Kinfolk — Issue 59 / Clean

Kinfolk — Issue 59 / Clean

Issue 59 of Kinfolk takes 'clean' as a working idea — as a ritual, a feeling, an instinct, an aesthetic position. The issue runs a long-form essay on how clean we actually need to be, alongside Dirty Habits, a meditation on the pockets of imperfection most of us refuse to optimise out of our lives. Elsewhere: the boom in public bathing among younger generations in Tokyo; five perfumers (and one expert) on what clean actually smells like; David Bronner of the family soap company turned countercultural force; and the design philosopher Leonard Koren on the limits of the minimalist proposition.

Plus Jessie Ware on turning a family Friday-night dinner into one of the most-listened-to UK podcasts. Quarterly. UK cover price £18.99.