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Syntax is published three times yearly. It is edited by writer & filmmaker CS Leigh. The first in the series THE ANNOTATED SPECTACLE was launched at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009. Each edition has a theme & includes contributions from the practices of fashion, visual art, music, performance, literature, & film.
All content is newly commissioned specifically for each edition.

CS Leigh is a writer & filmmaker. His films include FAR FROM CHINA (2001) with Marianne Faithfull & Lambert Wilson & original score by Suede, PROCESS (2005) starring Beatrice Dalle & Guillaume Depardieu which was featured in over 35 international film festivals including Berlin where it was in the Official Selection & Edinburgh where it was nominated for the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film of the Year, & SEE YOU AT REGIS DEBRAY (2008) about a month Andreas Baader spent on the run in Paris in 1969. NOBODY FUCKS NICO (2010) & NEVER FAR FROM PLACE VENDOME (2011) a documentary about Ralph Rucci are currently being prepared for release. He continues work on AMERICAN WIDOW a cinematic essay which chronicles post-9/11 America.

Syntax Print publishes fiction & non-fiction books.
Syntax Music publishes vinyl & cd editions.
Syntax Cinema publishes dvds in limited edition.

Please contact us by sending a message to
syntax@syntax-editions.com.

Syntax Editions

"I'm a strong believer in the Oulipo adage that limitations are the key to creativity ie when anything can happen nothing tends to."

— Heidi Julavits in Syntax #1
"This photograph of Barbra Streisand arriving at a Valentino show at the Pierre Hotel in 1971 has been hanging above my desk for about twenty years. It was taken by Ron Galella."

— Barbara Streisand in Syntax #1
"You know this is probably the last interview I will do for a long time. I'm beginning to find interviews problematic in the sense that they always fall back on history."

— Pieter Hugo in Syntax #2
"Dominique Varga circa 1988 in a photograph believed to be taken by the artist Cortez."

— Dominique Varga in Syntax #2
Rodney Graham in Syntax #2
Lanvin Menswear in Syntax #1
Poster for SEE YOU AT REGIS DEBRAY a film by CS Leigh
Kris Van Assche Portfolio in Syntax #1
I WAS JACK GOLDSTEIN a performance by CS Leigh
"With most designers I am a collaborator. With Junya I think I am a designer."

— Katsuya Kamo in Syntax #2
"Riccardo Tisci likes to say he doesn't care about fashion and that he prefers albinos, freaks, and other outcasts from society over the fashionistas we hear so much about and who take up so much space."

— Riccardo Tisci in Syntax #1
PROCESS a film by CS Leigh Original Soundtrack Recording by John Cale released by Syntax Editions in 2005

"Each work of Jerome Bel's is like a continuation of a vast archival project which seeks to deconstruct the aura around and presence of the dancer and choreographer. We are often given not the dance but the notations around creating the dance or presenting the dancers onstage."

— Jerome Bel in Syntax #1
Zbigniew Rogalski in NOBODY FUCKS NICO a film by CS Leigh
Beatrice Dalle in PROCESS a film by CS Leigh dvd released by Syntax Editions in 2010
YSH Homme by Stefano Pilati in Syntax #2
"It is an art which is made to be worn by many people. It forces us to be very modest and down to earth when we work on perfumes. Everything is an Art today. I believe that we should be a little bit more modest."

— Frederic Malle in Syntax #2
Ralph Rucci Couture in Syntax #3
Cruising in Syntax #1
Roman Polanski & Sharon Tate at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival in Syntax #1
JFK in Syntax #2
Halston & Pat Cleveland in Syntax #1
Alexis Mabille Menswear in Syntax #3
SEE YOU AT REGIS DEBRAY a film by CS Leigh
Luke Worrall in Syntax #3

Raf Simons Menswear in Syntax #2
Guillaume Dustan in Syntax #1
Syntax Editions will publish Guillaume Dustan in English in 2011
YSL Homme by Stefano Pilati in Syntax #1
AJ ABUALRUB in THIRTEEN MOST a limited edition book published by Syntax Editions in 2009
Cy Twombly in Syntax #2
Stella Schnabel & Ry Russo-Young in Syntax #2
Nico in Syntax #1
"Everything about Joana Preiss says she has been through much more than we can ever imagine."

— Joana Preiss in Syntax #1
"There will always be Couture."

— Ralph Rucci in Syntax #3
Proenza Schouler in Syntax #2

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