"We were built on a sense of freedom that comes from when you start with nothing and can only afford to take risks, and when being at the very beginning means change is the only constant."
There’s a certain energy that surrounds the creation of an issue that marks two decades of doing so. A reverence for all that has come before: honouring provenance and the things that have inexplicably survived the past.
Yet, this is starkly set against a bubbling impatience to move forward, reject the inherited and stay in motion. An issue like this becomes an emblem of desire to transcend into the future. It comes with an intense preoccupation for what should come next. What once was, can no longer be. Or so it feels in this moment.
As the speed in which we adapt innovations and new habits is unprecedented, the notion of legacy has never felt more important. If the current state of affairs has taught us anything it is that legacy, unchallenged, has never been more dangerous. Modernity – which surely evokes something truly enticing, of which we should always want more and never stand to be without – relies on it being tested and reinvented. When this happens, there is a process of self-actualisation for us all.
In marking 20 years of this magazine these pages champion evolution above all else. Artists breaking boundaries, icons who stand by the work they are less known for than over the work for which they are renowned, a portfolio of 20 Australian creative minds that reflect the face of our generation and our new wave cover models – Akon and Anna – both on the precipice of so much. Could there be anything more energising than being on the precipice?
As we begin again in our new chapter, may this be our legacy. To be comfortable on the edge. Consistent in our ability to move forward, never with the intention to leave anyone behind. We were built on a sense of freedom that comes from when you start with nothing and can only afford to take risks, and when being at the very beginning means change is the only constant.
To those who have always supported us, we thank you deeply. And just think, if we manage to do it, you can too.
Experience the Legacy issue in its entirety this November, available on newsstands from Thursday 14 November 2024, and through our online shop. Find a stockist near you.
PHOTOGRAPHY Jack Grayson
FASHION Charlotte Agnew
MODEL Akon Changkou @ Merci Management
HAIR Kaizy
MAKEUP Abbie Nourse
ART DIRECTION Sarah Bassett
PHOTOGRAPHER'S ASSISTANTS Jakob Müller-Meernach and Paul Naophell
STYLIST’S ASSISTANT Johanna Vikblom
PHOTOGRAPHY Martina Bjorn
FASHION Hannah Cooper
MODEL Anna Robinson @ Next Models
HAIR Christos Vourlis @ Artists Unit
MAKEUP Gillian Campbell @ The Artist Group
MANICURIST Joanna Memmi @ Home Agency
PHOTOGRAPHER'S ASSISTANT Julius Bohlin
STYLIST’S ASSISTANT Kirsten Humphreys
CASTING Neill Seeto @ IMA Casting
