SOME/THINGS ISSUE003 / FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE CONVEYS RELATIONSHIPS & EXPERIENCES BETWEEN PEOPLE, BETWEEN PLACES, & WITHIN OUR SOCIETY & CULTURE. IT EVOKES A FASCINATION FOR THE THINGS WE HAVE IN OUR LIVES, ESPECIALLY THE PEOPLE & PLACES THAT ARE A PART OF IT. ALTHOUGH A SLIGHT DEPARTURE FROM THE AUSTERE & MONOCHROMATIC AESTHETIC OF THE FIRST TWO BOOKS, FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE MAINTAINS A UNIQUE APPROACH TO CONTEMPORARY ART, CULTURE & FASHION, THIS TIME WITH A PARTICULARLY STRONG FOCUS ON PERSONAL HISTORIES. WHILE ESCHEWING AN OVERT SENSE OF NOSTALGIA, IT ACKNOWLEDGES PAST EXPERIENCES & PAST RELATIONSHIPS, & THE INFLUENCE THEY HAVE ON THE PRESENT.

The full line-up for ISSUE003 includes designers YOHJI YAMAMOTO, RICK OWENS, & OLIVIER THEYSKENS [NINA RICCI & ROCHAS]; former editor-in-chief of French VOGUE IRENE SILVAGNI; musicians JARVIS COCKER [PULP], BRETT ANDERSON [SUEDE], & WARREN ELLIS [NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS]; artists STEVE MCQUEEN [with actress CHARLOTTE RAMPLING], ZHANG HUAN, LEE BUL, PINAR YOLAÇAN, MARTIN D’ORGEVAL, DESIREE DOLRON, & MIGUEL RIO BRANCO; photographers JULIEN CLAESSENS, THOMAS DESCHAMPS, MOTE SINABEL [with acclaimed butoh performer TAKETERU KUDO], MILOSLAV DRUCKMÜLLER [interview with DEREK THOMSON], & JOHAN SANDBERG [featuring SUZANNE VON AICHINGER, 80’s fashion icon & JEAN PAUL GAULTIER muse], plus intimate portraits of BETONY VERNON from her boudoir-dungeon & discussion about her life & book THE BOUDOIR BIBLE. Post-face contributed by artist ROGER BALLEN.








ISSUE003 OPENS WITH MIGUEL RIO BRANCO’S INTENSE COLOUR IMAGERY, REVEALING THE SHADOWY SIDE OF BRAZIL, IN WHICH BEAUTY BECOMES BEAST, & DESIRE BECOMES MADNESS— A MULTITUDE OF REALITIES & CREEDS WITH FACES & BODIES MELTING INTO ONE ANOTHER— FRIGHTENING, YET ENTRANCING & FASCINATING.








INTIMATE PORTRAITS OF BETONY VERNON FROM HER BOUDOIR-DUNGEON & DISCUSSION ON THE PLEASURE TABOO.








CONTINUING THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HOUSE OF RICK OWENS & MICHELE LAMY, FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE PROVIDES A GLIMPSE INTO THE PRODUCTION PROCESS OF RICK’S NEW ALABASTER FURNITURE, SHOT IN THE INTIMATE SPACE OF THE ATELIERS WHERE THE PIECES ARE BEING HAND MADE.








FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE SEES THE CONTINUED RELATIONSHIP WITH PHOTOGRAPHER MOTE SINABEL IN A SPECIAL EDITORIAL FEATURING ONE OF JAPAN’S MOST ACCLAIMED BUTOH DANCERS, TAKETERU KUDO AS WELL AS MODEL MARCEL CASTENMILLER, KNOWN FOR HIS WORK WITH ANN DEMEULEMEESTER.








STILLS FROM ARTIST STEVE MCQUEEN’S FILM, CHARLOTTE— A TENDER & STRIKINGLY SEXUAL PROJECTION OF ACTRESS CHARLOTTE RAMPLING.





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