In July we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, but some of us are extending the celebrations. Among them there's also Pan & The Dream, a luxuriously produced supersized magazine published annually. Pan is indeed dedicating its third issue to the "Trip to the Moon" theme.
The theme is widely tackled via artworks, photographs and features, and includes a cover image of Jennae Quisenberry by Paul Westlake, with styling by Jen Smith and makeup by Kirsten Kjaer Weis for Kjaer Weis.
The main theme of the magazine (that also looks at the Bauhaus' legacy via its 100th anniversary) wasn't just inspired by the 1969 moon landing, but also by the hope that in future we will not just see men on the moon, but also women.
Pan and its editor Nathalie Aggusol remind us indeed that, behind the 50th anniversary, there is already the story of a woman who made things possible - Margaret Hamilton, the lead software engineer of the Apollo Project who wrote by hand the code that was used to take humanity to the Moon.
I had the honour of joining a distinguished team of Pan contributors with a text accompanying a photoshoot by Japanese poet and photographer, artist and filmmaker, painter and illustrator Sayaka Maruyama (readers may remember I recently collaborated with her on her first book, entitled Memorandom 0) portraying model Melanie Gaydos in a wig by Tomihiro Kono.
The text is not an interview or an article about fashion or space, but a visionary tale: entitled "Mesh of the Supernature", it tells the story of an obsession, of losing your mind after your object of desire - the moon - embodied by a mysteriously evanescent, mutable and transcendent woman, a deathless goddess born out of darkness.
You can buy the magazine from this link: each copy is numbered 1 to 1000 and $5 from the sale of this issue from the magazine's site, will go to support Citizens' Climate Lobby in their efforts to enact effective, bipartisan climate solutions.
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