LOEWE Magazine Issue 5

LOEWE is pleased to share the newest edition of our quarterly magazine exploring the world of ideas around the house’s latest collections and collaborations. Including an interview with Ben Whishaw, an exploration into the deep sea with oceanographers, and appearances from Kit Connor, Ayo Edebiri, a man with a giant marrow, medieval knights, and much more.

This issue we delve into the imaginations of Jonathan Anderson and Juergen Teller in a fly-on-the-wall account of the Spring Summer 2025 precollection photoshoot. It’s a meeting of minds populated by actors Ayo Edebiri, Ambika Mod, Drew Starkey, Leo Woodall, Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd, Hollywood executive Sue Kroll, British artist Rose Wylie, Thai superstar and LOEWE global brand ambassador Baifern Pimchanok. Accompanied by a series of curious characters including surfers, leather-clad bikers, and ballet dancers.

The surreal celebrity encounters continue as the fanzine plays fantasy football, offering readers the chance to manage LOEWE United and its squad assembled from the Spring Summer 2025 menswear show’s front row. With a locker room of star players like Kevin Abstract, Pedro Almodóvar, Omar Apollo, Kit Connor, and Jeff Goldblum, to name a few, portraits of each come as collectable stickers to be traded and placed within the magazine to complete your dream team.

We celebrate the winter holidays through the wondrous worlds of Japanese ceramicists Suna Fujita as they return for a second collection in collaboration with LOEWE. Beginning with a fold-out cover poster featuring their super-kawaii illustrations, we then take a dive into the mysteries of what lies beneath, interviewing ocean explorers who have spent their lives searching for elusive giants of the deep. Elsewhere, a feature exploring the art of gift-giving around the world learns that while most humans would consider a Pocket bag embroidered with a Suna Fujita submarine a wonderful declaration of love, penguins on the other hand would much prefer a pebble.

Above ground, we speak to LOEWE’s nose Nuria Cruelles, and an expert in the link between sense and behavior, Professor Craig Roberts, to uncover the science that connects perfumes to pheromones. Then we take a stroll through the side streets of Seoul with expert jiseung paper weaver Youngsoon Lee to mark the opening of CASA LOEWE in the city’s Gangnam district. Elsewhere, we explore the Spring Summer 2025 menswear show, presenting the collection in dialogue with works by Paul Thek, Charles Renne Mackintosh, Carlo Scarpa, Susan Sontag, and Peter Hujar. We delve into the life and work of Hujar through a conversation between actor Ben Whishaw, who plays the artist in an upcoming biopic, and Vince Aletti, the photography critic and friend of Hujar.

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The SSI Group is the Philippines’ largest specialty retailer, with an established brand portfolio that includes some of the world’s most recognized international brands. We lead the country’s specialty retail market through the size and breadth of our brand portfolio and store network, with 94 brands and 593 stores. With our growing e-commerce presence, we are also the Philippine specialty retailer with the most diverse and extensive e-commerce offering. Our unique brand portfolio covers a wide range of specialty and lifestyle concepts, spanning the luxury, casual, and fast fashion, beauty, footwear, home, and restaurant categories.  Established in the 1980s, SSI has been at the forefront of the Philippine retail industry for more than 30 years. Throughout this time, we have sought to inspire and enhance the lifestyle values of our customers and to cater to the evolving tastes and aspirations of Filipino consumers. In response to the evolution of the retail industry, the company introduced "The Specialist," an At Home concierge service dedicated to serving its valued customers with their shopping needs. Customers may get in touch with SSI’s Customer Service team through any of the following channels to inquire about a particular brand or product:

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