Visionaire
Visionaire is an art and fashion publication that has come out in limited, numbered editions three times a year since spring 1991. Each issue has a specific format and theme around which prominent artists, designers, photographers, and others guests edit the publication. The New Yorker called it a "gallery in print"[citation needed] and W called it "the couture version of a magazine."[citation needed]
The publication is one of only two still remaining out of a 1994 Vanity Fair list of 10 "upstart" magazines to watch, alongside Surface (magazine).[1]
Visionaire also has a monthly, wide-circulation magazine called V, edited by Stephen Gan, the focus of which is art, culture, and fashion. Contributors include Tama Janowitz, Mario Testino, Mario Sorrenti, Stephane Sednaoui and Karl Lagerfeld. Interview subjects have included Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, and Norman Mailer.
In Fall 2003, Visionaire began publishing yet another magazine, titled VMAN, which aims specifically at the male audience. Its covers feature celebrity personalities such as Ryan Gosling, Josh Hartnett, Hayden Christensen, and David Beckham. VMAN magazine is published quarterly.
The magazine is sold at a starting price of $295 (£190 ca.) per issue. However, collectors are said to pay up to $5,000 (£3,500) for hard-to-find issues such as No. 18, which came in its own Louis Vuitton portfolio case.
In December 2007, Visionaire released an issue named Visionaire 53: Sound which comprises five 12" records featuring contributions from over 100 artists including David Byrne, U2, Michael Stipe, Courtney Love, Laurie Anderson, Cat Power, Adrock, Lee Ranaldo, Antony & the Johnsons, Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon, Malcolm McLaren, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Andrew W.K., Danger Mouse, Yoko Ono, Cerith Wyn Evans, Helmut Lang, Christian Marclay, Doug Aitken, Robert Wilson[disambiguation needed 
], Gary Hill, Sylvie Fleury, Vito Acconci, Mariko Mori, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, The Knife, Littl'ans, UNKLE, Animal Collective, SunnO))), Gang Gang Dance, DJ Spooky, Miss Kittin, Trevor Jackson, Towa Tei, Nigo, Hiroshi Fujiwara, as well as fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, and Stefano Pilati, and many others.[2] The compilation is largely experimental, including spoken word pieces, sound collages, and various other short sound phrases.
[edit] Issues
- 1. Spring
- 2. Travel
- 3. Erotica
- 4. Heaven
- 5. The Future
- 6. The Sea
- 7. Black
- 8. The Orient
- 9. Faces
- 10. The Alphabet
- 11. White
- 12. Desire
- 13. Seven Deadly Sins
- 14. Hype!
- 15. Cinderella
- 16. Calendar
- 17. Gold
- 18. Fashion Special
- 19. Beauty
- 20. Comme Des Garcons
- 21. Deck of Cards/Diamond
- 22. Chic
- 23. The Emperor's New Clothes
- 24. Light
- 25. Visionary
- 26. Fantasy
- 27. Movement
- 28. The Bible
- 29. Woman
- 30. The Game
- 31. Blue
- 32. Where?
- 33. Touch
- 34. Paris
- 35. Man
- 36. Power
- 37. Vreeland Memos
- 38. Love
- 39. Play
- 40. Roses
- 41. World (Special OnLine Feature)
- 42. Scent (Special OnLine Feature)
- 43. Dreams
- 44. Toys
- 45. More Toys
- 46. Uncensored
- 47. Taste
- 48. Magic
- 49. Decades
- 50. Artist Toys
- 51. Harmony
- 52. Private
- 53. Sound
- 54. Sport
- 55. Surprise
- 56. Solar
- 57. 2010
- 58. Spirit
- 59. Fairytale
- 60. Religion
- 61. Larger Than Life
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/28/LVG3V9UH0U1.DTL
- ^ Visionaire 53: Sound
