To coincide with the launch of AnOther 13 – the magazine’s first fragrance in collaboration with Le Labo – AnOther commissioned four artists to reinterpret the hand-blended scent in their own style.
With a beautiful intricacy and an incredible attention to detail, Paris-based illustrator Cédric Rivrain creates the most exquisite, elegant and delicate drawings. His signature style and sense of fashion have earned him commissions from the likes of John Galliano for Dior, Chanel, Chloé and Sonia Rykiel. Using pen, ink and pencil, Rivrain worked in three steps for his take on AnOther 13, to reflect, he says, “the process of the fragrance escaping the bottle to slowly reach your mind after bathing your skin”.
Inspired by the strength of the sharp smell and the intense feeling he got from it – which he describes as “dark and deep but violently happy” – Rivrain kept every detail in mind, even choosing to illustrate on the same kind of material as the packaging: “I love the brown box,” he says, “it instantly gave me the desire to want to use something similar to draw on.” Endeavouring to maintain the same “delicacy” and “emotion” of his usual drawings here, Rivrain explains what he hopes viewers get from his interpretation of the scent:
“I want the reader to feel the same kind of intense pleasure I felt in smelling it. I love it when a fragrance makes you feel unique and has a personal touch in it. It is like the perfume and your skin are having this deep connection, which is quite rare to find actually. The colours and lines have to render the same feeling on the paper as when you open the box and apply the perfume. That is why I depicted the ‘juice’ in those lines playing with the body. Essentially I wanted my piece to be about a romance between one girl and AnOther 13.”
Text by Lucia Davies
See how artists Alexandra Hughes, Chris Lee and Wayne Liu reinterpreted AnOther 13.
