Stylist-cum-editor-in-chief Hissa Igarashi releases the 4th Issue of TWELV with Yoko Ono, Lake Bell, Gareth Pugh…,

 

Japanese stylist-cum-editor-in-chief Hissa Igarashi had to have some Tanuki-sized gonads; he uprooted from Tokyo to New York City, and amid a crashing print crisis, founded his own magazine TWELV and it’s now on its 4th issue and getting better. 

 

日本のスタイリスト兼編集長である、五十嵐ひっさはある偉業をなしとげた。東京からNYに生活の拠点を移し、そんな転機の真っ最中にTWELVという雑誌を立ちあげたのだ。そして4号目を向かえた今、どんどんクオリティをあげている。

 

 

It launched with such viral-worthy tactics as having “The OC” star Mischa Barton dressed as the Virgin Mary and always including a page where Igarashi makes couture dresses out of ordinary objects (iPad, TIDE detergent, and this time NYC metro subway cards).

 

This fourth issue, titled “MUSE” , needed no attention-grabbing tactics as the subjects interviewed in the issue can carry the buzz-weight themselves. There’s Yoko Ono, Gareth Pugh, Rick Owens’ wife Michele Lamy, actress Neve Campbell, Lake Bell, Goldfrapp, Fern Mallis, “The man repeller” and more. 

 

I loved the interview with gorgeous self-portrait artist Andrea Mary Marshall which introduced me to this eclectic woman.

 

 

 

 

You can order the magazine online for just 99cents or pick it up at a bookstore now in Tokyo and around the world!