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Issue No. 042 · Spring 2026
The Quiet Volume
Cover Story · The Quiet Volume
N° XLII

In an age of louder things, a return to silk, to silence, to the slow gesture. Yui Karou stands still for forty seconds — long enough for the light to remember her. Photographed by Lior Adán in the Atlas, three days after the spring rains. Styling by Imani Khoury.

Photography Lior Adán
Styling Imani Khoury
Hair & Makeup Renée Bissette
Cover model Yui Karou (IMG)

Inside this
Issue

214 pages
38 photographs
11 contributors
1 quiet volume
012Letter from the EditorEditorialOn the loud year we just left and the quieter one we are walking into.— Editorial
028The Quiet VolumeCover Story · 22ppYui Karou photographed by Lior Adán in the Atlas mountains.— Fashion
068An Hour with TildaInterview · 9ppThe Oscar-winning actress on translation, costume, and patience.— Culture
092Notes on SlipBeauty · 14ppA material study of silk, charmeuse, and the forgotten art of the bias cut.— Beauty
132Marrakech in MarchTravel diary · 18ppSix designers, three days, one suite at La Mamounia.— Culture
178The ArchiveReissue · 12ppLooking back at our cover from S/S 2002, and what it taught us about restraint.— Archive
204Stockists & CreditsIndexWhere to find every piece in this issue, in every city that matters.— Index
Cover Story · pp. 028 — 049

The Quiet
Volume.

There is a volume to silk that is not loud. It moves the way a sentence moves when read aloud — slowly, with a pause where you would expect a comma. We spent three days in the Atlas with Yui Karou, photographing the way her dress remembered the wind. Nothing in the suitcase was new. Everything in the suitcase was true. — Imani Khoury, Fashion Director.

Look 04 — Silk slip in raw oat, vintage Galanos.
Look 11 — Coat in undyed cashmere, The Row. Belt, model's own.
Look 17 — Sheath dress, Lemaire S/S 2026.
Look 22 — Vintage hand-loomed scarf, Marrakech medina.
PhotographyLior Adán represented by Art Partner. Shot on Mamiya RZ67 with Kodak Portra 800.
StylingImani Khoury for Veil Magazine. Garments fitted at Atelier Khoury, Paris VIème.

Contributors
S/S 2026

Photography

Lior Adán

Cover & feature

Saskia Vogt

Beauty

Hiro Inomata

Travel

Styling & Direction

Imani Khoury

Fashion Director

Renée Bissette

Hair & Makeup Director

Cosima Vance

Set Design

Words

Eve Marin-Lacroix

Editor-in-Chief

Henrik Vasquez

Senior Editor

Tilda Swinton

Guest Essayist · pp. 162

Hold a quieter
magazine.

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