Featuring six covers and inside access with guest editors HOLLY SILIUS and ANNA ZAHN, the issue brings together artists, scientists, philosophers, designers, and cultural provocateurs to explore the shifting boundaries between health and ideology, self-care and self-surveillance, healing and control.

JUERGEN TELLER embarks on a 24-hour journey through Switzerland to photograph two extraordinary cover stories. At Kunstmuseum Basel, artist NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN reflects on vulnerability, creativity, and healing following a life-altering accident. In the Swiss Prealps, artist and designer HARUMI KLOSSOWSKA DE ROLA welcomes Teller into the historic Grand Chalet, the former home of her father, Balthus, for an intimate portrait alongside her wolfdogs.

RASHIDA JONES shares a photographic self-portrait series and her thoughts on spirituality, identity, fame, and privacy, reflecting on her childhood experiences at a meditation ashram, her study of Eastern philosophy at Harvard, and a career spent interrogating the contradictions of contemporary culture.

QUANNAH CHASINGHORSE, the fourth-generation Indigenous land protector and model, speaks with CÉLINE SEMAAN about ancestral knowledge, intergenerational trauma, environmental justice, and the inseparable relationship between personal and planetary wellbeing. Photographed by CAMERON MCCOOL.

PIERCE ABERNATHY, the chef and culinary creator redefining our relationship with food, speaks about nourishment, sustainability, and the possibilities of a more intentional relationship with what we eat. Photographed by NICK SETHI in ON.

ALTON MASON embodies a futuristic vision of physicality and transformation in a photographic portfolio by JOSE MARIA, styled by ILLIA KULISHOV in DIME TRIBE.

HANS ZIMMER, the Academy Award-winning composer, speaks about the emotional architecture of music, artificial intelligence, human empathy, and the technological possibilities of sound.

DRIES VAN NOTEN speaks with HANS ULRICH OBRIST about beauty, creativity, and life after fashion, marking the opening of his new foundation in Venice’s historic Palazzo Pisani Moretta. Photographed by PIOTR NIEPSUJ.

ANDREW HUBERMAN, neuroscientist and one of the most influential voices in contemporary wellness, speaks about the science and speculation of self-optimization, longevity, and the protocols governing modern life. Photographed by MIKE BLABAC.

CARSTEN HÖLLER invites us into a speculative laboratory of perception, experimentation, and doubt with his exhibition, Two, at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Interviewed by PHILIP TINARI and photographed by PIERRE BJÖRK.

PAUL PFEIFFER examines the body as a site of spectacle, extraction, and resistance through the ritualized violence of professional sports. In conversation with his personal trainer DONALD TAGORDA, with photography by NICK SETHI.

NICOLE STOTT, former NASA astronaut, artist, and advocate for planetary stewardship, speaks about the overview effect, creativity, and the urgent responsibility of caring for Spaceship Earth.

BOB ROTH and DR. TONY NADER explore the transformative potential of Transcendental Meditation with photographs by DAVID LYNCH.

CLAIRE KORON ELAT goes deep inside the luxury longevity industry in her essay, Cheating Death, checking into two exclusive wellness retreats—Palace Merano in the Italian Alps and Lily of the Valley in Saint-Tropez—to investigate the increasingly blurred boundaries between medicine, beauty, privilege, and the fear of aging. What begins as a personal experiment in optimization becomes a larger interrogation of our obsession with biological age and the quantification of the human body.

In The Body Project, YULIANNA NUNNO explores the unsettling visual language of contemporary wellness, tracing connections between photography, historical eugenics, online looksmaxxing communities, extreme body optimization, and the political implications of the idealized human form.

SUMMER BOWIE examines the historical subjugation of women and nature in The Feminine Avant-Garde, a rumination on the commodification of femininity, self-care, and the possibility of rewilding desire, in response to paintings by ALISON BLICKLE.

In Salus Per Aquam, COURTNEY WITTICH offers a personal exploration of bathing culture, ancient thermal rituals, saunas, mineral springs, and the healing power of water, tracing a journey through some of the world’s most extraordinary places to soak, sweat, surrender, and simply be.

VIVIANE SASSEN and EMMELINE DE MOOIJ speak about aging, femininity, motherhood, and the social constructions of beauty. PATSY RODENBURG examines the transformative power of voice, presence, and human connection, photographed by CHRIS D’CRUZ GURNEY. DR. KEMI DOLL, a gynecologic oncologist working to close survival disparities in American medicine, talks about her new book A Terrible Strength.

DR. PEDRAM KORDROSTAMI talks about supplements, preventative medicine, the science of aging, and the growing business of longevity.

Natural skincare founder TATA HARPER reflects on her Colombian roots and the effort to age with intention rather than chasing youth.

In Aging Gracefully, photographer JESPER D. LUND, with styling by MICHELLE CAMERON, presents an intimate fashion and portrait portfolio exploring beauty, maturity, identity, and the seductive possibilities of growing older.

Photographers LOLITA ENO and SOFIA ALAZRAKI collaborate on Shedding Skin, a photographic meditation on rituals of renewal, bodily transformation, and the synthetic contradictions of contemporary wellness culture, drawing on ancient symbols of healing and regeneration.

Elsewhere, MONIKA SPRÜTH and ANDREAS SCHULZE reflect on four decades of artistic collaboration. AGNES SCHERER, ANGELA HILL, DANH VO, and KELLER EASTERLING explore the relationships between youth, art, architecture, infrastructure, systems of control, and alternative ways of living. UFC fighter MARLON “CHITO” VERA talks about pain, discipline, family, and his intimidating physical endurance, photographed by PAT MARTIN.

Special portfolios explore the iconography of PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER, photographed by SERGIY BARCHUK; a decade of LOUIS VUITTON PARFUMS, from the maison’s historic fragrance archives to contemporary collaborations; and LA BEAUTÉ LOUIS VUITTON, photographed by OLIVIA MALONE.

The issue closes with a set of horoscopes by ILANA KOZLOV, exploring cycles, transformation, and the uncertain terrain of the months ahead.

At a moment when every heartbeat, breath, step, and minute of REM sleep is surveilled and measured in pursuit of the perfectly calibrated human machine, Autre asks what we lose in the relentless pursuit of becoming better versions of ourselves, and whether true wellness might begin with our connection to nature, to one another, and to the world beyond the self.