Thom Bettridge

1 month ago | i-d.co | Thom Bettridge

Dear Reader, The world today has a thing for legacy. Legacy brands. Legacy debates. We love to call things “iconic,” “classic,” “historic,” or “GOATed” before they even have a Wikipedia page. Maybe we fixate on legacy because we live in a time when so many things are uncertain and disposable. Or maybe being obsessed with legacy isn’t so new—search: museums, the patriarchy, why someone’s face is on my money, etc. I thought about legacy more than I normally would in the process of editing this magazine.

1 month ago | i-d.co | Thom Bettridge

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2 months ago | i-d.co | Thom Bettridge

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Aug 29, 2023 | interviewmagazine.com | Thom Bettridge

It’s Thursday afternoon, and I’m sitting in an armchair 36 floors above downtown Tokyo with the designer Matthew Williams and Audemars Piguet CEO Francois-Henry Bennahmias. The August sun pours in from the floor to ceiling windows, convection-baking the three of us, and forcing both Francois and Matthew to put their sunglasses on. In the room next to us, a collection of six soon-to-be desperately coveted watches are sitting on a plinthe next to a pile of black gloves.

Jun 22, 2023 | interviewmagazine.com | Thom Bettridge