System launches its Issue 20.

System launches its Issue 20, featuring Saint Laurent cover stars CEO Francesca Bellettini and creative director Anthony Vaccarello in conversation about the brand’s €3 billion success story.

Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine

System launches its Issue 20, featuring Saint Laurent cover stars CEO Francesca Bellettini and creative director Anthony Vaccarello in conversation about the brand’s €3 billion success story.

System launches its Issue 20, featuring Saint Laurent cover stars CEO Francesca Bellettini and creative director Anthony Vaccarello in conversation about the brand’s €3 billion success story.

‘Never ever compromise the brand’ says Saint Laurent CEO and cover star, Francesca Bellettini. Which, when you have a name as alluring and storied as Saint Laurent, would seem like common sense.

In a wide-ranging conversation, Bellettini and fellow cover star and creative director Anthony Vaccarello discuss their respective paths towards the hallowed Parisian house, their duty to prepare the terrain for the next generation, and why it’s sometimes best to ignore the €3 billion success story they’re making there. Interview by Jonathan Wingfield.

‘Chic, no? After every season Anthony and I look at each other and say: Chic, no?’ Photographer Juergen Teller presents a portfolio of his photographic journey with Saint Laurent since 2019.

Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine

Also in System’s 350+ page issue:

‘There are more rules to push against in menswear.’ How Martine Rose and her best friend and stylist Tamara Rothstein take their inspiration from lived experiences, not moodboards. Interview by Murray Healy. With photographs by Oliver Hadlee Pearch and styling by Tamara Rothstein.

‘I am not a fashionable person.’ In a rare interview to mark his eponymous label’s 30th anniversary, Junya Watanabe reflects on nostalgia, the avant-garde and his own sense of enigma. Interview by Alexander Fury. With photographs by Johnny Dufort and creative direction by Junya Watanabe.

Plus, a retrospective of Junya Watanabe runway archives from 1993-2022. Ten key collections explored by an all-star cast. Interviews by Rahim Attarzadeh.

Chinese casting director Denise Hu on bridging the gap between local identity and Western model standards. Interview by Blake Abbie and portrait by Yi Tuo.

At La Cambre Mode[s] fashion school in Brussels, it’s about the Stockman and sewing machine, not the iPad or 3D printer. Interviews by Marta Represa and photographs by Jorre Janssens.

How privateness is possibly the most Venetian quality that the very Venetian jeweller Attilio Codognato possesses. By Angelo Flaccavento and photographs by Juergen Teller.

‘Pasolini costumes are monuments.’ Curator Olivier Saillard on the Pier Paolo Pasolini costume archives and their discreet influence on fashion. Interview by Thomas Lenthal and photographs by Astra Marina Cabras.

Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine
Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine

Having fought to retain ownership of his name, Haider Ackermann is back, juggling couture with sportswear. Interview by Jerry Stafford and portrait by Juergen Teller.

Raul Lopez opens up about the ‘urban dystopia’ of his childhood in 1990s Williamsburg, the salvation he found through the ballroom scene, and how he’s turned Luar into the hottest New York fashion label in years. Interview by Rana Toofanian. With photographs by Philip-Daniel Ducasse and styling by Kyle Luu.

Elsewhere, System invites downtown New York legend, founder of Paper magazine, and self-prescribed ‘cultural disrupter’ Kim Hastreiter to speak with Silvia Venturini Fendi, Kim Jones, and Marc Jacobs, as well as her selected cast of idiosyncratic New Yorkers to gossip about the city they call home. Photographer Collier Schorr captures them all with their choice of Fendi Baguette with styling by Katie Burnett.

‘I love this one!’ Hermès Spring/Summer 2023 accessories, as chosen by ten of our favourite stylists. Photographs by Charles Negre.

Creative director Dennis Freedman and photographer Juergen Teller revisit the 11 seasons when they took New York institution Barneys out on the road for a series of era-defining print catalogues. Interview by Thomas Lenthal.

Giorgio Armani answers Loïc Prigent’s ‘Life Lessons Questionnaire’.

Plus, Elise By Olsen’s mission to assemble the world’s largest fashion library; Jefferson Hack on how his ‘cultural-resistance movement’ launched a thousand careers; and Odunayo Ojo on how producing videos in his bedroom made him the Fashion Roadman.

Meet the Saint Laurents! - © System Magazine

System Issue 20 is accompanied by an exclusive Casablanca print supplement entitled ‘Futuro Optimisto’. Celebrating founder Charaf Tajer’s idealistic vision of beauty. With photographs by Zhong Lin and styling by Ola Ebiti.

System is available at your local quality magazine store from January 23rd.

Also available online, click here to order your copy.