In the age of digital media, Stephen Gan has something rare to celebrate: the 20th anniversary of his magazine.
In the 20th anniversary issue of V magazine, the unapologetically fashion-focused and oversize glossy Gan cofounded in 1999, there’s a large spread photographed by Nick Knight titled “A Celebration of Print,” set off on the intro page with a giant “V” made out of Swarovski crystals . The pages that follow show model after model wearing one-off garments made with the use, in one way or another, of pages from old issues of the magazine.
“When I started out, I felt like all of my friends were going to start magazines, it was just the thing to do,” Gan said. “Over the years, it’s become rarer and rarer. It’s challenging but I’m grateful.” In thinking about starting the magazine in the late Nineties, Gan said he really only consulted three people whom he thought, with their divergent situations, would have opinions just as divergent. One was the late Karl Lagerfeld, “already around forever”; one was Hedi Slimane, “just about to join Dior Homme;” one was Adrian Joffe, who with his wife Rei Kawakubo was “leading the avant-garde” with Comme des Garçons. But all ended up saying pretty much the same thing to Gan.
And this path, one focused on a niche audience and fewer advertisers, Gan was happy to go down. His father had an independent printing business, from books to notebooks, instilling in Gan the idea that “print was something precious.” He was “horrified” when he first learned that big magazine publishers were known to send thousands of unsold copies of their magazines to be recycled every month to make sure circulation numbers stayed up.
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