Inside Two Editorial Worlds: Thom Betteridge And Malaika Crawford On Creating Magazines In 2025 At UBS House Of Craft



At UBS House of Craft, Malaika Crawford, Editorial Director of Hodinkee Magazine, sat down with Thom Betteridge, Editor-in-Chief of i-D, for an in-depth conversation about how they make magazines in 2025. They found themselves comparing the rhythms of their worlds: the steady, measured pace of watchmaking versus the constant churn of fashion, where four major fashion weeks shape the year. Watches & Wonders comes once annually; fashion cycles never stop. Both come from print, so there’s an unspoken understanding of how time—real time, production time, cultural time—shapes an editorial lens. Thom spoke about guiding i-D, a title with a deep legacy in defining youth culture through the ’90s and into 2025, without losing the instinct that made it influential in the first place.