sitcoms. What is a sitcom? Where do the boundaries lie? If we are to say that Friends is the absolute sitcom, one is left to wonder whether it constitutes a genre of its own. The etymology of
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Fasion IMITATES Art
Some may reject the notion that an object meant to be consumed could be considered art. However, there is no denying that a beautifully constructed garment created by the hands of a couturier can elicit the same response as that from a master work of
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Paternity LEAVE
Conceptual art rarely commands an audience of 200 million. It’s an eye-watering figure that exceeds even Marina AbramoviĆ’s world-famous staring contest at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Yet in 1987, the feminist art duo Polvo de Gallina Negra
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ROOM to GROW
The exhibition Italy: the New Domestic Landscape, which debuted at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1972, was one of the most seminal shows in the field of design. Conceived by curator Emilio Ambasz, it introduced a group of Italian thinkers,
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The Sculptural Silhouette Solidified Fashion As An Art Form.
Fashion and art both sit at the heart of Frenchness, and sculpture has influenced much of French fashion across generations. The columnar silhouettes of antiquity may predate the birth of L’OFFICIEL, but Paul Poiret, one of the magazine’s first star

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