10 Reasons to Buy AnOther Magazine Autumn/Winter 2024

“As a cautionary figure, the monster has always been with us,” writes editor-in-chief Susannah Frankel, “from menacing beasts and fairytale creatures inhabiting ancient worlds to medieval demons and today’s hyper-sophisticated cinematic villains, they serve as portents and omens.” AnOther Magazine Autumn/Winter 2024 explodes the notion of the monster, exploring it inside out, archetypical and atypical. Coined by Jean Cocteau for Sarah Bernhardt, the ‘sacred monster’ denotes a talent whose achievements are sufficiently extraordinary as to be deemed humanly impossible. The term endures: those monsters walk among us and populate the pages of this issue. We celebrate their idiosyncrasies, their unusual elegance and their gargantuan talents. Here’s what to expect.

Almost 20 years since she first graced the cover of this magazine back in 2006, Winona Ryder returns in our cover story photographed by Craig McDean and styled by Katie Shillingford. “She was a journal-writing, inky-haired 14-year-old at the time, with a Walkman full of post-punk and a love of film noir,” when Ryder first set eyes on the script for Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice in 1987, writes Hannah Lack. Reprising the nostalgic 80s blockbuster, Burton’s new Beetlejuice Beetlejuice brings the malevolent stripe-suited ghost and his reluctant consort, Ryder’s Lydia Deetz, back to our screens.

Robert Eggers is at the forefront of a resurgence of interest in monsters. His forthcoming reiteration of Nosferatu, starring Bill Skarsgård, has been nine years in the making. In conversation, Skarsgård and Eggers deconstruct our fascination with the monstrous and macabre, unpacking what it takes to embody the hair-raising and infamous Count Orlok. Skarsgård is photographed by Sam Rock and styled by Agata Belcen.

On a break from filming Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, Mia Goth Zooms in from LA for a conversation with Tim Blanks. Together, they analyse her career, right down to the kernels of her performance in Ti West’s X trilogy, following the summer release of MaXXXine, the trilogy’s third and, according to Goth, final film. “Acting is the most elusive of the art forms, it’s like trying to grip smoke. You think you have it and then it disappears,” Goth tells Blanks. The mercurial talent shines in the new season’s collections, photographed by Colin Dodgson and styled by Katie Shillingford.

We bring together Phoebe Philo and Collier Schorr for the first time to create an exclusive and truly unique portfolio with photography by Schorr, styling by Philo and creative direction by both. The story features a broad cast of models, family and friends who wear Philo’s eponymous collection as it has evolved during its highly anticipated first year. Across careers that span three decades between them, Philo and Schorr have pioneered change through the empowerment of women and the exploration of the female gaze. For that they are an inspiration.

“To dumb monster down, it can simply denote the monolithic or gargantuan — the large,” writes Frankel in this issue’s editor’s letter. A thing of extraordinary size. This is a suitable description of the talent of Jun Takahashi, while the name of his label, Undercover, reflects his position as the quiet giant of the fashion industry. His expression of creativity at such scale is captured in a fashion editorial photographed by Oliver Hadlee Pearch and styled by Robbie Spencer. Takahashi is something of an authority on the subcultural – and on the monstrous. He edits our literary Document this season, curating a selection of the texts most formative to his creative identity. Including Murakami, Bowie, Lynch and more, their words have changed the way he views the world, he says.

AnOther Loves brings together our edit of the most desirable – and desirably monstrous - accessories of the new season, photographed by Ben Toms and styled by Katie Shillingford. The section also features Hodakova, 16Arlington and Tolu Coker. On the influence of childhood upbringings, creative obsessions and views to the sustainability and future of fashion, Ellen Hodakova Larsson speaks to Alexander Fury, Tolu Coker talks to poet and author Yrsa Daley-Ward and 16Arlington's Marco Capaldo speaks to Emma Hope Allwood.

For this season’s Art Project, we’ve worked with Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, the artists, musicians and technologists at the vanguard of creativity in artificial intelligence. They spoke with Hans Ulrich Obrist and curator Eva Jäger about their forthcoming show, The Call, opening at Serpentine North next month. To celebrate the show – exploring the training, and output, of AI models using data gathered from choirs around the UK – Herndon and Dryhurst created a new model from which to generate imagery for this groundbreaking cover story for AnOther Magazine. In this duo’s hands, this much-maligned medium has the potential to be a benevolent monster.

It is impossible to understand monstrosity without beauty’s subjective facets – an idea reflected across this issue’s editorials. Willy Vanderperre and Olivier Rizzo twist some of haute couture’s most iconic names into their singular take on mid-century classics. Meanwhile Anthony Seklaoui and Ellie Grace Cumming, and Brianna Capozzi and Emma Wyman, explore the sheer breadth of what ‘monster’ may mean, be that beautiful or beastly.

Discover the trends of the Autumn/Winter 2024 season, thanks to our illustrious creative teams, including Winter Vandenbrink and Molly Shillingford, Zac Bayly and Rebecca Perlmutar, Camille Vivier, Takashi Homma and Bianca Raggi, Sam Khoury and Jordan Duddy, Arnaud Lajeunie and Ursina Gysi, Mark Luckasavage and Ola Ebiti, Marie Valognes and Camille Bidault-Waddington, Keisuke Otobe, Joséphine Löchen, Gwenaëlle Trannoy and Morgane Camille Nicolas, David Sims, Zachary Handley and Paul Maximilian, Luca Khouri and Marika-Ella Ames, Robi Rodriguez and Raphael Hirsch, Zora Sicher, and Nell Kalonji.

AnOther Thing I Wanted to Tell You unearths the interests and inspirations of Lynne Ramsay, LA Timpa, Oliver Sim, Meriem Bennani and Hussein Chalayan, among others. This time with thanks to Lengua, who’s intimate photographs capture these multifaceted talents.

The Autumn/Winter 2024 Monster issue of AnOther Magazine is on sale internationally now. Buy a copy here.