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For their coming-of-age 21st issue, the Buffalo team have faced up to the reality of modern magazine production, reflecting on the financial struggles they’ve faced over 15 years of their magazine, the dwindling brand support, and the magazine’s uncertain future. The result is an issue without professional models, stylist or makeup artists. Friends and collegaues wear a mixture of their own clothes and items lent by brands, each putting their own look together. To exentuate this shift from the usual fashion framework, the issue has no front cover. Each copy has had the first few pages torn off, meaning the issue begins randomly—the reader is thrown straight into the issue. Instead of a regular editor’s letter, the founders of the magazine, David and Adrián, share a conversation about the precarious nature of independent magazine publishing and the state of the industry. Want to hear more? Listen to our interview with Adrián and David on the magCulture podcast. LISTEN HERE buffalozine.com
