Lakecia Benjamin sits down with Strand Magazine to talk about her latest album, We Dream, as well as her creative processes, inspirations, and the future of jazz.

“Actually, I think it’s the moment when the worm comes out from the cocoon,” says Kuo Wei, when asked where his AW26 collection begins. “That moment is the eclosion. It’s becoming into a new form.” It’s a strange, specific word for a strange, specific idea, and it turns out to explain the whole collection in one image.

Isabel Waidner, photographed by Suzie Howell I have often wondered what I would do if I met my clone. How different would our lives be, when we would essentially be the same person? Would we be interchangeable, or are there things about myself and my life that are so unique that they couldn’t be replicated? What makes a person’s life theirs ?Isabel Waidner tackles these questions with their distinctive brilliance in their newest novel ‘As If’. Two men (Korine and Lewis) meet