VISIONAIRE SIXTY RELIGION

VISIONAIRE SIXTY RELIGION

GUEST EDITED BY RICARDO TISCI

IN COLLABORATION WITH GIVENCHY

For Visionaire’s sixtieth issue, the editors collaborate with Riccardo Tisci, the Artistic Director of Givenchy, to guest edit RELIGION.

« Visionaire Sixty Religion, was a truly important moment of reflection for me. Made, in my mind, by some of the most important creativ forces of our moment and some of the people I love the most, this collection of work celebrates religion, inner truths, inner dialogues moments which words cannot quantify. » Ricardo Tisci

RELIGION is Tiscis meditation on the theme of “religion ” as depicted by

photos and art commissioned and curated by Tisci specially for this issue. Images are featured in black and white with gold pages.

Independent of any divination, the issue’s theme draws inspiration from “religion” as a synonym for obsession, ritual, workhip, apparition and the celebration of humanity.

Visionaire 60 RELIGION comes ae a leather-wrapped 228-page hard-bound book. Inspired by a church altar piece, the case’s split doors open to reveal the black-on-black stamped book cover inside black plexiglass lined interior.

Fo the issue Marina Abramovic collaborates with Riccardo Tisci to depict her view of art’s relationship with fashion; Mert Alas  & Marcus Piggott photograph Lara Stone; Paolo Canevari envisions Franca Sozzani as a saint; Kar Lagerfeld photographs Carine Roitfeld; Berlinde de Bruyckere collaborates with Mario Testino on a series of nudes; Jefferson Hack curates Polaroids by Patti Smith; Inez van Lamswerde & Vinoodh Matadin re-envision “Lucy Fer” Nick Knight

and Katy England render a winged Kate Moss crucifix; Givaudan perfumer Yann Vasnier creates the smell of RELIGION; an much more.

Lea T by Giovanna Battaglia & Pierpaolo Ferrari

Danko Steiner and Ana Steiner and Jared Buckhiester

Visionaire is a limited edition multi-format fashion an art publication started in 1991.

It has featured the world’s leading artists, fashion photographers, designers,

filmmakers, musicians and cultural icons.

Limited edition 3000 numbered copies

Release date: June 2011

Price: US$ 425

Issues wil be distributed to select bookstore worldwide and will be available at Givenchy flagship stores.

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