DEW Magazine 15th Anniversary Issue December 2025. This issue is not a celebration. It is a pause. A chance to look at what has been done, how it was shaped by its time, and what it means to continue.
Fifteen years doesn’t feel like a milestone. It feels more like a record of change.
When Dew began, magazines operated in a different rhythm. Print was central. Stories arrived on a schedule. Fashion and culture were often filtered through a small number of voices. That structure felt stable at the time. It didn’t last.
Digital platforms reshaped how content is made, shared, and consumed. Social media removed the idea of a single authority. Culture became faster, more fragmented, more participatory. Magazines no longer dictated direction; they entered conversation.
Print adapted by becoming more intentional. Less frequent. More considered. No longer built for immediacy, but for reflection.
Dew moved within these shifts. Our focus expanded as the context around fashion changed. Style could no longer be separated from labor, identity, sustainability, or power. Culture demanded a wider lens, and we followed it, not to keep up, but to stay honest.
The business of publishing changed as well. Advertising moved elsewhere. Independence became fragile and necessary at the same time. What remained essential was clarity: knowing why we exist, and who we speak to.
This issue is not a celebration. It is a pause. A chance to look at what has been done, how it was shaped by its time, and what it means to continue. There is no final statement here, only continuity.
Dew exists to observe, to document, and to think carefully about culture as it unfolds. That commitment has not changed, even as everything around it has.
Fifteen years in, we remain in progress. (Text Teuku Ajie)
CREDITS
Cover story Tiana at the Lotus Management in ENSW
Photography Otsuka Misuzu
Styling Yuzuka Tsuji
Hair Mirai Uejo
Make-up Yui Yamanaka