In photos: Lily-Rose Depp takes a front row seat at fashion’s funeral

If we were to sum up the current landscape of fashion’s print media, it might sound something like: fashion magazines are dead – long live the fashion magazine. A lot is being made of the fate of our humble style bibles, and, just like this phrase, there’s a confusing duality at play. We’re constantly advised that print magazines are a dying breed, as titles shutter and posts are left unfilled, yet more and more seem to be sprouting anew, the next generation of creatives enticed by the possibilities that physical media can offer. Sure, less people are buying magazines than, say, 20 years ago, but a strong and dedicated group of fashionphiles are forking out to buy the ones that do still exist. While we’re thankful for their continued service, is this dedication simply drawing out the inevitable death of the fashion magazine?

ALL-IN’s self-aware, seventh issue considers all this and more. The magazine (which also has its own ready-to-wear arm) has just launched its annual edition, and, ironically, it’s a eulogy to fashion magazines in the form of a fashion magazine. ALL–IN no. seven, “centres around the demise of the magazine,” and while the issue name is a cheeky reference to Condé Nast’s flagship mag, En Vogue looks markedly different than anything you’d spot coming out of those offices. “Each edition of ALL-IN takes the form of loose leaf sheets encapsulated in a different binding,” says co-Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Barron. “We like that with this format, individual images can be taken out of their original context, reshuffled, or live on someone’s wall rather than on a shelf.” As well as fostering reader interaction, the deconstruction is a clever reflection of the issue’s themes – the fashion magazine lays dying, and here it is in pieces before us.

Inside, presiding over the funeral is Lily-Rose Depp, shot by Lengua in a coquette-coded, Americana-tinged spread. As well as this, an essay on the Italian artist Cinzia Ruggeri delves into “the expansive spirit of her creativity, that made clothes, costumes, fabrics, furnishings” and more, while an interview with Swedish designer Ann-Sofie Back talks us through her singular fashion philosophy. Elsewhere, Lotta Volkova, Arca, Harley Weir, Michella Bredahl and Dal Chodha all make contributions to the publication’s seventh issue, as do writers Natasha Stagg and Stephanie LaCava. Seeing all these names gathered together, you can’t help but wonder if we’re missing something, and if the fashion magazine really is on the brink of demise. Barron has a simple and straightforward answer to that predicament. “The magazine has the potential of having another function than it used to”, he says, albeit quite cryptically.

ALL-IN issue seven is out now and available to purchase here.