Everybody has some form of daddy issues. Fifteen-year-old teenagers are extremely prone to them. They revolt against and complain about the very figures they depend on. Fifteen years ago, we imagined and created a very different magazine to the one published today.
Children rarely turn out the way you imagine them. They end up teaching you unexpected truths about yourself. Along the way, you accept every imaginable defeat and proceed to the next stage. It’s a humbling process. You learn to rely on many others—“fairy” uncles and aunts and godmothers—to survive and evolve. In the end you all bond into a strange, chaotic society.
In this issue, Filip Niedenthal pays tribute to his father’s photographs, while Luke Edward Hall talks to Nicolas Vamvouklis about his inspirations, and Nanténé Traoré tells us how fatherhood has influenced his career. Josh Hickey shares his Daddy Diary, Angelo Flaccavento asks, “What’s a daddy in any case?” and Thomas Persson reflects on growing up with journalist parents. Walter Van Beirendonck takes us back to his Dare Devil Daddy collection and Duran Lantink, in turn, tells us what it was like growing up admiring the work of such designers. We also talk with acclaimed Canadian film director Bruce LaBruce on the occasion of his latest film, The Visitor, and interview Jean-Baptiste Guillot, founder of French record label, Born Bad Records, to hear about the project’s origins.
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