A Bible, a Night Out, and a Magazine You Wear

Some weeks the pile of press releases actually yields something worth talking about. Three things landed recently that didn’t go straight into the bin.

Rebecca Sandbichler and Inga Schörmann spent what must have been an insane amount of time putting together the first issue of Circus Bookazine—350 pages, bilingual, a proper object rather than a disposable magazine. It reads like a fashion bible for people who actually think about fashion rather than just wear it. Agyness Deyn, Horst Meier, and Anne Feldkamp are among the contributors, philosophizing about Chinese models, the globalization of the industry, and the love of wool with the kind of candor that normally gets edited out. There’s something disarming about the sheer scale of the thing.

Ali Love grew up somewhere between alternative artist communities and the dancefloor, and Love Harder sounds like both at once. The standout "Smoke & Mirrors" is a full-throated disco-pop seduction that belongs in a room at 2 a.m., all mirrors and bad decisions. The record holds that energy without burning out—a properly constructed modern dance album, not just a collection of club-ready singles.

Then there’s T-Post, a Swedish operation running since 2004 on a premise so obvious it’s strange no one owned it earlier: publish your magazine as a T-shirt. Each issue is a limited-edition wearable carrying a design and a story, and the idea that a garment holds more narrative weight than a glossy page feels more true every year. Completely mad. Completely right.