In this issue we explored the multifaceted nature of woman - as model, Madonna, muse, and more. Highlights included the eight-part black-and-white series by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin and Brana Wolf, which featured such supermodels as Gisele Bundchen, Maggie Rizer, and Frankie Rayder in the nude, save for a Louis Vuitton cape draped here or a fur stole dangling there; Nobuyoshi Araki's photograph of a Vanessa Beecroft performance; and Nick Knight's life-size image, the very feminine, naked Natasha (née David). Packaged in a multiplaned, mirrored case, the issue is a vertically bound volume of red ultrasuede whose pages are filled by Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, Beth B, Kara Walker, Sam Taylor-Wood, Sarah Moon, Jane and Louise Wilson, Adam Fuss, Richard Phillips, David Bowie, and others.

Visionaire No. 29: Woman

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Visionaire

With a new theme and format for each issue, Visionaire stretches the imagination and boundaries of what an art and fashion publication can be. For Issue No. 32: Where?, Visionaire collaborates with the venerable Paris-based fashion house Hermès. In Greek mythology, Hermès (Hermes) is the messenger of the gods and the deity of the roads; in short, the god of travel. Visionaire approached artists and photographers to depict a magical place, a faraway land, an imaginary geographical space. The resulting set of 51 pages which double as postcards come packaged with a pencil in an Hermès leather pouch. Visionaire No. 33: Touch will be devoted to the latest techniques in printing effects. Celebrated fashion illustrator François Berthoud will create a spectacular portfolio of images devoted to the Fall-Winter 2000-2001 fashion collections. The image will come packaged in a Fendi fur case, providing not only a visual experience, but a textural one as well. For Visionaire No. 34: Man, Visionaire will once again join forces with world-renowned fashion photographer Mario Testino. Testino, a regular contributor to Vanity Fair and Vogue who has been responsible for numerous advertising campaigns including Gucci, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, will focus his camera on men and cull talent from around the world to contribute to an issue of Visionaire devoted exclusively to the masculine world.

Visionaire #32:Where?

Visionaire, the limited-edition fashion and art publication, offers a rare opportunity to view the never-before-seen collection of personal work by renowned photographer David Sims. Sims, known primarily for his strong fashion images, creates a stunning series of photographs evoking the darkness and beauty of the rose, magnifying its scars and perfections, resulting in an inspiring, moving, and memorable body of work. The images are printed as individual art works and included in a custom designed case.

Visionaire No. 40: Roses: Photographs by David Sims

Individual Artists

With a new theme and format for each issue, Visionaire stretches the imagination and boundaries of what an art and fashion publication can be. For Issue #32 Where? Visionaire collaborates with the venerable Paris-based fashion house Hermes In Greek mythology, Hermes (as in Hermes) is the messenger of the gods and the deity of the roads in short, the god of travel. Visionaire approached artists and photographers to depict a magical place, a faraway land, an imaginary geographical space The resulting set of 51 pages which double as postcards come packaged with a pencil in an Hermes leather pouch Visionaire #33. Touch will be devoted to the latest techniques in printing effects. Celebrated fashion illustrator Francois Berthoud will create a spectacular portfolio of images devoted to the Fall-Winter 2000-2001 fashion collections The image will come packaged in a Fendi fur case, providing not only a visual experience, but a textural one as well. For Visionaire #34: Man, Visionaire will once again join forces with world-renowned fashion photographer Mario Testino. Testino -- a regular contributor to Vanity Fair and Vogue who has been responsible for numerous advertising campaigns including Gucci, Ralph Lauren, and Calvin Klein -- will focus his camera on men and cull talent from around the world to contribute to an issue of Visionaire devoted exclusively to the masculine world.

Visionaire 35: Man

Dunhill, Alfred

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Diana Vreeland's legendary memos to the editors, bookers and assistants on her staff at Vogue record her obsessions and her relationships. The memos were dictated to one of her (frequently replaced) secretaries, usually from home in the morning or, after twelve, at her office in the Graybar Building on Lexington Avenue, with its faux leopard-skin carpet and red walls covered with photographs and clippings neatly lined up and attached with pushpins. Visionaire, the art and fashion quarterly, invites readers to take an intimate look into her creative reign at Vogue by publishing these fabled inter-office memos in an appropriately exclusive edition portfolio. Loosely bound and wrapped in red ribbon, Visionaire 37 reproduces a select 150 of the 400 surviving memos that detail Vreeland's thoughts on fashion, photographers, models and reveals the inner workings of the world's most powerful fashion magazine.

