A Magazine Curated by

A Magazine Curated By extends an annual invitation a leading fashion designer, fashion group or house to guest edit or develop and showcase exclusive content for the magazine in a way that expresses their cultural and aesthetic values. 

Each issue celebrates this designer’s ethos: their people, their passion, their stories, emotions, fascinations, spontaneity and authenticity. The first A Magazine (under a different, slightly unusual numbering scheme) was N°A in 2001 featuring Dirk Van Saene, initiated by Walter Van Beirendonck and art directed by Paul Boudens for the Landed Geland fashion festival in Antwerp. It was followed by N°B, N°C, N°D and N°E Magazines before A Magazine Curated By Maison Martin Margiela was released in 2004, and has followed in this format ever since. 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.

About Issue #28 of A Magazine Curated By from the publishers:

The 28th issue has been curated by Willy Chavarria, Mexican-American designer and founder of his eponymous label.

Ten years since the founding of his eponymous brand, Willy not only recognises the power clothing and dress — and sometimes a bit of spectacle — have as a catalyst to amplify Chicano cultural heritage, language, music, art and religion, but that fashion also is a means to create social change in the fight for equal human rights, not only for Black and Brown people, but also for the working class, for LGBTQ+ people and for other marginalised groups facing bigotry and hatred. Willy leads with a confident and courageous step, living to his own commandments, virtues deeply imbedded by his upbringing and his sense of faith and moral compass.

This issue is a testament to the continued fight in the face of provocation and fear and to the acknowledgement of humanity’s limitless possibility and a hope for a better world. It is a call to look at suffering, to find those people who need a hand and to shine a light towards that darkness so that we can make it out, together. May this issue be your benediction for beauty, community, human dignity — sometimes a little laughter — but most of all for love.