Let the paper glide through my fingers

Of course, now there's the iPad and everybody will read the newspaper on a screen ect... But, as interesting Steve Jobs' tablet can be, a screen will never ever replace the quality of the paper.

So here's a small selection of quality magazines that, I hope, will last for ages!

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LURVE Magazine, edited by Lyna Ahanda, is printed on sustainable paper, and the photos are extremely creative thanks to the work of Zana Bayne. This magazine is highly innovative and at the same time beautiful from the front page to the back cover, and moreover not crude at all (some wishful avant-gardiste magazines are so vulgar). 

It features a lot of my favorite designers and models.

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Encens Magazine edited by Samuel Drira and Sybille Walter, is almost perfect. It features awesome designers and the approach of the clothes in the shootings is excellent, it emphasizes the purity and the elegance of the designers featured in (such as Damir Doma, Haider Ackerman, Bruno Pieters). 

The vintage clothing section is mind blowing, there's a huge work done there; and it is wonderful that the magazine has so much success, shooting "old" clothes and not the season's clothes of the designers that will advertise in your magazine: that's what being independent should always be about.

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To compare Vogue Japan with all the other licenses in the world is like putting Hello Kitty next to a Rodin  sculpture. However, it could look perfectly good and be a contemporary piece of art.

That's totally how I feel about Vogue Japan: it is serious but it has also a very cute feeling sometimes. 

I also enjoy the fact that fashion is seen from a consumer point of view, which is not always as blasé as in some Vogue editions.

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Monocle, edited by the well-known Tyler Brûlé (ex-Wallpaper), is about, more or less, life in general: Politics, business, fashion, design, and advertising. All that well arranged in a clean layout with nice illustrations by Robert Hanson and with original topics; Monocle has its own view of how things should be and always tries to stick to it.

besides, it has totally integrated subtle advertising strategies and even has shops in important cities around the globe... Or how to be 200% analogic and tangible.

I guess the "old school" still has nice days ahead...!