A TESTAMENT OF LOVE: A Magazine Curated By has revealed Willy Chavarria as the guest editor of its 28th issue, set to be released in print on Sunday with online pre-sales beginning Tuesday.

“Following our 25-year celebration earlier this year, we really wanted to position the magazine to [highlight] people having impact on communities and impact on a culture, on a global scale,” said editor in chief Blake Abbie. “After his show in Paris, it was just so clear that people were really aligned with [Chavarria’s] vision of the world and his perspective on how fashion can really [effect] change.”

After taking a bow with “how we love is who we are” emblazoned on his T-shirt for his electrifying Paris debut marking his brand’s 10th anniversary, it’s the New York-based designer’s “Love Commandments” that will be at the heart of the edition he is curating.

For this turn curating A Magazine, Chavarria said he just knew he “needed to say something important.”

“It turned into a part-biography, really exploring where I’m from, and then contrasting that with where we are now and filling [the edition] with everything in between,” he continued. “I think where we landed is this beautiful composite of the reality of the brand, our position in society and the way we speak to people and about social justice and human equality.”

The magazine includes a photo series in Huron, the small agricultural town in Fresno County, Calif., where the Mexican American designer grew up, shot by Carlos Jaramillo; an exploration of modern Latino masculinity by stylist Carlos Nazario, who went behind the camera for the first time, and a cinematic fashion editorial styled by Patti Wilson and shot by Taiwanese visual artist John Yuyi. 

There is also a roundtable conversation about resistance with the Latino Caucus from AIDS activist group Act Up, capturing a gathering 35 years after their founding, and a dialogue on faith and meaning between Chavarria and Mariann Budde, who serves as Bishop of Washington and delivered the homily at the interfaith prayer service, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s second inauguration in January, a call for compassion toward marginalized groups.

“Willy has the ability to gather people in a way where they can be seen,” Abbie said.  

The title emerged while developing the content of the issue, a process that left Chavarria feeling that “each story is like a book in the Bible, where you experience it and you learn from it,” he told WWD. “Ultimately, the whole [magazine] is about love, which is the core of every single thing that we do, say and feel.”

Another important aspect of the issue for Chavarria is humor, best exemplified in his take on vintage advertising starring produce grown in central California that he imagined with art director Jess Cuevas, a close collaborator of many years.

“It’s maybe also when you’re nervous, you have to keep cracking jokes because everything is deep that you have to find a little bit of ridiculous humor,” Chavarria said.

The launch of the edition will be accompanied by the debut of a short film shot in Chavarria’s hometown and a daytime cultural happening to celebrate the idea of love in Paris.

After its release in Europe on Sunday, the magazine is expected to hit U.S. newsstands in July.