Cindy Sherman fronts the second volume of the Chanel Culture Fund's Arts & Culture magazine, published on October 23, 2026. The free publication runs to some 300 pages and will be distributed through 32 independent bookstores and magazine shops, plus partner arts institutions, across 17 countries — a deliberately anti-luxury distribution strategy for a luxury house's cultural organ. The centerpiece is an extended portfolio of new self-portraits. According to Vanity Fair's account of the production, Sherman was sent rolls of raw, unsewn vintage fabric and costume jewelry from Chanel's Patrimoine archive, which she cut and draped herself to build the costumes — a process closer to her early Untitled Film Stills methodology than to a conventional fashion sitting. A selection of the photographs goes on view at Hauser & Wirth's Mayfair space through December 23, with the opening timed to Frieze London week. The issue's contents extend well beyond its cover star. The magazine carries handwritten lyrics by Patti Smith prepared for the ten recipients of the 2026 CHANEL Next Prize, alongside profiles of Linder Sterling and Klára Hosnedlová, essays on Peggy Guggenheim and Jean Cocteau, and conversations with Nairy Baghramian, Adam Pendleton, Rachel Rose, and Alvaro Barrington. For Sherman, now in her fifth decade of self-portraiture, the commission continues a long flirtation with fashion that has never quite become an embrace. The artist has always used clothing as character-building material; here the archive of one of fashion's great houses becomes, literally, her raw material. It is also a savvy institutional pairing: Hauser & Wirth's Mayfair opening falls squarely in Frieze week, when the art world's attention is already fixed on London.