In this issue of System magazine: Saint Laurent CEO Francesca Bellettini and creative director Anthony Vaccarello discuss their ‘never compromise the brand’ strategy. A portrait of Martine Rose and Tamara Rothstein by Oliver Hadlee Pearch. The story of their creative partnership told to Murray Healy in super inspirational style. There are also features on Pasolini's costumes, the return of Haider Ackermann, Junya Watanabe's show archives, Luar's Raul Lopez, Hermès accessories, the Fendi Baguette and its admirers (photographed by Collier Schorr), Venetian jeweller Attilio Codognato, La Cambre Mode[s] fashion school in Brussels, Chinese casting director Denise Hu.

System is a biannual magazine which offers exclusive long-format conversations with fashion’s most relevant, most powerful and most opinionated individuals, accompanied by portfolios created by the industry’s most in-demand image-makers.