“Cult shares an origin with culture and cultivate — from the Latin cultus, a noun with meanings ranging from ‘tilling, cultivation’ to ‘training or education’ to ‘adoration’. The earliest known uses of the word, recorded in the 17th century, broadly denoted ‘worship’. From here cult came to refer to a specific branch of a religion or its rites and practices. By the early 18th century, cult could refer to a non-religious admiration or devotion, a person, idea or fad. By the 19th century, the word came to be used as ‘a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious’.” — Merriam-Webster.
This issue of AnOther Magazine is dedicated to the actors, auteurs, artists, musicians and designers whose work skews from the mainstream, proposing the bold, the brave and the new. The cult figures whose visions shape the world in which we live. Now feels like the right moment to celebrate such creatives, who inspire a fiercely loyal following, a pure and physical admiration in a digital world. The idea that we live and breathe what we believe is something that many of us can relate to — it is why we create this magazine.
Marina Abramović’s position as the poster girl of performance art has defined our conception of that medium from the Seventies to the present day. Abramović’s work is visceral in the extreme, and brave, all underpinned by a depth of emotion and humanity that is unrivalled. So intense is her following that she has an institute dedicated to the dissemination of her methodology and passing-down of her legacy. Ahead of a London takeover this autumn, she speaks with her friend Hans Ulrich Obrist about her craft, the weight of her vocation and how an unexpected neardeath experience granted her “a totally new life”. Abramović is photographed in her upstate New York home by Jordan Hemingway and styled by Ellie Grace Cumming.
An actor, writer, model, artist and activist, Hunter Schafer made her acting debut as Jules Vaughn in HBO’s Euphoria, for which she wrote her own episode. Now, the New Jersey-born star has embarked on a new chapter, treading the line between Hollywood blockbusters — The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes — and art-house cinema — David Lowery’s Mother Mary. Here, she talks to Viviane Sassen about the joy that springs from creative experimentation, ahead of the photographer’s retrospective in Paris this autumn. Sassen also photographed her for this issue, with styling by Katie Shillingford.
LaKeith Stanfield is known for his Oscar-nominated portrayal of Black Panther Party traitor William O’Neal in Judas and the Black Messiah and for his role as Darius in the hit TV series Atlanta — a performance so compelling his followers often conflate him with his character. His nextturn is as the lead in Jeymes Samuel’s biblical-times feature The Book of Clarence, playing the titular cult leader plottinto capitalise on the rising celebrity of Jesus. He speaks to Connor Garel about what it takes to “climb into” the characters he plays and is photographed by Joshua Woods. The projection of actor, model and musician Rowoon’s talent across global media is a demonstration of both the power of the K-pop phenomenon as a whole and his own versatility as a performer. Exploring the cult consumption of these new pop idols, Collier Schorr photographs him in Seoul remotely, from behind a screen in her home in New York. And Taylor Glasby profiles him, unravelling Rowoon’s relationship with fame and fandom.
Our Art Project focuses on the practice of Miles Greenberg, an artist trained by Marina Abramović. Following in her footsteps, the Canada-born, New York-based creative sees his craft as an opportunity to challenge — and transcend — the limits of corporeality. He talks to Donatien Grau about “instasy”, the pure physical presence he experiences while performing, and Greenberg’s (otherwise) ephemeral oeuvre is captured by Devin Doyle in a series of images centring on the minutiae of his creative process.
This February, the launch of the Burberry Autumn/Winter 2023 collection marked a new chapter in the history of the brand. Its new chief creative officer is Bradford-bornDaniel Lee, whose arrival signifies at once “an exercise in shifting and rebranding” and a return to the origins for a label that, since its foundation in 1856, has become synonymous with Britishness in all its cultural incarnations. To explore his new vision for this age-old house, Lee’s Burberry debut is shot by Gabriel Moses, with styling by Nell Kalonji.
The name Martine Sitbon has enjoyed a cultish — and at times coltish — appeal to fashion-industry insiders since 1986. Inspired by music and counterculture, she proposes a seductive vision of femininity, melding strength and sensuality with a distinctive female point of view. Today, almost 20 years after shuttering her namesake label, Sitbon is back with Rev, an unapologetically retrospective glance at her greatest hits. Here, she discusses her past, while our shoot harks back to her groundbreaking campaign imagery of the mid-Nineties. It is photographed by Craig McDean, with creative direction by her life partner, Marc Ascoli.
Sofia Coppola is an obsessive herself — who has most recently applied her forensic, transformative approachto the life of Priscilla Presley. She curates our Document section: manuscripts and imagery focused in turn on our
obsession with the relationship between Priscilla and Elvis and with Graceland — as famously photographed by William Eggleston, and a modern-day site of worship. Coppola talks to Cindy Sherman about her film, wigs, clowns and her early life on the set of Apocalypse Now. She is photographedby Bibi Borthwick in Chanel, and in anticipation of that house’s V&A retrospective, Alexander Fury visits the rarely seen Patrimoine, located in the suburbs of Paris.
The cult models Kristen McMenamy and Mica Argañaraz lend their divine beauty to our final two covers — McMenamy is styled by Robbie Spencer and photographed by Drew Vickers; Argañaraz is styled by Olivier Rizzo and photographed by Willy Vanderperre. The titles to both stories — and to all the fashion stories in this issue — are taken from cult music, film and literature.
Thank you to our community of contributors for their talent, patience and loyalty: the writers, photographers, stylists, hair and make-up artists and assistants who make this magazine come to life. Safe to say, the cult of AnOther Magazine would be nothing without them.

Susannah Frankel, editor-in-chief

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