1. You could be initiated into Willy Vanderperre, Olivier Rizzo and Peter Philips’ modern youth tribe
With their spidery lashes, shiny jewels, tattoos and windswept bouffants, our cover girl Mica Arganaraz and her girl and boy friends make up the coolest, undefined individuals from a made-up, modern youth tribe. We bow down to their leader, Creative and Image Director of Christian Dior Make-up Peter Philips as he talks mirrors, copycat monsters and Kim Kardashian.
2. Read all about what makes Chantelle Winnie, the model with vitiligo, beautiful
The 20-year-old Canadian suffers from an autoimmune condition that causes partial depigmentation of the skin. Uniquely in Chantelle, this has happened in perfectly symmetrical patches. She’s proof that what makes you different makes you beautiful.
3. Find the answer to the question; is beauty really in the eye of the beholder?
Everyone says it, but with all our beauty ideals today, is it still true? What exactly is beauty and who defines it in 2014? Journalist and transgender rights activist Paris Lees investigates.
4. Italian make-up artist Lucia Pica, takes our faces into a dynamic new era
Lucia colours Vanessa Axente beautiful in a shoot with Alasdair McLellan and gives us some confidence tips on enhancing your natural beauty, rather than making it a mask.
5. Flick through the polaroids of hair stylist to the stars, Christiaan
The Dutch hair maestro proves that hard work and a lotta love for locks goes a long way, while we delve into his personal archive of backstage snaps. Check out Gisele, Edie Campbell and Gemma Ward’s Christiaan cut tresses!
6.Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, Tyrone Lebon photographs while Julia Sarr-Jamois styles our street-cast nudes
Small, tall, curvy, slender, pierced, tattoed, hairy, squashed or upside down, our beautiful cast of body-proud Londoners get naked in a cinematic shoot with Tyrone and i-D Senior Fashion Editor Julia Sarr-Jamois.
7. How very Versace of you! Get the low down from Versus designer Anthony Vaccarello
Collier Schorr and Alastair McKimm collage together a gorgeous mélange of bare-faced supermodels wearing Versus spring/summer 15 as Susie Lau talks about his debut collection with Anthony and the goddess herself, Donatella Versace.
8. Filters and selfies and pouts oh my! We investigate beauty in the age of technology
A complex economy of concealed vanity, faux self-deprecation and subtle one-upmanship presides over, and regulates, today’s social media platforms, trapping users in a fertile breeding ground of low self-esteem. Natalie Olah investigates…
9. Make-up maverick, Aaron de Mey, transforms girls into gothic wonders
He started out right here on the pages of i-D (he made up Naomi Campbell for the cover of The Active Issue, January 1998) and now he’s back! Aaron de Mey talks bleached hair, surf culture and beach goths while sprinkling glitter over the lips of some rock chicks.
10. We bring beauty from around the world to your doorstep
Gorgeous girls in good ol’ US of A, sweet souls in Seoul and new faces in the Netherlands. Beauty is global and we’ve got the snaps to prove it! We travelled the world to ask boys and girls what beauty means to them.
And there’s loads more where that came from! Hit up your local newsagents to buy The Beautiful Issue, out tomorrow, for interviews and shoots with fashion’s finest make-up artists, Val Garland, Yadim and Isamaya Ffrench and hair stylists Didier Malige, Duffy, Anthony Turner, Sam McKnight and Alex Brownsell. It’s time to love the skin you’re in.
Credits
Text Felicity Kinsella
Photography Willy Vanderperre
Styling Olivier Rizzo
Make-up Peter Philips
Hair Duffy at Streeters London.
Session and Editorial Ambassador, Vidal Sassoon.
Nail technician Anatole Rainey at B Agency.
Photography assistance Corentin Thevenet.
Lighting assistance Romain Dubus.
Styling assistance Niccolo Torelli, Julie Nivet, Swannie Robert.
Hair assistance Ryan Mitchell.
Make-up assistance Delphine Delain, Estelle Jaillet.
Production Floriane Desperier at 4Oktober.
Model Mica Arganaraz at Viva Paris.
Make-up Dior Backstage collection and Diorskin Star foundation.