The thirteenth issue of Study looks toward the beginning of things, the place where clothes are only ideas.

Camilla Nickerson works with the toiles offered by this season’s new fashion creative directors. Made in stiff cotton, pale and undecorated, they carry all the possibilities of garments still in process. The houses shared these beginnings to her, and she transformed them into something that feels both raw and deliberate. She built a couture punk-lean wardrobe from these unfinished forms, worn by Charlie Jones and photographed by Mark Kean in a meeting of presence and imagination.

What comes out is fashion at its most vulnerable stage, almost not there, and because of that, deeply magnetic. The images feel like research and also like a conclusion. 

The insert drifts somewhere more immediate, an encounter with Michael Rider’s first collection at Celine, seen through Bruce Weber’s lens. For this shoot, Weber gathered a loose group of teenagers and let them move freely: choosing the pieces they liked, folding them into what they already owned, building their own language of clothes without instruction. The portfolio becomes a record of that mood: the charge of youth, the shrug of confidence, the simple joy of dressing up, drifting through the streets, finding each other, and letting the day unfold without a map.