System #21 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Issue essays My mother continued to wave

My mother continued to wave good-bye to me

using 137 disposable cameras

It is the proof that digital curation itself is becoming an art form

It mades much more sense for me to write this way

and to retrofit – not demolish – those that remain

System #21 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Issue essays My mother continued to waveWhen we founded System, in the spring of 2013, our aim was to document the people, dialogues and culture at the heart of the fashion industry. We imagined each biannual issue as a kind of deep thoughts time capsule of the season. By using long form journalism, we wanted to chronicle the designers and CEOs who lead the way, the brands for which they once generated millions and now billions, the creatives shaping how fashion is presented to the world,