Over two decades ENCENS has earned its place amongst one of the most forward thinking fashion magazines.
ENCENS is focused on the designer rather than the brand to allow each issue more eye-catching and diverse content. It treats fashion very much as an art form, an art object even, and often links to fashion's past with evident homage in its photography shoots. At once elegant and dynamic, the magazine was redesigned from issue 39, going from large format to a smaller, bookish format.
About Issue 54, from the publisher:
This new issue of ENCENS delves into attitudes. The attitude of the feminist workaholic woman dressed in a flash in July 1977 Vogue of GRACE MIRABELLA (written by RHYS EVANS). The attitude of ISAAC MIZRAHI, the American designer who staged attitude front and center of his work, going as far as playing the main role in a movie about and only him (written by DAL CHODHA). The attitude of KARL LAGERFELD and his tailor CARACENI, where intimacy intersects with public figure (even involving his lover JACQUES DE BASHER): written by ANGELO FLACCAVENTO. The attitude of GIORGIO ARMANI styling his many moons ahead campaigns photographed by alter ego ALDO FALLAI (written by PHILIP CLARKE). The attitude of wearing the visionary head-to-toe looks of CLAUDE MONTANA as if they had been made yesterday (which, in fact, they could well have). And the attitude of obsessively building wooden shelters of JEAN-GUILLAUME MATHIAUT, where once inside, one feels like the monk of some beige religion (written by PHILIP CLARKE).
