March 12, 2025 |
Introducing 10 Magazine issue 74 – MUSIC, TALENT, CREATIVE – which explores the axis between music and fashion across a whopping 593 pages.
Our first cover turns the spotlight toward critically acclaimed musician Tori Amos, who is photographed by Kasia Wozniak and styled by longtime collaborator Karen Binns. Inside, the pop sensation sits down with Binns for an in-depth chat looking back at some of their most extraordinary and innovative fashion moments together, meeting at Amos’s remote home in Cornwall to craft the painterly portraits of the legendary musician and songwriter that grace the pages of the magazine. Read the full conversation here.
For more of what’s inside the issue, read Sophia Neophitou-Apostolou’s editor’s letter below:
Music has always had a huge influence on my life. In the Eighties, your chosen music tribe manifested in everything you did. It dictated how you dressed and the people you spent time with. Every layer and interaction of life had a soundtrack. We spent our time in record shops poring over the new releases and trying to get the rarest mixes so we could compare our precious treasures. We had rituals where we all gathered, bringing our new finds, and listened to them together, huddled around our record players. We were incredibly competitive about our new vinyls – the rarer the better – and plotted where the best house party would be so we could finally dance to the music we treasured.
The pilgrimage to find the look to match your sound was equally crucial. The aim was to be immediately identifiable to your tribe, as if you were wearing your clan’s tartan. We needed to signal our music preferences at a glance, with no ambiguity, no guessing. The music uniform of my youth? I was a Perry Casual into R&B, soul and ska. The uniform was box-pleat skirts, sheer shirts buttoned to the very top, Farah’s, Sergio Tacchini tops and tracksuit bottoms or ski pants. Channelling Sade, my hair was either pulled back in a tight-plaited ponytail, worn with a vivid red lip and the biggest earrings I could clip onto my ears, or channelling Neneh Cherry, I had a very tight spiral perm, which I would refresh every four to six months even though my hair was already curly.
I lived in Lyle & Scott and Fred Perry polo tops, Pringle jumpers and my favourite bleached, spray-on straight-leg Lois jeans. Putting them on was a mission. My sister and I would lie down on the bed with a wire hanger hooked into the zip loop. My hands would be in the pockets, pushing the zip gap together, while my sister used all her strength to pull it closed. There was no stretch denim in those days. Wearing skintight jeans was a commitment – it was almost like wearing a body corset. They were so tight that when we took them off, we had bruises where our hip bones had pushed against the unyielding fabric. The next challenge was trying to sit in them: we had to lever ourselves down, almost horizontally, to sit on the bus and go to school, as there was literally no bend in them! Those days are long gone. I couldn’t even fit my arm in the jeans I once wore, but my love affair with fashion and music continues.
These days, I’m an Alaïa– and The Row-clad karaoke addict, singing my favourite tunes at any opportunity, in every city in the world and as often as possible. I wanted to create an issue where my two loves, fashion and music, came together. I wanted to explore how they feed off and inspire each other. Music is the most primal and potent form of self-expression. It has the power to move us, heal us and bring us together as a community. Fashion amplifies that musical superpower and vice versa.
In this issue, we go to the axis of music and fashion and explore how the two fields, intertwined, supercharge each other. We celebrate the creativity and style of our favourite artists like Kali Uchis, Ama, Kelsey Lu, Mary Komasa, Banks, Tori Amos, Biig Piig, Desiree and the Lambrini Girls, especially those who cleverly use fashion to enhance their sound, message and persona. We spotlight the UK’s rising music talents and honour our musical diversity by homing in on a wide array of genres and styles. From the industry’s most influential image architects, who craft the looks that go viral, and the sound architects who are an essential part of fashion storytelling to the DJs who soundtrack our most memorable nights out, we don’t skip a beat.
I also want to welcome super-stylist Toby Grimditch as our new Editor-in-Chief of 10 Deutsch. I have always adored his unique view of fashion. He joins us along with his amazing right-hand woman Marie-Louise von Haselberg as Editorial Director and the ever-brilliant creative Veronika Heilbrunner as the new Fashion Director. As our exciting adventure begins, they’re bringing a new, creative energy to the 10 universe.
I hope you all enjoy our fashion/music journey, stuffed full of newness and nostalgia and all you ever needed to know about the marriage of fashion and music.
10 Magazine Issue 74 – MUSIC, TALENT, CREATIVE – hits newsstands March 18. Pre-order your copy here.
A SORTA FAIRYTALE
Photographer KASIA WOZNIAK
Fashion Editor KAREN BINNS
Talent TORI AMOS
Hair GEMMA SUTTON
Make-up CLAIRE DE-GRAFT using YSL Beauty
Photographer’s assistant TIMOTHY HACCIUS
Fashion assistants GEORGIA EDWARDS, SONYA MAZURYK and SORAYA RIZZUTO
Production ZAC APOSTOLOU
Special thanks to JOHN WITHERSPOON
Location MARTIAN AUDIO VISUAL
Special thanks to JODIE HAMBLY
On the cover Tori wears BALENCIAGA
