Luxiders Magazine Print Issue 13 | On Loss, Memory, And The Need For Change
Luxiders Magazine Print Issue 13 is here—a celebration where art meets sustainability in a new era of conscious creation. From post-human fashion trends to the reinvention of ageless beauty, this issue unveils powerful narratives of transformation. Discover how food waste inspires sustainable new gastronomy, and how eco-luxury fashion brands are redefining elegance. Step into the bold visions of artists like Raphaël Barontini, Raquel Buj, and Diana Orving, who shape memory, movement, and design with impressive new narratives at heart. Immerse yourself in a modern fable, a journey through the Macizo Colombiano, where ancestral voices echo with hope and resilience.
This issue is an invitation to reconnect—with the Earth, with beauty, and with the pulse of a sustainable future.
On Loss, Memory, And The Need For Change.
Ironically, I recently came across a nearly forgotten book on my bookshelf: An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky. In this remarkable work, she writes about things that have disappeared—islands, artworks, languages, species. But the book is not only about what has been lost—it’s also about how we remember, what we choose to preserve, and what we may need to reinvent. These questions feel more relevant than ever.
We are living in a time marked by retreat—not only into the private sphere, but also into political and cultural backwardness, reactionary tendencies, and veiled conservatism. Sustainability, which until recently was a central guiding principle, is increasingly being questioned: climate targets are being postponed, supply chain laws weakened, and reporting obligations scaled back. The major systems—politics, economy, and society—seem exhausted in the face of complexity. At the same time, loss is real: species are vanishing, ecosystems are collapsing, and resources are depleting. And with them, parts of our future disappear. To downplay sustainability now is to practise a dangerous kind of forgetting—what we abandon today may be irretrievably lost tomorrow.
These changes are often difficult to grasp directly—slow, silent processes that fade into obscurity. We tend to define reality through immediacy: what we cannot see, hear, or feel seems less real. Yet this very intangibility is what makes it so dangerous. Philosopher Timothy Morton calls such phenomena hyperobjects—so vast in time and space that they overwhelm our ability to perceive or understand them. “They are real,” he writes, “but we cannot see them. They are here, but they cannot be touched.” The climate crisis unfolds quietly—forgetting does, too.
Memory, then, is a necessary condition for meaningful preservation. But remembrance alone is not enough—we need cultural shaping. Bold, radical, forward-thinking. In this issue of Luxiders, we explore the cultural practice of preserving, transforming, and renewing—as an act of resistance against forgetting.
Welcome to Luxiders Magazine 13
A living archive of a world in transformation,
an open invitation to co-create the future.
Jens Wittwer
Co-Founder
Luxiders Magazine
In Luxiders Magazine Print Issue 13, art and sustainability intertwine in a symphony of conscious creation. We journey through a post-human palette of imagined trends, dive into fashion stories that reveal the fragile splendour of humanity, and explore the shifting language of aesthetics shaped by time, nature, and change. Among these narratives of reinvention, we explore the essence of ageless beauty and witness how food waste transforms into a delicious gesture of sustainable gastronomy.
Voices from the art world rise—bold and unbound. Raphaël Barontini conjures a carnivalesque memoryscape, while Raquel Buj redefines design through visionary purpose. Diana Orving sculpts motion from fabric, giving shape to the intangible dance of thought and textile. In our fashion stories Back to Elegance, Brise, and Anthropocene, —each chapter is graced by eco-conscious luxury brands shaping the future of refinement.
As if it were a fable, we travel to the heart of the Macizo Colombiano, where the voices of ancestors whisper through the wind and hope is cultivated by those who remain rooted in resilience.
This issue is more than a collection of stories —it is an invocation to reconnect with the earth’s rhythms and co-create a world where sustainability becomes the truest form of beauty.
