It is the season for action.

After a year (and more) of lockdown and distance, Dapper Dan’s latest issue is dedicated to doing. To the energy of creativity, to the urgency of activity.

In issue 24, we revere the heart over mind. Sensual memories are evoked through Objects. David Zilber explores the ultimate emotive artefact: NASA’s Voyager Golden Record – a record of sounds from Earth that could communicate our planet to other species if discovered.

Essays by India Doyle and Kiriakos Spirou explore skin and touch, the former through an ode to bodies and impulse, while Spirou writes a sensual piece about the power of bath time.

An active life takes many forms, and in this issue critical thinkers, artists, fashion designers and dancers including Amelia Horgan, Ajit Chauhan, Daisy Collingridge, Nicolas Andreas Taralis, Benny Nemer, Euripides Laskaridis, Lenio Kaklea and Philippe Malouin share their creative practices as we explore what drives them.

In this issue, we’re on the move. In ‘Roadside’ Antoine Harinthe and Jack Borket capture curbside style. In ‘Heaver’ Vassilis Karidis and Nicholas Georgiou investigate the physicality of labour, and in ‘Arena’, Johan Sandberg and Chiara Ficola pay homage to the tactility of play in the sand. Plus Johan Sanberg and Paolo Zambaldi take fashion into sensory overload with two major series.

It’s a sensual issue, a tribute to what we’ve missed the most.

In issue 24, Dapper Dan looks forward to a time of total physicality. To a time of limitless action, tangible touch and bodily instinct.

In the absence of physical touch, the imagination flourishes. Spending time apart and away from each other, we crave connection and seek it in new forms.
Dapper Dan Magazine’s 23rd issue moves away from the real and the physical, and into the subconscious.

In essays on
Fashion as Cinema,
Your Wildest Dreams,
The Art of Solitary Pastimes
and
Small Albeit Grand Thefts,
we’re thinking about pathways to creativity, the power of desire, and the radical potential of space.

Through interviews with
writer and artist Panagiotis Chatzistefanou,
writer Caleb Azumah Nelson,
music producer Jim-E Stack,
restaurateurs Jeremy Chan and Iré Hassan-Odukale,
costume designer Sandy Powell,
artist Olivier de Sagazan,
and more
we explore passion and craft with intimacy and intrigue.

Through fashion imagery, portraiture, art and costume, the pages of our magazine expand the mind.
What you see is only the surface. The subliminal is sublime.

Dapper Dan’s 22nd issue sees menswear and philosophy unfold during unprecedented times. We form ideas, sentences, objects, garments and images into our magazine.

Our writers uncover the inimitable ideas of GmbH designers Serhat Isik and Benjamin Alexander Huseby, groundbreaking digital designer Jon Emmony and critically acclaimed filmmaker Matt Wolf.

Through the pandemic’s preferred means of online communication, architect Jack Self talks to Lara Johnson-Wheeler and Filep Motwary calls artist Berlinde De Bruyckere at home.

In the literary sphere, writer Paul Mendez discusses his debut work, Rainbow Milk, and British-born, Cypriot poet Anthony Anaxagorou calls out oppression and othering.
Each reforms language into art on the page, questioning the structure of words.

Objects—Margiela’s Tabi brogues, Sacai jewels, shoes by Camper and Jil Sander shirts—are at rest, while the bright young things in modelling move, restless before our photographers’ lenses.

Rebecca Solnit wrote, “Inside the word ‘emergency’ is ‘emerge’; from an emergency new things come forth.” The work we’ve crafted, in the pages of Dapper Dan, questions the form of what came before, bringing the new to the fore.

What is the psychology behind picking up a habit? Even if it’s bad for you. What is the psychology behind picking up a garment? A cigarette? A scent? A piece of paper? A magazine.

Dapper Dan 19 looks at how we—as artists, writers, thinkers—carve out time and space in a world that bombards us constantly, keeping us ever-notified. In the pages of our magazine, we build new rules. We champion those who move against this mechanism, embracing iconoclasm in an Instagram age. We question Raven Smith’s content and commentary, Samuel Ross’s garments and products, and Andrew Bolton’s curation and exhibitions. We showcase duo FAKA’s radical singularity and the structures in tailor Daniel Haworth’s craft. We shoot Celine SS19 and capture Zegna’s collection, placing garments alongside objects to reveal both the inanimate and the human.

Menswear and philosophy are mined. Ideas are distilled. Dapper Dan 19 explores the intimacies of alienation, a new individualism.

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Nick Knight considers the communication of beauty, while Mike Meiré expounds upon ugly. In this magazine, images and print are held up, analysed, lauded in close conversation. Dries Van Noten reflects on revelation. Garments are drawn out, draped, drooled over, before being styled and shot. As we pit banality and intricacy against each other, objects are upended and suspended. Klaus Stockhausen turns tables, Olivier Saillard turns his eye to design and James Massiah turns his back on faith.

Menswear and philosophy merge and melt, each concept drowning the other to become unrecognisable. Here, ideas are distilled. Among pages of print, DAPPER DAN turns 18

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