Tragic Symphony: Mixte Magazine (1996-2009)
by Maud & Pénélope . posted on June 02, 2009It’s a tragic symphony for an issue dedicated on music, it’s the end of Mixte. The magazine was a must-see and a must-buy on newsstands since 1996 and we’ve been relentlessly buying it for four or five years now. Magazines come and go but some of them are really harder to let disappear this way. Mixte was one of the best source for alternative contents focusing on the new generation of both models and photographers.
If this is not the end of the world, if we still have several others which are able to satisfy our limitless hunger for precious editorials, the end of Mixte sounds like the end of an era nonetheless. The end of this monthly thrill, of all the great expectations, of the marvelous surprises while flipping the pages for the first time. We’ll even miss the smell of its glossy paper. The most worrying might be to hear rumors of the launch of a french edition of Grazia. Hard times should be times for creativity, not cut/paste wrong commercial moves that are not even sure to succeed.
So, what does the last issue look like ? We should say last but not least and you would get the idea. Quite an impressive one, true to Mixte’s vision and aesthetic till the end. From cover-girl Missy Rayder to Katie Fogarty closing the magazine (and its era). You’ve already seen Kinee Diouf’s story on Lexposure and other features include Pernille Moeller, Regina Feoktistova, Luize Salmgrieze, Maria Babikova plus Missy and Katie themselves shot by photographers like Philip Gay, Jacob Sutton or Aitken Jolly. It’s a tragic symphony, but we’ll never forget the tune.
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