A magazine made out of posters
Cactus is a magazine about fashion and “image culture” with a reputation for surreal editorial. This issue is even more playful than usual. Held together by three functional looking plastic ties, the magazine quite literally falls apart when you get it open, to reveal what is not really a magazine at all, but a bundle of fold-out posters.
The editor’s letter is printed on a poster in the middle, and it is excitingly mad. A representative section:
A METAMORPHOSIS OF
INTENTION AND FORM.
FROM DOUBLE-PAGE
SPREAD TO WALL.
THIS IS A SIGN – A SORT OF
BODY MANIFESTO.
THEY ARE WATCHING YOU.
ANGELS. VOYEURS. FURIES.
STARS.
The coverline for the issue is “a Metamorphosis of Intention and Form”, and once you stop trying to wrestle too much meaning out of it, and just enjoy folding out a series of spectacular posters, Cactus is a lot of fun. Some of the images in here read like straightforward fashion editorial (eg. hot woman wearing Chanel glasses), but others are more interesting. One of my favourite posters shows a tiny, hooded woman, peeking out of a pair of heavy dark curtains. Below, we’ve photographed some of the most striking images.
