Delhi by Ashish Shah
Delhi by Ashish Shah
New York by Drew Jarrett
New York by Drew Jarrett
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ISSUE #01
DELHI_NEW YORK
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This issue of CITY was born out of tension… the productive kind. Between cities and silences, bodies and images, memory and urgency.

In New York, fashion unfolds as movement, with garments shaped by the city’s pace, by desire, by freedom and friction. In Paris, we spoke with perfumers who work with what cannot be seen but never forgotten: scent as invisible architecture. In Lagos, with Akinola Davies Jr, images become acts of care, ways of telling stories that refuse simplification. With David LaChapelle, excess becomes language, beauty becomes critique, and spectacle is never empty. In Marseille, creation takes another rhythm, shaped by light, salt and time, where the sea insists, day after day, that beauty can be rough, patient and unresolved.

And then there is Delhi, not as a backdrop, but as a living body. Delhi is a city built on layers of history and contradiction, where creation is never abstract. It smells of rajnigandha flower at dusk and dust at noon. During our time there, pollution reached its peak, turning the sky opaque and breath fragile. And yet, creation did not stop. Dancers rehearsed through haze. Designers cut fabric through fatigue. Musicians sang anyway.

The voices gathered in this issue all share something essential: a refusal of ease. They work through doubt. They stay with contradiction. They believe that creation is not about providing answers, but about holding space for complexity.

CITY has always been about cities as states of mind. In this second issue, we look at cities not as destinations, but as forces, as places that shape how bodies move, how stories are told, how identities are formed and unformed.

This is an issue about staying present.
About insisting on nuance.
About creating, even when the air feels heavy.
K.P.




TABLE OF CONTENTS
PARIS
Fashion: The Center Moves, Zomer, 
Cinema: Eloy Pohu, 
Drinks: A New Kind of High.
The Modern Perfumers

LONDON
Cinema: eva yelmani, 
Fashion: dilara findikoǧlu, 
Clubbing, Architecture: Modernism Interrupted,  
Out: shaken or stirred, 
Food: Chishuru, Music: dry cleaning.
Postcard by Akram Kahn

NEW YORK
Fashion: Laquan Smith,
Design: Objects to live with,
Food: In Crust we Trust.
New York, New York

MARSEILLE
Festival: New Scenes,
Exhibition: Mothers, myths and everyday Miracles.
Marseille is a Flame
That Never Dies

SAN JUAN
Fashion: The Guayabera Reimagined, 
Sport: Bayamon in Full Force, 
Food: San Juan on a Plate.

Photo: Rewriting the west, Wellness: Float this Way.

DELHI
Delhi Inside

LOS ANGELES
David Lachapelle: Seduction & Salvation

LAGOS
Akinola Davies Jr.,
Cinema as refuge

MANCHESTER
FANCLUBS





COVERS
NEW YORK_DELHI
 Taylor Hill by Drew Jarrett, in New York, United States. Leather jacket by Celine. Styling by Célia Azoulay represented by The Wall group. Hair by Panos Papandrianos represented by Home agency  & makeup by Franck B. represented by The Wall group. Production: Supervision.

DELHI_NEW YORK
2. Chenna Reddy by Ashish Shah in Delhi, India. Shirt by Rkive City.




Head of publication
Germain Chauveau & Karine Porret

Creative director
Germain Chauveau

EditoriAL DIRECTOR
Karine Porret

Contributors
Célia Azoulay,
Audoin Desforges,
Théo GiacoMetti
Finn Gibson,
Drew Jarrett,
Simon Johannin,
Akram Khan,
Léa Laurent,
Saffron Miles,
Ashish Shah,
Alba Veronese

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