Peel Slowly & Use

Keith Haring

Launching with its second issue at the beginning of this year’s international Fashion Weeks, Garage Magazine proves it's much more than high art, high fashion and high life. Dedicated to Sex & Relationships, Issue No. 2 has a lot riding on it – we all remember the release of Issue No. 1 last year with its intimate Damien Hirst installation & interactive cover (Peel Slowly & See, August 2011) – but what with the continuing debates during the American presidential election and current state of affairs in England over gay marriage, the issue that also looks at internet dating and fertilisation technology is very much on the political pulse, and if the content doesn’t get your pulse racing then the issue’s artist-designed condoms may very well get you in the mood. Mat Collishaw, Keith Haring, Sue Webster and Tim Noble have all contributed their own conceptual take on the condom wrappers, which can be found in every new issue of the magazine and proves that no surface is safe from high art. 

 Mat Collishaw

 Sue Webster

Tim Noble

Garage No. 2 Magazine is out now at newsstands.

Peel Slowly & See

There are ways to create a media frenzy for the launch of a product and there are ways to create a media frenzy for the launch of Dasha Zhukova's new art magazine Garage, titled after her successful gallery space, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow. Photographed by designer Hedi Slimane, the provocative cover of the art world's new publication sees the bottom half of model, Shauna Taylor with a tattoo designed by Damien Hirst on her vagina. Inked by London-based tattooist Mo Coppoletta at The Family Business Tattoo Shop, Miss Taylor loves the trademark butterfly design by Hirst,

"I would have been stupid not to be part of this project. I have a piece of art on my vagina. Not one person can ever say that they gave birth through a Damien Hirst piece of art. I can".

That you can Shauna, that you can.

Garage No. 1 Magazine will debut later in the year with two more exclusive covers by Dinos Chapman and Richard Prince who will be competing with a naked model's vagina seductively covered by a large butterfly sticker once the issue hits newsstands - get back to the drawing board lads.