A city like NYC is always re-inventing itself… Any creative project at one point or another takes a different form and evolves to a higher state… All artists come to the conclusion they have to surpass themselves to find the absolute expression of their own truth…
Take the most elaborate technologies, or maybe just even Google, Facebook or IG, they all are in a constant development to reach a wider audience and better results… This is exactly how we, as the team of A PART Publication, felt : maybe time had come for something bigger! Bigger might not be the right word in what we are achieving today, but this is how it feels for us!
For 3 years, A PART has developed a beautiful creative family of artists, writers, musicians, photographers and stylists ( to mention just a few ) working together and all sharing their best work for the whole world to see. We have always poured on the pages of the Collector what makes our hearts beat: from old to new, from junior to senior, with the same respect and the same love! And yet we all felt publishing once a year was, in a way, too ephemeral.
We had much more to share and explore and as a result came the creation of, as we jokingly call it : “the little sister”, A PART Magazine!
We don’t think of the magazine, which we are to release twice a year from 2018 on, as a first issue but more like an extension of the Collector, sharing the same quality of productions and punk-ish energy, a platform like a binary star allowing us to develop more bounds with various creative fields and artists, and strengthen the ones already existing with “our family members”…
Just like the previous issues of A PART, the magazine will focus on what we think makes today: exalting youth and celebrating our icons, creating our own beauty standards, like an experimental oxymoron exploiting the literal, subjective and objective definitions of each subject… And most of all, a voice for the creativity and freedom of our contributors!
Minimal / Maximal came to us as an evidence: we wanted to represent the intrinsec link between the Collector and the magazine. Through the combination of both or treated separately, we looked into all their different interpretations from botanical gardens to sweaty underground parties, with the audio background of John Cage’s 4.33 silents in opposition to the visual musicality of Kraftwerk.
Like we have always done, this issue had a real and sincere, maybe even anti-freudian, wish to discover the meanings behind this turn of expression : from figurative to abstract art, from 5 to 86 years old talents, from VETEMENTS to Gucci, from luxury goods assumed to be “big city privileges” to visions of a rural countryside, the list could go on…
This is our vision of Minimal / Maximal…
/TEXT by Guillaume Boulez
XVSTRANGE
by XVSTRANGE
Broke
by Gabo Boza
The Participants
by MONA MORALI
BRAQUAGE
by BEN DRAME
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN X MARVEL
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN X MARVEL by FABIEN MONTIQUE
NIKA
by REBECCA DOROTHY
TROLL AROUND
by ELA KLINGLER
HOTEL BELLEVUE
by KAPTURING
UNDER THE SUN
by PIERRE-EMILE HAVETTE
LIGHT IS THE MOST OBSCENE SOUND
by TIMOTHY JOSEPH BOUÉ
IDA
by FLEUR CHARLESWORTH
DIFFERENT BREED
by GIULIO CAFASSO
YUJI WATANABE
by YUJI WATANABE
DYAD
by BALINT BARNA
CADILLAC
by ANNABELLE FOUCHER
NOSTALGIC MOOD
by IRINA BUNYATYAN
METAMORPHOSES
by ANSELME ALMA SERVAIN
FLOATING BREATHS
by MYRTHE GIESBERS
RODRIGA
by CONNY KIRSTE
STROLL WITH ME
by JULIA AVGUSTA MOROZOVA
SHOW GIRL
by ADRIANA PAGLIAI
M’AMA NON M’AMA
by FRANCESCO TANI & ANTONIO GIANCASPRO
CHANGING ELEMENTS
by MAXINE VAN ENDERT
SON & HEIR
by IVAN IVELJIĆ & OLESYA PARFENYUK
ARTIFICIAL PARADISE
by LOTTE THOR
FULLMOON
by MATHILDE STEULLET
ECRIN
by SASHA MONGIN
FLOWERS OF THE SEASON
by TAKUYA
THE DANCER
by CAMILLE LEPRINCE
HOME STORY
by SAEEDA SHABBIR
HOTEL ADAM
by KEMARA POL
ADAM
by SOICHIRO SUIZU
GOURMANDISE INSIPIDE
by PHILIPPE RODRIGUES
REVERSO
by JOHN CHEVALIER
MYTHES
by SASHA MONGIN
PERVERTED TIME TRAVELER
by MASA
CAREFREE CHILDHOOD
by USSI’N YALA
DICHOTOMY
by SILVIA ROCCHINO & PAULINE RAYBAUD
DEFENCE
by SACHA BALTI
IT’S A COWBOY STORY
by KEVIN FÉLICIANNE
WOMEN IN SPORTS
by HUGUES LAURENT & VERONIKA DOROSHEVA
MAISON VALENTINO ESSENTIALS
MAISON VALENTINO ESSENTIALS BY PIERPAOLO PICCIOLI
TIRMAX
by SCOTOMALAB
TODAY AS YESTERDAY
by JUAN CAMILO RODRIGUEZ, NICOLAS SERBAN & CARMEN TRIANA
A SWAN IN DEEP WATER
by NDA
TOMORROW WILL NEVER COME
by AYLEN TORRES