Visionaire 37: Vreeland Memos

History & Criticism

Photographer and guest curator Mario Testino uncovers all in this new edition of Visionaire devoted to sex. Widely known for his iconic fashion images and celebrity portraits, Testino is also an avid collector of contemporary art. Here, he chooses a selection of provocative and often graphic pieces by artists such as Ghada Amer, Cecily Brown, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Angus Fairhurst, Sarah Lucas, Vik Muniz, Thomas Ruff and Lisa Yuskavage. Testino pushes the envelope by including in this issue of the limited edition quarterly a parcel containing five of his own previously unpublished photographic prints. In addition, you can expect Visionaire's trademark boundary-breaking design, plus the extras, in this case, a silk-screened Plexiglas case containing a hardcover book of both color and black-and-white images as well as customized tactile inserts including latex, embroidery, embossing and a swatch of supermodel Gisele's bedsheets. In other words, sex isn't just for reproductions.Because of the too-hot-to-handle contents, Uncensored also comes with a discretionary warning: “This issue of Visionaire contains graphic images of a sexual nature. If you find this kind of material offensive, you should not purchase it.” If you don't, though, you should.

Visionaire No. 46: Uncensored

Get in touch with your tongue. After the overwhelming success of Visionaire No. 42: Scent, the editors explore another realm of the senses to bring you Visionaire No. 47: Taste. Here, leading artists, such as Jenny Holzer, Yoko Ono, Maurizio Cattelan and Bruce Weber, as well as other accomplished cultural figures, like chef Ferran Adria and rock star Elton John, team with the professional flavorists of the International Flavors &amp; Fragrances (IFF) company to break new ground in the exploration of taste. The reader can join in to directly experience 12 original flavors produced exclusively for Visionaire in the form of fast-dissolving breath-strips in individually marked, custom-designed cases that correspond to images printed in an accompanying hardcover book. IFF is a leading creator and manufacturer of tastes and smells, the instigator of sensory experiences both everyday and extraordinary. Some 70 flavorists and 80 perfumers in 34 countries work with the company to create flavors and fragrances for everything from vanilla ice cream to the world's most legendary perfumes. This limited edition of 4,000 numbered copies comes in an innovative and eye-catching package as one can always expect from Visionaire.

Visionaire No. 47: Taste

Visionaire is a multi-format fashion and art publication released thrice yearly as collectible limited editions. Past editions have been produced collaboratively with such corporate luminaries as Tiffany's, HermÀs and Sony. Each issue features a new format and subject matter. In the upcoming Decades edition, the world's foremost photographers find inspiration in the fashion and cultural phenomena of the past 120 years, the era spanning from 1886 to 2006. Each photographer presents his or her own interpretation of a single decade in a large-scale portfolio of images. The 13 portfolios are housed in a luxurious clamshell case ideal for presenting the edition's unique size and format. Flip through the pages to see history through contemporary eyes and to witness how today's image-makers draw on the artistic and cultural innovations, as well as the inspiring personalities, of the past to capture each era's distinctive style. Contributors include Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, Mario Testino, Nick Knight, Karl Lagerfeld, David Sims, Glen Luchford and more÷

Visionaire No. 49: Decades (Visionaire S)

After the run-away success of Visionaire 44: Toys and Visionaire 45: More Toys, both of with featured a set of 10 adorable yet provocative adult playthings created in collaboration with the cult toy manufacturer, Kid Robot, by an assortment of today's hottest fashion designers, the editors of Visionaire are pleased to present the 2006 edition, Artist Toys. Unlike the previous sets, which were created from the same toy prototype, the shape of this new original toy multiple is brand new. The artists who have been selected to customize the new prototype include painter Alex Katz; sculptors Tim Noble & Sue Webster and Tony Oursler; conceptual artist Rob Pruitt; graphic designer Chip Kidd; illustrator Robert Crumb and many more. The set of 10 toys come packaged in an all-white tray with a silk-screened clear cover. Visionaire is pleased to celebrate its fiftieth issue with this very special limited edition of 4000 copies.

Visionaire No. 50: Artists Toys

In Visionaire No. 51: Harmony, works by leading artists--including Maurizio Cattelan, Robert Wilson, Yayoi Kusama, Vik Muniz, Massimo Vitali and Richard Misrach--are presented in the form of six large-scale puzzles. Each puzzlec onsists of 25 pieces that combine to create one complete image nearly three feet square. The puzzles can be pieced together separately so that each forms one artist's vision, or they can be combined to create other unexpected images. How will you create your Harmony?In collaboration with Lexus, and in celebration of the LS600h Hybrid, Visionaire No. 51 is environmentally sensitive. The puzzles are made from partially recycled paper, non-toxic inks and chlorine free materials. They were fabricated at environmentally sustainable factories that recycle all byproducts, including heat generated during production. Each set of six puzzles comes packaged in a slick, 8x8-inch embossed cube. Available in black or silver.

Visionaire No. 51: Harmony Silver

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