I've always existed between two worlds—anime and fashion. Two industries that take aesthetics more seriously than almost anything else but almost never talk to each other.

This project was a simple question: what happens when they do?

THE IDEA

Fashion magazines have a visual language so established it's almost a genre of its own. The masthead. The cover lines. The barcode. The grid. Strip away the photography and replace it with illustration—does it still feel like a magazine? Does it feel real?

That was the constraint I set myself. Every decision had to hold up against an actual published cover. Not a poster pretending to be a magazine. A magazine.

THE RESULT

Two covers that feel like they could sit on a newsstand between Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Built entirely in Photoshop, from illustration to final print mockup.

Not a concept. A series.