The V&A Magazine offers a window on to the objects and people of the world-renowned V&A, now a family of sites around London and the UK. Expanding on our major exhibitions and unrivalled collections, each issue celebrates beauty, history and ideas. From Donatello to Chanel, medieval glass to contemporary tapestry, ancient Egyptian treasures to the birth of digital art, V&A Magazine is a celebration of the power of creativity in all its forms.

Published three times a year, each issue explores the season’s major shows and events across V&A South Kensington, V&A Dundee, V&A East, Young V&A and the V&A Wedgwood Collection. Original photography takes you behind the scenes with curators, conservators and more, uncovering fresh research and hidden gems among the museum’s 2.8 million objects. Regular features include studio visits with current makers and book reviews from leading cultural commentators, celebrating the creative industries that the V&A was founded to inspire.

Erdem Moralioglu, the creative director and founder of London-based fashion label Erdem, takes the reins as the first guest editor of V&A Magazine. He tells Sarah Mower about the museum as inspiration, turns his camera on some favourite spaces at V&A South Kensington, selects books on Cecil Beaton and surrealism, and invites creatives into the pages, including Chantal Joffe and IB Kamara. Marking this season's exhibition Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires, Moralioglu also talks Ottoman dress with curators from Istanbul’s treasure house of historic fashion, the Sadberk Hanim Museum, while Bettany Hughes explores the history of a city known for its brio, the neuroscientist Colin Ellard maps a new frontier in urban design, and Jo Lawson-Tancred profiles the trailblazing algorithmic artist Vera Molnar.