Last Friday in Paris, AnOther Magazine and Tatras joined forces to host an epic event to celebrate the Japanese label’s new collaboration with artist Giovanni Leonardo Bassan. Here’s what happened
Earlier this month, AnOther Magazine launched the Autumn/Winter 2024 issue with an array of covers led by a monstrous theme. “[Monsters] are the vessels that not only hold but also enable us to escape from our collective anxiety and they continue to be objects of our collective fascination,” writes editor-in-chief Susannah Frankel in her editor’s letter. But the ‘monster’ can also denote something large, grand, or abundant, which is precisely what Friday’s (September 27) celebrations were, as we joined forces with innovative Japanese fashion brand Tatras, who shared their collaboration with artist Giovanni Leonardo Bassan with an event during Paris Fashion Week.
Amid the serene and organic decor of Ogata Paris, the venue in the Marais district known for its brilliant Japanese teas and authentic kaiseki cuisine, the stars aligned as flocks of friends, family and VIP guests came together to celebrate this unique collaboration of fashion, art and culture.
Attendees reflected that fusion, too, with AnOther’s Jefferson Hack, Susannah Frankel, Katie Shillingford and Alex Fury welcoming guests including designers Ludovic de Saint Sernin and Martine Sitbon, musician Moses Sumney, super stylist Camille Bidault Waddington, creative director Marc Ascoli and previous AnOther Magazine cover star, multimedia artist, dancer and choreographer MJ Harper.
Guests danced and chatted as ambient and progressively more pounding DJ sets from Lsdxoxo, Pandora’s Jukebox and Coucou Chloe lit up the floors late into the night. Spotted in the throngs were Nick Grimshaw and his movement director boyfriend Meshach Henry; model Anna Cleveland; art curator and historian Chris Dercon; photographers Louie Banks, Kito Muñoz, Kenny Germé and Jebi Labembika; jeweller Lorette Colé Duprat; fashion industry heavyweights Janet Fischgrund, Nathalie Ours and Adam Iezzi; stylists Giovanni Dario, Edem Dossou, Niki Pauls and Kk Obi; DJs and musicians Lovefoxy, Hen Yanni and Simone Murphy, and editors including Dazed’s Emma Davidson, Marios Mystidis and AnOther’s Rebecca Perlmutar.
It didn’t take long for an excited crowd to form at the door, where upon entering, guests were offered a seemingly endless supply of delicious foods, from beef shabu-shabu to tamagoyaki, sashimi, temarizushi, crisp strips of chicken kara-age, vegetable korokke and some warming miso soups. At the adjacent table, three dapper mixologists whipped up a specially curated made-to-order menu of cocktails at lightning speed, including a Scarlet Japanese Bitter Negroni and a particularly popular Umeshu Tomoari Sour. In the main space hung a suspended masterpiece from Tatras x Giovanni Leonardo Bassan’s collaboration – a stylish black bomber jacket displaying Bassan’s timeless art, a wearable canvas.
Upstairs there was an opportunity to see some of Tatras’ designs up close, where four unique pieces of outerwear were tied up and suspended on the wall like pieces of contemporary art. Founded in 2007, and known for its timeless and transversal approach to fashion, which blends Italian craftsmanship with Japanese innovation, the fusion results in sleek, functional, and stylish outerwear that stands out for its attention to detail, superior materials, and innovative construction techniques. With art and a modern intellectual approach to living at the brand’s core, Bassan’s bold collaboration with Tatras blends seamlessly with the ethos of the Japanese label, representing an exciting dialogue between the avant-garde and the timeless.
That intersection made the event quite unforgettable to guests who, after a long evening of partying, picked up their copies of AnOther’s A/W24 issue, burrowed them in their bag of complimentary goodies from Tatras, and set off into the chilly Parisian night.
