Remember Ex Machina, Alex Garland’s unsettlingly predictive film on synthetic intelligence? A naive Domhnall Gleeson wins a contest where he is chosen to administer the Turing test to a highly advanced, humanoid robot. It doesn’t go too well, but strip away its eerie sterility and unnerving setting, and you’re left with a strikingly philosophical presentation of where creativity and computers can take us. 

Luxury digital fashion platform, SYKY, has introduced a testament to just that, with the debut of the SYKY Editorial. Placing the digital at the forefront of human’s imaginative capabilities, the magazine showcases emerging designers’ impacts in the luxury fashion industry. Except their medium isn’t fabric and fiber; it’s code and computer. Think Ex Machina, in all its provocative Alicia Vikander glory, minus the lies and betrayal, of course. 

The magazine, curated by SYKY’s Artistic Director and V family, Nicola Formichetti, intends to redefine fashion through the brand’s digital-first lens. Formichetti’s notable background in luxury fashion accordingly earns him a place at the helm of fusing the digital with the designer. With the sci-fi fantasies of Mugler and the innovative edginess of Diesel in his back pocket, Formichetti’s artistic vision is poised to usher in a fresh perspective on the cutting-edge technologies cavorting at designers’ fingertips. 

“SYKY Magazine is about reimagining fashion by embracing new technology and fostering collaboration with digital innovators,” Formichetti tells V. “At SYKY, we believe that collaboration and experimentation with digital innovators are key to redefining fashion’s future.” 

The magazine’s inaugural cover features a collection of visuals created by multidisciplinary artist Yasmin Gross, and a peek at Gross’s Instagram warrants quite the visual jolt. A longer glance affords a window into the bizarrely, nonetheless remarkably, compelling images Gross creates through generative AI. 

As for the fashion side of things, CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Finalist, Kate Barton, lends her futuristically chic collection of wearable art for the editorial’s cover. Her sculpturally avant-garde pieces and chrome embellished accents supply SYKY with the physical manifestations of an industry increasingly blurring the boundaries between programmed and palpable realities.  

Every cover of the debut issue and future editions will be available to collect exclusively on SYKY.com for a limited time after publication.