Buffalo Zine arrives in various incarnations that have included a special holiday 4-in-1 quadruple issue, a newsprint tabloid, a pair of conventional glossies banded together, a 352 page hardback and a mid-market home and interiors lifestyle mag. The magazine's photography-based fourteenth issue was (in our opinion) one of the stand-out publications about living with the 2020 pandemic.
Buffalo Zine always comes packed with intelligently commissioned contributions from a diverse roster of artists, but supercool or minimalist it is not. This hardcore diet of fashion, culture and sly humour is cleverly dressed up as something else altogether, offering a reading experience very different to the mainstream.
Here's the publisher's description for Issue 21:
'This issue was made without models, stylists, hair or makeup artists. Everyone who appears here belongs to the world we’re talking about – they work in fashion, or live around it, consume it, understand it. They are not outsiders dressed up as something else. The clothes come from both the brands that lent them to us and the people themselves; each look was put together in their own way. There was no script, no moodboard. What matters here is how style exists in real life, in the gestures. These are also the people we like – people who attract us, who we want around. We didn’t want to keep apologising for that.
In this issue, we also take the chance to reflect on 15 years of publishing, and to open up about financial struggles, dwindling brand support and the magazine’s unpredictable future. We open a new stage for Buffalo, one where fashion is approached from the inside out: honest, personal, and lived. A shift away from aspiration, toward presence. Away from image, toward relation. A space where what is enough, simply, is finally seen.'