Eye/LOEWE/You - ISSUE 17 [2022]

LOEWE, 2022 | 28 × 35 cm | Large Format | Edited by Jonathan Anderson

Issue 17 of Eye/LOEWE/You pushes Jonathan Anderson’s editorial project into a world of heat, excess and ecstatic visual noise. The opening sequence, photographed by Gray Sorrenti, is a kinetic tangle of bodies, water and colour — a kind of wet, neon bacchanal that sets the tempo for the entire issue. From Paula’s Ibiza imagery to club collages, from archival interventions to sculptural knitwear spreads, the magazine moves with the same restless energy that has made Anderson’s LOEWE a centre of contemporary fashion image-making.

Contributions Thue Nørgaard, Wang Lun, Pei Ko and Armin Heinemann shape a narrative that slips between documentary grit and staged fantasy. Every section feels like a different register of desire: sweaty, intimate, chaotic, tender, hyper-styled or deliberately disintegrating.

As with all LOEWE publications of this period, the issue reads less like a brand publication and more like a contemporary art object: a snapshot of a label thinking visually, freely and without commercial compromise.

Condition: Noticable wear to covers, especially the rear one, which is creased and warped, possibly due to moisture exposure. Interior very good, except for corner folds on a couple of pages. Despite its rough exterior, the magazine remains complete and fully legible — a solid reference copy of a rare issue that seldom appears on the market.