10 Reasons to Buy the 50th Issue of AnOther Magazine

Spring/Summer 2026 marks a milestone: our 50th issue, celebrating 25 years of AnOther Magazine. “Not only fashion but the world has shifted seismically over that period, and from the start, that has been our remit – to explore culture and context, to converse with our times,” says editor-in-chief Susannah Frankel. “A word that kept recurring throughout its making was kinship, a notion of like minds and forged connections, shared aims and approaches, ideals and ideologies – the individuals who make a collective whole.”

Our pages are populated by talent at the forefront of culture – some returning, others new.  This issue is dedicated to them, to the creatives, the artists, actors, musicians, and the fashion designers who have inspired us in content and conversation over the past quarter-century. “To them, we want to say thanks.” Here’s what to expect from the 512-page Spring/Summer 2026 issue.

1. In a wide-ranging interview, Charlize Theron talks to Doreen St Félix about her early years in South Africa, her formative career in Nineties Hollywood, motherhood and her decision to start producing. “I’m a grown-ass woman,” she says. “I do want a little bit of control over my own destiny in the art that I make.” Theron wears Jonathan Anderson’s debut womenswear collection for Dior, photographed by Sharna Osborne and styled by Emma Wyman.

2. Over high tea in a London hotel, Alexander Skarsgård speaks to Jack Sunnucks about his role in Pillion as a “brooding, gay, leather-clad biker in a relationship with an eager submissive”. Alongside our cover shoot photographed by Alasdair McLellan and styled by Alister Mackie, Skarsgård talks control, vulnerability and Pillion’s big pierced-penis moment. “A question I’ve been thinking about is, what type of projects, what kind of depictions of queer people in general do we want on screen and on television? And is there a diversity in the stories that are told? Are some scary, or funny, or awkward? Is there room for a movie like Pillion out there?” says Skarsgård. “I felt strongly that, yes, there was.”

3. Before her next turn in Ryan Murphy’s much-anticipated retelling of the story of alleged murderer Lizzie Borden, Vicky Krieps tells Hannah Lack about her raw-boned and radically unmediated approach to acting. “I have to make sure I’m coming from a place of truth,” says Krieps. “But early on I realised the less disciplined I am, the more something happens I could never have dreamt of. So I have no discipline. I’m total chaos.” Krieps is photographed by Zoë Ghertner and styled by Katie Shillingford.

4. Pamela Anderson, who first appeared on the cover of AnOther for our Autumn/Winter 2002 issue, returns to the magazine photographed by Collier Schorr and styled by Rebecca Perlmutar, the star here stepping into a dual role artist and muse. In conversation with Tim Blanks, Anderson describes a run of upcoming films and stage projects – from indie features and festival-bound debuts to auteur-led dramas. “I feel like I’m getting a second chance at all of it,” she says. 

5. Artist, curator, educator and mother Solange turns 40 this year. First on our cover for the Autumn/Winter 2017 season, Solange today is wiser than ever, captured by Gabriel Moses and styled by Nell Kalonji. “Creating felt like a means of survival,” she tells Connor Garel. 

6. Bold, fearless and opinionated, model Alex Consani stars in Demna’s first collection for Gucci, photographed by Tanya and Zhenya Posternak and styled by Agata Belcen. The savvy Consani speaks with Shon Faye about trans visibility, branching out into comedy, and the problems she is trying to solve: “When you’re in a public job, if you’re not doing it for a higher purpose, then you’re not doing it right,” she says. 

7. In a seismic season for fashion, AnOther documents the industry’s transformed landscape.

Matthieu Blazy’s first show at the helm of Chanel last October was a bravura performance, grappling with a house paradox – what Chanel was, is and could be. For the 50th issue, Blazy speaks to Alexander Fury about the challenges of reimagining Chanel’s past, present and future. “It wasn’t easy, I can tell you,” Blazy says. “The pressure is so nerve-wracking. But if you don’t enjoy what you do, why do it?” His collection is photographed by Willy Vanderperre and styled by Olivier Rizzo, both longtime collaborators of the magazine. 

Fury also speaks to Mugler’s Miguel Castro Freitas, whose debut collection for that maison was photographed and styled for this issue by Paolo Roversi and Robbie Spencer. 

“I arrived and it was a bit like being at home but in a different place,” Sarah Burton tells Susannah Frankel. After 27 years at McQueen, the last 13 as creative director, she is now making Givenchy her own. The collection is photographed by Carlijn Jacobs and styled by Katie Shillingford. 

Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons also share their thoughts about jewellery: their memories, their own favourite pieces, and the philosophy that inspired Prada’s third fine jewellery collection, photographed here by Brianna Capozzi and styled by Emma Wyman. 

Charlotte Wales and Katie Shillingford bring a pop of colour – primary, secondary, complementary – to the cover for AnOther Way to Wear. 

The season’s trends and key designers are beautifully captured in a series of fashion and beauty stories by Nick Knight, Ellie Grace Cumming, Robin Galiegue, Camille Vivier, Viviane Sassen, Ammy Drammeh, Alessandro Raimondo, Takashi Homma, Shotaro Yamaguchi, Marie Valognes, Akeem Smith, Danielle Neu and Isabelle Sayer. 

8. As Catherine Opie’s new show To Be Seen opens at the National Portrait Gallery, the celebrated photographer curates our Art Project. Opie is visited at her LA studio by her friend, the author Maggie Nelson, for a raw and rigorous conversation on vulnerability, feminism and history. Opie’s self-portrait, taken when she was just nine years old, is one of our anniversary covers. 

9. Every issue we invite a cultural luminary to guest-edit our Document section. Past talents include Björk, Sofia Coppola, Luca Guadagnino, Hilton Als, Chris Kraus, Tilda Swinton, Ocean Vuong and Wim Wenders. This issue we’ve done something different: to mark the milestone, we look back on 25 years and give this space over to the designers who have populated our pages – from Alexander McQueen to Yohji Yamamoto. “They touch on everything that has changed our world since 2001, beginning, of course, with 9/11, moving through the boom of the first decade of the century, to the 2008 crash and, more recently, the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement,” says Frankel. “All are representative of seismic shifts in thinking and feeling.”

10. This season’s portfolio section, AnOther Thing I Wanted to Tell You …, is captured by Mark Peckmezian. Nina Hoss, Kandis Williams, Roe Ethridge, Miles Greenberg and Lyra Pramuk are among many other talents who feature, spanning the spectrum of creativity, in a fitting celebration we are privileged to publish. 

The Spring/Summer 2026 issue, marking 25 years of AnOther Magazine, is on sale now.