Some thoughts before the issue launches.
This time last year, we sat down to imagine what the future of HALOSCOPE could — and should — look like. We stopped asking each other what we wanted and started asking each other what we needed. The lot of us, myself included, grew up on fashion shoots, go-sees, and in the backs of newsrooms. We were paying acute attention to how the industry we loved was sliding into stasis. Then, we realized what we were really yenning for: a new kind of fashion magazine, free of editorial stipulations, designed for a new generation of young people.
While we’ve released fabulous print issues in the past, this is our first print issue as HALOSCOPE 2.0, the Digital (and now print!) Fashion Bible — and is numbered as such. Keeping with our longstanding editorial strategy, we’re theming our print issues, too. This is GLOSS.
Eccentric. Off-center. Whimsical. There’s a reason we’re attracted to those who operate on fashion’s cultural periphery: from the late Vivienne Westwood to Christian Lacroix to the playful photography of Yuanbo Li.
The Gloss Issue explores how we find whimsy, mischief, and possibility in everyday life — from encounters with strangers on 3 A.M. subway rides, the parties that turn into bacchanal delirium, and the fashion fairytales we find ourselves constructing.
I am so happy to share Gloss with you and celebrate this moment with the entire team. To everyone who worked on this issue — including the brilliant Gabrielle Vaillancourt, who first pitched me Gloss back in 2021 — from the bottom of my heart: thank you, I love you. Let’s do this.
Love,
Savannah x