L'OFFICIEL USA

L’Officiel USA share its international vision with a US audience. Combining both men’s and women’s fashion in a bi-monthly publication in conjunction with its digital platform, lofficielusa.com— which features daily, exclusive multi-media content—L’Officiel USA provides readers with the very best that fashion, art, music, film, and culture have to offer.

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In this Issue

free BIRD • Phoebe Bridgers has experienced more than her fair share of teenage angst. Now an adult, the Grammy nominee has a newfound sense of agency. Bridgers reflects on how far she has come.

Legends deserve FLOWERS • James Barnor has lensed over six decades of meaning ful work. This spring, the photographer is finally getting the retrospective treatment at London’s Serpentine Gallery.

BODY by Design • With strategic cutouts and detailed stitching, the season’s silhouettes are made to sculpt the shape.

Come Together • French rapper Lala &ce teams up with artist Mohamed Bourouissa to celebrate the many friends and collaborators that inspire her work.

pattern PLAY • Forget florals. Go for bold this spring, from polka dots to a dizzying mix of checkered prints, all accessorized with show-stopping Bulgari jewelry.

BRIEF encounter • In a lush cinematic tableau imagined by Julie de Libran and shot by Sonia Sieff, actress Gaia Weiss and French-Swiss orchestra conductor Lorenzo Viotti meet for an evening of serendipity, romance, and adventure. Seize the moment.

the shape of things • Sarah Burton’s Spring/Summer 2021 collection for Alexander McQueen is a return to form. With a mix of volume, light, and shadow, Burton channels “the beauty of the bare bones of clothing, stripped back to its essence.”

HEAD rush • Legendary artist Pippa Garner is an anomaly: She lives at once at the center and on the fringes. Her latest show at Stars in Los Angeles explores the genesis of creativity itself.

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GROWING UP Andra DAY • On screen, the rising hitmaker introduced Billie Holiday to a whole new generation of fans. But the Golden Globe winner has other stories to tell.

FAMILY affairs • Revisiting four iconic photographers from the ’90s who reimagined the concept of family portraiture.

DECODING Domesticity • The family comes into focus in photographer Talia Chetrit’s work, revealing the characters and connections those closest to us offer.

LIFE as a Sitcom • As we contemplate the days ahead, Donatien Grau wonders what the once-glorified genre can teach us about life versus fiction, and how it might be best to embrace both.

TWIN SET • Artist Tina Barney orchestrates the repetitive rituals of suburban existence. Careful, you might see double.

fasion IMITATES art • For a century, L’OFFICIEL has chronicled the birth of a new concept within its lush fashion focus: art as lifestyle.

Paternity LEAVE • Parenthood has historically been a footnote to the biographies of male artistic masters. Here, six contemporary artists portray the lifelong role of ‘Dad’ and its creative implications.

ROOM to GROW • In the 1970s, the innovators of the Italian group Radical Design fashioned a new vision of the home, rethinking the relations within it and the collective utopia around the domestic space.

The sculptural silhouette solidified fashion as an art form.