System aims to convey the dialogues at the heart of fashion and the contemporary world – the conversations that everyone has about ‘what we do’, but that don’t always make it to print.

Our first issue focuses on fashion and those people who have worked their way into, around, and sometimes even against the system in favour of change.

Our guest editor Marie-Amélie Sauvé and cover star Nicolas Ghesquière epitomise the idea that fashion is only relevant when it’s moving forward. And as Ghesquière says in his first interview since leaving Balenciaga, to move forward you have to go back to work.

And that’s good advice.