Encens

Scenes from the best possible life. The title open the pages of ENCENS with an essay by ANGELO FLACCAVENTO on GIORGIO ARMANI’s visual bond for ALDO FALLAI photographs spanning over more than two decades. A title that summarize this new issue, intersected with memories fraying their breeze in each and every story.

ENCENS N50 - Fall/Winter 2023 

Celebrating ENCENS n°50. With a bigger in scale issue. Wrapped in a box together with a shirt stamped by an exclusive print designed for the occasion by NICCOLO PASQUALETTI. Inside the pages, a delve in outtakes and unedited photographic gems captured over 20 years by SYBILLE WALTER. Our long time contributors went into an anthropological evocation of their waking up moment to fashion. ANGELO FLACCAVENTO bring us back in his Italian childhood where the scarcity of informations made his imagination flows. CHRISTOPHER ANDREWS is tapping into his 1996 first trip to New York. A decisive an changing one. SERGE LUTENS transport us to Marrakkech to tell the stories behind his prolific solo for the sake of beauty. Scrolling the magazine, visual portfolios of our favourites designers abound. GIORGIO ARMANI, HED MAYNER, UMA WANG… the list goes on in this issue taking the shape of a new beginning.        

ENCENS N48, fall/winter 2022. A refresh issue. Four covers. Faces, womens, one of a kind characters. Opening pages dedicated to ISSEY MIYAKE. Celebrating through his uncharted point of view the diametrically opposed. With the urban black and white landscapes of MAX VADUKUL, the up to the skies bodies strikingly dressed in YOHJI YAMAMOTO. ‘If it ain’t moving, it’s dead’, quote ANGELO FLACCAVENTO. 

ENCENS N48, fall/winter 2022. A refresh issue. Four covers. Faces, womens, one of a kind characters. Opening pages dedicated to ISSEY MIYAKE. Celebrating through his uncharted point of view the diametrically opposed. With the urban black and white landscapes of MAX VADUKUL, the up to the skies bodies strikingly dressed in YOHJI YAMAMOTO. ‘If it ain’t moving, it’s dead’, quote ANGELO FLACCAVENTO. 

ENCENS N48, fall/winter 2022. A refresh issue. Four covers. Faces, womens, one of a kind characters. Opening pages dedicated to ISSEY MIYAKE. Celebrating through his uncharted point of view the diametrically opposed. With the urban black and white landscapes of MAX VADUKUL, the up to the skies bodies strikingly dressed in YOHJI YAMAMOTO. ‘If it ain’t moving, it’s dead’, quote ANGELO FLACCAVENTO. 

ENCENS N48, fall/winter 2022. A refresh issue. Four covers. Faces, womens, one of a kind characters. Opening pages dedicated to ISSEY MIYAKE. Celebrating through his uncharted point of view the diametrically opposed. With the urban black and white landscapes of MAX VADUKUL, the up to the skies bodies strikingly dressed in YOHJI YAMAMOTO. ‘If it ain’t moving, it’s dead’, quote ANGELO FLACCAVENTO. 

ENCENS N47, spring/summer 2022. A conversational issue. Trying to broaden perspectives in a gathering of mindful mindscapers. Starting around 1962 with an inside the story of JOHN BATES in an in-depth interview by DAL CHODHA. A fashion anthropology of the year 1984 of GIORGIO ARMANI dissected by ANGELO FLACCAVENTO. PETER SPELIOPOULOS and the shamanic conversion in molding sculptures rooted in soul. The allergic aversion of FRAN LEBOWITZ on embodying womanhood. SUZI DE GIVENCHY in a talk with MARK KENLY DOMINO TAN on how the dialogue beneath the dress is as essential as the dress itself. CLAUDE MONTANA and the praise of women dressed for an alternate universe. And HED MAYNER portrayal of a personal journey in clothes layering time and memories. 

ENCENS N47, spring/summer 2022. A conversational issue. Trying to broaden perspectives in a gathering of mindful mindscapers. Starting around 1962 with an inside the story of JOHN BATES in an in-depth interview by DAL CHODHA. A fashion anthropology of the year 1984 of GIORGIO ARMANI dissected by ANGELO FLACCAVENTO. PETER SPELIOPOULOS and the shamanic conversion in molding sculptures rooted in soul. The allergic aversion of FRAN LEBOWITZ on embodying womanhood. SUZI DE GIVENCHY in a talk with MARK KENLY DOMINO TAN on how the dialogue beneath the dress is as essential as the dress itself. CLAUDE MONTANA and the praise of women dressed for an alternate universe. And HED MAYNER portrayal of a personal journey in clothes layering time and memories. 

ENCENS N46, fall/winter 2021 revolve around those defining moments that are shaping our ways of dressing. With an in-depth on Anne-Marie Beretta living architectures by Angelo Flaccavento. Claudia Skoda inventing David Bowie new look in Cold War Berlin. Lutz Huelle and his breakthrough out of pandemic with a T-shirt. Stephanie Danan and Justin Kern in a talk with Dal Chodha on minimalism. Giorgio Armani round framed glasses scrutinized by Christopher Andrews. Hed Mayner outscaled shields. And the more than ten versions of turning the most basic shirt into a dig in the unknown by Django Tetteroo.

ENCENS N46, fall/winter 2021 revolve around those defining moments that are shaping our ways of dressing. With an in-depth on Anne-Marie Beretta living architectures by Angelo Flaccavento. Claudia Skoda inventing David Bowie new look in Cold War Berlin. Lutz Huelle and his breakthrough out of pandemic with a T-shirt. Stephanie Danan and Justin Kern in a talk with Dal Chodha on minimalism. Giorgio Armani round framed glasses scrutinized by Christopher Andrews. Hed Mayner outscaled shields. And the more than ten versions of turning the most basic shirt into a dig in the unknown by Django Tetteroo.

 
Cover by Francesco Brigida 

Contributors include: Jean-Paul Gaultier – Bill Gibb – Maryse Gaspard – Joan Juliet Buck – Marie Piovesan – Claudia Huidobro – Camille Bidault Waddington – Loc Boyle