STEFANO PILATI / RANDOM IDENTITIES — Jordan Hemingway Zine, 2019

An early printed document from Stefano Pilati's Random Identities, produced in collaboration with photographer Jordan Hemingway and released in 2019, shortly after Pilati established the independent Berlin-based label. Photography by Jordan Hemingway; makeup by Kenny Campbell; casting by Walter Pearce. Produced for Dover Street Market London. Softcover zine, 48 pages, 17.5 × 24.5 cm; photographic and reproduced graphic material.

Pilati founded Random Identities in 2017 after a career moving through Cerruti, Armani, Prada, Yves Saint Laurent and Zegna. At Saint Laurent he served as creative director for eight years. Random Identities marked a deliberate move away from the machinery of the established luxury house: a smaller, independently controlled project based in Berlin and organised around changing ideas of gender, identity and how clothes circulate.

The zine belongs directly to that shift. Rather than presenting a conventional seasonal lookbook, Pilati and Hemingway build a fragmented visual world from fashion photographs, contact-sheet sequences, drawings, handwritten pages and portraits. One spread describes the publication as being seen “through the eyes of a goth” and dedicated to Stefano. Elsewhere, figures move between club styling, personal documentation and fashion image-making.

Its contributor page reads less like the credits of a corporate campaign than the record of a temporary network: photographers, models, casting directors, studios, labs, artists and friends assembled around the project. This was part of Random Identities’ original proposition—Pilati taking the knowledge of institutional luxury and redistributing it through a younger, Berlin-centred and more informal system.

The restrained wrapper, almost anonymous apart from a black horizontal block on the front, makes the publication resist the usual mechanics of fashion branding. Inside, identity becomes unstable: repeated, photographed, handwritten, performed and reassigned. A fashion publication functioning simultaneously as campaign and independent document, recording the moment a designer associated with one of fashion’s largest houses deliberately moved into self-publishing, subculture and small-scale circulation.

Condition: Good. Light handling and surface wear to wrappers, with minor creasing, faint marks and slight edge and corner wear. Internally complete and generally clean.

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