The new issue of Collectible DRY is out now. For our paper issue number 22, the main theme is Solid/Liquid, to focus our attention on the duality that characterizes the world around us. Starting from the well-renowned quote from Zygmunt Bauman, liquid modernity, we started exploring the relativism of fluidity. If the solid era is over, we live in a world where everything flows. “Human relationship and social bonds become liquid and changeable, identities ephemeral, sex fluid”. Our main goal is not to give a final definition of contemporary, but rather cultural tools to analyze the dazzling on-changing scenario that defines our present and our future. Thus, in Collectible DRY n. 22, you will see

• Our four new covers, starring pictures and artworks by Fabien Montique, Yuen Hsieh, Marc De Groot and Marco Pietracupa. 
• The Chinese creator Niki Wu Jie, who embodies Chanel’s spirit. Fusing feminine with masculine, Niki Wu Jie is the first foray into the Italian creative scene, showing how the spectrum of fashion is wholly changing. 
• The dystopian reality by Gregory Crewdson. His temporary exhibition, currently on view at Gallerie d’Italia in Turin, is an open window on a world where silence, stares, stasis emerge, revealing the contradictions of our society.
• The artworks by Óscar Carretero, the international artist who works between posthumanism and the age of water, between performance and digital creations: a dive into his fluid materialism. 
• The latest editorial by Marc De Groot, which is about fluidity, bodies, boundaries, and physicality. 
• The watercolors by David Bailey Ross, an intimate journey into his own psyche. Aside from his work in the fashion field, David uses art to delve the knowledge about himself and others, even if the final stage is spreading on the Internet. 
• Taiwanese artist Yuen Hsiesh, who works on digital art in order to create alternative realities. Videogames, mythological figures, and manga are key passes to open his cybernetic afterworld.  

ON COVER SOLID/LIQUID,

YUEN HSIEH, Codenamed Prototype0101 Monument, 2023. Digital artwork created specifically for our cover.

ON COVER SOLID/LIQUID,

SARAH ISHIMWE, FAY YABRE and TIMOTHÉ DOMENICO are wearing MAISON MARGIELA ARTISANAL

Image FABIEN MONTIQUE

ON COVER SOLID/LIQUID,

FENNE TALENS is wearing a jersey sweater CELINE, bra and underwear MARINE SERRE

Image MARC DE GROOT