EXCELLENCE DISCOVERY GREAT EMOTIONS

Issue No IX – soon to be released

“Beautiful blue sky and golden sunshine… all along the way.”

The phrase, which later became a true viral refrain online for many years, was the greeting David Lynch would recite each morning to welcome the day as it opened from his studio in Los Angeles. Alongside the weather forecast, something of an obsession for the inhabitants of LA, the city of angels and dreams, it was with this peculiar mantra that the American director, who passed away last year at the age of seventy-nine, set aside his reputation as a withdrawn and private man, revealing instead one of Hollywood’s most free-spirited, unconventional and controversial artists.

Lynch worked with time, he did so in his films, but above all upon himself. It was an obsession that ultimately led him towards transcendental meditation, a way of inhabiting the very life he evoked in his work, often brushing against the supernatural.

A tribute to this master of cinema and to his body of work, but also to one of the themes most deeply felt by artists throughout the ages: the passing of days, the ticking of the clock, the approach of inevitable deadlines, and at the same time the desire to grant oneself the reflection necessary to reach the hoped-for result. All of this lies at the heart of this new issue of our magazine.

Turn its pages slowly. Breathe in the scent of the paper, let your hand rest upon it. Treat it as one would a good friend. Keep it beside you, within easy reach, with the calm required to read and leaf through it properly, as one would listen to a fine musical score, great music, represented by the finest pianos in the world, and great fashion, with some of the most celebrated designers of our time. There is the highest watchmaking and jewellery, alongside our reflections and our visions, which we hope may become yours as well. Within these pages lie a portion of our time and a portion of our hearts, both placed in the service of creativity, in the hope that each new issue becomes a project ever more special, more collective, and perhaps a little more loved each time.

For it takes the time it takes to reach what is most dear and most precious, never forgetting what lies behind us, while looking forward towards the future. In the end, everything is a matter of time, keeping firmly in mind the maxim that reminds us never to flee from the past. For it is the teacher of the future, and above all because the past is not behind us, but within us.

Cinzia MALVINI

In this issue of The Edge my stories trace how visionaries bend time, technology, and identity to build their own futures. Readers meet Rosa Aranzazu Lykiardopoulos, the “queen of inflatables,” whose Tales from the Underground turns crowded commutes into glossy, AI-assisted inner monologues, where humour, neurosis, and digital self-distortion share the same carriage. Marcus Tomlinson revisits the restless experiments that carried him from 1990s London fashion imagery to time-bending installations and poetic films for Hussein Chalayan, Issey Miyake, and George Harrison’s gardens. Heron Preston’s narrative unfolds as a rise–fall–rebirth: from cult street-photography blog to global brand, through corporate entrapment, to buying back his own name and rebuilding on his own terms. Finally, Quentin Pontonnier’s Tant d’Avenir shows a skater-turned-goldsmith forging brutal, futuristic jewellery from old coins in a growing Paris atelier, treating entrepreneurship as a daily act of courage.

Diane PERNET