11 March 2026 |
Introducing Issue 6 of 10 USA – CREATIVITY, CHANGE, FREEDOM – arriving on newsstands March 18. For the first of ten covers of 10 Magazine USA’s sixth issue, we showcase Nicolas Ghesquière.
Want to know what’s inside the issue? Read Dora Fung’s editor’s letter below.
I LOVE NY
This issue celebrates creativity, freedom, and change, which, to be fair, is what we celebrate every issue. But it’s worth repeating. Creative freedom is a survival tool when those in power seem determined to deal in fear, lies, and hostility. Our counterattack is to continue to platform changemakers in fashion, art, and culture who are defiantly good at what they do and who triumph without becoming unbearable about it. Welcome to Issue 6, where being a baddie who refuses to conform is far more interesting than playing it straight.
And what an issue it is. We are celebrating 10 covers this season, which include the fearless FKA twigs, Nicolas Ghesquière, Joan Smalls, Toni Cornell, and more. If that lineup sounds less like a magazine and more like an amazing dinner party where everyone brings a great bottle of wine and shares good gossip, it’s intentional.
Kicking things off is legendary cabaret performer Justin Vivian Bond, whom I have seen on stage numerous times and am a huge fan of. Vivian goes by the beat of her own drum—always classy and never not sassy. She is proof that elegance and mischief can coexist, and that the best kind of authority comes with a martini and a cocked eyebrow.
You are no one if you don’t know Lisa Eisner. If that sounds harsh, consider it character-building. Will Kahn, our resident watch and jewelry expert, speaks to the LA- based innovator about her creations, how she got her start, and her many creative lives. Jeweler, photographer, muse—she somehow makes it look effortless.
Then there is Alexis Bittar, a man who is much more than just a jeweler. Since buying back his brand in 2020, he’s also become a masterful marketer, director, and fundraiser for our new mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Alexis has reinvented himself and his namesake brand with clever campaigns that have drawn people into his self-made and totally authentic Bittarverse.
Editor-at-large Sarah Cristobal moderates a roundtable discussion with some of the industry’s most revered fashion critics—Vanessa Friedman, Nicole Phelps, Rachel Tashjian, and Rian Phin—to discuss the importance of having a critical voice and how to navigate expertise, armchair or otherwise. Opinions were had. Respectfully.
In the beauty section, Chanel Beauty takes us to Grasse in the South of France to witness firsthand how Chanel No. 5 is made from local jasmine. Watching perfume being produced is oddly moving—petals, patience, and a very French sense of ceremony. It was a nice reminder that luxury, at times, is rooted in the earth. Elsewhere, Peter Philips, creative and image director of Dior Makeup, worked his magic on the season’s fresh faces in a shoot with photographer Pierre Debusschere. The results are thrillingly modern and positively divine.
To catch a glimpse of Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez’s stunning debut at Loewe, turn to page 366 and see the SS26 collection through the lens of David Paige. We also celebrate 130 years of the LV Monogram and how this legendary logo reinvents itself with every generation. There is also a toast to Chanel’s Métiers d’art collection, which was shot right after the joyful NYC show. ‘I love NY’ has never felt more accurate.
Indie designers such as Collina Strada’s Hillary Taymour and Lựu Đạn’s Hung La also feature significantly in these pages, as does the Yurok-Libyan artist Saif Azzuz, who has a major installation at New York’s Storm King this spring. To them, creativity is not an afterthought but a survival instinct.
So consider this your invitation to dream, escape, laugh a little, and maybe feel emboldened in your own peculiar way. My two favorite people who refuse to conform? Our very own Greek mama, Sophia, who never accepts no or even maybe. Look at what she has built (and continues to build) with laughter and love. And my father, Thomas, who truly broke the mold. Papa Fung is not an easy man, but he always does things his way—unapologetically, with a Marlboro Red and a lot of girlfriends.
Which, frankly, feels like a very fitting definition of individualism.
DORA FUNG
Editor-in-Chief
Instagram: @10magazineusa
Taken from 10 Magazine USA Issue 6 – CHANGE, CREATIVITY, FREEDOM – out March 18th! Order your copy here.
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Photographers JUSTINE TRIET, ETHAN JAMES GREEN
Text CLAUDIA CROFT
