Buffalo Zine №21

Buffalo Zine is a timeless and placeless expression of art, aesthetics, youth and self expression. The design and format changes with each issue, allowing the form to be as free as the content. Buffalo Zine is as homemade as good bread – created with joy, love and devotion, like a personal diary or an orchard.
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 colleagues wear a mixture of their own clothes and items lent by brands, each putting their own look together. To accentuate 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.