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Atelier Quarterly

The editions

Choose your format on each volume’s product page before adding it to your cart. Each option is a single-issue purchase, not a Year One subscription. Applicable taxes are shown at checkout.

Vols. I and II now available in Spanish

The digital editions of Vol. I — La Belle Époque Redux and Vol. II — Couture Reformation are available in English and Spanish. Choose Digital / English or Digital / Español under Format on the relevant volume’s product page before adding it to your cart. French digital editions will follow and are not yet available to purchase. The Print options are English-language physical magazines.

Changing the storefront language does not change the language of the magazine PDF you purchase.

Los volúmenes I y II ya están disponibles en español como compras individuales. Selecciona Digital / Español en las opciones de Formato / Format de la página de cada volumen antes de añadirlo al carrito. Cambiar el idioma de la tienda no cambia el idioma del PDF que compras. Las ediciones digitales en francés llegarán después y todavía no están a la venta.

Atelier Quarterly Vol. II: Couture Reformation cover

Vol. II — Couture Reformation

A 66-page menswear couture magazine written and designed by Stacy Stewart Smith (he/him). Couture Reformation opens behind a Wedgwood Blue door on Chicago’s South Side, the Sa-Mer Sewing Center in the 1970s, and builds across decades of work into an argument for couture as an artform.

Digital · $12.99
Available in English and Spanish. Choose Digital / English or Digital / Español on the product page. Your PDF edition is delivered through an emailed download link after payment. Download and save the file to your device. No physical magazine is shipped. The English PDF is 64 MB.

Print · $49.99
One physical English-language copy of Vol. II, supplied in an AQ branded box and sent to the shipping address entered at checkout. Includes free shipping within the United States. A PDF download is not included with the Print option.

Both formats contain the same editorial content.

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Atelier Quarterly Vol. I: La Belle Époque Redux cover

Vol. I — La Belle Époque Redux

Where it began. This 66-page first volume established the journal’s voice through essays, construction detail, and couture philosophy.

Digital · $12.99
Available in English and Spanish. Choose Digital / English or Digital / Español on the product page. Your PDF edition is delivered through an emailed download link after payment. Download and save the file to your device. No physical magazine is shipped.

Print · $49.99
One physical English-language copy of Vol. I. Includes free shipping within the United States. Choose Print on the product page to order the physical magazine. A PDF download is not included with the Print option.

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Year One subscriptions

Choose your reading language: Year One Digital is available through separate English-language and Spanish-language products. Choose the subscription for the PDF language you want; changing the storefront language does not change your purchased files. French will follow and is not yet available to purchase. The Year One Print collection is in English.

Choose Digital for the four regular Year One volumes, or Print for all four regular volumes plus the print-only Anniversary One bonus issue. Choose a one-time Year One purchase or an annually renewing subscription on the subscription product page.

Year One Digital — English · $49.99
The four regular Year One digital volumes in English: Vols. I–IV. Vols. I and II are available now. Vol. III is in the early planning stage, with January 6, 2027 as a tentative publication target, not a confirmed release date. Vol. IV is planned for April 6, 2027. The Anniversary One issue is not included. No physical magazines are shipped.

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Suscripción digital del primer año — Español · 49,99 USD
Cuatro volúmenes digitales regulares del primer año en español: I–IV. Los volúmenes I y II se entregan mediante enlaces de descarga por correo electrónico tras el pago. Los volúmenes III y IV se entregarán cuando sus respectivas ediciones en español estén listas. Las fechas previstas para las ediciones originales no garantizan las fechas de publicación de las traducciones. No incluye Anniversary One ni revistas físicas.

Elige una compra única del primer año por 49,99 USD, sin renovación automática, o una suscripción anual por 49,99 USD al año, con renovación automática salvo cancelación antes de la siguiente fecha de facturación. Cambiar el idioma de la tienda no cambia el idioma de los archivos adquiridos.

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Year One Print · $236.99
The four regular Year One print volumes plus Vol. V: Anniversary One, a print-only bonus issue, with US shipping included. Vols. I and II are sent after your order is processed and may arrive together. Each forthcoming volume is individually printed and shipped when its printed edition is ready. Vol. III is in early planning, with January 6, 2027 as a tentative publication target; Vol. IV is planned for April 6, 2027, and Anniversary One for July 4, 2027. Vols. III and IV will not be combined or held for a July shipment.

Includes the Menswear Couture Manifesto digital download for immediate reading, plus complimentary digital editions of Vols. III and IV. The full Year One Digital subscription is not included. Publication dates are estimates, not guaranteed dispatch or arrival dates. Planned publication dates for the original editions do not guarantee publication dates for translations.

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The one-time option does not renew. If you select the annual subscription, billing renews every year at $49.99 for Digital or $236.99 for Print unless you cancel before your next billing date. Manage your subscription and cancel future renewal through your customer account. The schedule above describes Year One.


About Atelier Quarterly

Atelier Quarterly is a menswear couture magazine, written, designed, illustrated, and published by Stacy Stewart Smith (he/him). Each volume makes the argument that couture belongs to men, and that the well-dressed man is not following fashion. He is reforming it.

Part editorial, part manifesto, part atelier journal, every issue moves from the philosophy of the craft to the garments themselves — the coats, the trousers, the accessories, and the hands that make them. This is fashion as wearable, collectible art.

More from Vol. II — Couture Reformation

From the Editor, Vol. II

Vol. II exists because Vol. I asked a question and did not fully answer it. The question is whether menswear couture — true couture, made by hand, made to measure, made with the same intention as the great houses of Paris — belongs to men the way it has always belonged to women. My answer is yes. Vol. II makes that argument in full: in the essays, in the garments, in the spreads, and in the construction details. It is the most complete statement I have made as a designer. — Stacy Stewart Smith

A Sample from Vol. II

“Couture, then, is not the opposite of comfort — it is the opposite of indifference.”

“We are walking perpetually on an invisible fashion runway with or without an audience.”

“Couture quality is a craft that exists in the light and not the shadow of the legal title.”

— From the Menswear Couture Manifesto, Atelier Quarterly Vol. II

Sample article: $2.00. An 11.3 MB PDF digital download. Final sale, all sales non-refundable.

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Inside Vol. II

  • The Heart of a Couturier — origin story
  • Menswear Couture Manifesto — the argument
  • Style Commentary: Puffers Are Out
  • The Adventures of Couture & Couture
  • Behind the Couture Door: Making the Grand Soir Expedition Coat
  • From the Academy: Who Wears the Pants?
  • Fashion Spread: Why Windsor Pants?
  • Kilt Reality: A Discovery of Transatlantic Truths
  • The Reading Room: Just Sarah and Me — A Short Story
  • Artist Log: 2005 Photoshoot at Tour Eiffel as Study for Paintings
  • Accessories: For the Man Who Deserves a Perfect Gift
  • A Beautiful Life — Couture Coverings in Black

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