Mainstream media might be struggling right now, but indie mags and small-run zines are flourishing in the face of creative adversity – from Polyester, to Boy.Brother.Friend, and loads, loads more, there’s something for just about everyone out there. Among them is Pull Letter, a biannual wedge of a glossy magazine founded by industry multi-hyphenate Jamie-maree Shipton.
Known as one of the busiest people in fashion, when Australia-born, London-based Shipton isn’t dashing about Paris with her Y2K-era digital camera, snapping fashion week’s best-dressed attendees, she’s styling shoots for the likes of Interview and Re-Edition, or creating scrappy collages for brands including Miu Miu. How she has time to breathe, never mind collate a magazine like Pull Letter is beyond us, but somehow she makes it work.
Now, the third issue of Pull Letter has landed, and this time Shipton and her cast of contributors assess the relationship between object and fashion, with shoots that transform furniture into wearable pieces of art, a deep dive into the work of subversive JW Anderson collaborator Abra, and an editorial which sees the OG 90s supermodels – including Linda Evangelista and Debra Shaw – turned into ceramic Royal Doulton-esque figures and dressed in the season’s hottest looks.
Elsewhere, elusive fashion figure and Jean Paul Gaultier model Pandemonia gets an interview, and Zomer designers (and Dazed fashion director) Imruh Asha and Daniel Aitouganov get as playful with words as they are with clothes in an inventive feature which spans the full issue. The rest of the pages are stuffed with yet more fab AW24 fashion from Balenciaga, to Prada, and beyond.