The name sets the tone. À Part — French for "apart," "aside," "separate" — suggests a magazine that has deliberately stepped outside the fashion mainstream to occupy its own space. Published biannually out of Paris with an additional special-format issue each year, it is an independent fashion and art publication that treats each edition as a self-contained project, organised around a single theme and executed with the kind of visual ambition that makes you want to keep the thing on a shelf rather than recycle it.
The themes are deliberately broad and human rather than seasonal: Famille (family), Regarde-moi (look at me), Love. Each issue pairs guest interviews with exclusive photographer series, building a publication that reads less like a fashion magazine and more like a curated group exhibition on paper. The contributors are a mix of emerging and mid-career photographers — names like Hubert Crabières, Gareth McConnell, Manuel Braun, Rachael Godt — alongside stylists, set designers, and casting directors who work together to produce editorials that are conceived as complete artistic statements.
Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, À Part has quietly built a following of 44,000 on Instagram and international distribution through KD Presse. It has also developed its own PR arm, L'Appart PR, which suggests a publishing operation that understands the business side of fashion media as well as the creative. The magazine is priced accessibly — around €9 per issue — which is almost provocatively cheap for a fashion publication of this quality, and signals an intention to be read widely rather than collected by a few.
In a Parisian fashion magazine landscape dominated by legacy titles, À Part occupies exactly the position its name implies: slightly to the side, working at its own pace, answering to no one but the people who make it. That independence shows on every page.
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