Luxiders Magazine Print Issue 15 | The New Sanctum
Welcome to Luxiders Magazine 15: The New Sanctum.
Perhaps we are entering a new creative era. One less fascinated by digital perfection and more connected to emotion, imperfection, and human presence. An era in which luxury is no longer defined solely by exclusivity, but by the ability to create something with soul, time, and consciousness. Because in a world where everything can be generated artificially, what may become truly extraordinary again is that which still beats with life.
A new sensibility is emerging: slower, more tactile, more human.
We are living through a strange time.
A time in which the world seems to move faster than our ability to understand it. Wars are multiplying, polarisation is hardening the language around us, speed has replaced contemplation, and millions of images pass across our screens each day until they lose all emotional weight. Never before have we been so connected and, at the same time, so distant from ourselves.
Through this, a new sensibility is emerging: slower, more tactile, more human. It is no coincidence that many of the artists, designers, and thinkers featured in these pages speak about spirituality, nature as our best prayer, living matter, the beauty of imperfection, or collaboration. Nor is it accidental that, at the height of artificial intelligence, there is a renewed desire for what still carries the imprint of the human hand.
David LaChapelle expresses this clearly when he says: “You can have artificial intelligence, but you cannot have artificial creativity.” In his universe, beauty ceases to be decoration and becomes resistance. At a time when darkness seems to be constantly monetised, he chooses to create light. His images no longer pursue only the pop excess that defined an era, but a spiritual search that attempts to preserve what is still worth saving: emotion, nature, hope, and human connection.
That same need to return to the essential runs throughout this issue. In Form Beyond the Object, sculpture abandons its historical rigidity to transform into organism, breath, and living system. Materials react, grow, and vibrate. It is no longer only about producing forms, but about constructing relationships between organisms, spaces, and emotions.
In The Natural Intelligence, a new generation of designers work with bacteria, fungi, fermentation, and living organisms to imagine a new relationship between humanity and matter. Instead of imposing absolute control over the world, another logic emerges, one rooted in care, collaboration, and observation. The designer no longer behaves like a conqueror, but slowly becomes a gardener.
Lucy McRae, meanwhile, explores a future in which the body is no longer understood as a fixed limit, but as an interface, a laboratory, and an emotional territory. Her projects remind us that the future will not only be technological, but profoundly human. We still need something technology cannot manufacture: meaning.
The fashion editorials featured in this issue also seem to respond to this cultural transformation. The Jesters, The New Etiquette, and On Greener Ground do not speak only about clothing. They speak about identity, theatricality, vulnerability, and belonging. Fashion once again becomes a critical language, a cultural gesture, a visual narrative capable of questioning how we live and which values we choose to represent.
Perhaps we are entering a new creative era. One less fascinated by digital perfection and more connected to emotion, imperfection, and human presence. An era in which luxury is no longer defined solely by exclusivity, but by the ability to create something with soul, time, and consciousness.
Because in a world where everything can be generated artificially, what may become truly extraordinary again is that which still beats with life.
Welcome to Luxiders Magazine 15
The New Sanctum
Jens Wittwer
Editor in Chief
Luxiders Magazine
