Vogue Italia April Issue. Letter from the Editor

Many friends

Many friends have helped us in writing this book 
(freely adapted from the preface to “Orlando”, by Virginia Woolf)

Some creative products are the

fruit of individual talent. Others are the result of a collective effort. They grow and gain strength thanks to the contributions of people with different sensibilities and experiences. Without any doubt, Vogue Italia belongs to this second group. Every idea, every photo and every page of the magazine is the outcome of constant exchanges between the people who work on this publication. It’s the part of our job that I love the most: helping someone else’s ideas to develop, and seeing how my own ideas are strengthened and take shape when they’re challenged by the various viewpoints of my colleagues. We are a community, and at times like these, heaven knows how central the sense of sharing is to our lives.*

This month we’ve carried out an experiment. We called in a designer who, in his turn, has a great love and flair for surrounding himself with talented people, and we pooled our respective creative communities. What you are about to read is therefore the result of an encounter between the passions and people who play a role in the life and work of Kim Jones, and the large, slightly dysfunctional family of Vogue Italia. So yes, we can truly say that many friends have helped us in writing these pages.

* Read on the door of a school closed due to Covid: An invisible thread binds those who are destined to stay together. It may grow longer or shorter, or even become tangled. But it never breaks.

KIM JONES

I am thrilled to have such an amazing group of people work on this Vogue Italia project with me. I looked at people in fashion through to art and literature, and at all the things I love, and I wanted the issue to represent that. It’s people I admire and also people I know I will continue to admire in the future. Malick, for example, who is a brand-new photographer and super exciting, and the idea of him making such beautiful images for such a prestigious magazine was very inspiring. For me, growing up, Vogue Italia was the most exciting fashion magazine. I used to save up to buy it and search to find it in London as soon as it came out. So to be guest-editing an issue is really truly special.

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