Why Bennekom?
He embodies the often-sought but seldom realized roles of designer, editor, and publisher for three different magazines: RE-, Butt, and Fantastic Man.
Bennekom chose American Typewriter for the text face of Butt. Bennekon thought it to be a gay typeface.
Jop van Bennekom embodies the often-sought but seldom realized roles of designer, editor, and publisher for three different magazines: RE-, Butt, and Fantastic Man.
Bennekom cover for The Face, 1996
Fantastic Man is said to have influenced men's fashion in the 2000s!
This European-based fashion magazine, which publishes twice a year, continues to be a much-imitated scripture of men’s style, even as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. And that’s largely thanks to its two spotlight-shy Dutch founders, Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers, who ushered in a genre of fashion magazines that emphasized everyday men and intellectuals, over celebrities and waifish models.The fact that Fantastic Man has a worldwide circulation of only 85,000 and a self-selective readership of worldly men who pride themselves as culture connoisseurs only reinforces its outsize influence. The writer Glenn O’Brien once called it “one of the most remarkable magazines of this era.”
here an interesting interview by van Bennekom addressing FANTASTIC MAN.